Feeble-Minded Problem Revealed in National Survey Data
A Russell Sage Foundation survey reports 15 percent of Americans are intellectually subnormal or retarded and that more than half of US hospital beds are for the mentally ill or feeble minded. It notes 1.4 million feeble minded people, state institutions, subnormal children in 266 cities, and rising birth control information centers led by Mrs. Margaret Sanger.
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New York
United States
America
Russell Sage Foundation
California
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Oper
Park Movement Grows Across Recreation and Growth
The report details 256000 children without aid in 1980, and notes over 800 day nurseries nationwide charging five to twenty five cents daily. It cites 4173 child health centers and a vast expansion of parks and forests, including 11686 city parks worth over 2 billion, 43 state parks over 7 million acres, 10 million acres of national parks, and 150 million acres of national forests.
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United States
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Long Bus Tour to Anchor College Summer Course
Atlanta Ga Oglethorpe University will run a 10000 mile bus tour through the United States Canada and Mexico as a summer course. Dr Wallace M Cunningham dean of the School of Banking and Commerce announced. The program fuses recreation education and travel, departing June 30 for the Chicago World Fair then to San Francisco Canada the Pacific coast to Mexico and back by August 30.
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Atlanta
Oglethorpe University
United States
Canada
Mexico
Wallace M Cunningham
School of Banking and Commerce
Chicago
Peace and Moral Norms as Path to Recovery
The author argues that the current economic low mood reveals peace as a moral issue. War is wrong and must be abolished, with a universal peace pact based on fixed moral ideals. Interdependence, economy, and avoidance of wasteful armaments are key to worldwide recovery and stability. The piece stresses shared suffering and the need for collective responsibility. 1024 Western Newspaper Union.
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United States
Western Newspaper Union
Latest in Sports Coats and Bate Hats Fashion
The Schiaparelli boxy sports coat features a rectangular stitched pattern with hands meeting to form shoulder peaks. The fabric appears string-colored like monkey cloth, paired with a jaunty felt hat, marking a current sports style.
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Schiaparelli
Philippine Manufactures Rise in Sugar and Textile Sectors
Philippine Islands export growth highlighted by sugar and reel mills alongside candy embroidery pearl buttons and broad textile crafts including Aber textiles cottons tailoring lawn mats and related products across multiple factories.
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Philippina
Philippine Islands
Lighting Fashion for Thrift and Decorative Glass
In a Bell Syndicate feature, the piece outlines thrifty lighting methods using crystal fixtures, glass bottles, and candle light to increase illumination with low wattage. It compares ancient bottle refractors to modern crystal pendants, suggests lamps beside libraries, and notes Saunders reflectors and wall sconces as cost-saving decor.
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Bell Syndicate
WU Gaeyice
Hens Laying Aid For Summer Feeding Advices
L M Hurd of the New York State College of Agriculture explains wet mash and dry mash methods to keep a poultry flock laying in late summer. Tips include using skimmilk or semisolid buttermilk, feeding in 20 minutes, and a oats and water part mash when no mix is available. Add two pounds tobacco dust per hundred pounds of mash to help control worms and coccidiosis as long as it contains 10 percent nicotine sulfate.
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L. M. Hurd
New York State College of Agriculture
Burd
Hen Progeny Testing Best Predictor of Laying Ability
A three year USDA experiment shows that a hen’s daughters better indicate her breeding value for egg production than her own laying record. Testing of 798 White Leghorn hens from 19 sires and 195 dams found little link between a sire’s dam and progeny performance, with full-sister outcomes often varying, making progeny testing the most reliable guide for future layers.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Morley A. Jull
Beltsville
Lice on Poultry Cause Nervousness and Discomfort
An Indiana farmer correspondent reports that poultry lice eat dried skin and feather bits rather than blood, though they may feed from tiny wounds. Birds are continuously crawling with lice day and night, causing nervousness and added distress to the flock.
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Indiana
Connecticut House Bills Eggs Classifications
A general assembly bill in Connecticut requires eggs to be labeled as fresh egg cold storage eggs preserved eggs or incubated eggs. If an egg does not fit these definitions but remains wholesome and edible it may be labeled age.
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Connecticut
House of the
General Assembly
Poultry industry notes and early exhibits recap
Ohio ranks fourth in poultry production with 24,954,000 chickens and egg output rising about 20 percent per year. Seneca County records 1,800,000 eggs marketed last year. Rhode Island’s Pecky at Pomeroy produced an egg of 844 inches in circumference. The first poultry exhibit at a U S fair occurred in Pawtucket in 1896. Tyrrell County farmer builds a brick brooder for baby chicks at a total cost of 60 cents for stove piping and 20 cents for a hood, claiming it works.
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Poultry Gleaniing
Ohio
Seneca County
Ee Pecky
Rhode Island
Ernest Bahr
Pomeroy
United States
America
Slagan
Pawtucket
Tyrrell County
N. C
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Purvis
Harry L. Hopkins
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Roosevelt
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Ford
Leonard A Barrett
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