What the American Red Cross Is Doing
The Red Cross organizes hospital units and nurses for service at home and abroad. It staffs canteens behind lines, channels gifts to the Navy, trains volunteers, fights trench fever, and supplies splints nitro oxide and medical equipment. It cares for 50 000 French and 60 000 Polish children and helps French Belgian relief, refugees, and soldiers with health, education, and comfort programs. It funds base hospital units, movable ice factories, and recreation huts, sending books magazines and newspapers to hospitals. It remains ready to aid prisoners of war with food and care and to build cantonment housing for convalescents. Immediate relief is emphasized in war emergencies.
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Utility sweaters with matching caps rise in fashion
The article notes updated sweater designs combining form and function with careful finishing, bright color ranges, and machine knit replicas of hand knit styles. It highlights new coordinated caps for utility wear, describes light colored sweater coats, and a blue flag slipover with striped collar and cuffs.
Room full of satin upholstery and assorted furnishings
An ultra smart living room features an extra long davenport with long cushions, two bolster end pillows and three back pillows in heavy brown satin. Small lamp tables flank the ends while three chairs include a black lacquer piece with embroidery and a walnut framed tapestry chair. Other items include a lacquered chest a window seat a framed portrait and voile curtains with fringed lambrequins.
Waxing Linoleum After Varnish Keeps Floor Bright
After varnishing linoleum to protect it, wax on top as with a hardwood floor. Wipe with clear water and a clean cloth about weekly, and every two weeks polish to brighten the surface and increase wear resistance.
Women to Award Pensions Appeal Urges Volunteers
A British pensions minister calls young women of education and high purpose to volunteer in awarding pensions to disabled soldiers from the French battlefields. The appeal emphasizes service and civic duty.
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France
Selecting Hens for Winter Egg Production and Molt Care
A guide for poultry flocks on July culling and selection to identify good layers for the remainder of the year and beyond. It covers age considerations by breed, culling practices, and evaluation criteria including laying history, current laying, and pelvic bone width to predict future egg production.
Cull Growing Pullets In Wartime Feed Scarcity
A guide on culling undersized or underdeveloped pullets early to save feed. It argues that keeping backward birds drains resources, especially in war time with scarce feed, and suggests culled birds be eaten to reduce losses and let good pullets receive all available nourishment.
Poultry Yard Tips for Profitable Breeding and Care
Uniform products bring top prices in the Poultry Yard. Removing males does not reduce egg numbers. Infertile eggs market better than fertile ones. Use lice powder freely and give plenty of exercise for higher yields. Best profits come in the first two years. dispose of below average breeders after year two. Mark fall-layer pullets for next spring breeding. Avoid crowding and ensure minerals. isolate diseased birds at once.
Why a Baseball Curves From Hidden Mountains
A science explanation claims the curve comes from surface irregularities on the ball magnified 10,000 times. Friction against these "mountains" in the air alters the ball’s path, enabling curving beyond gravity alone.
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Alps
Rockies
Immigration to Brazil Surges 1908 to 1910
Between 1908 and 1910 Brazil welcomed 926,282 immigrants. Major national groups included Portuguese 354,820 and Spaniards 190,767, with Germans 33,578 and Italians 153,950 among others, highlighting a diverse arrival pattern.
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Brazil
Freezone Corn Cure Promises Painless Corn Removal
An ad touts Freezone for quick corn removal with no pain. It claims a tiny bottle costs a few cents and works on all corn types without irritation, crediting a Cincinnati man as the discoverer while noting the product’s discreet credentials.
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Cincinnati
Cuticura Soothes and Heals Skin Irritation
A promotional note urges bathing with Cuticura Soap and hot water, drying gently, and applying Cuticura Ointment for soothing and healing irritated skin. Free samples offered by Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston, with Soap 25 and Ointment 25 and 50 cents by mail or druggists. The ad ends with a proverb about luck and disappointment.
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Boston
Hard Boiled Sergeant Satire in Army Banter
A Saturday inspection ends with a private belt mishap and blame shifting. First Sergeant orders replacement from the quartermaster, noting a charge for the lost belt. The scene features Corporal Samuels of Battery C, 126th Artillery, and closes with a wry proverb about timing and calendars.
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One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Artillery
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Right You Are. A light exchange on soil ownership rates
Mrs. Flatbush notes seven percent hold tillable soil while Mrs. Bensonhurst asks why. The reply says men carrying soil on their boots is much higher in this country.
Figures Wanted. Plain Heiress Seeks True Love
A witty want ad from a Boston Transcript column quotes a plain heiress seeking a man who would love her for herself. The exchange plays on money and romance with a tongue in cheek tone.
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Boston Transcript
A Daylight Scorner
A playful exchange between a firefly and an ant humorously assigns blame for work and light. The bee jokes about laziness while the ant laments waking early to glow and toil.
Hot Weather Diet Fix With Eatonic Tablets
In hot weather weak stomachs suffer from heavy foods and iced drinks causing pain, nausea, and indigestion. A plan of diet is urged and Eatonic Tablets are promoted to absorb acids and gases and restore appetite quickly. Thousands testify to relief and faster digestion when using Eatonic after meals.
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