Splendid Winter Home for Hogs
William A. Radford outlines weather tight hog houses with sunlit design and ventilation. He explains two main structures the saw tooth and the rule house, detailing concrete foundations raised floors and center feeding alleys. Proper housing boosts two litters yearly, keeps pigs warm, and increases profits for swine producers.
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Boss Who Arrives Early for Lateness
A pithy Life quotation defines the boss as the man who comes too early when we are late and too late when we are early, highlighting paradoxical timing.
California Primary Returns Fuel Wide Coal Crisis Debate
Senate approves two key amendments to the bonus bill as California primary returns shape political lines. Italy and Little Entente edge toward clash over Austria amid reparations talks. storms of unrest and economic pressure ripple through Europe as coal shortages intensify in the United States.
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Rail strike violence and railway threats escalate nationwide
The ongoing shopmen strike sees violent actions and threats across several states. Alton trains halted at Roadhouse Illinois for days as crews faced loss of charter. Bombs and dynamite used in Florida Alabama Illinois amid attempts to wreck trains. Suspects confess tied to wrecking a Michigan Central train at Gary Indiana and a planned attack on the Twentieth Century Limited near Elkhart Indiana.
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Labor union seeks living wage for railway workers
F Grable of the Brotherhood petitions the railroad labor board for a new wage scale based on a living wage. The board declines, saying a just wage equals a living wage. Grable then wires Senator Cummins to amend transportation laws to ensure a minimum living wage for railroad employees.
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Senate Adds Two Amendments To Soldiers Bonus Bill
The senate adopted two amendments to the soldiers bonus bill. One by McNary provides 350 million dollars for arid and swamp land reclamation to create farms for ex service men. The other by Simmons directs foreign debt interest to be used to pay the bonus. The Simmons amendment clashes with the administration. A conference likely to settle differences. a presidential veto from Harding possible.
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Harding
Treasury Mellon
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Sweden Defeats Prohibition in Popular Vote
Despite reform efforts, Swedish prohibitionists were defeated as the wet dry question went to a national plebiscite. Cities largely voted for keeping alcohol legal.
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Sweden
The Horse Power Myth in Motor Power Claims
A London Answers writer debunks horsepower as a false unit. Watt originally defined a smaller standard, but modern practice uses 38 000 pounds per foot per minute, making a 10 h p car effectively 62 3 h p and exaggerating engine power.
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James Watt
Watt
Immense Rookery on Lake Hat Island Birds Dense Colony
Hat Island, a 12 acre rookery in Great Salt Lake, hosts seagulls and pelicans in a dense colony. Visitors can walk among roosts without disturbance while pelicans return from distant rivers with fish for their young.
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Great Salt Hike
Hat Island
Bird Island
Jordan River
Great Bear River
Sunbonnet Babies Faces Hidden in Classic Book
A young woman recalls The Sunbonnet Babies from her childhood, noting the faces of the sunbonnet babies are never shown in the pictures. She shares her longing to see the babies without their bonnets and plans to write to the artist for a rare image.
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Springfield Union
Eagles Change Color Through Maturation
The young eagle wears three coats before maturity: black in year one, slate in year two, and brown and white in year three. The bald eagle appears not bald due to a white head ruff. Observers once misidentified the three stages as separate species: black, the George Washington, and the bald.
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George Washington
Great Authors Write Badly Says Anatole France
A quotation by Anatole France argues that true writers defy rules and change style with inspiration. He claims pedants misdefine good writing as uniform, while born writers create their own rules or none.
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Anatole
France
Tanlac Promises Relief for Indigestion and Dyspepsia
Indigestion and dyspepsia sufferers praise Tanlac as a ready source of relief. Mrs. W. H. Hocker of Clifton Forge Virginia reports long stomach trouble eased and health restored after months of poor diet and nerves. Tanlac aids digestion and overall vitality, with druggists selling it widely.
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W. H. Hocker
Rose Ave
Clifton Forge
Senator Sworthworthy on Burial and Posterity
A Birmingham Age Herald quotation features Senator Sworthworthy criticizing costly mausoleums. He prefers a simple tombstone to “keep the record straight,” arguing that self-built monuments rob posterity of the chance to forget him.
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Senator Sworthworthy
Birmingham Age Herald
Cave at Mount Timpanogos Now Electrically Lighted
The Mount Timpanogos cave near the Wasatch mountains in Utah is illuminated by a new electric lighting system. It highlights stalactite and stalagmite formations and the cave’s nooks and corridors for visitors.
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Mount Timpanogos
Wasatch Mountains
Utah
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