Agricultural Machinery Pushed as Great American Innovation
A Waterloo Iowa brief notes agricultural machinery advances and the promise of improved farm efficiency. The piece highlights a United States made product allowing a single worker to harvest larger loads, alongside references to canned meats and staple foods. It lists subscription details, rates, and postal information for the Daily and semi weekly editions, with notices on address changes and editorial office contacts.
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Hurlan Republicam
Errief
Timber and Forest Use Warn of Looming Famine
Circular 97 from the forest service warns that U S timber consumption far exceeds sustainable growth. The report notes Europe style gains in productivity seen in Saxony and Prussia, urges tighter control and longer planning horizons, and highlights shifts in major timber regions from Northeast and Lake states toward the Pacific states led by Washington. It also critiques private land tenure and aging stands while illustrating agricultural machinery satire.
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United States
Europe
Lmber
Forest Service
Germany
Saxony
Prussia
Lake States
Pacific
Washington
Wooldlands
Cattle and Sheep Prices Hold Steady Amid Strong April Receipts
Chicago reports April cattle receipts the largest on record, with 282,000 head usable now. Prices ranged from 5 to 6 for most cattle, light and medium steers favored, yearlings selling higher, and demand steady. Sheep receipts light, May supply likely smaller, lambs selling near 7 to 7.60 with some above 8.60. Feeder prices eased slightly due to cold weather. overall outlook remains favorable for prices. Conover & Swanson note Victor Emmanuel's collection.
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Favoritiam
Duyeré
Tory
Indica
Gat Storu
Aleental
Ata
Michigan
Conover & Swanson
Victor Emmanuel
April Hog Market Strong Despite Higher Receipts
Hog receipts for April totaled 581,006 head, up 78,000 from last year, yet prices held firm with top values near 6.90 and lows around 6.50. Most sales averaged 6.60 to 6.80, keeping country shippers content as demand remained strong and supplies resembled two years ago. May prices expected to hold if demand stays steady. Weather notes aside, hog market tone remains firm amid cautious outlook.
State News in Brief From Turin to Des Moines Updates
Towns discuss hay values taxes and new facilities. Indictments target saloon interests and election officials. Plans for an Iowa experiment station and a tuberculosis hospital project unfold. Des Moines builders face demand shifts while a crack in house shares highlights a busy period.
Romance of corn raising advances in harvesting machinery
A department of agriculture bulletin on corn harvesting machinery notes a shift from hand work to machines such as corn harvesters binders and shockers. It stresses the growing value of corn, its large share of U.S. crops and the need to harvest fodder properly to preserve nutrition.
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St. Vitus
National Society of Surgeons
Ag Tubal
Cain
Adobin
Dan Cupid
New York
Department of Agriculture
Dgeved & Bulletin
New York “Herald
United States
Department’of Agriculuure
Revolver in Bag Wounds Man In Channel Plan
A St Louis man named J W Cumberton sent a plan to clear the Missouri River channel by plowing the river bed with large flat bottomed plows. Henry C Ter, a Philadelphia leader, was wounded by a revolver in a separate incident and is hospitalized in critical condition. The piece mixes two reports from Washington and Philadelphia with unserious speculation about a presidency.
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Missouri Channel
Washington
Toland Waterway Commission
St Louis
Missouri River
J. W. Cumberton
Philadelphia
Henry C. Ter
Philco
Endadelphia Bar
Terry
Ged Bat
Maine express liquor schemes skirt prohibition laws
In Bangor on May 2 a report exposes how wholesale liquor dealers dodge the prohibitory law by forming express companies. Citing a supreme court ruling that in transit goods are not subject to seizure, operators use dummy stockholders and take on roles themselves. Customers request beer in Boston, and the express firm serves as purveyor and carrier, pitching ready made purchases for clients.
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Bangor
Supreme Court
Express Company
Boston
Express
Coldest April in twenty six years hits D C and nation
Washington May 2 reports April as the coldest in twenty six years with temperatures near record lows. The Weather Bureau says a succession of cold spells swept from the northeast Rocky Mountain slope across the country east of the Rockies, with brief intervals of warmth only occasionally. Ice and low interior valley readings marked the month as unusually frigid.
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Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountains
Kansas to auction and destroy liquor seized in ouster cases
May 2 Topeka Kansas Attorney General Fred Jackson signals future action on liquor tied to ouster proceedings. Buildings fixtures and all paraphernalia may be sold at public auction to cover costs while the liquor itself would be destroyed by peace officers, with containers smashed and contents poured to raise funds for state rivers and counties.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Fred Jackson
Arkansas
Cleveland plans 2000 desks to keep feet awake
Cleveland public schools solicit bids for 2000 desks designed by Professor Ebler head of the athletic department. Officials say current seats injure children by a curved edge that presses under the knee causing feet to fall asleep, prompting health authorities and physicians’ complaints.
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Cleveland
Board of Education
Ebler
Robert Gauimel
Orr
Girl in bedfast state weds despite typhoid fever
Milas Ruby Kiseiman of Peru married Harry Hayes of Clinton on a Tuesday, despite being bedridden with typhoid fever. The ceremony, performed by the Very Rev. John Guendling with special permission from Bishop Alerding, was held in Peru on the date set, and she refused to postpone.
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Peru
Ind
Milas Ruby Kise Iman
Harry Hayes
Clinton
John Guendling
Biabog Alerding
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