Portraits and Patches from a New York Column
A columnist riffs on wartime events and public figures. The piece touches on the German American Bund crackdown, trolley conductors helping a blind man, the song Intermezzo, rationing and the 1941 Year Book, Jersey fires, insurance and sabotage, and media missteps. The narrator closes with a self deprecating remark about being a journalist.
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N. J
Bund
N. Y
Propaganda flash from Japan views California invasion claim
A fragment notes Japanese propagandists in the U S claim China invaded California in 500 A D. The writer reflects on outsiders visiting the city’s bright lights and his own long residence and morale from watching observers.
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U. S
California
Washington Boom Town Why Nightclubs Won’t Survive
Washington remains an early town despite crowd growth. Saturday bars must close by midnight, and elite parties drain the nightlife crowd, undermining plans for late openings. Officials and society keep early hours, leaving little room for late show business.
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Washington, D. C
Washington
Notes of an Innocent Bystander Broadway Alien
The excerpt discusses the Dionne quintuplets at age seven and contrasts a child's curiosity and affection with a man's finances. It portrays a commentary on gendered behavior, sentiment, and the social dynamic of storytelling and gratitude within a family context.
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Broadway
Orchids
N. Y. Times
Manhattan Murals and Village Signs Spark City Snapshot
A city vignette lists subway singers turning from torch tunes to patriotic songs, a Greenwich Village drugstore sign quipping on gray matter, a Village gin-mill touting poor coffee, an 8th Avenue barber shop promising refunds for unsatisfied haircuts, and a 42nd Street hawker selling flashy glamour ties.
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Manhattan
Subway
Greenwich Village
8Th Avenue
42Nd Street
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Kathleen Norris recounts Emily Baker facing a 25 year marriage crisis as her husband seeks divorce for a younger woman. Emily details long devotion, household toil, and a sense of loss while fearing Reno separation and losing family support to a rival. Alicia urges practicality as the crisis unfolds.
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Emily Baker
Massachusetts
Emily
Tom
Alicia
Don
Reno
Betty
Lost Affection and a Way Through a Breakup Marriage
A reader asks how to handle a husband who loves another woman. The adviser urges the wife to endure with dignity, pursue self improvement, maintain normal routines, visit family, and wait for the affair to fade, predicting years of health and activity in her fifties and eventual reconciliation.
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Tom
Alicia
Fertile Soils and Livestock Nutrition Principles
Article explains how soil fertility affects crop yield and feeding value, emphasizing nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. It notes nitrogen boosts protein, legumes fix nitrogen, liming aids inoculation, and phosphorus deficiency causes bone issues and bone disease symptoms in animals.
Livestock Learn to Use Brush-Off Fly Traps
Animals pass through a 7 by 6 by 10 foot cage with a fly tight roof and canvas flaps that brush horn flies from livestock. Set near pasture lanes or barn entrances, the device traps flies for destruction. plans and illustrations are available from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in Washington, D. C.
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Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Washington, D. C
Color in eggs from certain plants and feeds
Poultry experts warn that feeding more than five percent cottonseed meal may cause mottled yolks after months of storage and pink-tinged whites. Cheese weed, shepherds purse, and field pennycress can similarly color egg whites and yolks. Strong flavors from turnips onions garlic or leeks produce undesirable egg flavors. keep hens away from these plants and limit cottonseed meal.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Shepherds Purse
Poultry Housing Dirt Floors Warned By NC Expert
Roy S. Dearstyne of North Carolina State College poultry department warns dirt floors in poultry houses threaten welfare. If used, floors should be scraped monthly, removing 4 to 6 inches and replacing with clean sand or soil from unpolluted sources, then disposed far from chicken runs.
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Roy S. Dearstyne
North Carolina State College Poultry Department
Effect of Extremes on intellect and passions in motion
The passage notes how extreme vivacity of intellect and intense passions may outpace moral or social development. It implies a tension between mental vigor and ethical growth, suggesting personality extremes can outstrip steady social maturation.
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