davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-10
HONOR CADETS At WEST POINT.
Bill Proposes That Candidates ee
Selected on Merit.


Selected on Merit. i
Washington-Ten special presiden.
tial appointments to the West Point
Military Academy is one among sew
eral important changes in admission
methods to that institution proposed
in a bill introduced b. Chairman
Chamberlain of the Senate military
committee. 1t would give the Presf.
dent power to appoint each year to
the academy 10 ''h nor men" from 10
educational institutions having off,
GERS of the army detailed for military
instruction. The list of honor
schools would be prepared by the
war department.
The Chamberlain bill also proposes
that in vacancy-flling from alternates
candidates should be selected on the
merit principle from the whole list
instead of being restricted to the
alternate from the district where the
principal has failed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-10
Health,
Wealth
and
Happiness
In Scott
County


red bulbs at Pleasant Valley,
Scott county, Ia, in such large
quantities that the state agricultur-
al statistician will be compelled to
add another column to his crop re-
port and write "Onions" at the
top of it.
Health we say advjsedly. Does
not the old saw run:
Bat onions in the month of May
And the rest of the year the doctors
may play.
And you can find dozens Of hale
and hearty German pioneers who
have had their Fruehstueck, Nit
tagessen and Abendessen favored
with onions for the past thirty
years and unanimously lay their
longevity at the door of the odorif-
erous tuber.
As to wealth, the onion has
drained the swampy black silt lands
along the Mississippis banks, has
turned them into beautiful little
green fields where any weed is as
much anathema as thistle to the
ordinary farmer and has put price
of $1,000 on every acre that can
successfully produce the big red
globes.
And for happiness, the onion is
now the sesame in Pleasant Val
ley, aptly named, the heart Of Scott
county's 300 acre onion district.
The tears that the zwiebel brings
to the eyes of the people Of that
locality are tears of joy. They
have sold onions and built immense
big frame houses, large enough for
family reunions. They have sold
onions and added big barns and au-
tomobiles to their establishments.
Now they are selling onions and
sending their children to the State
Agricultural college at Ames, while
they 20 across the sea they travelled
in a sailing vessel so many years
ago to see the grossvater, nodding
away in some sleepy little village
of Schleswig- Holstein.
This is not pleasant sounding fic-
ton, but reality, brought about by
the fact that the rich river bottom
lands of Scott county are adapted to
the raising of onions. These fields
are tended with all Of the German
farmers painstaking care. You
can't raise both weeds and onions
in the same field. Consequently the
onion raiser arms himself with a
hoe, arms all of his family with a
like utensil and goes forth to seek
the impudent cocklebur, button
weed, fo1tail, smart weed, pig weed
and joint grass.
90 THOROUGHLY DOES THE
ONION FARMER AND HIS FAMILY
DO THIS JOB THAT ONE CAN SEE
AFIELD OF TEN ACRES WITHOUT
A HALF DOZEN WEEDS VISIBLE
IN THE ENTIRE TRACT. THE
SOLID DARK GREEN SWEEP OF
THE HIGHLY CULTIVATED
TRACTS ARE A SIGHT TO De.
LIGHT THE EYE OF ANY coUN-
TRYMAN As THE INTERUReANs
AND STEAM TRAiNS WAIsk HIM
THROUGH THE ONION DISTRICT.
Hand in hand with this intensive
cultivation goes scientific agricul-
ture and machinery. Science works
out in the following way: The great
pest of the onion crop is the
"thrips," or lice-tiny little pests
one-twentieth of an inch in length
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-10
Onion
King
Clears
$4,000 on
Sixteen
Acres

