Experts Urge Education Crusade Against the House Fly
Federal experts urge a nationwide education crusade to curb house flies. A Farmers Bulletin outlines practical methods to destroy maggots in horse manure with hellebore or borax and to build simple maggot traps. It notes screening, hygiene, and manure management as key defenses, and explains fly life cycles and disease risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Department of Agriculture
Sigw Farmers
Mies
Bureau’ of Entomology
United States Department of Agriculture
Maryfied Agricultural College
Maryland ‘Agricultural Collegé
Wintergreen oil trade hit by war in Europe
Mauch Chunk Pa reports the European war disrupts the wintergreen oil industry. The trade, supplying about 90 percent of world oil and much to German laboratories, stalls with dealers liquidating assets and awaiting better prices. Local workers in Forest Kidder Lehigh counties rely on gathering and selling to distillers at two dollars per card amid widespread disruption.
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Mauch Chunk
Forest
Kidder
Lehigh
New Residence Planned for Prison Farm Superintendent
Wheeling, July 10. Warden M. P. White reports plans from the State board of control for a modern two story 34 by 32 foot residence on the penitentiary farm near Moundsville. Eight rooms with bath laundry attic porches and brick veneer will replace the old farm house at the junctions of Fork Ridge and Big Grave Creek roads. the superintendent’s post currently held by George Drake.
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Wheeling
White
State Penitentiary
Moundsville
State Board of Control
Penitentiary Farm
State Farm
George Drake
Fork Ridge
Big Graye Creek
Prison to modernize tuberculosis ward at Moundsville
Interint reports began arriving at Moundsville yesterday detailing additions to the prison for more modern treatment of tubercular patients. Improvements include new boilers and pollers to supply steam heating the big buildings, with installation planned before cooler fall weather.
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Moundsville
Othe
Hen Lays Two Eggs in One Day atchison News
ATCHISON Kan July 10 A hen owned by George Schmitt an ex pressman laid two eggs in one day He notes the fact after gathering four eggs the day after collecting three He also reports a female redbird tapping at the window and pecking at the glass while the male redbird perches on the sill outside the house
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atchison, Kan
George Schmitt
Schmitt
Veteran Elliot found in Kalamazoo after 35 years believed dead
George W. Elliot, Civil War veteran long thought dead by his Milan Ohio wife and memorialized there, was located in Kalamazoo by a Washington pension examiner. He had lived in Kalamazoo for twenty years, kept his bricklaying job, and says his wife stole his pension documents before he vanished. It is believed he will receive due pension payments.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Milan
Ohio
George W. Elliot
Washington
Altho
Union
Elliott
Ask for Battle Cruisers
The general board of the United States navy is near recommending six battle cruisers as the main item in the next building program for Congress. A majority favors fast battle cruisers to act as fleet scouts at about thirty knots, potentially replacing armored cruisers. The plan aims to strengthen long range fire, speed to deter submarine attacks, and may include increased submarine procurement.
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Washington
General Board of the
United States Navy
Congress
New Weights and Measures Law Taught in Schools
Miss Alice J McChesney of Charleston has been deputized by State Labor Commissioner Nightingale to travel to county institutes across the state. She will explain the new weights and measures law and the child labor law to teachers as part of preparatory instruction for public schools. Her itinerary focuses on institutes in the Ohio valley section of the state.
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Alice J. McChesney
Charleston
Haseen
Nightingale
Ohio Valley
Why Farmers Need Automobiles A Labor Saver
An excerpt from Farm and Fireside argues automobiles are vital for farmers as labor and time savers. It contrasts a $1500 five passenger touring car with a horse team, noting depreciation, garage costs, and fuel, and concludes driving saves time and money overall versus buggy travel.
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Apowne
Bolt
Incompetent Alexander Ross Faces Sanity Probe in New Jersey
A sheriffs jury in Plainfield weighs if Alexander M. Ross, heir to over 300000 and annual income of 18000, is insane due to fondness for young women and lavish spending. His mother Mrs Florence Potter Sheppard testifies to wild debts, secret marriage at seventeen, and a pattern of impulsive behavior. Dr. William L Russell calls him an imbecile incurable while Ross seeks a trustee to manage his estate. The jury disagrees.
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Plainfield
N. J
Sherif
Alexander M. Ross
Florence Potter Sheppard
Bloomingdale Asylum
Sheppard
Albert H. Sheppard
Chicago
Frederic R. Goddert
Alexander
Riz
William L
Marietta Woman Weds Pittsburg Man Civilly in Wheeling
Miss Zelta Morris of Marietta Ohio and Francis Z Mason of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania were married civilly by Rev W H Fields at the justice office of W P Wickham in Wheeling this week. The couple and few witnesses chose a civil ceremony not recognized in this state. ministers perform marriages here.
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Wheeling
Zelta Morris
Marietta, .C
Francis. Z. Mason
Pittsburg
W.h.fields
W. P. Wickham
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Berry prize winner showcases record strawberries in Paterson
From Passaic New Jersey July 10 Jam B Esty of Clinton Avenue Paterson earned first prize for a display at the flower show. Described as the finest strawberries grown in the state, the exhibit featured two large berries measuring two and a half inches.
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Passaic
Clinton Cavenue
Clinton
Eran Karl Droschkroma
Paterson
Tragic Incoherent Fatality In St Louis Domestic Case
Mrs Elizabeth Smith, 33, admitted firing a pistol at her partner John Smith, 59, as he slept after leaving bed for water. The couple claimed to live together fourteen years without marriage, raising two children. She said a momentary loathing prompted the shooting and that she called police afterward.
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ST. Louis
Elizabeth Smith
John Smith
Smiths
Widow Receives $3000 Policy After Engine Disaster
Mrs Lillian Reynolds of 1370 West 61st Street became a widow within half an hour of her husband Harry J Reynolds being killed in an explosion aboard the Thomas Walter. The couple's son Harry J Reynolds was lost in the November 1913 storm when the steamer Charles S Price sank.
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Cleveland
Lillian Reynolds
W. 61St Street
Harry
J. Reynolds
Thomas Walter
Reynolds
Charles S. Price
Bees Migrate From Drug Store to New Home
A Kansas City Missouri report describes Leo Nickolf guiding a swarm from a drug store awning to a nearby box. He baited a hive with honeycomb and coaxed the bees into a new home as two hundred onlookers watched the beekeeper’s nearly afternoon-long operation.
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Kansas
City
Leo Nickolf
Bel-laire Avenue
Mr. Nickoli
Klee Drug Company
Bewk
Nickols
Woman Beats Thief With Curling Irons in Seattle
In Seattle Washington a woman confronted a thief and used two curling irons as improvised restraints after the incident. The assailant fled. Police report no serious injuries. A nickel plated outline wording appears in witness notes.
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