BREAKING CALVES TO LEAD AND FARM NOTES
Farmers learn calf leading to improve value and thrift in cattle. Pigs from young sows yield a profitable litter with early feeding. Dwarf peas decline in yield versus larger varieties. Deep eyed potatoes hinder market appeal and smooth skins aid cooking. Fresh insect powder preferred as old stock loses strength. Breeding good layers relies on selecting best layers. Sparrows attack Indian corn. control urged. Keep mangers clean to protect horse feed. Potatoes improved by Goodrich seedlings and dry mealy cooking. Lice on calves treated with kerosene or oil.
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England
Goodrich
The Barbed Wire Fence
Reports of cattle struck and killed by lightning near barbed wire fences prompt discussion on insulating fence wires. Anxiety grows as livestock gather in sheltered corners during storms, highlighting fence design risks and potential reforms.
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Chicago Tribune
Work of Nature's Sculptor in Rivers and Valleys
The piece surveys rapid canyon creation by natural forces, citing Lyell’s Simets Gorge in Sicily and a Georgia gorge formed in decades, alongside Brazil’s longer Gorge described by Liais. It explains flood action reshaping low river lands, and notes the Hoang-Ho’s famed devastations. It ends with a Los Angeles theft-suit and a 300 pound turtle capture near St. Augustine.
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Colorado
Niagra
Lyell
Simets
Sicily
Milledgeville
Liais
Brazil
Hoang-Ho
Dana
Yenit
Wanted Pies on a Southern Missouri Train
A sharp old woman and her daughter aboard a mixed train in southern Missouri fear a pies theft. The mother insists she hid pies in a carpet bag, confronts the conductor and a sleeping man, and demands the missing baked goods as passengers look on. The tale ends with the bag emptied and a humorous exchange about the pies.
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Missouri
Kain
Patsey
Les
David
Miz Gregg
Puss
Coxsar
Convenient Excuse Raises Lightning Death as Alibi
In a Crawfordsville Journal item, readers are told the new scheme to execute criminals by electricity offers a cleaner alibi for families. The article notes the public may dodge the issue by claiming the BBS band and father were struck by lightning rather than naming the condemned.
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BBS
John
Crawfordsville Journal
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland Tied To Teaching Honor
The Washington Post notes Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland cherishes leaving journalism for teaching. It argues teaching holds greater opportunity to aid undeveloped and untrained minds than poetry or editorials.
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Rose Elizabeth Cleveland Alse
Washington Post
Four Aces Are Grander in a Witty Exchange
A Detroit Free Press humorous exchange features a woman asking Charlie if he has seen a king and him replying that four aces are grander. The quick quip contrasts kings with the superior value of four aces in a card-sense boast.
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Charlie
Detroit Free Press
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Tor
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