with elongated bodies and four
slender wings. They are sucking
insects. They fasten themselves to
the green tops, extract the juice
and leave the plant to wither up
and dry. In the dry weather they
hatch by the millions, and in the
early evening they swarm to the
fields, myriads of them, so thick as
to resemble black cloud and, like
the locust plague of Pharaoh's
reign, light on the growing crop.
Up to the present year the grower
did not know how to fight them.
Last year the Scott County Farm
improvement league was formed.
This organization employed an agri-
cultural college graduate, G.. R.
Bliss, and told him to 60 out and
help everybody earning a living
from the soil. He suggested that
a spray Of kerosene emulsion or
nicotine-whale oil mixture be used,
forced down into the crevices of the
leaves. The growers tried out the
spray and found that it killed the
little pests. It has been estimated
that systematic use of this spray
ing mixture would make a differ
ence of 200 bushels to the acre.
The thrips do not bother in vet
weather. The last summer, with
its continued hot weather, with no
rain all through July, the onions
big maturity month";, was ideal for
the pests. Not all of the farmers
could be persuaded to spray their
fields, for converts in agricultural
science never come fast, and conse-
quently the yield was not what it
will be in future dry seasons.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS, THE
REMEDY FOR THE CROPS PAR
TIcULAR PLAGUE HAS BEEN DIS.
COVERED, AND MANY HUNDREDS
OF BUSHELS WERE ADDED TO
THE TOTAL CROP.
The thirty-one hot days in July
cut the crop down fully one-third.
1. has not been uncommon in for
mer years for the crop to run over
1000 bushels an acre on the best
fields PA, year the average was
close to 300 bushels. But last sea-
son, the best growing year that the
onion men have ever had, the price
averaged from 80 to 40 cents. This
year the Pleasant Valley people are
getting from IS to 80 cents q bushel
and are making as much money as
they did on the bumper crop of
1912.
This years onion king is ". "
Myers, who has the largest numb
of acres planted of any Of the onion
raisers. He has sixteen acres in
the tubers, the largest farm at
F'The Valley" and the crop ran $50
bushels. This would bring him &c.
4sO at the present market price,
and, deducting 500 per acre as the
cost of raising and marketing, there
is left a profit of SIS, $50, or $3.50
per acre. That shows pretty well
that wealth is no little part of the
profits to be derived from the onion
culture. Many farmers put the cost
per acre below 500, Frank Schut-
ter, another veteran grower, plac-
ing his at $40 an acre.
Last year Mr.. Schutter raised 943
bushels to the acre, receiving 80
cents, or $352.2S an acre, for his
crop and $4.657.66 for the entire
crop. Henry Roed, on one acre
tract planted to sets, harvested 500
bushels an acre and Leroy Schutter,
on a nine acre field, nearly 500
bpc n a1c fbic roor
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-10
New Cable To De Laid.

Mundesiey, Ensland-Stephen, tbs
German cable steamer, arrived ~
Gently at Mundesley. on he ossst a
Norfolk, for the purpose Of eonsAeAo
ing operations IN laying the nav SUI
marine cable between England and
Germany.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-20
Foolish
To Suffer!
zemo Stops Itching and Burning
Quickly And Goes Right to the
Root Of Your Skin Troubles.
Get Your Free trial Bottle,

It is foolish to endure tho torture
itching and burning skin when Zen
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-20
CONCERNING CANCER

Write to the WEBER sANAToR1uM.
IL Garfield Place. Cincinnati, Ohio,
for information concerning the Medi-
cal Treatment OF All Forms of Ex-
ternal Grovths, especially Cancer.
Established 25 years and well en-
dorsed. SO page book free.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-20
"The Big Idea. had a nrodnetion !,

THE Big Idea" had production ii,
cohan and Harris with successful re.
suits, The play. which is by A. e.
Thomas and Clayton Hamilton, was
tried last spring under the name OF
Wanted. $4,000" Its plot con-
Germs the writing of play and is
said to be clever and original.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-20

% pounds granulated sugar, sl.s5.
lChas. H. Griffin. Both phones.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
FOR SALE
Movinu AWav.

Moving Away.
| offer for sale my 80 acre each
orchard. Also beautiful 10-.'cre
plot OF land 1-2 mile west Of Guthrie
and my home on West Noble; Will
sell any of these properties at an
exceedingly low price. Our reasons
for making a big sacrifice-we are
leaving Oklahoma permanently and
will move by early spring
FRANK HOUSEHOLDER.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
W q; 10 as H m M " IS M y IS u u \
HELP WANTED FEMALE.

