Indiana corn king crowned at grain and hay show
Troyer of La Yontain Indiana won the 1920 corn king title at the grain and hay show tied to the International Live Stock exposition. He topped a ten ear sample of Johnson county white corn, the second Hoosier to earn corn king honors after Peter Lux last year. The winning field yielded 109 bushels per acre with deep plowing thorough cultivation and hoeing cited as key.
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Chicago
C. E. Troyer
la Yontain
Ind
Johnson County
Troyer
Petersburg
Pike County
Indianapolis
Indiana House of Representatives
Clinton H. Givan
Marion County
Jacob D. Miltenberger
Muncie
H. Taylor
Frankfort
J. C. Andrews
West Point
Scipio
Special Coal and Food Commission
Warren T. McCray
Indiana
Black Diamond
McCray
Franklin
George T. Shuck
Hopewell
Farmers Trust Company
Shuck
Franklin Banks
Evansville
J. S. Johnson
Southwestern Indiana Teachers’ Association
Robert E. Eckert
Jasper
Fort Wayne
Laporte
Katherine Spore
Laporte County
Alfred H. Kimble
Spore
Kimble
Huntington
Clifton
Highland
Lake County
J. M. Ballard
Marion
Frank P. Fox
Smith Brothers
Medaryville
Shadeland Stock Farm
Lafayette
Farmer-Labor
Prohibitionists
Madge Patton Stephens
Culla J. Wayhinger
United States
Francis J. Dillon
Farmer-Labor Party
Anderson
John
Alldredge
Madison
Treary
Tipton
Mgr
Valparaiso
Lorter County
State Association
Purdue University
Porter County
State Special Coal and Food Commission
Commission
Hammond
Calumet Region
Leonard Construction Company
Indiana Oil Company
Indiana Harbor
Edwards Valve Company
East Chicago
Betz Plant
United Organic Chemical Company
West Hammond
Goshen
Elkhart County Fair Ground
H. V. D. King of
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce and Secretary of A Recently Organized Fair Association
Charles H. Method
West Lafayette
Federal Board of Vocational Education
Madison County Council
Board of Commissioners
Wayne Knitting Mills
Bloomington
Mansion Sought as Possible Vice Presidential Residence
An informal survey of Washington homes found the so called Embassy building near Sixteenth Street and Park Road Northwest under inspection as a potential vice presidential mansion. The structure, built for Mrs John B Henderson, cost about 200000 dollars.
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Washington
Sixteenth Street
Park Road
John B. Henderson
Unknown Warrior coffin arrives at Whitehall Cenotaph
The coffin mounted on a gun carriage passes the Cenotaph in Whitehall en route to Westminster Abbey where the Unknown Warrior is interred amid ceremonial rites. The Abbey has long been the resting place for England’s heroes since Norman times.
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England
Whitehall
Westminster Abbey
Mrs E B McLean Key Washington Social Figure
Mrs Edward B McLean wife of the Washington Post publisher returns from Texas with her husband as a member of President elect Harding's party. The McLeans will play a leading role in Washington society and inauguration arrangements during the next administration.
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Edward B. McLean
Washington Post
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Washington
Texas
Harding
McLean
Burg's Night Watchwoman Patrols Black Forest Village
In Burg Germany a village in the Black Forest claims a rare sight a woman night watchman patrolling with her dog at her side. She carries a lantern and a horn as she makes rounds through the quiet streets.
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Burg
Black Forest
Germany
Rockefeller Foundation Aims to Eradicate Yellow Fever Globally
Dr George E Vincent head of the Rockefeller Foundation reports dramatic progress in the war on disease. He says yellow fever could be wiped out, malaria and hookworm reduced, with a strong 1921 campaign planned. Vaccines and sanitation are key, with quarantines at Mexican ports to curb spread.
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Vincent
Idyeo Naguchi
Rockefeller Institute
Mexico
United States
Public Health Service
Tuxpam
Vera Cruz
Progreso
Yucatan
Tampico
Qoil
Cyclops Mystery Account Supposedly Solves Lost Navy Vessel
A Pathfinder column repeats a reader based tale that the German Waiblingen in American disguise sank the Cyclops off Barbados on March 4 1918. The gas shell cargo exploded on Waiblingen, another ship perished in the gas cloud, and first officer Herbert Wichman died in Houston after reaching Texas days later. No navy official comments.
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Cyclops
Washington
The
Pathfinder
Bridgetown
British Barbados
New York
Barbados
United States
Waiblingen
State of Maine
Pola
Austria
Atlantic
Caribbean Sea
Herbert Wichman
Texas
Houston
Tex
Farmers' National Council Seeks Farm Policy Support
The council asks farm groups that have not endorsed its plan to approve a program including government controlled packing houses railroads under public ownership a short term credit system land bank expansion limited interest spread under the Federal Reserve Act and a rapid property tax on holdings for speculation plus repeal of the Jones shipping law and government use of natural resources for public service George P Hampton urged support to leaders of the American Farm Bureau National Grange National Farmers Union National Milk Producers Association and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ National Council
George P. Hampton
J. R. Howard
American Farm Bureau Federation
S. J. Lowell
National Grange
C. S. Barrett
National Farmers’ Union
Milo D. Campbell
National Milk Producers’ Association
W. L. Drummond
International Farm Congress
O. G. Smith
Farmers National Congress
Benefactor Halo for King Charles II
Travelers from western Canada report that prohibition measures will keep the region wet for years, citing a 1670 Hudsons Bay Company charter to distill at trading posts. They claim the charter cannot be canceled until 2018, though Canada took over the rights in 1870 and the company now runs real estate and mail order business.
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Ravelers
Western Canada
Dominion
Northwest
Hudson Bay
Vancouver
Hudson’s Bay Company
Charles II
Gentlemen Adventurers
England
Ers
Canada
London
British Empire
IL B.C
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Indiana Free Employment Commission
Fred Kleinsmith
Hartford City
Bell
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
Wabash
Summa Farr
Katherine Ramsey
Lagro
Hunter
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Doctor Legrain
Ibi-Sin
C. C. Moseley
Verville-Packard
Mineola
L. L
Captain Moseley
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Knights of Columbus
E. B. McLean
Program of Farmers’ National Council
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