Homesick Returns Lift Maria From City to Peaceful Home
Maria Craig, a fifty-one year old Palenville native, visits her old friend Louise in a gleaming urban apartment. The trip, sparked by homesickness, reveals the contrast between city comforts and Maria's modest kitchen. She longs for home, returns to her husband John, and discovers a transformed house ready for her.
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Aria Craig
Maria
Palenville
Palen
John Craig
John
Jerry
Louise
Freda
Forevermore
Red Diamonds Attract Attention From South Africa Find
Lately the discovery near Kimberley of a red diamond expected to yield six karats after cutting draws interest. Two other red stones were found near Pretoria a brownish red at 14 karats rough and a karat cut and a reddish amber at 1 carat rough and ½ karat cut. Red diamonds are rare with stones in Chicago Field Museum and Vienna museum and the Emperor Paul diamond among crown jewels.
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Kimberley
Pretoria
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
Vienna
Paul
Boy Beats Mule After Yelling Hud-up
A motor tourist saw a boy ride a mule, shout Hud-up, there, Jule, and then strike the mule with both fists before leaping down. Gap Johnson explains the boy Banty wanted the mule to know he meat business.
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Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Jule
Banty
Gap Johnson
Kansas City Star
Perils of Public Speaking Quips on Wisdom and Speech
A quotation highlights the risk of public speaking as nearly every speaker places his reputation for wisdom in jeopardy by delivering a speech, noting the wolves that may attack his ideas.
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American Magazine
Does Not Stay Conquered The Air Enquiry Theme
A reflective line about the challenge of reengaging with an ongoing pursuit. It notes that conquering remains incomplete as one must repeatedly seek progress with each ascent. The piece emphasizes persistence and renewed effort.
Keeping Turkeys Healthy For Best Farm Returns
Turkey health depends on free range and good housing. Indigestion and lice cause trouble. inbreeding harms stock. Young poults suffer from damp roosts, disease risk, and rapid feather growth draining vitality. Damp soil and exposure harm rearing conditions.
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Michael K. Boyer
Market Broilers Need Two Weeks Fattening
Market broilers should be fattened about two weeks before sale, especially if brood period issues affected growth. Confine them in a small house for two weeks, darken the space, remove roosts, provide clean litter, feed a wet mash with fatteners and milk three times daily, and keep water away to encourage mash intake while maintaining sanitary conditions.
Free Range With Grass and Shade Is Favored
As soon as the chicks are old enough to leave the brooder they should be placed on free range with grass and shade if possible. If diseases like white diarrhea or gape worms appeared last year, move coops to new range to avoid ground-based infection. Grass provides all green feed needed in summer.
Hens’ health cues from feel and flesh in winter
The passage explains how to assess a hen’s condition by touch rather than sight. It notes a broodiness affect, wasting after winter, and common diseases such as tuberculosis, plus parasites like worms, lice, and mites. Healthy hens should show good flesh.
Detective Work Reveals Lost Radium Tubes
Professor J B Edwards of Georgia Tech traced four thousand dollars worth of radium from Americus hospital to the city incinerator five miles away using detection devices. The tubes were recovered unscathed after being discarded with cotton waste.
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Craig Kennedy
J. B. Edwards
Georgia Tech
Americus
Professor Edwards
Men Who Write Brilliant Maxims Guide Themselves By None
A reflective aphorism notes that brilliant maxims seldom govern writers by their own rules, suggesting consistency between craft and conduct may be rare among skilled authors and thinkers.
Would-be jolly fellows cautioned against jokes
A brief remark notes that many aspiring cheerful men could be more likable if they refrain from telling jokes. The comment emphasizes restraint in humor as a social virtue.
Clergy in Rhodesia to receive increased annual pay
All Rhodesian clergymen will get higher annual allowances. Minimum pay rises to 1000 dollars for bachelors, with married men getting 500 dollars for wife maintenance and 150 dollars per child. The diocesan synod at Salisbury approved the changes amid a bishop’s warning remark.
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Rhodesia
Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia
Army Signal Corps Develops Dial Radio Phone for Flyers
The United States Army Signal Corps invents a dial radio phone to enable pilots to communicate with ground personnel, enhancing in-flight coordination and safety. This airborne comms device aims to streamline ground contact during missions and training.
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The
United States Army Signal Corps
The Souad Echoes the Sense in Pope’s Verse
An exploration of Pope’s line The souad must seem an echo to the sense examining how sound echoes meaning in his satirical poetics. The note discusses rhythm, diction, and the relationship between sound and argument.
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