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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
8
A fashion writer notes lingerie markets tilt from heavy muslin to delicate French undergarments. Domestics rise as French stocks scarce, but new lace panels, wide Chantilly yokes, and tailored silk underpinnings gain popularity. Color replaces pure white with pastels and bold hues as negligees and bloomers blend practicality with luxury.
The United States Bureau of Markets recommends United States grade fancy for potatoes along with No 1 and No 2 grades. Fancy requires mature bright smooth well shaped potatoes free from dirt injuries or disease with size ranges defined. allowances allow 5 percent variance in size and 8 percent below remaining requirements. Detailed standards are in Department Circular 96.
In Pulaski County Virginia and across the state farmers sign pledges under the Better Sires Better Stock program. Virginia leads the nation with hundreds pledging purebred sires and improved breeding practices to replace scrub stock.
Nearly all home gardeners plant more seed than necessary to get a full stand. As plants are large enough, pull excess to space vegetables properly. Crowded conditions cause tall, spindly growth and deplete plant food and moisture, harming the crop.
A note urges readers to prepare storage for garden produce before frost. It highlights room in basements, outdoor cellars or pits, and discusses different inexpensive storage methods. Reading Farmers Bulletin 879 from the U S Department of Agriculture offers detailed guidance for beginners and those seeking better results.
Early clipping of clover as it begins to blossom followed by a light dressing of land plaster or fine compost promotes a strong stalk and a vigorous second growth that ripens a paying crop of seed. This method allows every farmer to produce grown clover seed regardless of the first crop.
Health claim article urges purification of the blood to ward off disease. Promotes 8.5 Sap as a vegetable blood medicine, claiming revitalization and vigor. Invites readers to buy at drug stores and to request free medical advice from Swift Special Co. 112 Swift Laboratory, Ga.
Thousands of women may suffer kidney or bladder disease unrecognized. The ad promotes Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a remedy and offers a sample bottle by mailing ten cents to Kilmer Co. Also includes a short humorous exchange about dressing sensibly.
Chicago ad warns entonie users to take one tablet before meals and after eating during heat to curb excess acids and poisons in the stomach and bowels. The candy like Anatonic remedy supposedly improves appetite and relieves feverish thirst and stomach distress from overeating or cold drinks.
The American Legion Weekly recounts a wartime scene with a dusky stevedore and an Algerian soldier failing to communicate. After futile linguistic attempts, an American from Georgia uses ivory cubes to prompt a reaction, only to hear, You ain't even no hymnan, You is just a corpse.
A man eager to see happiness proposes a six hour day. He foresees future need to revise the chronological system with 25 or 80 minutes per hour, and questions lasting contentment under current norms. The dialogue contrasts present contentment with potential long term reform.
In Alaska mining, cold surface winter water proves a superior thawing medium to steam or hot water. Heat from steam escapes, while cold water delivers steady heat to the ground, producing an 8-foot shaft in 86 hours after a 2-inch pipe fed 20 gallons per minute at 52 degrees B with ground at 28 degrees.
A humorous anecdote from the American Legion Weekly shows aspirants at an army school struggling with fractions. An instructor outlines tenths, hundredths, and thousandths while a student laments the countless decimals. The piece humorously notes the overwhelming number of tiny fractions in arithmetic.
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