Wurtemberg the Swabian Core of German History and Landscape
A National Geographic sketch of Wurtemberg, its size, place in Germany, and evolution from an agricultural region to an industrial hub. It surveys the Black Forest climate and customs, country homes that serve as farms and barns, peasant weddings with communal feasts, and Stuttgart’s beauty and Zeppelin linkages near Lake Constance.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Old Empire
New Republic
Wurtemberg
Baden
Mavaria
Prussia
Bavaria
Germany
Saxony
Rhine
Danube
Swabia
Houhenstaufen
Schwarzwald
Nestor
Black Forest
Switzerland
Wildbad
Stuttgart
Neckar
Schlossplatz
Indianapolis
Seattle
Lake Constance
Friedrichshafen
Boy starved for air as chickens thrive at country life event
At a St Louis Country Life conference a moving picture showed a farm boy feeding his prize flock. The film praised scientific chicken culture but revealed the boy’s malnutrition from mouth breathing. The chickens appeared better cared for than the boy.
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Country Life
St. Louis
Old French Farming Families Earn Merite Agricole
The Merite Agricole will honor French farming families who have tilled the same soil for three centuries. About 750 families in France qualify, with one lineage holding land since Charlemagne’s era and another near Colombes by Gap farming for 1000 years.
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France
Colombes
Gap
Apples Named After Engineer Loamm Baldwin
The article traces apple origins from wild European and Asian roots to cultivation in Europe and America. It credits engineer horticultural experiments by Loamm Baldwin for a famous apple variety, notes the United States leads world production with Canada supporting North American output, and mentions European growing regions from Norway to southern France plus cultivation in New Zealand and Tasmania.
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Europe
Asia
Loamm
Baldwin
United States
Canada
Norway
France
New Zealand
Tasmania
Detroit News
Tagged Wild Goose Is Occasion for Revival
Kingsville Ontario resident Jack Miner tags geese to study migration behavior. A gray goose tagged by Miner was shot in Mississippi by a preacher who claimed a heavenly message sparked a revival. Miner’s results show birds return to the same haunt yearly, kindness overcomes fear, and geese migrate along a fixed route at about sixty miles per hour.
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Jack Miner
Kingsville
Ont
Mississippi
Miner
Albert F. Gilmore
The
Christian Science Monitor
Pacific Floor Disturbances Persist Off Alaska Coast
Captain John Newland of the steamer Latouche reports ongoing floor disturbances in the northern Pacific Ocean. He notes past island-like eruptions and recently found 15 fathoms instead of the charted 1,100 at 26 miles southeast of Cape St. Elias, the southern end of Kayak Island near Seward.
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Pacific
Pacific Ocean
John Newland
Latouche
Cape St. Elias
Newland
Seward
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Kalw
E. A. Proteau
Bessemer Steam Laundry
Dhana
Candyland
Andrew Olson
Prop
F. G. Brown
Planter, Mich
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Kodaks
Wakefield Pharmacy
A. Mann, Prop
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