~ The Want Columns are read \
81 each day by many women. n
81 The call for help wanted =
4 female" includes many business 4
~ women who are proficient as d
~ stenographers, bookkeepers, fac y
~ tory helpers, forewomen, sales \
" women, seamstresses and ex- =
~ perts in many other lines. Z
|w The domestic servants who are Y
~ alive to opportunity read the 4
|M Wants and know that they y
|N provide guarantee foi steady, y
Is: profitable employment. :
|@ The housewife uses the Wants \
~ to meet many an emergency, \
III and finds them we'll worth =
" while. \
~ ~ ~ ~ s 81 u " W 81 " y ~ n n u
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

The effect Of youthfulness Is sought
owe all others at present, and the grow
girl has at last awakened to the ad-
ntages Of being at tho beginning OF
ings Her wardrobe also shows the
no tendency. For this effect there IS
daintier model than the one shown
rcwith. Tho simple blouse has low
4 neck, which is outlined by large, eff
rtlve collar. while the elbow sleeves are
nished with a cuff. The skirt is three
,re design and fastens IN front on line
18th the closing of the bodice.
Linen, pongee. cotton cponee and the
umerous ratine fabrics will make up well
this style. and the more simple woollens,
uch as serge, will also be appropriate.
The dress pattern. No. G,lSG. is cut In
izes II, 10 and IS years Medium size
equires Az yards of 3G inch material.
The pattern can be obtained by sending
% cents to the office Of this paper.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
n 81 " n ~ ~ y II H n X q NJ
EFFICIENT EMPLOYEES 4


w There's cne ever preseh, ae- u
" mand that's echoed from every \
y mart OF business-the whole at \
" mosphere Of the business world
y Is permeated with it--the de- \
" mand for efficiency.
" Those who are skilled. cap
" able and fitted to bear respoh- v
" sibility: workers who can do
" their task with least possible v
" lost motion-those who make ev- Y
" cry movement count in sccOm- u
" plishment--they are the ones \
" that efficiency demands. Y
N Efficiency workers; train ex- \
v ecutives as well as tho'e for Y
" minor positions. are closN stu \
Y dents OF the Wants. v
" II you would have your oryani- Y
v zation composed OF w)rkers who
" are efficient, Mr.. Employer. Y
v make full use Of the Wan. Col u
y umns. \
q Il Is ~ n ~ 4: q ~ e q ~ q 4 ~ n
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

FOR SAIlE-We have lot Of fine
new IA sawed oak dressers and
chiffoneers, also lot of extra fine
gas ranges, will take some of your
furniture as part pay. Collars Fur
niture Store.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

received today, and wishes to thank
the Senior Class OF the High School
for their many kind rememberances
and postals and the beautiful floral
Differing
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

MARRY--If you are lonely The
Reliable Confidential Successful
Club has large number of wealthy,
eligible members of both sexes, wish
ing early marriage. Descriptions
free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland,
Calf. 2646.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

William Bllncoe, who underwent az
c9eartion in the hospital at ians'ns'
Michigan, is rapidly recovering, ac-
cording Il, letter from his mother
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

wealthy Californians
seeking marriage. Photos and de-
scriptions free. Mission Agency, B.
sos, San Francisco, Cal
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

FOR SAI1E-Schclarshlp In ,7apitai
business College. Call at eader
office.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
HELP MANrEo-fEMAIE


WANTED-Woman to take charge Of
rooming house. Fine chance, commits
sion plan. State particulars in first
letter. Call or address No. 326 West
Harrison avenue, Guthrie, Okla.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
TO EXCHANGE

WANTED Good, clear cottage VIII
give gilt edge real estate mortgage
$1,000 and cottage. equity. Reply at
once. Address, owner care of
Leader.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
LAND FOR SALE.


EASY TDEaNS FOR LAND in the
North Platte Valley, Nebraska, will
be made to you. You can buy choice
irrigated or non irrigated land in one
Of the best sections Of the state upon
either the crop payment plan or easy
cash payments, ON long time. You
cannot afford to pass up this oppor-
tunity. Write to me today for full
information, which is free for the
asking. r. A. Smith, Colonization
G. Industrial Agent, Union Pacific
Railroad Company, Room 80, Union
Pacific Building, Omaha Neb.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

FOR 3ALE--Two story business
building. Easy terms. Address
Rooms" care Leader.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

We collect anywhere or no charge.
Prompt, efficient, reliable. Charges
reasonable. E. c. Miller, Room )
Billingsley bldg. Phone z.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

To orr friends and patrons, the
partnership heretofore existing le-
tween the firm of Branham e Redman
has this day been dissolved. Mr..
Redman having taken over Mr..
Branham's interest in said firm.
The business will be conducted at the
same place by Mr.. Redman and oil
outstanding accounts will be paid to
him.
r. l.. BRANHAM.
l.. REDMAN.
Jan. 6, 1914
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

FOR SALE-Second hand typewriter,
Oliver, in good condition. Ad lress
I"P. j." care Leader.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

You will find it at the Racket
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07
AGENTS WANTED
NEW N. X. 6 T. TIME TABLE.

