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Text Box: Poultry: Official Programme World's Poultry Congress, Ottawa, Canada July 27th to August 4th, 1927 1927 Toronto, Ontario: The Mortimer Co. Ltd. Official program for World Poultry Congress. First day, July 28 featured talks on breeding, by Thomas Rigg, President, American Poultry Association; Prof. Allessandro Ghigi, Professor of Zoology at the University of Bologna; Shinji Susaki, Tokyo Imperial University, Japan; Rev. Bro. M. Wilfrid, Prof. of Poultry Husbandry, Oka Agricultural Institute, La Trappe, Quebec; more. July 29, A new method of recording eggs in egg laying contests. July 28: Poultry diseases; fowl paralysis, entero-hepatitis in Turkeys, Chicken Pox, Roup; Avian typhus and cholera in Italy. Band concerts each afternoon and evening. Aug. 3rd. official visit of HRH the Prince of Wales. Aug. 4th, auction sale of birds. 20 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (8084) $20.00. Farming/Poultry Ducker Houses: Sectional and Ready-Made, Erected without nail or screw with price list dated April 1, 1910 1910 New York, NY: Ducker Company, 277 Broadway. Booklet in English, Spanish and French shows pictures of various houses that can be erected without nail or screw ("Erigida sin un clavo ó tornillo"; "Montée sans clou ni vis") shows 7 room house with kitchen extension and piazza; 4 room house with kitchen extension and 5 ft. piazza; sectional hospital pavilion; sectional school house; train station house; wireless telegraph station for U.S. Army; church; automobile house. Special paste-in note advises that Ducker structures are not to be confounded with cheap light "portable structures". Enclosed price list provides prices and shipping weights for various combinations. 24 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Paper booklet with red cover, staple bound, staples rusted, very good. (8085) $35.00. Printed Matter/Advertising Added Thursday, September 23, 2010: The Independent, December 13, 1924 Concord, NH: The Independent Corporation. "How the Kleagles Collected the Cash--the Klan Campaign in Indiana, and its director" by Samuel Taylor Moore. Story of young salesman who is thorn in the side of the Klan. "Halting the Opium Menace-- Backgrounds of the Geneva Conference" by Nathaniel Peffer. "Lame Duck No. 4-- Sen. Thomas Sterling of South Dakota". "Growing Pains of Government" by Donald Wilhelm. One hundred years ago (1824) there were less than 9000 civilian employees of the government. "Unconquered Everest" Photo essay. 32 pp. 21 x 30 cm. Paper periodical, good. (8064) $17.00. History The Independent, October 24, 1925 Building the United States Navy Cover Photo: USS Hartford, Farragut's Flagship at Mobile Bay. 1925 Concord, NH: The Independent Corporation. "Building the U.S. Navy" from the Sailing Vessel to the Airplane Carrier, with photos Photos include USS Maine, sunk in 1898, first Dreadnought, 1905 (USS South Carolina), USS Connecticut, 1908, USS Oklahoma, 1916 and "air navy" USS Oregon, California and Saratoga. "British Labor Shies from Revolution" by Charles R. Walker--Red hand of Russian Communism? "What Have the Done? The Nineteenth Amendment" By Grace Abbott. 28 pp. 21 x 30 cm. Paper periodical, good. (8065) $18.00. History/Navy Added Wednesday, March 17th, 2010: Manchester Daily Union, Manchester, N.H. Tuesday, May 16, 1865 Manchester, NH: Campbell & Hanscom. By telegraph from Washington: The assassination trial is open to reporters of newspapers. It is supposed that Jeff Davis will be brought to Washington and tried for murder. The Negro Problem in Kentucky is one of great practical moment. Negroes are leaving their homes by the thousands and are crowding into the towns, demoralizing and being demoralized.... the plantations are without labor, and crops cannot be grown. Uncertainty and confusion take the place of order, and poverty and disease must follow upon idleness and dissipation. Negro Suffrage--the Abolitionists, not content with negro freedom, are clamorous for negro suffrage. Continued account of Assassination Trial...Mr. Lloyd, who kept a hotel at Surrattville, testified that several weeks before the assassination Booth and his accomplices came to his house, and brought two carbines and a rope... Testimony of Mrs. Surratt... Booth and Harold came to the hotel soon after midnight; Booth said, "I will tell you some news; I am pretty certain we have assassinated the President and Secretary Seward." Commentary on Mission of the Democratic Party. Adv. New Dress Goods; Mourning Goods; Carpeting and Housekeeping Goods at Barton & Co., East Side Elm Street. 4 pp. 32 x 47 cm. Newspaper, some perforations in spinefold, good. (8030) $25.00. Civil War/History RETURN TO PAGE ONE