The Great American Turkey and Its Domestic Cousin
The article compares the wild North American turkey with its domestic descendant, detailing size, color, and vigor. It notes inbreeding risks, the profitability of poultry, and guidance from USDA bulletin No. 200 on breeding stock, varieties like Norfolk, Slate, and Bourbon, and regional types such as Narragansett and White Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Turkey
T. F. McGrew
New York
Farmers
Central America
Cincinnati Freshmen and Sophomores Protest Scheduling
University of Cincinnati girls accuse gym teacher Edna Earl Hope of secretly scheduling students for nude measurements. Affected students learn they would be required to remove clothing and have body measurements taken, including hips arms and legs, with calculations determining “where you ought to be.” The revolt prompts a student committee to seek a meeting with President Dabney as Hope offers a wearable garment to conduct the test.
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University of Cincinnati
Edna Earl Hope
Miss Hope
Scarlet
Dabney
Nutritive Value of Eggs and Palatability Debate
Researchers find no difference in nutrients between dark and light shell eggs and note flavor depends on hen feed. Eggs are a cheap protein source at common market prices, and palatability strongly affects nutritional value.
Lacking In Education
A short dialogue where Freddie sobs after losing a nickel and an old man advises, but the boy laments he does not know another way to cry. The piece highlights the comic mispronunciation and childlike innocence.
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Freddie
Say not goodbye but in brighter clime bid me good morning
Poetic line urging a positive farewell, inviting renewed greetings in a brighter future. Expresses hopeful sentiment and gentle encouragement to cherish daily farewells as new starts.
Maxwell's Homemaker Magazine Subscription Offer
It costs ten cents for a year and promises music pages valuable for families with children learning music. The ad argues music in the home educates and entertains youths under a positive home environment. Subscriptions available by sending a dime or two five-cent stamps to Maxwell's Homemaker Magazine, 1409 Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois.
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Maxwell’s
Homemaker Magazine
Maxwell
Maxwell’s Homemaker Magazine
Fisher Building
Chicago
Incorruptible Reply Shapes Early American Revolution
In the opening days of the American Revolution Lord Carlisle and others offered a conciliatory bill to Congress as France recognized independence. The plan was rejected. Secret bribery attempts were made through a female agent with Pennsylvanian delegate Mr Reed offering 50 000 and office. Reed refused saying he was not worth purchasing and that the King was not rich enough.
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France
United States
Lord Carlisle
William Edson
Gov. Johnstone
Congress
Reed
Pennsylvania
England
Destruction of Seven Hundred Thousand Manuscripts in Alexandria
Omar argued that books must conform to the Koran or be destroyed. His rigid logic led to the burning of seven hundred thousand manuscript volumes in Alexandria, sparing none that failed the test.
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Omar
Alexandria
Tiny walnut shell seals Iliad’s vast epic
Pliny notes Homer’s Iliad of about 15 000 verses fits in a space as small as a walnut shell. The remark underlines ancient perception of literature's magnitude versus physical size.
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Pliny
Remarkable small chariot and ship described in ancient account
An ancient text recounts an ivory chariot by the Mermicides so tiny a fly could cover it with a single wing, and a ship so small it could be concealed by a bee’s wing. The piece highlights marvels of diminutive engineering in antiquity.
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Mermicides
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Ite
Narragansett Turkey
Buff Turkey
America
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Maxwell's Homemaker Magazine
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Alexandrian Library
Kirk
James S. Kirk & Company
Ide
Foster
Watson-Stillman Cos
Dey St
N. Y. City
Webb Publishing Co
St. Paul Minn
International Harvester Co
International Harvester Co. of America Incorporated
Monroe Street
Chicago, Il, U. S. A
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