Government milk policy focuses on education over policing
The Department of Agriculture explains it has not set absolute bacterial standards for interstate milk. Instead, it educates dairymen to produce clean milk and cooperates with local health authorities to improve inspection and handling. Pasteurization is advised where safety is not ensured, with inspectors guiding farmers to better practices.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Department
Everal
Bureau of Nnimal Industry
Guiry
Department of Justice
Bureau of Chemistry
Pittsburgh
Igent
Specialists on Marketing Roles Outlined by Agriculture Dept
The Department of Agriculture in Washington outlines a team of specialists to study pricing transport storage ownership and profits for perishable produce. They will assess market news services and statistics aiding farmers and truck gardeners, plus support cooperative organizations and new cooperative enterprises.
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Department of Agriculture At
Washington
Stray Dog Saves Downey Town From Fire
A stray dog sheltered by a kind man awoke Station Agent Flynn to a nearby store and factory blaze. The two buildings burned. Flynn roused the town and improvised a fire brigade to save the rest of the village.
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Downey
Flynn
New Explosive Safe Yet Deadly From Woodward Unit
Lieutenant Harold Chase Woodward of the New York National Guard invented trotol, a high explosive rivaling dynamite in power and far more stable in water. Tested at Fort Wadsworth and Peekskill, it remains with government, Du Pont, and Woodward, who will reveal the full secret only to the United States.
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du Ponts
New York National Guardsman
Postal Service
New York National Guard
United States
Harold Chase Woodward
Twenty-second Engineers, National Guard
New York
Woodward
Great
Wadsworth
Sil
Fort Wadsworth
Peekskill
du Pont de Nemours Powder Company
du Pont
Trato
Uncle Sam
Man Posed as Girl Long in Vaudeville Career
May Belmont a Syracuse Ky vaudeville singer was identified as Harry Thompson twenty seven who has lived as a girl most of life. Thompson says only parents knew he was a boy and dressing as a girl with a girl’s name kept his gender hidden through arrests by police matrons. He notes his hair is dark and long and he used acid to remove facial hair.
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May Belmont
Syracuse
Harry Thompson
Thompson
Never Wore a Hat: Somerset Woman Reaches 100
Mrs. Mattie Crise of Somerset Pennsylvania recently turned 100. She has lived in the same town her entire life and has never seen a railroad train a street car or a telephone. She never wore a hat, only a knitted hood in place.
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Mattie Crise
Somerset
Glowworm Beetle Paralyses Prey for Leisurely Meal
The glowworm beetle Ampyris namus anaesthetizes its snail prey at first attack so it cannot escape. It then stabs the mollusk to inject a paralyzing effect, leaving the victim insensible for three to four hours while the beetle feeds.
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Fabre
Ampyris
Kaiser Surprises Captain With Early Lessons
In Potsdam a captain set schooling at 66 o'clock for his guards. The Kaiser visited unannounced at 6, took the lesson in hand, then left without remark. Days later the captain received a handsome alarm clock from the Emperor. The officer’s full note is not recorded.
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Potsdam
Kand
Ireland
English statesman Charles James Tox races for a vote
Charles James Tox wagers on a waistcoat in Paris and travels by mail packet Dover Calais Newmarket London to reach a horse race. A special messenger interrupts dinner to recall a marriage bill. He hurries to the house and delivers a brilliant speech defeating North by a single vote.
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Charles James Tox
Paris
Dover
Calais
Newmarket
London
England
House of Commons
North
Burke
Dinah’s Fast Husband Mystery Revealed in New Orleans Tale
Dinah, a beloved New Orleans cook nicknamed a galler gal, grows curious about a new butler. Her mistress confronts her, and Dinah wryly reveals she suspects the man might be her fast husband. The quip captures local color and sly humor of Everyday life.
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Dinah
New Orleans
Alice
Everybody’s Magazine
Toboga Island Water and Pineapple Exposition
Toboga Island, ten miles from Panama City in the Pacific, is famed for unfailing springs of pure water. Mail steamers between Balboa and San Francisco stop for fresh water, as do southbound ships from Panama. The island is also renowned for its splendid pineapples.
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Toboga
Panama
Pacific
Balboa
San Francisco
Professor Falls Downstairs At Home
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece describes a professor tripping on stairs, picking himself up while pondering the sound he heard. The incident is conveyed with a touch of humor as the scholar reflects on the mystery of the noise.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Just Rebuke Is Life Worth Living Question
A Louisville Courier-Journal brief quotes a rebuke to the question Is life worth living noting the speaker says such questions prove a mind with nothing better to occupy it. The item reflects newspaper tone and period voice in a compact quotation.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Lack of desire is the greatest riches
A concise Seneca quote notes that true wealth comes from absence of desire rather than possession, presenting a stoic view on happiness and fulfillment.
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Seneca
Rural Schools to Be Honored at International Congress
The Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene in Buffalo Aug 25 to 30 will honor the rural and village schools with papers on rural school hygiene. The program committee led by Lovett Edsall Gulick Storey aims to address poor rural school conditions and the need for improved buildings, heating, ventilation and equipment.
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Buffalo
Monahin
Fletcher B. Dressler
Bureau of Education
Dresslar
Blind man and wife aided by traveling auto workers
In Wamego Kansas a blind man and his wife stranded in a broken down moorcar drew help from L A Phillips and Guy Holmes of a Kansas City auto mobile service team. They spent two hours repairing the car and sent it on with the wife driving while locals called them beggars de luxe and accused them of using a traveling business to prey on towns across western Kansas.
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Wamego
Kan
L. A. Phillips
Guy Holmes
Holmes
Phillips
Kansas City Automobile Company
Kansas
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A. C. Monahan
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