Vanity the Veiled Menace in a Busy Life
In this humorous sketch George V Hobart riffs on Vanity as a social disease. Hep Hardy overindulges in liquor and Peaches endures a string of odd slimming schemes from beauty books to rubber devices to an electric blanket, ending with a comic near-disaster and a wary vow to avoid further drastic fads.
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Himalaya Mountains
Hep Hardy
Peaches
Battle of Embowpoint
Dante
Winnipeg
How One Man Got His Start In Life
A wealthy retired hardware dealer recalls starting life with a writer’s dream. He saved stamp money for years after early rejections, bought an interest in a hardware store, and built success in hardware while attributing his rise to that original attempt at authorship.
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Writtus
Aoman
Methods in management of peach orchards
The Ohio and Missouri agricultural experiment stations report practices to reduce winter injury in peach trees. Techniques include slight soil mounding, cover crops, soil humus, mulch, pruning, shading, and late season vigorous growth aided by nitrogen fertilization. Nitrogen fertilization improves yields and disease resistance. excessive early dormancy is not universally required.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Lake Erie
Ohio
San Jose
Peneh
Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Missouri Experiment Station
Missouri
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Ia Farmers’ Bulletin
Investment in Poor Cows and Dairy Profit
The piece argues that dairy success hinges on balanced intensive methods and business principles. It notes large land and building expenses often go to crops and cattle that fail to yield nutrients or profit, urging smarter farm financing and a capable herd to achieve substantial returns.
Devils Own Title Tied to Lawyers of Napoleonic Era
The London Chronicle notes that the Ines of Court Officers Training corps adopted the Devils Own name after King George II labeled a smart band of volunteers as lawyers. The title linked with patriots from the Napoleonic period, echoing a humorous royal remark.
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Ines of Court Officers’ Training Corps
Devils Own
Inis
George II
Hte
London Chronicle
Best Silo Size Guidelines for Livestock Farms
The guide explains silo width and depth needs to match daily silage intake. It lists diameters by cow ranges from ten feet for ten to fifteen cows up to eighteen to twenty feet for seventy five or more cows. It cautions against diameters over twenty feet and a height between two and three times the diameter.
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Peaches
Paterson
N. J
Caruso
Victor Herbert
Bronx
Atlo
Plan for Dehorning Cattle by Stanchion and Rope Method
A reader provides a dehorning plan describing tying a cow's head in a stanchion, looping a rope under the neck, around the nose, and securing to a post. By weight on the rope, the head is held steady while horns are removed, then rope is removed by freeing the nose loop.
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Darrymang
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George V. Hobart
John Henry
Dall
Louisa Miffendale
Dows
Carruthers
Aise
Tae
Dreamland
Mike
Solomon
Savings Bank
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