Haunted Farm Skeletons Reveal Local Murder History
Police probe second skeleton found at the old Canarsie site near Hegeman Avenue and Powell Street as detectives tie the “Haunted Farm” to a Brooklyn and Manhattan killer ring. A 1912 murder linked to Mrs Seely and a 1914 date are noted, with witnesses recalling eerie noises and a former truck farm shanty.
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New York
Canarsie
Charles Wuest
Hegeman Avenue
Powell Street
Morris Pfilum
Samuel Block
Block
Joseph Verdone
Little Ferry
N. J
Jenny Seeley
Seeley
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Carey
Girl Raises Pigs For Gain In Imperial Valley
Miss Josie Fuller seventeen of Holtville California runs fifty hogs for pleasure and profit aiming to be the top pork producer in the Imperial valley. She notes pig culture is money making not a finishing school for debutantes and has developed her herd to fetch about 30 cents a pound. She nearly won a University of California prize but judges docked points for excess care of her dogs.
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Holtville
Cal
Josie Fuller
Imperial Valley
University of California
Fish Jump Into Boats On Fox River Incident
A five and a half pound black bass leapt into the rowboat of Lloyd and Ione Thomas as they boated on the Fox river in Waukesha Wisconsin. Rescue crews aided the children and witnesses note the fish have jumped into boats six times that fall. The fish are said to startle when hit by motors in murky water. Royal Peck aged 33 has married his stepmother in New York fulfilling his father’s dying wish.
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Waukesha
Wis
Fox River
Lloyd
Ione Thomas
E. L. Thomas
Man
Stepmother
New York
Royal Peck
Movement to Purify Star Spangled Banner in Schools
A New York conference of high school music teachers proposes removing dialect from songs in textbooks and tempering the Star Spangled Banner. Dr. Frank Rix urges standard English to aid foreign children and ease singing, with minor changes in rhythm and key.
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New York
America
New York Public Schools
Frank R. Rix
Card of Education
Doctor Rix
Paul's voyage and storm on the voyage to Rome
The article outlines Paul's voyage from Caesarea to Italy in AD 59, with a large company aboard a grain ship. It details Sidon, Myra, and Crete, the hurricane off Fair Haven, and Paul's leadership as he reassures the crew, proclaims belief in God, and acts as life saver, trusting God's promise to witness in Rome.
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Paul
Caesarea
Ramsey
Agrippa
Malta
Luke
Josephus
Rome
Aristarchus
Sidon
Palestine
Myra
Asia Minor
Aegean Sea
Alexandria
Italy
Cnidus
Fair Haven
Crete
God
Jonah
Isaiah
John
Mr. Moody
General Howard
Europe
Causes of Variations in Cream Tests
The article explains multiple factors behind cream test fluctuations. It notes that a herd with 4 percent fat milk can yield cream testing 40 percent and later drop to 35 percent if fat content falls, and that skim milk loss remains minimal. It highlights how flushing water or skim milk at the end of the run, especially with small cream runs, can alter fat percentages by 2 to 5 percent, more than cream screw adjustments, which are infrequent and not the main source of variation.
Worth of a dairy bull based on butterfat gains
Professor C C Hayden of Ohio Experiment Station outlines a dairy herd example where one bull sired daughters averaging 153 pounds more butterfat per year than their dams. If ten daughters produce milk for six years, the sire's total production value would be substantial, potentially approaching three thousand dollars.
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C. C. Hayden
Ohio Experiment Station
Dairy bull value tied to daughters milk yield tests
The article notes the value of a dairy bull depends on his daughters milk and butter yields. It advises farmers not to sell the sire before daughters are tested and warns buyers not to dismiss an older bull if he has high producing offspring.
Herd Subordinate to Farm
An essay argues that the farm, not the herd, counts in farming success. It states dairy cows should serve the farm’s highest goals and that great breeders arise from great farmers, with the herd as a subordinate asset.
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H. B. Favill
Inheritance Determines Milk Richness More Than Feed
The article asserts that milk richness is governed by inheritance and cannot be permanently altered by feed. It argues that cream quality cannot be influenced through feeding practices, likening milk richness to hair color as an inherited trait.
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Praised By Immobile Indianapolis Woman
Mrs. Wm Green of 938 Addison Street Indianapolis says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health after months of weakness and weight loss. She notes she now handles housework and washing again. The ad also mentions gifts to Leeds University for language initiatives.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Indianapolis
Indiana
WM. Green
Addison Street
Lydia E. P. Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Grove's The Old Standard Tonic Promotes Vitality
An advertisement touts Grove's The Old Standard Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to improve liver function fight malaria enrich the blood and boost the whole system at a price of 50 cents.
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Grove
Contradictory Methods Revealed in Conversation
A dialogue frames a mentor asking about readiness and a reply cites a rule to keep all items in running order. The exchange emphasizes disciplined preparation as a universal practice rather than a sporadic habit.
After man came woman and she is still in the race
Fragmentary text notes human sites and eyelids with garbled terms and ev en hints at a race context. The readable line asserts progress of women in a competition, framed as ongoing.
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David Lloyd-George
Aristide Briand
France
Infant
Seventh Branch Detective Bureau
Helen Kreps
Stanford University
California
Unitarian Theological School
New York Education Board
Dixie
Stephen Foster
Massa
de Col’ Col
Joe
Suwannee River
Ae International
Ageng
Ee Ay Bible Institute
Chicago
Jehovah
Sawiji Misawa
San Francisco
Japan
Ohio
Leeds University
Dean
North Carolina
A. Spence
Wilmington
Doan
Firus Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Shivar Spring
Shelton
Tutt
Dursar Razor Works
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