No I16 makes close connection With
main line train No aG for st. Louis, Kan
sas City and all points north Of Fa lis
ESQ connects with No. - from Kansas
City, St. Louis and points north of
Fans.
CHAS. Taylor Agt.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

LADIES-When delayed or irregular
use Triumph Pills; always depend.
able. Relief and particulars free.
Write National Medical Institute, NIL
waukee, Wis.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-07

cHAS. Taylor. Agt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
PlTTsToN.

Announcement has been received of the
marriage of Capt. Peter Quinlan. a for
mer resident of Pittston. Captain Quinn
Ian is now on his vessel with his young
bride their wedding trip.
Mrs. John Whitmore went Monday to
Beverly, Mass, to visit a week with her
daughter, Mrs. Chas. Clifford.
Mrs. Frank MeCloud is very i'll at her
home here
Ernest Weeks of jefferson was a busi-
ness visitor in town several days last
week.
Miss Mertie Chapman. who has been
the guest of her aunt at Beech Hill, re-
turned home Sunday.
Miss BERTHE Croker is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. William Chapman.
Alton Moody and sisters Lottie, Daisy
and Eva, passed the weekend with their
sister, Mrs. Elmer Moody, in Randolph.
Hermon Scott has bought a tower in
South Gardiner which is 70 feet high He
has taken it down and moved the lum-
Der to his home, where it is to be used
to build barn.
Mrs. George Lord and daughter of Gar
diner visited friends here last week.
Mrs. Hastings, who has been i'll with
pneumonia, is convalescing. Mrs. Ann
EliSins is caring for her.
Elmer Moody of Randolph visited his
parents Sunday
AS usual the birthday of Mrs. Char
lotte Yrook was observed Saturday eve-
ming by a gathering of friends at the
home of her son Samuel. Guests were
present from Augusta, Gardiner and
Pittston in honor of her Saith birthday.
The evening was passed with music and
talking over old times. Refreshments
were served. The company dispersed at
late hour wishing the old lady many
happy returns of the day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
SPORTING NOTES.

Sir Thomas Upton is going to re-
quest the New York Yacht Club for
permission to tow his new eraft across
the Atlantic rather than sail the YES
sci. as the rules state must be done
by the challenger.
Announcement was made Monday
of the award of athletic numerals to
Tufts Freshmen as follows; Baseball,
Leland, Turner, Rabbit, Porter, Finn,
Addison, Bratt, Gately. Sweet and
Friis; football, Symmes, Morse, Spunt,
Waters. Pastercyk. Ella, Brown, Sweet,
Bratt, Williams, Morrow, Coddington,
Cate, Tuck and Turner; track, Leland,
Hartman, Penaligan, Whippen and
Coddngton; basket ball. Turner. Lane.
Green, Caro-, Brown, Cameron and
Collins.
Doc Scanlon, the former Brooklyn
pitcher. has applied to the National
Commission for reinstatement. Scan
Ion was traded to the Phil!ies several
years ago for Eddie Stack, but never
reported. The Dodgers kept Stack and
paid the Phillies $500 Ebbets and
differences.
Henry Breckenridge, assistant sec
rotary of war; James A. Mclaughlin
and Dr. Scott Breckenridge, represent
ing the Washington Feneers' Club of
Washington, D. c., won the national
team foils championship Monday night
by defeating the New York Athletic
Club team, holders of the title and
the New York Fencers, by a score of
10 to o.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
MAINE kLl.STAR TEAM
TO PLAY FEDERALS FIRST

