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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1912
Page
7
Baltimore appoints first female police officer Mary Steele Harvey
Miss Mary Steele Harvey becomes the first woman appointed as a Baltimore police officer. The legislature previously created five police matrons with full powers, and she is the first of these five to receive appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Steele Harvey
Baltimore
Miss Harvey
Neighborly caution from a physician family
A young girl urges her mother to visit their new neighbor claiming the neighbor has three scrawny children and a mother who does not look strong, suggesting concern for a business minded physician parent.
Mandy Refuses Summer Move With Guest in Southern Boarding House
In a Harper's Magazine vignette a young Mammy named Mandy cares for bachelors in a southern boarding house. A guest asks Mandy to join him as housekeeper, proposing a bungalow. Mandy declines, stating she knows nothing about taking care of animals and suggesting he find someone else.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amanda
Mandy
Harper’s Magazine
United States and World Beef Supplies Compared
The article explains how market conditions affect cattle feeding and outlines global beef cattle numbers. It notes the United States holds about one quarter of world beef cattle and produces roughly one third of global beef. It lists cattle counts by country for 1907 to 1912 and cites government estimates for US herd size in 1910 and early 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert W. Mumford
Louis D. Hall
British India
United States
Russia
Argentina
Brazil
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Dept of Agro
US Census Bureau
US Department of Agriculture
Insects Injurious to Stored Grains Report
A. A. Girault explains stored grain pests including beetles and moth larvae that invade wheat and cereals. Major pests include Angoumois grain moth Sitotroga cerealella, meal moth, granary and rice weevils, sawtoothed grain weevil, yellow meal worm, with impact on grain quality and storage economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Girault
Forbes
University of Illinois
United States
Angoumois
Speculating On Forties Cents In Rural Dialect
A snippet shows a character named Rastus pondering how to amass forty cents from others, calculating thirty-three cents from another, and imagining the total he would have. The dialogue captures a humorous rural speech pattern and a moment of childish arithmetic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rastus
New York Men Plan World First Butterfly Farm in Red Bank
Businessmen from New York announce a Red Bank New Jersey project to create the world’s first butterfly farm. They will raise diverse varieties with brilliant color for sale to society women to decorate conservatories and parlors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Red Bank
The Change of Life Affects Women’s Health
The article warns that the change of life is a critical period for women, bringing risk of apoplexy, cancer, and various symptoms. It urges attention to warning signs such as suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, and dizziness and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy to invigorate the nervous system and support the female body through this crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Deans Piers
Minnesota
Anna Bossard
Sycamore &T
St Paul
Minn
Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham Compound For Relief
Mrs Estecla Guispiz of St Anne Illinois reports relief from severe changes of life symptoms after taking Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She states swelling, pain, backache and dizziness subsided and she can do housework again. She offers to publish her letter for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Anne, NL
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs
Estecla Guispiz
R.F.D. No
St. Anne, Tllinois
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Druggtatg
Chicago
Irs
Estella Gillispie
W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
Brockton
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Douglas
W L.douglas
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