Benefits From International Harvester Consolidation
The International Harvester Company consolidates five major harvester manufacturers to lower production costs and sustain machine prices. Beneficiaries include farmers through cheaper grain harvesting equipment, with a conservative capitalization and asset-backed stock. Leadership includes Cyril H. McCormick as President and a board featuring Cyrus Bentley, William Deering, and George Perkins among others. The group controls Champion, Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee, and Plano plants, with timber coal furnaces and a new Canadian factory planned. The move aims to reduce costs and boost global agricultural development.
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International Harvester Company
Cyril H. McCormick
Charles Deering
George W. Perkins
Harold F. McCormick
James Deering
Wm. H. Jones
John J. Glessner
Richard F. Howe
Cyrus Benteley
William Deering
Eldridge M. Fowler
E. B. Gary
John J. Gleasner
Abram M. Hyatt
William H. Jones
Cyrus H. McCormick
Norman B. Ream
Leslie N. Ward
Paul
Disraeli Humor and Witty Replies Revealed
Chambers Journal recalls Disraeli’s sharp wit in social jests. A novelist’s note reply praised his reading, while a radical quip about eyes sparked a clever comeback. The Rosslyn anecdote shows his talent for turning office humor into punning policy.
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Disraeli
Lord Rosslyn
Disrael
Roslyn
Church of Scotland
Chambers
Infant Market at Arremsvaror Hungary Adoptions Begin
The orphanage at Armemsvar, Hungary, held a monthly infant market where thirty children aged between one and ten were shown for adoption. Nineteen were adopted, five boys and fourteen girls, by mostly well-to-do families, including a foster mother who made her adopted child heiress to £20,000.
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Atremesvar
H Ungary
Lawyer's Office
Tearson
Farmer's trolley road promises horseless hauling by electricity
The article describes a new horseless vehicle system for farmers to bring produce to town and return home without teams. An electric motor on the wagon draws power from an overhead wire via a return line to avoid shocks, enabling heavy loads with low current cost. Inventor Daniel S. Bergin of Chicago, IL is noted, with potential private lines or rental from suburban trolley services.
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Daniel S. Bergin
Chicago
Louisville Courier-Journal
Crops for Poultry Offer Farm Profit and Feeding Options
Rural World suggests special crops for poultry on farms with large flocks. Sunflower millet rape kale Kaffir corn popcorn and sorghum can feed fowls and cattle while providing bedding when woody. Cow peas and crimson clover supply greens. diverse feeds boost egg production year round and improve flock thrift.
How to Eradicate the Perennial Quack Grass
The article explains quack grass Agropyron repens is persistent and spreads by seeds and long rootstocks. It advises methods from digging small patches to smothering large fields by repeated plowing and sod turning, followed by a spring crop like coats and peas, and possibly fertilizing and sowing rye by mid September to finish the smothering process, citing Country Gentleman.
Bone meal for pigs shows stronger bones and better gains
Prof. L Henry reports pigs fed bone meal grow larger frames and gain more efficiently than those given ashes or nothing. Tests show thigh bone breaking strength about twice as high with bone meal or ashes, with bone meal outperforming ashes. A tablespoon daily fed to two pigs yields marked bone strength gains.
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L. Henry
Gossip and wry witticisms from notable figures
A collection of light anecdotes and recollections. Prince Metternich’s quip on a guto graph, Jules Janin’s joking note about Johannisberg, Andre’s polar wind quip, and a Jefferson portrait remark at the Capitol are shared. Indiana veteran David Turpie declines interviews while William Lovett recalls London’s 1838 coronation after crossing 152 miles on foot, aged over 90.
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Prince Metternich
Jules Janin
Jenin
Johannisberg
Prof
Andre
North Pole
Thomas Jefferson
National Capitol
Jefferson
Joe’ Jefferson
Bob Acres
Rip van Winkle
David Turpie
United States
Indiana
Indianapolis
Turpie
William Lovett
Peru
Ind
London
Queen Victoria
Victoria
Industrial items and advances in early 20th century tech
A survey of diverse industrial topics mentions 300000 dynamite cases used in Johannesburg, advances in papermaking, and shark byproducts. It notes tin recovery by electrolysis as costly, Lord Kelvin’s royalty income on patent devices for a Japanese warship, Cork mining losses, P J Howard’s cane loading machine trial in New Orleans, and a spider web factory at Chalais Meudon winding threads after long spider production waits.
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Mittes
Johannesburg
Lord Kelvin
Dublin
Trish Gould
Cork
P. J. Howard
St. Gabriel
New Orleans
Howard
Industrie Textile
Elephant smell can detect humans at long range
A quirky note mentions elephants sensing humans from afar and a belt strap design to speed secure fastening. It also references artificial butterflies sold to museums and collectors and a professor’s claim about U S building costs compared with medieval cathedrals.
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Hamlin
United States
England
France
A Faithful Friend In Lenox Back Pain Relief
Lenox Missouri September 1 Mr W H Brown reports long standing backache eased after using two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He credits a friend's advice for relief and says he is well again and grateful for the remedy.
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Lenox, Mo
Spt
W. HB. Brown
Dodd
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Orleans
Eornsn
Montgomery Ward & Co
Sawyer
Cambridge
Nee Wheaters
Emiain
Who Ie
Ton Co
Boston
W.L. Douglas
Goodyear Welt
Iland
Ucla
Douglas
Ells
L Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Estey Pianos
Estey Organs
Estey Piano
Estey Panoco
New York City
ESTEY
Estey Organ CO
Brattleboro, Ct
Libby
Vocala
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Boyd-Swartz Commission
Ilias
DRS
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Vellore
Roston
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