Poison at Fraternity Initiation Sparks Murder Probe
Detective Rankin investigates the death of Stuart Jordan during a Mu Beta Sigma initiation at a university house. The medical examiner cites a plant alkaloid or injected poison as the cause. The president Ted Stanton and witnesses recount the ritual while thumbtacks and a special wine toast emerge as key clues.
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Mu Bets Sigma
Stuart Jordan University
Thea
Wes
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Trewan
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Stanton
Young Jordans
Mu Bedta Sigma
Stuart
Lip' Chapter IV Scene In Rankin House Bed Room
The president, Rankin, accompanied by Dr Warwick and Mr Tretcher, ascends to a bedroom where Rankin aims for the bed occupied by a body now shrouded by a white sheet. The scene focuses on group movement and the somber setting.
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Lip
Rankin
Warwick
Tretcher
Sudan grass as pasture in hot July August weather
The Sudan grass, native to tropical Africa, thrives in July and August heat making it ideal for pasture when bluegrass production is low. Ohio farmers are increasingly planting Sudan grass. a five acre test at Manorleton county experiment farm fed 23 cows for 23 days. Seedbed prep, June sowing after soil warms, shallow planting, and 150 to 200 pounds per acre of phosphate fertilizer are recommended.
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Tm Bd
Lewis Bixtension & Selallat
Ohio Toldatension Service
WNU Sarvier
Sudan
Africa
Ohio
Manmiliton County
Soil Erosion Losses in the Appalachians
The report covers soil erosion across the Piedmont and Appalachian regions from near New York to central Alabama. It notes five million of 50,000,000 acres destroyed by erosion and more than 18,000,000 acres stripped of surface soil. Despite farming, many families earn about 300 dollars yearly, with the Department of Agriculture urging terraces tree planting strip cropping and brush dams to curb erosion.
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Appalachians
Piedmont
New York City
Alabama
Appalachian Mountains
United States Department of Agriculture
Device Improves Silage Distribution for Even Loading
A New York farmer or region reports using a simple pitchfork attached to a downward extending tine with a pole reaching silo doors to direct the fodder. The setup allows one man to distribute silage as evenly as five workers. Similar results are noted by other farmers occasionally.
Irrigation and Mulching in Vegetable Production
Guidelines for watering and mulching emphasize supplying water during dry weather, irrigating only as plants need to avoid wilting, soaking deeply, avoiding frequent light applications, cultivating after watering as after rain, and using late afternoon or evening spray irrigation.
Farm Notes From A Frosted Year Highlight State Agriculture
Farm notes report Albany county New York leads the state with 1 238 farm members for 1953 while northern Ohio peach buds survived a February freeze to yield a moderate crop. England and Wales wheat area up 17 percent from 1931 year end as New York potato acreage eyed for an 8 percent reduction. An Arab auction in Red Wing Minnesota saw an eight year old horse fetch 1 dollar while an eight year old sedan sold for 25 dollars.
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Albany County
New York
Ohio
Red Wing
Minn
England
Steak Talk and Sauces From a 19th Century Dinner Table
A lively discussion among men and women about steak cooking covers briquets ferocity to broilers and sauces. Readers are offered various methods from buttered juicy steaks to roquefort topped cuts and a range of sauces including parsley lemon butter bernaise horseradish and currant jelly.
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China
Grasshoppers as Food in Historical Diets
A fragment discusses grasshoppers as food and references biblical precedent. It notes that while grasshoppers may attract fish, their edible appeal is historically limited among Americans. It cites John the Baptist eating locusts and wild honey and cites Leviticus as scriptural sanction for locusts and grasshoppers as acceptable food.
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John the Baptist
Lightning Cause Attributed To Distant Cloud Reflections
The cause of heat lightning is stated as reflections from distant clouds of off flashes with thunder too distant to hear. The weather bureau notes that an electric discharge can build gradually and may produce little or no thunder in such cases.
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Weather Bureau
Light From Meteors Reveals Hidden Paths to Earth
Meteors are invisible until they hit the atmosphere where their temperature rises and light is emitted. Some burn up high in dust and ashes fourty or fifty six miles above Earth while others survive to descend five to ten miles or even reach the ground before burning out.
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Jordan
Stanton
Died While Feeding Birds In Cold Weather
Miss Alica A. Woodward of Wyastbourne Lyogland died last winter while performing a good deed. Inquest testimony stated she walked to the seashore daily to feed birds, but slipped on a wet surface and drowned after falling from a slipway.
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Sengutla
Alica A. Woodward
Wyastbourne
Lyogland
Carlyle Burns Early History Manuscript Story
Thomas Carlyle finished the first volume of his history of the French Revolution and showed the manuscript to John Stuart Mill. Mill's servant girl burned the work, not realizing its value, prompting Carlyle to rewrite the book.
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Thomasg Carlyle
John Stuart Mill
Mill
Carlyle
Smothering Trees Endangers Mature Seedlings
Forest service warns that piling dirt around mature tree roots nearly suffocates them and blocks moisture. A 60 year old tree treated this way will eventually die due to restricted breathing and root moisture access.
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Forest Service
Population Density in El Salvador Noted
The smallest Central American nation is the most densely populated in the western hemisphere with a population over one and a half million, mainly Mestizos or Spanish Indians, despite its size about Maryland.
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Salvador
Annuities for Doctors in Fourteenth Century Care
In the fourteenth century doctors charged high fees with up front fur and a continuing annuity. Patients agreed to provide the physician a lifelong regular payment in exchange for medical services.
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