Woman Sheriff Tames Bad Man Kennie Wagner
The Mississippi penitentiary praises Rennie Wagner as model prisoner after an early career of crime. Sheriff Lillie Barger, a Texarkana woman, captured him, ending a spree that spanned Arkansas Texas and Tennessee. Wagner, now 26, is said to show repentance and Bible study, with hopes for a governor’s pardon amid past deadly shootings and jailbreaks.
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Parchman, Miss
Kennile Wagner
Port Arthur
Texas
Bristol
Wagner
Mississippi
Rennie
Sam Williamson
Law
Arkansas
Conquers Leprosy Scientist Pioneers Serum in Vienna
Prof. Dr. Hermann Dostal, famed phaeteriologist, isolates leprosy bacillus and develops a serum showing remarkable results. He operates in his Vienna laboratory, advancing medical science and offering new hope against the disease.
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Hermann Dostal
Vienna
Austria
French Senate Finds Plain Joke Grins Short Lived
The French Senate dismisses a lighthearted prank as unfit for the chamber. During a heated debate an absent member claimed the bill had already passed and was published as law that morning by the Journal Offices.
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Varis
Deadshot Dick Rennie the Desperado of Texarkana
The article recounts Kennie Rennie a gunman who terrorized Green County Mississippi six years earlier killing Deputies McIntosh and another officer. He fled, resurfaced in Kingsport Tennessee, eluded capture after four officers were shot, and was sentenced to die. He later vanished from a town jail before ending up in Texarkana where officials praise his reform and call him the best prisoner in Mississippi.
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Kennie
Sam Carper
Will Carper
Bob Carper
Hme Carper
Carper
Sam
Meridan
Miss
Bristol
Kingsport
Tenn
Port Arthur
Texas
Rube Burroughs
Harry Tracy
Leakesville
Bud” McIntosh
Kennie Wagner
Texarkana
Virginia Hill
Virginia Mountains
McIntosh
Green County
Mississippi
Rennie
Tesarkana
Virginia
Lil” Barger
Desperado
Warden Williamson
Mkennie
Taft Memorial Beacon Proposal for Alms Park
Cincinnati plans a Taft Memorial beacon in Alms park about 1500 feet above the Municipal Sunken airport. The white granite beacon would stand 100 feet tall with an elevator to an observation tower and carry an estimated cost of 40000 dollars.
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City of
Cincinnati
Alms Park
Municipal Sunken Airport
Old Egg From Anstown Pa Bares 80 Year Mark
An eighty year old egg from Anstown Pennsylvania bears an inscription with the name Mrs William Fensteinsig or similar, scratched on the shell. The shell also has a faded image of a plant and other markings.
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William Fensteinagher
Superspraying Aphis in Orchards Requires Wind Tactics
W E Blauvelt of Cornell says spraying for rosy aphis must cover all sides of buds and trees. When wind shifts, growers should spray from multiple angles and both ground and canopy, using liberal spray amounts and possibly fighting wind to complete apsis. Larger trees need more volume, up to ten gallons per tree for 25 to 30 year olds.
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W. E. Blauvelt
Cornell University
Aphis
Blauvelt
New York
Paint Pruning Wounds to Protect Orchard Trees
Orchardists are warned by Parker O. Anderson, extension forester, St. Paul, to treat pruning wounds. Unsealed cuts invite disease and slow growth. For wounds under half an inch apply shellac. larger cuts need shellac plus tar or lead paint. Use gum lac dissolved in alcohol for best shellac solution.
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Parker O. Anderson
University Farm
St. Paul
Control Brown Rot of Peach with Sulphur
Brown rot of peaches is controlled by dry mix sulphur lime spray or sulphur dust. Apply as soon as bloom falls and husks shed, then repeat two or three weeks later and again about three weeks before harvest. Dry mix uses six pounds sulphur, three pounds hydrated lime, two ounces calcium casemate spreader, diluted in 50 gallons water. Arsenate of lead may be used in first two applications to control curculio.
Planting Currants and Gooseberries in Partial Shade
Currants and gooseberries thrive in partial shade and can be planted on a northern slope along the orchard edge or the north side of a fence. Prepare soil well in advance and work in a heavy application of barnyard poultry manure. Plow deeply and disk drag and barrow to form a mellow plant bed.
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Laxative Ad
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe family laxative suitable for children and adults. It claims laboratory supervision, fresh laxative herbs, and the largest selling laxative status with widespread drugstore availability.
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Dr. Caldwell
Plants May Safely Be Left in Sleeping Rooms
Dr A F Woods of the United States Department of Agriculture says plants and flowers are not harmful in sleeping rooms. He notes they release oxygen and moisture during the day and even at night do not emit enough carbon dioxide to affect air quality. Only poisonous plants or hay fever sufferers require removal from rooms.
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A. F. Woods
United States Department of Agriculture
Doctor Woods
Woods
Bees Swarm After Truck Crashes into Cherryville Tree
A truck crash in Cherryville, Pennsylvania, smashed a grand old cherry tree, releasing a huge swarm of bees from the hollow trunk. The eight men aboard were stung. two local girls were frightened by the buzzing procession as bystanders watched.
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Cherryville
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Italy
Lillie Barger
Kennife
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Rennie Wagner
Lil
French Senate
Taft Beacon
Hanford
the Flowering Dferb Co
Dakin St
Chicago
N. P. Brahy
Minnesota St. - St. Paul
Minn
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