Wool Demonstration Tour Promotes Better Wool Values
A wool demonstration car toured Montana Idaho Wyoming and Utah to show producers and dealers that better wool yields more money. It visited over fifty towns reaching about 6000 interested in wool growing. The exhibit compared fleeces of different grades and carried six head of live sheep to illustrate breed value. The program, backed by the U S department of agriculture and state agricultural colleges, aims to raise awareness of quality over quantity and educate growers on wool grades and market demand.
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Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Colleges
Summer feeding proves more profitable for pastured cattle
Summer feeding while cattle are pastured proves more profitable than winter feeding. It notes that cattle should have stronger feed than green grass to thrive in pasture conditions and to maximize returns during the warm season.
Concrete for Hog Wallow and Poultry House Hygiene
A practical note advises farmers to build a hog wallow with concrete and connect it to the well or tank. Regular weekly disinfection in summer keeps hogs healthy and lice free. Also notes roup accompanies damp dark poultry houses.
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Roup
Manure Use Steps for Potatoes in Crop Rotations
The most economical way to use manure for potatoes is to apply it to a preceding crop. If the soil is poor, well rotted manure may safely be used just prior to planting.
Purebred stock favored for profitable hog raising
Purebred stock is more profitable for all uses. The first cross of one purebred variety with another often yields satisfactory stock, but continued use tends to produce mongrels and reduce usefulness. For clean pots, provide hogs with clean pens.
ASK TEST EXTENSIONS Dr Emery Ennis Confers With Board
Springfield Dr Emery Ennis osteopath has returned from Chicago where he met state board of health members about extending state medical exams. The board recently broadened exams for practitioners other than regular physicians to exclude obstetrics materia medica therapeutics and surgery. Osteopaths seek to take these four subjects. They cite allo pathists as allowed. The new rule takes effect in September.
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Springfield
Emery Ennis
Chi
State Board of Health
State Board
Ennis
Ruling Denies State Millions In Illinois Central Tax Case
The Illinois Supreme Court denies the state's bid for a rehearing in the Illinois Central railroad tax case, keeps the 70 cent per $100 levy, and fixes a final assessed value at 133,714,341 for 1913, resulting in no additional state payment beyond the 7 percent gross earnings tax. The decision preserves a long dispute over railroad valuation and tax amounts dating to 1913 and 1914, with the court appointing a special commissioner to fix equalized values previously.
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Illinois
Supreme Court
Ilinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central Railroad
Auditor of Public Accounts
James J. Brady
Brady
Illinois Central
Leslie D. Puterbaugh
Peoria
Puterbaugh
Ilinois Central
Falling Wall Collapse Kills Three in Chicago Building
A seven story building at 411 West Ontario Street collapsed after a fourth floor wall gave way. Two workers were killed, two are missing, and two others were injured. Foreman J H Lyons of Diversey Avenue died, George Kolinsky also died, Wladislaw Woldt of Emma Street survived but is in serious condition at Passavant Hospital.
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Chicago
West Ontario Street
Te Street
J. H. Lyons
Diversey Avenue
George Kolinsky
Passavant Hospital
Wladislaw Woldt
Emma Street
Investigate Steger Death Unfolds In Local Mystery
Police and private detectives probe the death of John V. Steger, millionaire piano maker and town founder. His body was found in a reservoir on his estate by his son-in-law Thomas Norton. Initial inquiries show no suicide motive, with disputes traced to legal battles as a possible lead.
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Steger
John V. Steger
Thomas Norton
Jealousy sparks fatal shooting in city
Charleston fireman Delmore Hill aged twenty seven was shot while responding to a call at a young woman's home. He accused Roy Smith before dying. Smith was arrested. Officials believe jealousy over Miss Mayme Hammack sparked the shooting.
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Charleston
Delmore Hill
Roy Smith
Smith
Mayme Hammack
Adams County Good Roads Week Opens With Contest Prize
Beginning Monday August 7 Adams county highway enthusiasts will observe good roads week with township competition for best record of good roads work. The chamber of commerce will award a 24 foot concrete culvert as the prize to the winner.
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Quincy
Adams County
Chamber of Commerce
Teacher to Teach in China in Mission School
Miss Jennie V. Shilling resigns from Roach school to take teaching post at an Anglo-Chinese school on Penang Island off the Malay peninsula. The school operates under the Methodist foreign mission board.
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China
Decature
Jennie V. Shilling
Roach
Penang
Malay Peninsula
Methodist Foreign Mission Board
May Order Guard Out. Holt Company Plant Strike
Pekin sheriff warns governor may call state troops to protect workers at the Holt company plant making war munitions as strikers stone shot and beat non-walking colleagues.
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Peoria
Wilson
Pekin
Tazewell County
Holt Company
Car Kills Little Girl in Aurora Suburb
Seven year old Mary Edmonds nicknamed Little Sunshine was killed when struck by a street car near Montgomery a suburb south of Aurora as she walked to the cemetery to place flowers on her father's grave.
