Harvest Hands Targeted by Anonymous I W W Campaign
Kansas reports reveal anonymous pamphlets aimed to lure harvest workers from wheat fields. Officials warn wage offers of 15 dollars a day were frauds. standard pay remains 70 cents an hour plus board and lodging. The piece also notes court rulings on utilities and industrial court, a habeas case involving a guardsman, and other state updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Salina
John Crawford
Pisinville
Kansas
Crawford
Viainville
Kansas Supreme Court
Industrial Court
Old Utilities Commission
Clay County Co-Operative Telephone Company
Bell
Telephone Company
Supreme Court
District Court
Roscoe Richardson
Iola
Oscar Foust
Richardson
New Live Stock Bureau
Packing Industries
Live Stock Exchanges
H. Cowan
National Association of the Live Stock Shippers’ Protective League
Whole town moved away from Ulysses Kansas frontier tale
A long account recalls Grant County Ulysses once the county seat, bonds for a courthouse and schoolhouse, drought and grasshoppers driving settlers away, and the entire town relocating to form New Ulysses. It notes bondholders recovered little, and a later tax sale erased the old townsite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ulysses
Grant County
Kansas
New
Pilgrim Tercentenary Bill Aims to Honor Mayflower Legacy
The text outlines a joint resolution creating the United States Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission with eleven members and a $400,000 appropriation to fund projects at Provincetown Plymouth Rock and related burial grounds. It details staged spending, conditions with Massachusetts, and historical notes on Pilgrims versus Puritans and the commemorative plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dickinson Sherman
United States
Provincetown
Piyaout
Mess
United Sites Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission
Senate
House of Representatives
Truro
Wellfleet
Baxtham
Plymouth Rock
Massachusetts
Hare
House
Massachusetts Commission
There Is Plenty of Room on Earth and Its Population
Extract discusses global population limits and distribution, noting total world people under a billion, potential capacity of six billion with even distribution, and stark contrasts in density from India and China to the tropics, with water as the key resource and concern over rainfall affecting regional carrying capacity. It also includes stray dialogue about wine and a brief comic exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Gantert
Spring Hill
Res. Benking Company
Potter's Field
Pleasant View
Susan Gantert
Gantert
Olathe
Johnson County
Ralph Hines
State of Kansas
Martin City
Tropics
United States
Farm Poultry Demand for Guinea Fowls Rises
The article notes rising demand for guinea fowl as a substitute meat, with hotels and restaurants in major cities showing interest. Young birds are valued for tenderness and game-like flavor, though older fowl can be tough. Most guineas are raised in small flocks on farms in the Middle West and South, often as a novelty rather than profit, aided by their loud cry which some view as a security feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Middle West
Guiness
Care of Growing Chickens During Summer
Care of growing chicks in summer is crucial for strong development. Proper brooding and attention prevent retarded growth, ensuring chicks mature into well developed fowls.
Keep Birds Free From Lice and Insect Dusting Methods
Examine the pallets and hens for mice and dust thoroughly with an insect powder or apply a mixture of two parts vaseline and one part mercurial or blue ointment about the size of a pea one inch below the vent of the bird rubbing the mixture on the skin. Reapply this ointment two or three times. Year will keep the fowls free from tee
Poultry Rearing Tips And Incubation Notes
Practical guidance on chick and gosling care includes keeping nests clean and dry, preventing wetting of drinking water, frequent feeding of chicks, and maintaining fresh, firm incubator eggs. It notes high chick mortality before maturity, recommends 4-5 feedings daily in week one, and observes rising duck farm numbers due to growing market demand.
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Barton County
State House
Donald Kiem
Peter Klein
Wichita
Edward C. Paxton
The
Alexander Howast
Kansas Coal Miners
Crawford County
Kansas Industrial Court
Nathan Sanford
Oswego
Mr. Sanford
Illinois
University of Kansas
Quin- Tin
Lawrence
Deering Marshall
Junction
Missouri Pacific Railway
Court of Industrial Relations
Geary County
Junction City
Altra Vista
Dwight
John Merrill
Merrill
Arthur Hansen
R. L. King
Hansen
Robert Marshall
Fort-to-Fort
Lecompton
Charles B. Conner
Conner
Washington
Germany
Plymouth Hock
Plymouth
England
Virginia
Huson River
New York
Cape Cod
Atlantic
Cape Cod Harbor
Townbrook
Brewster Street
Gallivan
Lace
Mayiower
Urs
Lure
Bruceht
New England
Fess
Ohio
Massachusetts Colony
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Providence
Booker
Davenport
Connecticut
Hartford
New Haven
India
China
Louise
Mra Tetter
Julie
Prime
Ome Tepe
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