How Hilda Held the Fort
Hilda Park a devoted mother to five children finds her role fading as the nest empties and her husband neglects her outside the home. She embraces reading, public debate, and activism on a land grab issue, earning recognition as the public voice H P. A pivotal mass meeting reveals the new partnership between Hilda and Richard as they reconcile and renew their bond.
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Hilda
Mrs. Park
Hilda Park
Richard
Milda
Park
H. P
Southwest Land of Color and New Mexico Art Colony
The Southwest region yields vivid color under bright sun, attracting a new school of American landscape artists. Taos and Santa Fe host colonies preserving Pueblo and Navajo life as their paintings regain historical value in Chicago Daily News report.
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United States
New Mexico
Arizona
America
Southwest
Taos
N. M
Taos Pueblo
Santa Fe
Sunset Trail
Chicago Daily News
Pillsbury Plays Chess and Checkers in Kansas City Visit
On January 26, 1901, Harry N Pillsbury visited Kansas City and played twelve games of chess and three games of checkers with locals. In a simultaneous display he identified each move by name and square, winning all games as he faced the boards with his back. Earlier, in Chicago in 1900, he played sixteen blindfolded games in four hours fifty-five minutes, with twelve wins, three draws and one loss.
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Harry N. Pillsbury
Kansas City
Pillsbury
Chicago
Japanese Use Padded Floor Beds In Royal Comfort
The article notes Japanese sleep on thick cushions stacked on the floor rather than Western beds and use similar puffs as bed coverings. It mentions the emperor having about 20 such puffs, including one shaped like a kimono with a velvet collar, possibly worn or enclosed for warmth during cold nights.
Food supply needs to be increased for fall hog litters
USDA urged increasing feed and early breeding to produce fall litters. Fer tilization to boost weight before mating, flushing sows, and weaning before breeding are advised. Use of a purebred boar of same breed, careful feeding for pregnant sows, and pasture plus small grain rations recommended to lift meat supply six months earlier.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Missouri Experiment Station
A Farmers Patriotism
A short guide urges patriotic farming with practical steps. It advises expanding gardens to can surplus, increasing potato and corn crops, rotating wheat and feterita, planting cowpeas, saving manure, and boosting poultry and pig production while tackling orchard and field pests.
Heel Flies Pestering Cattle in Summer
An article by George H. Glover from Colorado Agricultural College describes heel flies, half inch parasites that torment cattle in summer. Flies deposit eggs on heels, larvae enter cattle, migrate inside, then exit through a breathing opening in spring or early summer.
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George H. Glover
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Colo
Feeding Goslings Diet Change
Goslings start on a mash of two parts shorts and one part corn. After three weeks switch to equal parts shorts and cornmeal with 5 percent beef scrap and grit.
By Their Fruit
A farmer evaluates crops and livestock by results to justify time money and effort. The text argues that yieldless plants and animals fail the farmer and his customers due to lack of return on investment.
Methods for controlling cattle grubs and flies
The text describes grub life stages from egg to adult fly and notes grubs reduce hide value by harming flesh and milk. It advises pressing out grubs with a knife, or applying kerosene through openings, and using pine tar or coal tar dips to deter flies from cattle.
Sunday feeding harms work horses warns Kansas professor
Dr. C W McCampbell of Kansas State Agricultural College says Monday morning sickness common after Sunday rest shows issues with Sunday feeding. He notes colic from heavy idle feeding and advises matching Sunday feed to other days with half the grain, plus pasture time and shade if available.
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C. W. McCampbell
Kansas State Agricultural College
McCampbell
Shoats For Early Market
Shoats for early market should have millfeed slop twice a day in connection with an abundance of green feed. Keep a box of wood ashes and charcoal under cover in the feeding pen where they can eat what they need.
How to Kill the Irish Potato Bug with Arsenate Mix
A simple potato garden remedy uses one tablespoon of arsenate of lead one fourth to one half pound of lump lime and three gallons of water to spray and kill the Irish potato bug.
Need of Our Pastures Expression in Times of Wheat Stress
A reflective editorial warns that the nation will require its pasture lands long after wheat traders face failure, urging preservation of agricultural resources for future sustenance and stability.
