Nine Mass adults honored in New York Hall of Fame
The 1930 Hall of Fame ceremony at New York University unveiled nine individuals from Massachusetts linked to Harvard and the Bay State. John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, Ilias Howe, James Russell Lowell, Horace Mann, John Lothrop Motley, and Joseph Story are profiled with birthplaces, career milestones, and state ties.
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New York University
Massachusetts
New York
Old Bay State
Harvard
John Quincy Adams
Braintree
Mass
Washington
Holland
Portugal
Prussia
State Senate
United States Senate
Madison
Russia
Great Britain
United States
Adams
England
America
Monroe
Spain
Florida
Andrew Jackson
House of Representatives
Jackson
Congress
George Bancroft
Worcester
Europe
James K. Volk
Bancroft
Navy
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
James Fenimore Cooper
Burlington
N. J
Cooper
Cooperstown
N. Y
Patrick Henry
Studley
Henry
Continental Congress
Virginia
Charlotte County
Ilias Howe
Bay State
Spencer
Bridgeport
Conn
James Russell Lowell
Cambridge
Lowell
Harvard Law School
Atlantic Monthly
North American Review
Oxford
Horace Mann
Franklin
Brown University
Massachusetts Board of Education
Mann
Antioch College
Ohio
John Lothrop Motley
Dorchester
Germany
Dutch Republic
Austria
Motley
Joseph Story
Marblehead
Salem
Supreme Court
Improved Clover Growing Methods
United States Department of Agriculture outlines advances in sweet clover cultivation. Kephart notes methods for growing on slightly sour soil with limited lime, double inoculation, winter sowing, and mixing with grasses for pasture. Warns on bloating and suggests hay prefeeding to prevent it.
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United States Department of Agriculture
L. W.kephart
Kephart
Central
States
Hogs Infested With Small Round Worms Warned
Pigs may be infested with round worms in embryo form when nursing the sow after birth. Worms travel to the lungs causing thumps, potentially fatal. Prevent by washing the sow before farrowing and udder before nursing, relocate to clean pen, keep away from other swine, and use dust-free bedding as no treatment exists.
Corn Borer Resistant Maize Strain Unattacked by Pests
Entomologist A Russell Marston of Michigan State College reports a corn strain resistant to the corn borer. The cross combines the maize abargo from South America with a productive North American variety, a mystery to why borers avoid it.
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A. Russell Marston
Michigan State College
Marston
Deserved Her Pups
Kenneth M. Lee of Augusta Maine captured two fox pups but the mother fox appeared ready to attack. He carried the pups in a basket and traveled about a dozen miles mostly by canoe to a camp. He built a pen for the foxes but the mother returned at night and dug a hole to reclaim them.
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Kenneth M. Lee
Augusta
Maine
Londoner 88 Broadcasts Claim of Yarrow as Oldest Speaker
Londoner aged 88 asserts that Sir Alfred Yarrow the noted shipbuilder has become the oldest man to speak into a microphone on radio. Yarrow, celebrated for his public career, is praised as one of England’s most active men and is described taking his outings in an open victoria drawn by a prancing horse.
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London
Sir Alfred Yarrow
Sir Alfred
England
Victoria
A Good Workman Decides Acquittal Gratitude Visit
A lawyer jokes that the man he had acquitted of theft will thank him that night, with the punchline about handling jewels and valuables. The quip underscores professional pride and irony in a courtroom anecdote from Buen Humor.
A Smart Man Lacks Need for Beauty Like Handsome Brains
A terse aphorism states that a truly clever person has no use for beauty, and a good looking man has no need for brains, implying value lies beyond appearance. The quote contrasts inner intelligence with outward attractiveness.
Inoculating for Peas Becomes Common Farm Practice
Inoculation of field legumes such as corn belt crops has become established on many farms though garden peas and sweet peas see less use. Wisconsin tests show clear growth and size advantages from effective nitrogen fixing bacteria strains, justifying inoculation for garden and sweet peas.
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Wisconsin University
Practical farm hints from grain to hog raising
Agricultural tips emphasize cheap feeds like low priced grains and farm by products to base hog raising. Formaldehyde treatment helps control oats smuts with 2.5 cents per acre chemical cost. Storing vegetables in a cool dry cellar or sheds after frost reduces grocery bills and canned goods strain.
Untitled Aphorism on Women and Smoking
A concise proverb notes that one can judge a woman by the cigarettes she does not smoke, framing tobacco as a measure of character and restraint in social judgments.
How One Woman Lost 20 Pounds of Fat
A weight loss pitch asserts Kruschen Salts remove fat by correcting bodily waste handling. It promises energy gains, clearer skin, and a younger feel in 3 weeks after taking half a teaspoon daily in hot water. A money back guarantee and 85 cent bottle price are noted.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Patince Helyry
Charles Keck
Tsaties
Russell Lowell
Allan Clack
Jaites Fentitore' Cooper By
Victor Salvatore
Elias Howe— By
John Quincy Adatts
Labrund
Quinn
Londoner
Aah
Stanco
Hanford
Nebraska’s
Paxton
Bruce Turner
Reidsville
N. C
Turner
Ito H
Cutieura
Chearleal Corporation
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