Odd Fellows Lodge Flourishing in Manila Philippines
The Odd Fellows lodge in Manila is thriving with 76 members in good standing and has cleared a debt of nearly $1,000 tied to lodge room alterations. The lodge overlooks the Pasig river and features murals and an electric three-link device. Other notes cite state fund totals and membership gains in Colorado Kansas and Minnesota, plus a strong Los Angeles start.
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Philippines
Odd Fellows
Manila
Philippine Islands
Pasig
Colorado
Kansas
J. B. Jewell
Missouri
Rebekah Assembly
Minnesota
Start of America
Los Angeles
Duty to attend lodge meetings and growing knightly orders
The Grand Master of Kansas urges every member to attend regular lodge meetings and participate in treasury oversight. He notes a Rhode Island count of 34 Ridges with 2,790 members, Indiana gains of 3,087 and seven new lodges, and rapid growth of the uniform rank in Louisiana. Spokane Red Cross lodge plans a $60,000 Pythian ensile hall.
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Order
Kansas
Rhode Island
Indiana
Louisiana
Red Cross Lodge of
Spokane
Wash
United Workmen urged to recruit and engage delinquent members
The Connecticut Workman calls on lodges to invite friends to join and support the order. Nebraska allows a seventy year old brother to withdraw policy funds with 4 percent interest while remaining a social member. Michigan’s grand master urges lodges to appoint a live member to pursue delinquent brothers and stimulate reintegration.
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Connecticut
Nebraska
Workman
Michigan
Fraternal Orders Back San Francisco Fund With Large Subscriptions
Fraternal groups reportedly subscribed over 2 000 000 to a San Francisco fund protecting homes through insurance. The article notes insurance as a safeguard against calamity and cites Jesse G. Trussell of Athens Ga proposing a sign system for secret society members to recognize each other.
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San Francisco
Jesse G. Trussell
Athens
Fraternal News of
Poultry wisdom for healthier flocks and better eggs
Farm Journal offers practical guidance on poultry care including feeding, incubation, and housing. Tips cover duck and chicken nutrition, avoiding corn in heat, using bone meal and neatsfoot oil, proper chick rearing, green feeding, stocking temperatures, and vigilance over droppings and health.
Fattening Fowls For Market In Sussex England
The illustration shows how poultry is fattened for market in Sussex a district that ships more high class poultry to London than any other area in England. The industry is in its infancy in this country and farmers can raise earnings by placing birds on a high fattening diet for about two weeks before market.
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Sussex
England
London
Selecting Eggs For Hatching
The article advises careful egg selection for hatching, favoring medium to large uniformly colored eggs of near perfect shape. It notes that egg shape does not determine chick sex and warns that repeatedly choosing the roundest eggs will yield hens laying imperfectly shaped eggs.
Barley and Rye For Fowls
Barley and rye are both excellent foods and will prove a satisfactory addition to a ration where the fowls will eat the grains readily. Some flocks seem prejudiced against barley and do not eat it readily, while others will refuse rye unless starved to it. Rye is eaten much more readily when fed in the bundle. When the fowls can scratch it out of the fresh straw themselves they seem to enjoy it.
Cull Out the Poor Birds
The text advises culling undesirable stock birds from flocks. It suggests using trap nests in fall and winter to identify hens that are poor layers or lay eggs unsuitable in size or color, and to remove them from pens and market as roosters.
Ventilate the Coops for Summer Chicks
Advice to keep coops well ventilated during summer to shield young chicks from sun and heat while their downy coats shed and feathers grow. Emphasizes minimizing parasites and protecting fragile bodies in the hot sun.
Poultry Mastery Claim Provokes among Writers
The Poultry Tribune asserts no man has yet been born who can successfully keep 500 head of poultry on an acre of ground. The remark is presented as a bold bullseye claim by a poultry trade publication.
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Poultry Tribune
Selections Tests to Prevent Poisoned Food at the Russian Table
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on M. Eugene Kratz, head chef to the Russian imperial kitchens, earning about $55,000 yearly and wielding vast authority over meals for the czar and royal guests. He leads tasting ceremonies with his staff at Peterhof to guard against poisoning, a practice with roots in Ivan the Terrible’s era.
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M. Eugene Kratz
August Cordon Bleu
United States
T’eterhof
Anitehkoi
Winter Palace
Tsarskoe-Selo
M. Kratz
New Orleans
Balkan States
Turkey
Peterhof
Ivan the Terrible
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A New Pharmacy Precaution
An old Chicago Inter Ocean note recounts a pharmacist handing a patient a slip listing foods to avoid while on medicine. The piece reflects on how doctors sometimes overlook dietary guidance and how pharmacists historically defended accuracy by promoting dietetics to protect both patient outcomes and the drug trade.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Deaf Mutes Employed in New York Bottling Firm
A prosperous New York bottling merchant favors deaf mutes as workers on the east side. Reported to be more industrious and economical, they allegedly earn higher wages and excel in perception and reception. The nonspeaking workers are said to set an enviable sobriety example.