Do Not Crowd Beets Call To Grow One Per Patch
Farmers warned against overcrowding beets urging one plant per spot to ensure healthy yields. Extension agent notes crowded beds stunt root development and increase disease risk. Gardeners urged to thin seedlings and space rows according to variety and soil conditions.
Pan fish fun and goofy wisdom from old fishing days
A nostalgic piece extols pan fish like crappie rock bass bluegill sunfish and striped perch as fun friendly quarry for light tackle. It praises light steel fly rods and soft braided lines for still fishing and notes pan fish bite best in spring and fall while offering tips on bait and technique.
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Buck
J. D
Alligator Attack Ends With Terrier’s Toy Capture
A North Alabama house scene centers on a black and tan terrier who retrieves an eight inch India rubber alligator plaything the maid mistook for an animal. A carpenter armed with a scantling faced the creature but fled when it sprang from under a couch. The dog finally seized the toy and returned indoors.
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North Alabama
Indianapolis News
Army Elects Leaders For Next Season
The army basketball team elected William R. Gerhardt of West Virginia as captain. Edwin J. House of Syracuse, New York, was chosen to lead the hockey team. The two teams have disbanded for the current season.
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Army
William R. Gerhardt
West Virginia
Edwin J. House
Syracuse
N. Y
Silence the Bells Sunday Golfer Faces Church Bell Complaint
A Sunday golfer complains to his caddie that church bells have disrupted his game. The remark recalls a Life magazine tone about local noise affecting leisure and focus.
Worthy of His Rank
A new recruit on guard duty misreads ranks and salutes, confusing a general for a lower officer. The general’s light reply ends with a joke about a bayonet exercise, highlighting the humor of military life and rank misunderstanding.
Night of bliss turns strange as glasses slip during engagement
Isabella accepts a proposal and her lover sits with her in silence until his facial contortions worsen. He reassures her that he is fine, but admits his eyeglasses keep slipping and he does not want to let go of her hands. Gurgles.
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Isabella
Isabela
London
Physics and Agriculture in Living Matter Study
The article argues that farmers view scientific agriculture as impractical due to neglecting physics as applied to living matter. It calls for studying the physics of both living and dead matter to illuminate farming problems and foster daily cooperation between practical and scientific farming.
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Los Angeles Times
Why Was Starling Introduced in the United States
The piece questions the purpose of introducing starlings in the United States. It notes intentions for a picturesque bird and literary association, compares with skylark and European goldfinch introductions, and observes the starling’s mainly non musical, jarring cries and occasional mimicry.
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United States
Not Supernatural at All Rats Flee Leaky Ships at Sea
The belief that rats avoid doomed ships has truth at the bottom. Unseaworthy vessels leak and fill with bilge water, driving rats to abandon damp quarters for drier berths.
Lost Sousa Band Record Sparks Suspicion
A cryptic exchange hints at a missing Sousa band record and a possible theft. The remark suggests rivals or rivals may have taken an early lead, leaving collectors puzzled by the vanished item.
Enchant Woman finds relief with Lydia E Pinkham remedy
Mrs Augustus Baughman of Enchant Pennsylvania describes severe female troubles, crying spells, and nervous feelings. She reports improvement after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and urges others to seek the product through Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Augustus Baughman
Enchant
Tin Music at Masonic Home Delights Elderly Inmate
A 90 plus inmate at the Masonic home near Franklin is amazed by a new phonograph gifted by a lodge. While visiting Franklin, he learns locals use a pie pan with a hole, cranked to grind tin and produce music, describing it as dang good music.
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Masonic
Franklin
Indianapolis News
Farmer Cobbles Declines City Boarders For Busy Summer
In a rural exchange, Farmer Cobbles says he and his hired men will be too occupied raising food crops to entertain city boarders with their dialect and charm.
He Was the Target in Greensburg Autos Haul Plows
A fragment notes a target phrase and a fashion plate remark linked to a man in Greensburg Pennsylvania. The text mentions his wife tossing a platter and autos hauling plows in the area.
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Greensburg, Pa
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