Opening of a New Epoch as U S Financiers Back British French Credit
The Nebraska State Journal reports on a new US credit agreement to Britain and France, noting it does not shift the nation to creditor status yet but signals deeper foreign finance. The loan funds purchases of American goods abroad while keeping foreign securities from destabilizing markets.
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Great Britain
France
United States
America
Germany
England
Mississippi River
Nebraska
Nebraska State Journal
Grimm alfalfa shown best for New England soil trial
New Hampshire station reports eight Grimm alfalfa strains tested in 1912 14 across 122 farmers. Grimm outperformed common alfalfa in inoculated and limed plots with higher standing and spreading roots. Seed scarcity and cost noted but inoculation advised using soil from existing patches.
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New England
New Hampshire Experiment Station
College
Minnesota
Grimm
Hardy
Wendelin Grimm
War Time Prices Hit Farmers As War Spreads Costs
The Nebraska Farmer notes that war raised food prices early, lifting farmer prosperity briefly, but rising costs for steel, machinery, and hardware follow as factories shift to munitions. It warns global calamity from destruction cannot bring universal prosperity.
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Europe
Nebraska
Alfalfa Cultivation Tips From Historic Guide
The text advises applying lime after plowing at one ton per acre burnt lime or two tons per acre agricultural lime. It notes alfalfa thrives on well drained stony loam with southern exposure and stresses a well pulverized compact seed bed. It also promotes stable manure as the best fertilizer.
Giraffes and Telephone Wires at London Meeting
At a meeting of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London W L Preece described tropical telephone damage by animals. Giraffes in East Africa push through wires and poles, white ants devour wooden poles, bees use a torpedoed instrument as a hive, and spiders spin dew saturated webs that lower insulation resistance.
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Institution of Electrical Engineers
London
W.L. Preece
Tropics
East Africa
Iceland’s Founding and Early Prosperity in Norse Era
Ancient Iceland was founded in AD 874 by Norse emigrants. John Fiske described a bold colonization, rapid population growth to about 50,000, and a thriving economy trading fish oil butter and skins with Norway Denmark and the British Isles. Political freedom and naval power aided swift wealth and culture expansion.
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Iceland
Norway
John Fiske
Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay
Denmark
British Isles
Egotism and Loneliness in a Satirical Exchange
A wife asks why he feels lonely and he proclaims dislike for egotism and the world. He condemns confident misdeeds by people and vows to be the only consistently moral gentleman, claiming the earth lacks virtue and leaves him solitary.
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Jefferson County Abstract Office
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