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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1921
Page
7
An article extols honey as an ideal human food on par with milk, detailing its production from comb to extracted honey, its superior digestibility, and high mineral content. It urges educating breeders and children, citing Dr. Bruce Belden and Prof. Bunge, and contrasts honey with refined sugar and corn syrups.
A public appeal by devoted women to the Washington disarmament conference urges international action to stamp out opium and cocaine trafficking. The call emphasizes protecting homes and children, citing two million American addicts, and seeks global cooperation for strict regulation and penalties.
A fashion shift leaves Bond Street and Regent Street dark as bright silk stockings vanish. The move to black is linked to wartime stocks and a Paris-driven mourning craze, reshaping daytime dress across the city.
The USDA in Washington state hosts an exhibit titled Lady Killers featuring historic cleaning tools such as wash tub washboard broom dustpan sad iron coal stove and soapstone heater beside modern conveniences like electric switches powering washing ironing cooking and cleaning.
A department store salesman explains how men choose suits. He notes married men test fabric and wear, while bachelors tug at buttons to ensure they stay fastened. The anecdote highlights cautious buying and concern over button security.
A simple cranberry drink recipe combines one quart cranberries three cups water two lemons juiced and two and one half cups sugar. Cook until soft press through a sieve dissolve sugar add lemon juice and chill on ice for three to four hours. Serve in glasses with maraschino cherries or candied fruit.
W C Chamberlin, a clerk at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco, announces a new device called Bobs. Made of celluloid, it attaches to the hair at bedtime so women with bobbed hair may wake with curls. He plans to patent the device and bring it to the public soon.
Leonard Hegnauer reports 65 of 68 fertilizer demonstrations show 5 to 100 percent yields gains from superphosphate across 12 counties. Trials on sandy loam to gravel uplands used plots with barnyard manure plus superphosphate, manure alone, and superphosphate alone. When combined with manure, results were consistently strong, highlighting manure's role in boosting phosphate value.
The USDA recommends on 160 acre arable farms using 80 ewes, 22 breeding cows, and 12 brood sows. Best class arable land can support 5 to 8 ewes per acre when devoted to sheep, while versatile pastures equate five ewes to one cow or steer.
Torrential rains across western Washington produced rail accidents and mud slides, killing at least 10 people and causing heavy property damage. By Monday the region west of the Cascades saw a quieting of conditions, though fear rose that mountain heat and melt could raise river flooding again.
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