Indiana News: Drought, Disasters, and Local Ventures
Evansville honors war service with a star bed dedication and Service Star Legion oversight. Indiana reports drought losses in Laporte and drought-stricken crops in several counties, plus a fatal fishing accident near Fish Lake. Utilities, road work, and irrigation projects progress, while Further farming efforts include new highway resurfacing trials and a large Greencastle catfish catch.
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Supset Park
Evansville
Ohio River
Service Star Legion of
Indiana State Medical Association
Muncie
Mex Kolecki
Stephen Krantz
Fish Lake
Wicerecki
Botton
Seady
Indianapolis
Hoosier Motor Club
Richmond
Greencastle
Wabash
Montezuma
William Thompson
Jesse Ford
Grant County
Grant County Board of Trustees
Indiana
Lathrop
Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association
Flatrock Township
Bartholomew County
Clifford
Mexican beetle spreads threatening southern crops
A USDA notice warns the Mexican bean beetle, now in 36 Georgia counties and other Southern states, may spread southwest and northward. It feeds on beans and many legumes, with significant potential losses estimated at over 100 million dollars annually, and study on resistant crops continues in Georgia and Alabama.
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South
Bureau of Entomology
United States Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
South Carolina
Mississippi River
Michigan
New York
Colorado
Ala
Florida
States Move to End Livestock Tuberculosis Drain
Louisiana becomes latest to authorize cooperation with the U S Department of Agriculture to eradicate bovine tuberculosis. Law allows indemnity fund of 15000 dollars a year for two years and marks a shift toward cooperative state and federal efforts to protect livestock resources.
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States Department of Agriculture
Louisiana
State Livestock Sanitary Board
United One Department of Agriculture
Bureau of All Industry
Asseas
Martment of
Agel
Time to Cut Sweet Clover
The guide advises cutting sweet clover when blossoms first appear to prevent woody stems and leaf shattering. For a second-year stand, cut the first crop eight inches above ground since the plant does not propagate from crowns then but from buds on lower stalks, avoiding removal of budding branches.
Rape as a High Yield Forage Crop for Hogs
Iowa State College expert J C Eldridge recommends rape as a valuable early season forage for hogs and emergency pasture when other forages fail. Plant any time until late summer, with early sowing boosting yield. Use Dwarf Essex variety, pasture lightly at first to avoid dew-related blistering.
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J. C. Eldridge
Iowa State College
Exhibit Shows Good and Bad Pigs in Riverside County
An exhibit at a Riverside County California pig club event displayed good and bad pig types raised by club members. Data include initial and final weights feeds costs and gains. Two litter mates fed 150 days show one with 70 pound gain at 18 cents per pound and another 206 pound gain at unspecified cost per pound.
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Boys’ and Girls
Riverside County
California
Individual hog house with shade lifting sides plan
Some producers build individual hog houses with sides that lift to provide shade in summer. The plan includes shale for hogs when only a few are kept.
Second Budget 15 Being Prepared For Government
Washington reports the second federal budget is under preparation. Gen Herbert Lord leads the Bureau of the Budget as estimates arrive from departments, with new agencies coordinating routine government work, including a federal purchasing board and a federal liquidation board. The article notes improving yet high requests, and details agency roles in area coordination, real estate space management, motor transport, traffic coordination, and hospitalization oversight alongside life expectancy statistics from the 1920 census across states and cities.
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Washington
Herbert St. Lord
Bureau of the Budget
United States
Tme
Federal Purchasing Board
Federal Liquidation Board
Corps of Area Co
Army Corps
Supples
Surveyor General of Real Estate
Secretary of the Treasury
Columbia
Federal Motor Transport Agent
Federal Motor Transport
Federal Traffic Board
Federal Board of Hospitalization
Kansas
Kausen
Wisconsin
Minnesota
West Sussex
England
Pittsburgh
New York City
Washington Memorial Under Construction at Arlington Ridge
Ground has been broken for the George Washington Masonic National Memorial to rise on Arlington Ridge near Alexandria. The project, begun by Alexandria lodge No 22, involves a $2,000,000 outlay with plans for a 200 foot high building, 160 by 230 feet, featuring a central atrium, statue of Washington, Ionian columns, and broad terrace approaches.
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Jackson County Fair Association
Seymour
Brownstown
Board of
Hancock County Commissioners
Greenfield
Hancock County Farmers’ Association
Major Beals
State Teachers Retirement Fund Board
Estes Duncan
Ameumneed
Hiow
Crawford
Floyd
Franklin
Lawrence
Madison
Perry
Starke
Steuben
Sullivan
White
Whitley
Owen
Daviess
Twenty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Columbus
Scottsburg
BP. W. Sample
Nabb
Clark County
J. R. Wricht
Indianapolis
Mary Orrill
George Washington Masonic National Memorial
Alexandria
National Capital
Masonic Order
United States
Washington
George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association
A. M
National Association
Arlington Heights
George Washington
Mt. Vernon
Georgetown
Arlington Ridge
Arlington Cemetery
Piememorial
Washington Memorial
Memorial Hall
National Memorial Association
Cincinnati Woman Credits Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs Christ. Petroff of 818 W Liberty St Cincinnati Ohio says nerves and irregularities left her after a year of suffering. She reports stronger after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and now cares for her 19 month old boy. She urges other women to try the remedy.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Laie E. Pinkham
Mrs. Christ. Petroff
Liberty St
Lydia E. Pinkham
Explains Decline of Oratory with A Salesman Focus
Uncle Eben notes decline of public speaking as top talkers shift to salesmanship. Advertisement urges Cuticura products for infant rashes with hot baths and ointment for relief. Includes 25 cent pricing for each item and mentions Cuticura Talcum.
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Eben
Bobbed Hair Trend Impacts Leominster Industry
Leominster Massachusetts a center of the comb and hairpin trade suffers from the bobbed hair fad. The shift in fashion reduces demand for hair accessories and threatens local makers and shops reliant on these goods.
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Leominster
Mass
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