Road Improvements Aimed At Farmers Market Access
The piece argues USDA lessons on marketing crops and the need for rural road upgrades in Illinois. It stresses tolls of bad weather, price spikes, and farmers' limited ability to meet demand, urging reinforced concrete roads, proper drainage, and steel fabric reinforcement on primary and outlying routes to sustain truck traffic and markets.
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National Crop Improvement Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Armenian Music and Cultural Exchange Noted in Notes
The article surveys Armenian melodies and operas, noting Russian Italian and English influences in recent years. It mentions a Turkish style national marching song written by an Armenian and discusses street pickpocket behavior and the hip pocket as an unsafe place to carry wealth.
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Turkey
Armenia
Peat as Coal Substitute Aims to Ease Smoky Rails
Tests show peat manufactured into fuel rivaling bituminous coal with complete combustion and only 10 percent light ash. Illinois Central and other railroads pilot peat fuel, aided by the Smoke less Fuel Company with peat beds in northern Indiana. Demonstrations cited from a U.S. Bureau of Mines bulletin.
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Central Railroad
United States Bureau of Mines
Smokeless Fuel Company
Indiana
Chicago
Illinois Central
Pennsylvania
Burlington
Sugar From Sea Weed Reports Spark Caution
A Los Angeles Times note suggests sea weed and other sources may yield sugar, cautioning that family sugar often needs sweetening to prove its virtue, raising suspicion about multiple sugar sources beyond sugar cane.
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Los Angeles Times
Watch Found In Cow After Seven Years
A Wabash Indiana Times-Star tale recounts a farmer who misplaced a vest containing a gold watch. A calf chewed the vest, and when the cow was later slaughtered the watch was found lodged between the cow’s lungs, still wound from breath and only four minutes off after seven years.
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Times-Star
Public Health Column Promotes New Cook County Health Officer
Dr. Clarence Earle of DesPlaines is named health officer for Cook County outside Chicago by the State Health Department. Harriet Fulmer notes support from public health nurses and outlines school sanitation prizes, nutrition classes at Burnham school, and calls for annual school health funding starting at $50.00.
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Clarence Earle
DesPlaines
Cook County
Chicago
State Health Department
Bureau of Social Service
Earle
Miss Meade
Bureau
Burnham School
Miss Kraft
American Red Cross
Odd Scents of Wood Reported by Forestry Journal
The American Forestry tsazine notes that West Indian satin wood emits a coconut oil scent while the paperbark tree of Australia is described as smelling like Brazil nuts during work.
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Australia
Brazil
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