Valuable agricultural tips for Cheyenne County farmers
Nebraska University guidance covers renewing old strawberry beds to boost next spring yields with leaf mulching and thinning, plus methods to encourage runners. It also advises cockerel management for family use and market aims, with Leghorn squab broiler potential. Twenty Holstein calves distributed to Hamilton County youths support a three year calf club program financed by local bankers.
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University of Nebraska Agricultural College
Hamilton County
Bankers’Association
Pullets Benefit From Early Cockerel Culling in Poultry Yards
The piece explains that during late spring and summer cockerels should be sold as soon as marketable to free space for pullets and boost profits. Early marketing tends to fetch higher prices, while keeping males longer reduces net profits. The Nebraska Agricultural College endorses retaining the strongest birds.
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Jack Frost
Tile drainage boostsNebraska farm yields when drained lands gain value
Many Nebraskan farms suffer from poor drainage. some crop lands are barely tilled or used for wild hay with low returns. Drainage via tile improves land value per acre, though high tile prices and labor shortages slowed reclamation, now labor and material costs are at or near prewar and 1917-era lows.
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University of Nebraska Agricultural College
Tanlac Promoted by Bas Setts Pharmacy Ad
An advertisement from Bas Setts Pharmacy urges readers to try Tanlac to restore color to the cheeks and sparkle to the eyes, presenting it as a health and vitality aid. The notice frames Tanlac as a recommended remedy sold at Bas Setts Pharmacy.
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Tanlac
Bassett’s Pharmacy
Hyers Was Not on the Firing Line
Nebraka state sheriff Gus Hyers and Wyoming warden F A Hadse are profiled as they arrive in a Kansas style chase that ends with Busch captured near Medicine Bow. The narrative notes civilians riding in the pursuit are overlooked in press dispatches while detailing the night long pursuit and second official capture.
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Rock River Review
Fred Brown
Hyers
Gus Hyers
Nebraska
F. A. Hadse
Wyoming State Penitentiary
Denver Post
Grimes
Lves
Betsy
Medicine Row
B. O. Brothers
Carl Myers
Lincoln Highway
Omaha
Brothers
Myers
Camp McFadden
Rock River
Medicine Bow
Wyoming
Rawlins
Chandler
Alfred Cronberg
Charles West
Cooper
Gus Fleishlr
John Burnett Ranch
Hagerson Ranch
Busch
Jas
Wade
Wyoming Law Enforcement Department
Brother
Law
Rawlings
Potato Growers List Fields for Inspection
Maine potato growers list more than 2800 acres for inspection by state agriculture officials as seed certification standards tighten. Many will fail due to low merit stock and mosaic disease now disqualifying fields with five percent or more mosaic. Best seed stock comes from Canadian import strains.
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Maine
State Department of Agriculture
Death Camas Poisoning in Cattle and Horses
Death camas, with four principal western species, harms sheep most and also injures horses and cattle. Cattle rarely die, horses show illness, and fatalities among people are reported. Cases stem from mistaken bulbs for sego. no antidote exists, but ranchers can guard flocks through recognition and prevention.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Boy injured by horse near Kimball
Five year old Ralph Allery was kicked by a horse west of Kimball. A gash above his left eye required three stitches. The injury was serious briefly but he has improved.
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Little Ralph
Robert Allery
Kimball
Kimball Observer
Narrow lightning strike hits farm near Henry
At 3 15 last Saturday R A Bissell of the north of Henry had a close escape when a bolt of lightning struck his team in the field. Two of the horses were killed and a third nearly killed. Bissell credits his survival to wearing rubber boots. Simultaneously two yearling steers owned by neighbor E Hahesy were killed by the lightning.
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R. A. Bissell
Henry
Bissell
E. Hahesy
All Her Husbands Mose A Railroad Fraud Tale
A widowed woman named Saluda is offered a bribe by a railroad claim agent after her husband Mose is killed by a shifting engine. The agent tries to settle quietly with five hundred dollars as Saluda and her friend Chloe react with shock and humor. The scene satirizes exploitation in the era of freight yard labor and insurance fraud.
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Mose
Saluda
Chole
Chloe
Pan’s
Chile
Everybody's Magazine
Recognized Dress Linked to Oberlin Store Robbery
Chief of Police Traphagen arrested Mr and Mrs Charles Fintress after a dress seen at a McCook picture show matched items stolen from the C W Rogers and J R Dowd store in Oberlin Kansas on May 28. Goods were recovered at the Fred Young place in South McCook. The couple was sent to Oberlin and turned over to Kansas authorities awaiting a hearing in the Oberlin jail.
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McCook
Traphagen
Charles Fintress
C. W. Rogers
J. R. Dowd
Oberlin
Kansas
Dowd
South McCook
Kangas
State Journal
American Legion Picnic Draws Veterans From Several Towns
Chadron hosts Legion picnic at state park with guests from Crawford Hemingford Alliance Hay Springs Rushville and Gordon. Captain Allen G Fisher recalls service in 1898 and shares his old uniform. Charles H Pollard funds a large post feed. A Kissell bill seeks to make the daisy the national flower, replacing other proposals debated at Congress.
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Chadron Post
Legion
Crawford
Hemingford
Alliance
Hay Springs
Rushville
Gordon
Nebraska State Park
Chadron
Chadron- Alliance
Allen G. Fisher
Chadron Chronicle
Charles H. Pollard
Michigan Legion to build home for orphans of war dead
The Michigan American Legion plans to raise funds privately to build and equip a home for orphans of World War veterans. Forty Nebraska ex service men, honored by American and allied governments for heroism, will attend the Legion’s fourth annual convention in York as guests of honor.
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Legion
York
America
U. C
United States
U. S. Veterans’ Bureau
Veteran Bureau
The
Michigan
Michigan American Legion
Nebraska
American Legion
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Cheyenne County
Nebraska Agricultural College
the American Bank
Sidney
NEBR
Martin W. Vic
J. K. McCarthy
Cashier
Frank G. Schreeder
Cash
Gee. E. Tagier
Vics
John Burnett
American Legion News
Department OF Nebraska
John Kissell
New York
Kissell
Kansas City
Missouri
House
Arco
Idaho
New Orleans
Hink’s
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