Kansas youth crop and baking contests urged statewide
The Agricultural college calls for a spring contest drive to boost corn, kafir, milo yields and best ten ears. promotes potatoes production with cross-state comparisons. encourages tomato contests to reduce imports. advocates poultry and pig contests. suggests alfalfa and sweet clover patches for boys. bread and sowing contests for girls. aims to involve institutes, granges, clubs, bankers, teachers, and preachers statewide. Hin two sections east of the west.
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Kansas
Agricultural College
Maine
Denmark
England
H. L
Alien
Kansas Agricultural College
J. H. Miller
Mhler
Kansas girl wins national agricultural essay prize
Miss Ethel Vanderwilt of Solomon, a Kansas Agricultural College graduate, won first place and a $100 gold medal from the Saddle and Sirloin Club for the best essay on Agricultural Education and the Farm. The article notes her skill in judging stock and her outstanding academic record, alongside broader Kansas efforts to engage youths in farming contests and extension work.
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Kansas
Young Fun Agricultural Colleges
United States
Ethel Vanderwilt
Solomon
Kansas Agricultural College
Agricultural Collge
Saddle and Sirloin Club
Chicago
Vanderwilt
DeWitt C. Wing
H. H. Southerland
Henry B. Favill
H. J. Snider
University of Illinois
Prescott W. Thompson
University of Missouri
J. W. Stevenson
Streator
Postal misaddressed hands and lingering civic questions
A fragmentary note from a 1913 issue muses on misaddressed mail in Keener Kansas and Aunt Simpy, with remarks on voting rights for married foreign women and a critique of public office efficiency. It discusses local officials, private vs public spending, and county commissioners pressured by competing demands amid limited resources.
Dance at Collyer Isenberg hall Saturday night January 31
A Collyer Kansas notice invites all to a dance at Isenberg's hall in Collyer on Saturday night January 31. Owens and Bailey address the event and a bank advertisement for farm loans appears from We Keenly State Bank on the 27th advance.
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Isenberg's
Collyer
Owens & Bailey
Kans
No Substitutes for Royal Baking Powder Urged
No substitutes should be returned to the grocer for Royal Baking Powder. Royal is pure cream of tartar baking powder and healthful. Substitutes offered are commonly made from alum.
Kansas Day Reflections on Public Education in Franklin County
The column laments unequal school funding across districts in Franklin with notes on district 30 Dist 50 and Dist 43 schools. It praises progressive boards yet highlights long travel to school, overworked teachers, and aging or inadequate facilities. It also lists various district reports, staffing, enrollment, attendance, and notes Hall's Catarrh Cure advert.
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Franklin Township
Franklin
Gibson School
Kansas
Bessie Rogers
Dist
Ketloge
Miss Marts
Miss Cross
Miss Matringly
Miss Harrison
Mr. Acre
Miss Galloway
Palkecvatey
Gassley
Miss Fear
Strayed horses near Stock Holm from Kansas
Strayed three horses including a brown mare about five years old with a wire cut on the right front foot and white on the right hind foot. Two last summer’s colts, brown and bay, thin in flesh. Reward offered. Last seen heading east from Stock Holm, Kansas. Corps Sypae Adv 45 40 Arapabae, Colorado.
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Welles
Stockholm
Kans
Corps Syypae
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Storkmen
Dr. King
H. E Bucklen & Co
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