Sweet alyssum as timeless garden favorite and varieties
The article extols sweet alyssum for edging borders with fragrance and long bloom, noting white, lilac, and violet varieties. It traces ancient admiration from Crete to Rome, highlights violet queen for deep blue accents, and gives cultivation tips including direct sowing, spacing, and hard frost tolerance.
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Ardens
Mediterranean
Crete
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Adarg
Curly Headed Zinnia Rich in Garden Glamour
An overview of zinnias as a native American flowering plant suited to hot dry summers. It notes rapid germination, six week bloom, wide color and form variety, and the decorative Fantasy type with curled petals. It also explains starting methods indoors or direct sowing.
Grow Your Own Salad Greens All Summer
Home gardeners are urged to cultivate tasty salads from lettuce varieties such as romaine and loose heading types, with tips on sowing, thinning, and timing for spring, summer, and fall harvests. The article covers endive, corn salad, watercress, chervil, and chives, noting flavor, frost tolerance, and multiple sowings for continuous harvest.
Vicksburg High Students Seek Polar Bears Team Name
Vicksburg Michigan students moved to rename the baseball team from Bulldogs to Polar Bears. They say the new name reflects outdoor practice and cold conditions, with enthusiasm for a distinctive identity.
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Vicksburg, Mich
Vicksburgh High School
Bulldogs
Stamp-vending machine removed over nickel dispute
Memphis Tenn. U. P. report says Post master A. L. Moreland took out of circulation a temperamental stamp vending machine that accepted a penny but ignored a nickel, dispensing an airmail stamp and a shower of ones.
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Memphis Tenn
U. P
A. L. Moreland
Cape Cod Style Small Home Plan with Brick Exterior
A designer outlines a compact Cape Cod influenced brick home featuring white trim, shuttered windows, a sunlit living room with a large fireplace, an unfinished second floor, a compact kitchen, two bedrooms with wardrobe closets, a full basement, and terraces. Blueprint sets cost five dollars, additional sets three fifty, or a portfolio of designs for fifty cents.
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Waldorf
Lamo Wl
T Neal
Cape Cod
Royal News Syndicate
Atkinson Avenue
Detroit
Michigan
Poultry Disease School Highlights Blue Comb Control
Dr. George Faddoul, poultry pathologist from the University of New Hampshire, spoke at the Middlesex County Extension event. He urged vaccination only on healthy birds in good weather, noted Blue Comb causes dehydration, and recommended a molasses wash and measured feeding to boost water intake. Diarrhea suggests a mild intestinal astringent in water, but stop if birds refuse the treated water.
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Middlesex County Extension Poultry Disease School
Reading Resently
Eastern Middlesex Poultry Association
George Faddoul
University of New Hampshire
Faddoul
Marlboro
Oldest North Dakota rural school destroyed by fire
The Little Red Schoolhouse, a one room brick building built in 1877 near Fargo, North Dakota, and long regarded as the oldest rural school in the state, was destroyed by fire.
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Fargo
N.D
U.P
North Dakota
Dakota Territory
Nessa Wins Relief in Massachusetts Workmen Rates
Maxwell Field says opposition by the New England Shoe and Leather Association led to new workers compensation rates in Massachusetts. Effective February 6 1950 the shoe code 2660 rate is 95 cents per hundred payroll up from 79 cents while tanning code 2623 is 1.98 per hundred payroll down from 2.16. The change saves thousands annually for shoe and leather firms and future years.
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New England Shoe and Leather Association
Massachusetts
Maxwell Field
Vce
Commissioner of Insurance
Field
Mr. Field
VA Expenditures for Fiscal Year 1949 by Massachusetts
The Veterans Administration reports total expenditures of 230,504,545 for direct and indirect benefits to veterans, their dependents or beneficiaries in FY 1949 ending June 30. New England states spent 413,829,544, with Massachusetts' largest item at 76,106,508 going to 125,894 veterans or dependents.
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Veterans Administration
Massachusetts
New England
Massachusetts GI Bill Expenditures Highlight Training Support
The report notes compensation or pension payments to deceased veterans, subsistence allowances to Massachusetts veterans in training under the GI Bill totaling $49,569,551 for 64,915 trainees, and $9,596,555 in subsistence for 9,137 disabled veterans under Public Law 16 Vocational Rehabilitation.
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Massachusetts
Fort Worth Kindergarten Piggy Bank Stolen
In Fort Worth Texas a thief took a piggy bank filled with pennies saved by kindergarten children all year for a picnic. The incident highlights local crime targeting a child community project.
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Fort Worth
Tex
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University of N. H
U. S
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Cosco
Nessa
Doan
Hudson
McKellar Motors
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West
Concord
Frank Maurer
Fairhaven RD
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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River Street
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Thrift
Walden Street
Concord Radio Electric Company
Commonwealth Ave
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Berlin
South St
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U.S. Savings Bonds
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Andrew H. Truby
Woodland
Ill
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Mich
Teieal
Warantes
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Allan A. Kil
Les and
A. C. Ester
N.Y
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Erie
Siler
Colum
Wan-A
Harrow
Main Street
OLD Elia Recondition
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Waltham
John H. Suilder
MAYN
Concord Si
Babson
Babson’s
Wellesley Hills
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