Special Trains and Hotels Ready for Interstate Live Stock Fair
Railroads prepare for record crowds at the Interstate Live Stock Fair in Sioux City from September 16 to 19. Special trains will operate from Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Minnesota with connections to return visitors the same day. Hotels expand with a new four story wing at the Howard and the Martin hotel opening. Sioux City pledges one minute car service and grounds are rearranged to ease crowds and speed disposal at gates.
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Sioux City
Biffort
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota Pointe
Howard Hotel
Martin
Bronx City
Sioux City Service Company
Itealf
Interstate Live Stock Fair Promises Broad Fun Week
Bronx City gears up for a six day Interstate Live Stock Fair September 15 to 19 at Woodland with racing events, derby contests, seven vaudeville acts, a military band, and exhibition buildings packed with features. Sioux City team plays forenoon games, Minnesota Nebraska South Dakota and Iowa days mark guests from home states, culminating with a million dollar Hive stock parade.
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Bronx City
Woodland
Braves
Sioux City
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Towa
Sioux City fair to host cooking and farming experts
Interstate Fair experts travel to Sioux City September 16 to 19 for daily lectures on home and farm improvements. Dr G A Johnson will promote tuberculosis awareness and tapeworm control at the stock yards, while E C Bishop will lead canning lessons for housewives. Ames educators and western instructors offer guidance on cheaper meat cuts, grain, livestock, crop rotation, and farming methods with pamphlets to aid farmers in Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Minnesota.
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Sioux City Fair
Sioux City
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota
G. A. Johnson
Johnson
E. C. Bishop
National Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Ames
Ames Colleges
Aigux City
Stoir Ponds
Waterloo adds another chapter in petition case
Waterloo Iowa story on a consent petition for saloon regulation. Wets seek a new trial claiming double counting of signatures. drys oppose, insisting some names be eliminated. Either outcome could go to the supreme court, with months to resolve Waterloo’s right to registered saloons amid ongoing arrests and outside involvement.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Supreme Court
Salooma
Saloon Reform Ideas From New York Minister
A New York minister argues the saloon remains the poor man’s club and calls for regulated liquor traffic. He favors visible ownership, responsible landlords, and public beer gardens modeled after German examples to reduce drunkenness and vice. Beth Brown reports.
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Chisago Tribune
Germany
Built to Stand The Engineer Who Believed in His Wall
A heroic tale recalls George W. Rosehike, famed for the Galveston sea wall. A false telegram claimed the wall failed but he insisted it would stand and the structure proved unyielding. His calm confidence defined a era of coastal engineering and inland railroad expansion.
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Galveston
George W. Hesehke
Oregon
Rosehike
Rastroad
Anya
Peachke
Oasis
Hoachke
Amended Shakespeare Tale From Actor Wan Shy
William Gillette told graduates of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts about a theatre prank from his early years. An actor, needed for the poison scene, wore a mantle and a bottle, and the stage manager urged another actor to improvise. He whispered, Nobody here, nobody near. Ve pour the poison In his ear.
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William Gillette
American Academy of Dramatic Arte
Ratory
Bonth
Medicinal Heart of Oak Fools the Senses in Ad Claim
A London Ex-Press commentary mocks a German heart of oak cure claiming to extract a secret essence from English oaks by sun and magnet forces. The piece notes the advertisement as a curious tribute likely aimed at cementing a friendship with Germany.
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Coleridge
Germany
London
Ex- Press
When Porfirio Ruled in 1897 Veracruz Conspiracy Executions
A London News report quoted by SLI Ham Archer describes an 1897 Veracruz plot against Porfirio Diaz. The Veracruz governor telegraphed Diaz for orders and received a terse response suggesting immediate action. Nine conspirators were executed without formalities.
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Porfirio
Porfirio Diaz
Sli Ham Archer
London News
Vera Cruz
Diaz
Ein Caliente
Not In Her Clans Yonkers States mun
A brief excerpt features a witty exchange about love and proposals. A young man asserts a heart beats 2100 times daily, prompting the young woman's playful rejoinder about a proposal. The Yonkers States article reflects light exchange in 19th or early 20th century style.
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Yonkers
Braddock misstatement on exam paper sparks debate
A historical note reveals a student’s United States history exam error claiming General Braddock was killed in the Revolutionary War and that he had four horses shot around him. The remark shows confusion between service in the French and Indian War and the Revolution, reflecting common misattributions of military events.
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United States
Braddock
Doctor and patient discuss operation in fragment
A fragmented Detroit Free Press item shows a doctor asking the patient which operation is clevereat, with the patient replying very well and referencing want for his best work. The piece appears as a brief dialogue about a 40 40 operation in Enid.
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Enid
Detroit
Winter remarks and farm notes from a distant era
A collection of rural insights touches on childrearing, temperance of manhood, and the value of flowers. It covers feed mixtures for pigs, government winter condition reports, rye yields, and a horse thief association in Kansas. It also discusses maple sap prospects, silo use, rainmaking myths, and cotton crop data for 1912 with regional production leaders.
Diverse posts on farming soils floods and weather
The article discusses early and late potato quality and pricing, advises soil improvement with lime and legumes, urges home gardens with varied crops, notes high prices for essentials, recalls flood and tornado disasters, and reflects on human vulnerability to natural forces. It cites Mount Mitchell as the highest eastern U.S. peak and mentions local incidents in Oklahoma and Ohio.
Truth Limes Conference on Farming Marketing in Chicago
A national conference in Chicago on April 7 brought together producers of farm and orchard goods and agricultural experts to tackle unsatisfactory marketing conditions. Speakers discussed farm credits, middlemen’ s take, and proposed cooperative marketing to balance profits. Thirty seven cooperative societies from nearly as many states sent delegates aiming to influence federal marketing laws.
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Truth Limé Thera
Chicago
Laredo
Tex
Wisconsin
Waupaca
Wis
Milwaukee
Profitable horse breeding idea backed by study
A federal agriculture report based on 10 000 breeders finds about 40 percent profit in raising horses to age three. Average cost to three years is 1600 or 180 dollars depending on state, with Rhode Island the costliest and New Mexico the cheapest.
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Federal
Department of Agriculture
Rhode Island
New Mexico
One Cause of Beef Shortage
A yearbook from a Chicago packing house notes 8,000,000 calves weighing about 700 pounds each were slaughtered in 1911 to meet veal demand. If left to grow to 600 pounds, total would be 4.8 billion pounds, enough for about one fifth of the nation per year. If kept to two years at 1,200 pounds, beef could feed 30 million people. Also states the meat was not as wholesome as beef.
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Canada
Ohio
Omaha
Chicago
Fnally
Music for Milk Cows Attracts A Dairy Bar Plan
A writer recalls a matron who learns piano at sixty to install the instrument in her dairy baron. She notes cows in Sarby pasture once listened to organ music and produced richer milk on those days, turning farm tasks into practical rewards. Some practicing pianists may differ from others heard in the past.
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S@arby
Fenve
Bowie
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