Claims offset US ship losses under postwar treaty
Officials say German claims for war damages, including sinking by submarines and other losses, will exceed the 100 Dierman steamers seized in U S ports. The value of ships slated for Germany under the peace treaty will be credited to Germany by the reparations commission, likely avoiding American payment. Three German war vessels interned in U S ports are excluded from the peaceful ship value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aren Reee Ge
Germany
United States
American
Shipping Board
Scrambled Railroads Theme Delights Gridiron Club Dinner
A humorous skit at the Gridiron Club dinner spoofed the U S railroads with actors portraying McAdoo Hines and an Investor. The scene parodied government operation and the Plumb plan as a magician’s trick ending with a pledge to take the matter to Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAdoo
Hines
Mr. Morgan
United States
Investor
Mr. Hines
Mr. McAdoo
McAdoo and
Congress
Congress Without the Congressional Record Debate
In a sharp exchange Senator Thomas Colorado proposed stopping publication of the Congressional Record. Senator Smoot Utah urged halting printing of articles and addresses. The debate covered famine era paper shortages and costs per page, with calls to suspend or end the Record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Colorado
Congressional Record
Jones
Smoot
Utah
Senate
Congressional ‘Record
Congress
Chicago waterway plan faces multi state protest
Edward T Cahill on behalf of Wisconsin Michigan Indiana Minnesota Ohio Pennsylvania and New York files objection with Secretary Baker and the chief of the army engineers to the Illinois waterway linking the Great Lakes to the Mississippi. He says Chicago drains the canal lowering lakes Michigan and Huron and Ontario and Ontario and requires extra harbor facilities in several cities including Canadian ports. The protest cites possible treaty and international commission issues under the Great Britain United States boundary waters pact of 1910. Meanwhile the St Lawrence river project to boost ocean traffic is debated with western speakers backing Chicago as an ocean port via Welland and the St Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Michigan
Huron
Fiie
Ontario
Great Britain
International Joint Commission
United States
St. Lawrence
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Lakes
Atlantic
Welland Canal
St. Lawrence River
Handy Rack Improves Farm Handling and Lamb Feeding
A handheld rack system praised by H. E H. Rogers of Ohio increases efficiency for crops and livestock transport. The article advises teaching lambs to eat via a creeping area, emphasizes clean feed and early market readiness, and discusses grain mixes and feed cleanliness to maximize growth and reduce summer losses.
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H. E H. Rogers
Ohio
Attention to Disk Harrow
University Farm guidance explains the disk harrow as a long lived tillage tool with about 20 years of life. It notes few moving parts, minimal wear, and emphasizes annual inspection cleaning oiling bearings and tightening the arbor bolt. Sharpening the disks each season improves penetration and reduces draft and wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Bassett
University Farm
St. Paul
Minn
Serious new pest of wheat eelworm inflicts damage
A new pest, the eelworm, has caused significant wheat losses in Virginia and parts of Maryland West Virginia and California. In threshed grain hard dark galls about half the kernel size indicate infestation with potential losses up to 40 percent in some Virginia fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
California
Horseradish Becomes Profitable Crop For Growers
Horseradish offers profit as a cultivated crop when growers grate, prepare, and bottle the product for sale to retail customers. The process can be done in winter during idle outdoor work, keeping the entire profits with the grower.
Feeding skim milk to pigs for economical feeding
Tests at Indiana New York Iowa Wisconsin and Ontario experiment stations show young pigs under 100 pounds may take up to three pounds of skim milk per pound of grain. As pigs grow older the skim milk should drop to about two pounds per pound of grain, since protein needs decline with age and during fattening.
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Indiana
New York
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ontario
Pride and Sanitation for Dairy Cows Highlighted
The article urges dairy farmers to keep cows clean and stables tidy year round. It argues cow appearance mirrors owner diligence and condemns neglected fences, overgrown rows, and rundown buildings as signs of careless farming and potential harm to customers.
Remarkable Race by Castor in 300 mile Arabian contest
The United States Department of Agriculture reports Castor a Morgan gelding bred at Middlebury Vermont finished third in speed after an injury and fall, in a 300 mile endurance race from Fort Ethan Allen Vermont to Camp Devens Massachusetts. The event promotes cavalry horse breeding nationwide with Arabians dominating the field and Morgans also represented. Maj. C A Benton served as judge for the bureau of animal industry.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Castor
Middlebury
Morgan Horse Farm
Department of Agriculture
Fort Ethan Allen
Camp Devens
Mass
United States
Newport News
Overseas Service
Bob
George
Morgan
Cost of horse blemishes at western market
A Western selling point report notes blemishes reduce prices by up to 50 dollars on top animals. It advises breeding sound mares to sound stallions to minimize defects, acknowledging colts may still be earthy or defective despite care.
Pigs Start Supplemental Feed At Three Weeks Old
When piglets reach about three weeks they require more than milk. Place a shallow trough away from the sow. Scald middlings with milk and add a tablespoon of molasses. Lead the piglets to the trough. the odor will attract them to eat.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Proper quarters for pigs and care tips
Advice on pig husbandry stresses dry clean pig quarters and troughs. It warns against exposure to rain and cold, notes sows should not be allowed to run through filth, and states that poor conditions cause pigs to scour.
Favorite Prescription touted by multiple Indiana readers
Testimonies from Mrs. J. A. McGee of Lafayette Mrs. Elizabeth Kahl of Kokomo and Mrs. Roy Morris describe relief from nervousness weakness and digestive issues after using Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription. Ad copy for Mortone phonograph needles also appears with pricing and a free record catalog offer.
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Kokomo
Ind
Dr. Pierce
J. A. McGee
E. Taylor St
Lafayette
Elizabeth Kahl
S. Fifth St
Roy Morris
E. Arnett St
Phonograph
Mortone
Mortone Co
Century
City
The Way He Felt
A man waits forty five minutes for a dentist. He fears the tooth extraction, recalling how courage ebbed away from him like a wounded World War I soldier unsure whether help or danger comes next.
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Doc
Laundry Tips for Handkerchiefs Bleach and Blueing Use
Describes how to wash children's handkerchiefs using good soap, rinse in water blued with Red Cross Bali Blue to improve appearance after laundry.
Locust Swarm Threatens Palitai Crops Near Tientsin
A swarm of small green locusts appeared at Palitai two and a half miles south of Tientsin on September 9. Peasants beat them off to save grain fields and collected baskets for sale in the native city as the pests spread through Chinese districts by evening.
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Palitai
Tientsin
North China Herald
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U. S
Jome
Gridiron Club
TAKE
Ians
Rustem Bey
Ramla
Maj. C. A. Benton
Bureau of Animal Industry
Cascaral
Mr. Hill
Patchogue, N.Y
Gista
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
N.Y
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