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...elected I will inspect every cow, male & female, for ticks. Them that's got 'em will get rid of 'em, and them that ain't got none won't git none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who's Huey Now? | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Watertown, Wis., won the Holstein grand championship with his heifer, Ruby Homstead Ebenezer. Dolly WTild Rose Pietertje de Kil, owned by Martin Warren of Iowa City, won the junior yearling class ribbon. Princess Cascade Ormsby Bess, belonging to Vincent McLaury of Celwin, Iowa, was judged the best aged cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Dairy Show | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Vagabond quite frankly knows little about the Lone Star state. They raise cattle out there he has heard. Some cows they sell to the stockyards in Chicago, and some they sell to the movies. The Vagabond knows little about, the cow business, but he understands that heifer calf is better than no calf at all. He will, therefore, not talk about cows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

...generations of U. S. boys have gazed at the profiles of the five Ringling Brothers and their imposing mustaches pasted on the cow barns of the nation. As a matter of fact there were not five brothers but seven: Al. Gus. Otto, Alf T.. Charles E., John and Henry and their names were not Ringling but Rungeling. "Ringling" was a newspaper misprint which they decided not to correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ringling Day | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Speedily Lawyer Tarlow obtained a rehearing of Mrs. Hanna's case. Three physicians questioned her. They found her illiterate, but discovered that she knew that a match touched to wood makes it burn; that a handkerchief is used to "blow the nose"; that leather comes from "goat, cow, sheep"; that her bus fare to the courthouse was 10?; that three bus fares would be 30?. Asked where she went to pray, she replied: "Church." To whom did she pray? "God." How many Gods are there? "One." She readily identified the U. S. flag but could not tell the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Friendly Test | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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