Humane System Aims to Reform Prisons Under Hoover Plan
Washington reports that Sanford Bates outlines a humane reform program for prisons. It includes new buildings, better diet, qualified guards, probation and parole, and prisoner education to curb uprisings and overcrowding. Bates notes eight prison camps reduce crowding and that parole and probation have grown significantly.
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Washington
Hoover
Sanford Bates
Bureau of Prisons
Bates
Northeast
Pennsylvania
Warrant Served on Wife Leads to Fine in Rossville
Emma McConnell filed a warrant charging assault against Mrs. John Roush. The Rossville marshal refused to serve it on his wife, the sheriff took over and served the paper. Mrs. Roush pleaded guilty and paid a $5 fine.
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Rossville
Kan
Emma McConnell
John Roush
Roush
Georgia Leads States in War on Illiteracy
Georgia reports major progress in literacy over ten years, teaching 118 102 persons over ten who could not read or write. Census figures show 328 853 adults illiterate in 1920, 15.8 percent of the group. Under State Superintendent M L Druggan leadership, Georgia reduced illiteracy more than other states with available data.
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Georgia
Washington
National Advisory Committee
M.L. Druggan
Hit-Run Autoist Hits Six at Once
A hit-and-run driver plowed into a roadside camp in Los Angeles injuring six people. One man died and two women were likely fatally hurt. the motorist remains at large.
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Los Angeles
Literacy Progress Among Blackfeet and States
The committee reports progress in Montana among Blackfeet Indians with 236 adults aged 22 to 84 gaining some reading and writing ability within two weeks of instruction. Mississippi ranks second to Georgia, reducing illiteracy by 4.1 percent of its population.
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Montana
Mississippi
Georgia
Scientist Claims South America Once Three Isles
Dr William M McGovern of Northwestern University told the Washington University association that South America was once three islands split by a sea akin to the Mediterranean now turned into the Amazon River. He described trips near Manaos noting a modern city at the river’s end and distant jungles with undiscovered Indians.
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Amazon ‘River
Man Who Rode Box Car Pays With 400 Stamps
El Paso Texas police reported Harry Brassen rode a box car out of town and sent a letter to the railroad officials offering 400 stamps as penance for the ride. He wrote God bless your railroad and asked them to accept the stamps valued at about 40 cents.
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el Paso
Texas
Harry Brassen
The Kitchen Cabinet
The Kitchen Cabinet features a column with a reflective verse by Elizabeth Wade, pondering tradition and the path to the future through questions about what she holds and what prize may be wrested from its grasp.
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Elizabeth Wade
Dishes That Are Different Cream Puff Variations
A simple cream puff recipe with step by step directions for Bagdad Cream Puffs and Irish kisses. Includes baking times 35 to 45 minutes and filling ideas with dates marshmallows cream and vanilla. Also suggests adding grapefruit juice to apples for a different applesauce.
Dentist, patient clash over teeth and old debt
In a Hungarian village a dentist demanded payment of an old family dental bill before returning a patient’s false teeth. The patient sued for infamous professional ethics while the dentist argued lack of money bars eating. The Washington Post notes the court’s sharp remarks.
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Chicago
Washington Post
Mineral balance in chick ration triggers bone health
Ohio State University poultry extension expert P B Zumbro warns that both excess and deficiency of minerals can cause leg weakness and poor bone development in chicks. He favors a starter mix of corn middlings bran oats meat scrap dried milk salt and cod liver oil to ensure mineral utilization and vitamin support.
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P.B. Zumbro
Ohio State University
Zumbro
Turkeys and Chickens Should Be Separated
The note warns that turkeys and chickens cannot cohabit safely as parasites in turkeys spread disease to turkeys when hens host the parasite. It advises removing turkeys from shared ranges, offering laxative rations, and rotating runs every two to three months in winter and more often in summer. If space is tight, keep turkeys on a screen wire floor with a wire net cover on the south side of the poultry house.
Culling Roosters Good Practice for Farmers
Permitting roosters to run with the laying flock in summer costs millions yearly. Feed wasted on roosters reduces egg production as fertile eggs spoil in warm weather. Unless valuable breeding animals, cockerels should be sent to market at once and kept isolated if retained.
Legend of Maiden Sacrifice at Niagra Falls
A Native custom near the falls involved a chosen maiden paddling a white canoe filled with fruits and flowers over Niagara Falls as a sacrifice. The Seneca chief’s daughter, loved by her father, joined the ritual amid celebration and tumult before both canoes disappeared over the falls.
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Niag‘ara
Dutch term origins and Pennsylvania Dutch identity
The English word Dutch derives from Dueisch and related Germanic roots. Historically it meant all Germanic peoples but now mainly refers to Hollanders. The Pennsylvania Dutch are primarily of German and German Swiss descent and influential in regional life and history.
Infertile Egg Theory Affects Poultry Markets
Prof Willard Thompson of the New Jersey agricultural experiment station says market demand for prime quality eggs may require infertile eggs in hot weather. He notes fertile egg germination starts at 68 degrees F and after breeding season fertile eggs are unnecessary as male birds are not essential to egg production.
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Willard ©. Thompson
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
New Chick Disease Hits Minnesota and North Dakota Flocks
A respiratory poultry disease in Minnesota and North Dakota causes droopy chicks with rough down and continual gulping for air. Mortality averages about 50 percent in infected birds. No cures exist. experts urge ample clean air, uniform warmth, and clean quarters.
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Minnesota
North Dakota
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