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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1909
Page
8
An essay notes the continued rise of horse numbers and value in the United States from 1895 to 1909, despite growing automobile use. It argues education should prepare youth for modern life, urging students to abandon unhealthy habits and pursue active study for future progress.
A Commission reports England faces declining farm population and 1 5 million acres less under cultivation than a decade ago. Tenant ownership limits and poor farming methods reduce profitability, urging tenant purchase options and smaller well tilled farms to revive agriculture. English land value prompts reforms to boost home production of non grain meat and grains where possible.
The article notes several leading colleges including Chicago University removing students for failure to meet scholarship standards. It states that honest effort and progress will be encouraged, while criticizing students who attend college solely because their families can pay.
Ohio State Journal notes Secretary Wilson cites US farm products valued at 5 billion dollars, up five percent from 1908. Corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, and cotton yield large bushels and bales, signaling scientific farming and rising soil productivity will shorten hard times.
Mississippi Congressman Sisson introduced a revenue proposal taxing deadly weapons and cartridges. It sets a $2 specific tax on pistols dirk knives canes and similar weapons with 25 percent ad valorem on 22 caliber or smaller cartridges and one eighth to one fifth of a cent per cartridge over 22 caliber. Exemptions apply to sales to federal or state militia buyers.
A writer argues heat comes from electricity and light rather than solar radiation. He questions suns as incandescence, cites altitude temperature observations, and asserts light is a universal force generating heat and magnetism. He claims sun light travels 186000 miles per second and that ether mediates heat through matter.
A once thriving factory village built on a gorge edge and powered by a water wheel fell into ruin after New Orleans blockade during the Civil War. Now repaired and restored, the area is a summering spot with eighty-two residents, fixed doors, mended roads, and well kept grounds.
The text lists scattered historical notes: six million widows in India, Brazil's coffee leadership, nine of eighteen South Pole expeditions British, new rose varieties at a Paris show, a planned all the World's Airships annual in October, Cape Cod wrecks affecting cargo and people, Spanish cork processing with gas illumination, Roman post houses with horses, a Christie's furniture sale linked to Marie Antoinette, San Jose scale affecting apples at ports, and bluefish behavior and impact on fish like menhaden.
The case review notes a Kansas liquor seizure under a District Court warrant, the shipper’s promised defense, and the express company’s duty to contest. The U S Supreme Court ruling upheld the Kansas judgment as final, and a Dakota decision discusses the State’s Attorney disbarment and the meaning of being learned in the law.
A writer notes that some worms can regrow heads tails or even an entire creature from fragments. Experiments reveal head and tail can replace each other and single segments form whole worms, though errors and monstrosities occur. The piece ends with a question about heredity.
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