The Portland baseball team will ipen
the exhibition season April is against the
Toronto team of the International League
at Bayside Park, and on Patriots day
the Duffs play double header. meeting
an all-star picked team in the morning
and Bowdoin in the afternoon.
Already the selection of the picked team
is we'll under way and it will be an ag-
gregation that will make Hughey' s
leaguers go some to bring home the ba-
con. The quartet of Maine college stars
already signed with be a nucleus. There
are McElwee, the Bowdoin third base
man, and Bowker, last years Colby cap
tain and second sacker. in the infield ;
Neal Tuttle, the Bowdoin outfelder, and
Ray Shepard, last years Bates star, nj
the outfield. These four collegians were
four of the best fielders and hardest hit
tiers in the State college ranks last year.
Several twirlers will get chance to
heave 'em up to the Duffs. One of them
will be Ellis Curry. the big Westbrook
right handler who made the Portland
transformers eat humble pie at Gorham
fair last fall. The others will be an
nounced later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
South Paris Murder
Trial Being Held

South, Paris, Me-, March 1.-THE
trial of Frank Salatino of Rumford
for the killing of Joe Parish commenc-
ed Monday morning in the oxford S.
]. court. About an hour was taken
up empanelling a jury for this case.
The jury as empaneled follows: VIM.
z. Stearns. Hiram: Robert E. Shaw.
Paris; Dana Bishop. Rumford; War;
rem c. Slower, Brownfield; Lemont E.
Cole. Bethel; Chas. F. Starbird. Ok
ford; Alberto F. Copeland, Bethel;
John F. Glover, Dixfeld; Milton l..
Luce, Hartford; Percy H. Nevers,
Norway; A. Wesley MeKeen, Frye
ourg, foreman. County Attorney Dyer
conducted the case for the State. A.
E. Stearns and Geo. A. Hutchins of
Rumferd represented Salatino.
The allegation of the State in this
case is that Joe Parish was killed on
Exchange street in Ramford on the
night of Feb. %. abentato o'clock, by
being shot with a revolver in the
hands of Frank Salatino.
The defence admits the shooting but
claims the shot wash fired in self
defence. Both parties in this case and
many of the witnesses are Italians.
James Callendo of Rumford acted as
Interpreter.
After tile presentations of the case
to the jury, the witnesses for State
were called and sworn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
COTTON CONSUMED
IN UNITED STATES

Washington, March 17.-Cotton consum-
ed in the United States during February
amounted to ass, 239 running bales. exclu-
sive of linters. compared with 44s.0ea bales
in February, 1913. Cotton on hand Feb.
IS was held as follows:
In manufacturing establishments, 1734.
SIT bales, compared with 1.sss,s66 in 1873
and In Independent warehouses sol
bales compared with 2,217.61s in 1918.
Cotton spindles operated during Feb
ruary numbered 81, 1S9.79o compared with
&c, 536. ASS last year.
Linters consumed during February
numbered 90 452 bales compared with %.
lis in 1913: linters on hand Feb. Is was
held as follows: In manufacturing estab-
lishments $500 bales compared with ST.
1856 in 1913, and in independent warehouses
55.774 bales compared with $3.50 in 1913,
Linters exported during February. $685.
bales.
These statistics of consumption and sup
ply were announced today by the census
bureau.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
FIELD AND TRACK,
ROWING AND OTHER
SPORTING MATTERS
EXPERTS WONDER
AT OUTCOME Of
TENNIS MATCH

Philadelphia, March f.-With Jay
Gould, the American amateur cham
pion, holding the advantage of four
sets to none over George F. Covey of
England, the professional titleholder,
in their contest for the worlds cham
pionship court tennis honor, experts
are figuring on how the Englishman
will plan his campaign of attack to-
morrow in the second match of the
series.
In the opinion of experts who saw
yesterdays games, the play of Mr..
Gould has never been equalied. He
apparently had no trouble in hand
ling the old-fashioned English SER
vice put forth by Convey and in all
around play he was the master at all
points. His getting of hard balls, they
say, was most wonderful and he ex-
ecuted the most difficult shots with
an ease brought about by the most
| perfect timing of the ball. Gould
protection of the "dedan' was in
yincible and his carefully calculated
soft shots to the foot of the tam
bour" were deadly in point winning.
Some experts say Covey was off
form yesterday and they look for him
to make a better showing in the re-
| naming matches.
The contest will continue until one
man wins seven sets. In order to re-
| tain his title, Covey will have to win
seven while it is necessary for Gould
| to take only three more sets to gain
| the championship. If the Englishman
wins two of the three sets scheduled
! for tomorrow the deciding sets will
| be played on Saturday.