Russia Will Fight to Last Man for Freedom in War Message
A October 1 1915 item quotes the Russian Duma president declaring Russia has 12 000 000 soldiers ready to fight to the last drop of blood and refuse peace while any enemy remains on Russian soil. The report notes 30000 civil war veterans marching in Washington under G A R review by President Wilson.
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Russia
Duma
G.A. R
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
White House
Washington
Wilson
Bankers Syndicate Plans Half Billion War Loan for Britain
A syndicate of American bankers announced plans to float a 500 million dollar war loan for Great Britain and France with minor details left to finalize. The loan would bear annual interest of 25 million dollars.
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Great Britain
France
Taft Declines Presidential Candidacy Endorses Wilson Critique
Ex-President William Howard Taft says he will not run for president next year. He praises Wilson's handling of Europe but criticizes the Democratic administration on revenues tariffs naval Mexican and Philippine policies.
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Wm. H.taft
Mr. Taft
Wilson
Beloit Student Performs Daring Stunts for Cash
Beloit resident Clarence Monroy earns money for college by letting cars run over his body at a mile a minute. He also collects from the crowd afterward. He bends horseshoes in his teeth as an additional act. He is an orphan after his father's murder of his mother sister and brother followed by his own death.
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Beloit, Wis
Clarence Monroy
Quick pangram rhythm of mixed sentence examples
A collection of short sentences each containing every letter of the alphabet. The lines include John P Brady with a black walnut box and phrases like Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs and A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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John P. Brady
John
Zephyr
Thrift Day Proposal Gathers Support From Labor Groups
The International Congress for Thrift urges a national Thrift Day to be designated by presidents and state governors on the Sunday before Labor Day. The movement, backed by labor organizations, argues thrift will reduce poverty and curb alms when campaigns educate the public and establish state and national headquarters.
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International Congress For Thrift
Good Roads and Country Women Advocate Highway Improvement
A Philadelphia Record viewpoint urges women, especially in rural areas, to champion better roads as essential for economic and social welfare. It cites mudbound winters, farm value gains, school access, store deliveries, reduced dust, and new visitors as benefits, praising Lincoln highway beautification and calling for broader rural advocacy.
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Philadelphia Record
United States
Federation of Woman's Clubs
Lincoln Highway
Ocean
Beveridge
Women urged to join good roads push for permanent roads
The passage calls on women to actively engage in the good roads movement as individuals and through local women’s organizations. It argues for permanent, dustless roads as the best long term economy, claiming such roads cost only slightly more than makeshift highways and represent thorough emancipation.
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den OF Amarin
Road Law Revisions Pace with State Legislation
The American Highway Association and the Bureau of Municipal Research plan a expansive series of papers to revise and simplify road laws. They will compile current statutes, identify conflicts and obsolete provisions, and propose model laws on state aid, convict labor, bonds, local road management, and traffic regulation. Charts will compare state systems, with expert hearings forthcoming.
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Legislative Committee of the
American
Highway Association
Bureau of Municipal Research
New York City
A. N. Johnson
Bureau of Municipal-Esearch
American Highway Association
United States Office of Public Roads
Keep the Ground Clean Promotes Orchard Cleanup
Community initiative urges residents to gather fallen apples peaches and plums beneath trees to keep the ground clean and reduce waste. The campaign highlights orchard upkeep and neighborhood responsibility.
A Germ Crank The Author Describes Villain’s End
A quoted exchange from the Boston Transcript notes a character’s plan and the villain meeting a grim fate. The Lady decries the idea as very insanitary, reflecting concerns about disease and public health in fiction.
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Boston Transcript
A Handy Wheeled Gate For Easy Handling
A Farm Progress contributor describes a simple wheeled gate. Hang the gate three feet from the ground, attach two 2 by 4s as supports near the far end from the hinge, and fit a wheel from an old rake or plow to ease opening. Cut the planking to bear the gate’s weight for easy operation by a child.
August Bee Colony Swarming Control Tactics
A timely guide urges beekeepers to prepare hives in August for autumn nectar and winter. It notes swarming tendency as humid August days rise and recommends smoking colonies, driving bees into supers, or transferring a strong section to a sulking colony to revive activity and speed honey completion.
Late blight on potatoes in Wisconsin fields urge spray
Wisconsin's plant pathology unit reports late blight in central and southern potato fields and urges prevention with Bordeaux mixture spray. Weather with damp foggy nights favors spread. apply with 75 to 100 psi, spray twice with opposite directions, repeat about every ten days, typically four applications. Also notes Bordeaux formula eight pounds copper sulphate ten pounds lime and one hundred gallons water.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
J. G. Milward
Ingenious Farm Implements From a Nebraska Farmer
A Nebraska farmer describes constructing a long lever and anchor gear from simple steel parts. He specifies one-inch links of soft steel, a large twelve inch diameter ring, and a lever eighteen to twenty feet long ten inches thick at the big end. The design uses a butt end from an old steel plow beam as part of the mechanism.
Preparing Land For Potatoes
Montana experiment station explains fall plowing may aid early potato land by exposing soil to frost and moisture, but heavy soils benefit from fall and spring plowing. A loose well aerated seed bed and weed control support quick early growth for a strong start.
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Montana Experiment Station
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O. C. Dieh
Nebr
Waggoner Bros
Jefferson County Abstract Office
R. Monroe Davis
First National Bank
Fairbury, Neb
S.b.wovters
Diller, Neb
Venth Steel
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V. A. Raymond Dealer
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