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Aurora
Mary Edmonds
Sunshine
Montgomery
Elgin High Pupils Favor Spanish Course Over Agriculture
In Elgin high school students show little interest in the new agriculture course with no names entered yet. A sizable number have enrolled in the Spanish course instead.
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Elgin
Dies on Grave Bloomington pioneer Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips, seventy five, a pioneer of Ellsworth, was found dead in a Bloomington cemetery. An attack of heart failure occurred while he was cutting grass on the graves of relatives.
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Bloomington
Charles Phillips
Ellsworth
Woman's Crowned Glory Hair Dressing Ad
An advertisement promotes La Creole Hair Dressing to cover gray hair. It appeals to women seeking a natural look and offers the product at price one dollar.
Fox Eaters City in Sterling
A gray fox entered Sterling drawn by spring chickens and was hunted by dogs after its unusually venturesome raid. Foxes typically remain in timber country, but this one ventured into the city and was pursued.
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Sterling
Campaign to Raise 30000 for DeKalb Public Hospital
DeKalb plans a drive to raise thirty thousand dollars to establish a public hospital. The city already has twenty thousand dollars remaining from the late Joseph F. Glidden for hospital purposes.
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DeKalb
Joseph F. Glidden
Train Kills Woman at Bloomington Crossing
Mrs. Gretna Schoon of Pekin died after a train blocked a crossing and ran over her as she crawled beneath it. Authorities report the accident occurred at the Bloomington crossing, leaving little detail beyond the fatal outcome.
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Bloomington
Gretna Schoon
Pekin
Crack makes safe at Springfield brewery theft
Thieves cracked the Reisch Brewery safe with a crowbar and took about $160 from its offices in Springfield. Police investigated the crime at the scene.
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Springfield
Reisch
Regular Attendant Dialogue Echoes Church Habit
A brief exchange contrasts regular church attendance with the speaker’s own pattern. One asks if the person goes to church regularly and the reply humorously settles on attending once a year. The exchange highlights a paradox of devotion and cadence.
Rheumatism-Its Cause and Cure Promoted by Brockton Ad
A Brockton based advertisement invites sufferers of rheumatism and neuritis to request a free book titled Rheumatism Its Cause and Cure. Jesse A. Case, Dept. ro W., Brockton, Bruss.-Adv touts the work as wonderful.
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Jesse A. Case
Dept
Ro W
Brockton, Bruss
Fooled He Bit Peppermint Tab Debacle
A fragmentary quote describes a boy fooling someone by claiming a white poker chip he dropped was a peppermint tablet and asking if it was swallowed, revealing a con with a deceptive exchange. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or outcome.
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Hobart Herold
Safety First War Talk Disrupted by Plumbing Woes
In a brief exchange, one character declines to argue about the war, citing a broken plumbing system at home that has exhausted their patience and preempted any heated discussion this morning. The dialogue sketches a weathered human moment amid larger conflict.
Big Sturgeon on Trot Line in Sacramento River
Eugene Barion, called the musical fisherman, hauled a 400-pound sturgeon seven feet long from the Sacramento River at Middle Creek. His 200-foot trot line with twelve bells tied along the main line woke the fish when it struck the hook. Barion needed two neighbors to land the catch, which netted $63.
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Sacramento
Eugene Barion
Barion
Bnecause
Middle Creek
Barton
Redding
Cal
San Francisco
Grove's Generic Tonic Claim in Early Ad Card
An advertorial style notice touts Grove's The Old Standard tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims benefits for the liver, malaria defense, blood enrichment, and overall health, priced at 50 cents, ending with a jab about china being Japanned.
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Grove
La Creole Hair Dressing Ad Claims Youth Age
An advertiser promises readers who are 18 or older that using La Creole Hair Dressing will darken gray hairs and make them look ten years younger, presenting a personal grooming appeal in a compact notice.
Efficiency. Mrs Knicker We Can't Keep A Cook
Mrs Knicker says she cannot retain a cook and Mrs Becker suggests advertising for a fond dictator, a playful exchange reflecting domestic helpers and humor in household management.
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Knicker
Worth Sitting Up For Huthwaite Jackpot Talk
The article notes Huthwaite appearing worn and fatigued from sleepless nights. He suggests taking medicine and plans a trip to Canada this summer if he wins a few more jackpots.
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Huthwaite
Canada
Novel English Church in Southsea Reuses Naval History
A new church in St Paul parish Southsea began as a stable. Rev H W Workman, its vicar, once used the altar cross while serving as a naval chaplain on the Good Hope King Edward VII and Irresistible, all lost in the war. The bell is an old ship’s bell.
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St Paul
Southsea
England
H. W. Workman
Good Hope
An Oversight Inmate Defends Alibi’s Absence of Sense
A prison visitor questions the inmate about how he ended up behind bars. The prisoner replies that it’s not what he did but what he left undone. He laments lacking a strong alibi that would have kept him from getting caught.
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