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New York
New York Press
A Horse With an Annuity
The Chicago Tribune reports a horse named King, once owned by the late George Watts, living on a farm with a monthly $150 allowance. Watts’ will set King to receive $200 per year during usefulness and $150 monthly thereafter until death, while Billy the dog also received an allowance but died last February. Watts left $100,000, with part to charity, but estate division is delayed until King’s death. King is twenty one years old.
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King
George ©. Watts
Mr. Watts
Billy
Chicago Tribune
Ambergris Value and Source Noted by Scent Makers
Ambergris currently trades at about 5s per ounce. Last year about £120,000 worth of the substance was used in perfume manufacture. It is an ashy gray fatty material with red or yellow streaks found floating at sea or recovered from sperm whale carcasses. Much is collected on Bahamas shores. Scholars say ambergris results from a disease in sperm whales and it is bought mainly by scent makers and used in medicines.
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Bahamas
London Standard
The War Airship Dream Condemned by Humanity
The Saturday Evening Post doubts a grand empyrean warship will ever become reality. After its construction, powers would meet at The Trague to decide that no more harmful pamphlets should be dropped from the lying monster.
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Saturday Evening Post
Trague
New York Dives Use Clever Buzzers and Lookouts
The New York Press describes dives, now called dumps, that alert patrons to approaching police with electric buzzers and hidden prongs. When old devices failed, lookouts outside the door test visitors and trigger alarms, allowing suspects to escape before officers arrive.
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New York
New York Press
The Ladybug and Its Farm Beneficence
Henry Griscon Parsons of New York University praise of the ladybug as a vital ally in farming. He notes the insect eats aphids, defends crops, and that children’s nursery rhymes teach kindness, aiding conservation and natural pest control.
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Henry Griscon Parsons
New York University
Slang in Business Misunderstood by East and West
A New York firm receives a letter from a Far East correspondent asking for a modern dictionary of American language. The letter cites phrases like do not let Messrs hand you a lemon, pitch one for fair right over the plate, and foozles cable for a solar plexus as examples of unfamiliar slang.
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New York
Far East
Croker Denies Pugilist and Gin Palace Claims
Richard Croker writes to the Journal of Irish Society correcting myths about himself. He denies being a professional boxer or tied to liquor trafficking. He clarifies his father Eyre Coote Croker from County Cork emigrated to America and worked in the U S Army veterinary department for many years.
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Croker
Richard Croker
Journal of Irish Society
Eyre Coote Croker
County Cork
America
Veterinary Department
United States Army
New York Sun
Brown County Jail Built In 1887 In Indiana
The Brown County jail in Indiana was constructed in 1887 with walls three feet thick of white oak timber. The log style uses one foot square timbers both outside and inside, forming a total three foot thickness. No prisoner has ever dug through the walls. The two story building rests on square timber floors with lumber nailed to timbers.
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Brown County
Ind
Building Better Roads and Modern Paving Materials
The Architects and Builders Journal argues road building will be a regulated, science based industry shaping U S highways. Modern paving like bitulithic enables durable smooth roads, expanding from suburbs to towns benefiting farmers and motorists. good roads are paying investments.
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United States
Architects and Builders’ Journal
Delaware Experiment in Experimental Road Surfacing
State Highway Commissioner Francis A Price reports on an experimental Delaware road using river sand kaolin and clay for surfacing. Foundation graded to slope from center to ditches and rolled. Four inches fat four inches clay three inches sand mixed and compacted. Costs: labor 172.25 sand 5.15. Total 2400 dollars per mile.
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Delaware
Francis A. Price
Good Roads Magazine
Road Bond Plan Approved by Arkansas Lawmakers
Arkansas General Assembly passes joint resolution No. 4 authorizing city and county bond issues for road building and general improvements. Signed by the governor on May 23, 1907. To take effect, the measure must be ratified at a two year election.
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Arkansas
General Assembly
State of Arkansas
Representative Hunt
Good Roads Magazine
Rural mail boxes on a tree mark delivery corner
In Indianapolis a silver poplar near Shelby and Cruft streets hosts ten rural delivery mail boxes serving the neighborhood. The piece cites E. P. Wright as the first U.S. rural carrier, still on R F D No. 3 from South Columbus, with fifty five years of service. It notes ten Missouri women carriers and counts for Kansas Oklahoma Texas and Arkansas.
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Shelby and
Cruft
Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
United States
E. P. Wright
Jackson Pike
Franklin Township
Ohio
Columbus
Columbus Dispatch
Hale
Mr. Wright
Uncle Sam
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Hanged Bound to a Chair
An article recalls a 19th century Pretoria execution where a Kaffir resisted and was forced into a chair, to which he and the chair were bound and hanged together, stirring renewed anti capital punishment agitation.
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South Africa
Pretoria
War Against Consumption
All nations strive to stop the white plague and the ravages of consumption. Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds perfectly and reduces health risk from consumption. The genuine product is in a yellow package and sold by all druggists.
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Foley
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Detroit, Mich
John K. Steen
Medises Sitress
Washington
Iowa
Vrooman
Washingten
J. K. Steen
J. W. Brock
Washington, Iowa
Just
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Paica
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