Seed corn warning urges statewide testing and storage methods
The article urges careful selection and testing of seed corn to prevent heavy losses in planting season. It warns of 1915’s poor crop, frost damage, and unreliable seed sources, and urges mobilizing farmers, teachers, bankers, and merchants to promote scientific seed practices and proper storage to protect community prosperity.
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Corn Belt
Illinois
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Iowa
Test Seed Corn to Raise Yields on Every Farm
Farmers are urged to test seed corn in winter using sawdust germination boxes to select strong ears. Discard weak or moldy kernels, sort the best 100 ears for future planting, and hang dry seed to improve yield on roughly forty six acres per farm across Iowa.
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Iowa
Unclear text fragment prompts uncertain item
The readable content presents stray phrases and nonstandard spelling with no identifiable person, organization, place, or event. No coherent facts emerge to describe a news item or record.
Black howler of the isthmus and the jungle weather prophets
George Shiras III notes the black howler monkey, largest in South America, whose loud bass roar accompanies tropical dawns and is believed by locals to foretell rain. Fuertes, the naturalist, highlights the creature’s striking sound and weather-sensing lore on the isthmus.
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Gatun
British East
Africa
Fuertes
American Tropics
Andean
George Shiras III
National Geographic Magazine
Notable Long Lives Across Centuries and Countries
A Chronicle of extreme ages names Captain Diamond born to direct a California gym institute aged 119 and mentions Duckiwicki of Posen at 131, Budnikow at 133, a 146 year old Norwegian Franz Drachenberg now dead, and legends like Thomas Parr at 152 and Methuselah at 969.
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Captain Diamond
California
Germany
Duckiwicki
Posen
Budnikow
Tomsk
Franz Drachenberg
Thomas Parr
Josef Surrington
Bergen
Jenkins
Thomas Carn
Methuselah
Electricity in Sandstorms at Royal Geographical Society
Mr W J Harding King described electrical phenomena during Libyan desert sandstorms. He noted sparks from a woolen burnous and a camel ear discharge, linking dry south winds to high ozone levels in the Libyan desert.
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W. J. Harding King
Royal Geographical Society
London
Mr. King
Algerian
Sahara
Libyan
Windhoek Visit Described by a Traveler in 1904
Charlotte Cameron recounts a long rail journey through German Southwest Africa to Windhoek, noting arid landscapes, harsh railway conditions, and native cultures. She details the Hereros war history, local economy, diamond fields, farms, and the town’s austere amenities amid colonial rule.
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Windhoek
Windhok
Southwest Africa
Botha
Charlotte Cameron
Swakopmund
Usakos
Government Rewards Backfire as Mongoose Pest Grows
A Trinidad correspondent notes that rewards for mongoose tails failed to reduce the pest. Rewards sparked breeding by peasants and even a warden recycling tails. Experiments with different payments led to skewed catches, then officials halted rewards. Imported to curb rats, the mongoose instead damaged poultry and birds, increasing insects.
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Trinidad
West Indies
Australia
Dogs and cats drain Britain during wartime
A London Globe letter argues ten million pets including cats strain Britain's resources in war time. It calls dog tax enforcement lax due to new duties on police and urges special constables to curb tax evasion as a national necessity.
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Great Britain
Lightest Woods and the Balsa Wood Discovery
The article notes balsa wood as the lightest material and mentions the scientific name Ochroma lagopus, attributed to Minton Ri. It discusses early references to the wood before modern classification, highlighting its use and natural origin in tropical environments.
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Minton
France's War Debt Figures Before and During Conflict
Historical debt estimates place France as the leading pre war borrower with 1913 figures showing a national debt of about 6.44 billion dollars. Projected post loan of victory subscriptions reach 34 billion, lifting France’s total debt near 16.8 billion. Germany dominates at outbreak, with Britain Russia France and Austria ranking lower.
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France
American Whitaker
Russia
United Kingdom
Italy
Spain
Germany
Great Britain
Austria
Kipling not a lover of cats says London Chronicle
The London Chronicle notes Rudyard Kipling dislikes cats as the tale The Cat Who Walked by Himself reflects ongoing tension between cats and humans. It explains how dogs horses and cats were domesticated yet the cat remains free and returns to the wild at night.
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Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
London Chronicle
Fish Sign Jokes Tell A Whale Of A Tale
Clarence Harvey recalls a Lambs club joke about a fish store sign that starts as Fresh Fish for Sale Here and ends with simply Fish after customers question every word The humor rests on trimming the sign until only the single word remains as the odor signals the product.
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Clarence Harvey
The
Lambs’ Club
New York World
Leech Trade Crumbles as War Upends Markets
The European war devastates leech commerce once centered in France and England. Supplying countries Hungary Croatia Dalmatia and Turkey shift, reducing shipments and injuring a once flourishing business in blood-sucking leeches.
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Europe
France
Hungary
Croatia
Dalmatia
Turkey
England
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