Friendship groves spread happiness and community value
A farmer near the city plants a tree for a friend to honor them before death. His wife joins the idea, inviting friends for an afternoon or evening to plant and celebrate. The piece notes friendship groves as a simple, uplifting way to recognize friends and encourage tree planting in neighborhoods, even on small lots, with peony flowers offered as another tribute.
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America
Friendship Groves
Chicago
Post
City Parks Shape Growth as Natural Beauty Guides Urban Plans
The piece notes Minneapolis and Kansas City transforming ravines into parkways, Penn Valley Park becoming a scenic asset, Chicago expanding lakefront to create a grand lake shore park, and St Louis preserving Forest Park with river views, arguing cities must study topography to protect natural beauty.
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Minneapolis
Kansas City
Penn Valley Park
America
Chicago
Louis
Mississippi
Framing Gardens With Flowers and Birds for Charm
Thrift Magazine advises adding borders along walks and unused spaces with China asters pinks daisies forget me nots sweet alyssum candy tuft verbenas and adding taller borders with sweet william oriental poppies hollyhocks. Include a birdhouse or shrubs to complete the home picture with birds and flowers.
Small Town Holding Its Own
C S Barrett notes a western university employment program for alumni. He says educated men from small towns return home after schooling to work locally, reversing prior migration to cities. The shift toward home town employment reflects a broader national trend, with a cautious move back to the farm.
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Western University
C. S. Barrett
New York
City Beautiful Plan in Indianapolis Faces Challenge
The Garvien Flower society proposes making Indianapolis a city beautiful with flowers. It calls on all property owners to join by beautifying their own premises, a movement demanding only individual effort and gradual fulfillment.
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Indianapolis
Cty
Garvien Flower Society
Scouts Fight Mountain Fire On Bear Canyon Test Hike
Scouts Adrian Winkle and Gordon Porter of Los Angeles discovered a 1000 foot timber dry mountainside blaze near a cabin and fence banked with dead brush. They dragged away brush and made a firebreak, working two hours to halt the fire.
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Adrian Winkle
Gordon Porter
Los Angeles
Bear Canyon
Queer Cattle Market Terminology and Hog Beef Terms
Market terminology covers cattle sheep and hogs with terms like reef cattle butcher cattle prime finished beeves and ripe finish. hog terms include prime heavy medium heavy butcher hogs shipping hogs lichts light lights pigs roasters and roughs. The piece explains weight quality and purposes guiding buyers and sellers.
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England
Ministers Men of Medicine in Seventeenth Century Pharmacy
Seventeenth century medicine used fearful concoctions including human skulls bones and fat. Pharmacists trained five to six years as apprentices then journeymen with supplementary exams. American pharmacy blended English practice with Native and colonial methods, with clergymen and others practicing for livelihood despite witchcraft era suspicions.
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Charles II
America
Massachusetts
Old Man Pondering College Costs and Witty Son
Eben complains he spent nine hundred dollars on his son's education yet the boy appears less knowledgeable after college. The father recalls asking if it might rain and the son responded by begging his pardon, a line reflecting mutual puzzlement between generations.
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Hon . Toothaker
Eben
Kris Kringle as Santa's Father Story Told to Child
On Christmas day Kris and Santa ride with Mary Jane in the back seat. She asks who brought Santa his gifts when he was a boy. Paddy offers a plausible answer that Kris Kringle, said to be Santa Claus' father, did so. He hopes no one reveals Kris Kringle is another name for Santa Claus.
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Mary Jane
Daddy
Santa Claus
Paddy
Kris Kringle
San Chius
Santa
Peres
What Did He Get Then Benny Says Got Any More
A Montogmery county family guest Benny is asked what to say after receiving a second piece of cake. He hesitates and asks for more cake, prompting his mother to correct him with the etiquette prompt. The exchange is noted in the Indianapolis News.
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Benny
Montgomery County
Indianapolis News
Endangers For Animals Says Skins Needed For Coats
Dr William T Horn aday notes mink wrap requires 50 skins and a squirrel coat needs 200, a black male coat 280, with higher demands driving many animals toward extinction. He warns trappers go farther afield and unmarketable skins are used to fill gaps as slaughter continues.
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William T. Hornaday
Scientific American
Old Millionaire Bets On Daughter’s Suitors
A terse scene from the Boston Transcript shows a wealthy man scolding a young man who mistakes himself as a suitor. He recalls the youth’s past advances, declares him a current fiancé candidate, and orders him to leave.
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Boston Transcript
Simple Plea For One Thing From A Child
A four year old asks for one thing from her mother in a gentle exchange. The mother promises to grant one wish but warns not to ask for more. The child presses, wanting a toy store as the single request.
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Ilrse
Mother
Ali 'Wight
An Advantage Sometimes at New Year's Party
A brief exchange about a color blind guest at a New Year party, noting his inability to distinguish holly berries from mistletoe. The comment prompts amused agreement as the two ladies discuss the humorous situation.
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Rhone
Browning, Mo
Herbert
Batley
Lantz and
Turner
Mr. Belt
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Edna Laing
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