Harvest War Crop of Apples Shortly
War effort prompts rapid apple harvest with two bushels per person. Citizens urged to join picking crews, organized by chambers of commerce and defense groups. Businesses, schools, and women's organizations are asked to recruit volunteers, store first class fruit, and plan labor supply across townships.
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United States
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
County Councils of Defense
Inbor
Dessert and candy ideas from the Kitchen Cabinet column
A collection of home recipes and tips for children’s desserts and treats. The piece covers fig and prune snacks, home made soda water, buttermilk pops, beef tea for invalids, Turkish cream candy, cherry pies and roly poly, cherry sponge and cake, cherry uses in salads, sambal Malay chutney, and a stray line "Nerre Mar weil" suggesting an incomplete entry.
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India
The Book of the Law Found and Its Reforming Echo
A sermon recounts the finding of the Book of the Law during temple repairs led by Hilkiah and read to King Josiah. It details the king's somber response, inquiry to the prophetess Huldah, covenant renewal, and sweeping reforms to restore Israel to the Lord, warning of modern neglect of Scripture.
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Hilkish
Hilkiah
Shaphan
Huldah the Prophetess
Sinai
Christ
Huldah
Josiah
Israel
Curious Neck Lump Becomes En cysted Story
A physician notes a lump on a man's neck described as the remains of an old bell that started to come and then encysted there. The patient quips about the lump staying, while a separate line references Edith-Josephine singing and social scenes involving Mr. Spooner.
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Edith
Josephine
Traveling salesman boosts school committee plans for Chicago teacher
In a sharp town exchange the traveling salesman brags of boosting a school committee to hire a pretty Chicago teacher. The storekeeper counters with business hooks as a crowd swarms his shop for hair oil collars and scented soup. The quarrel ends with lines on peace and justice.
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Chicago
Fortunes Made in Cotton in Imperial Valley
The Imperial valley in California has transformed from a desert to a cotton growing region after irrigation projects. A Texas homesteader introduced cotton in 1906, and the crop thrived, expanding to about 50,000 acres this year with growing prosperity for landowners and settlers alike.
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Imperial Valley
California
Texas
Missouri
The Pin Test Turns On an Umbrella Challenge
A Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt shows an admiring friend praising honesty yet Miss Cayenne questions TJ's integrity. The dialogue pivots on a test involving a pin and a potential umbrella as a trivial moral probe.
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Miss Cayenne
Philadelphia Inquirer
Willie Wants to Know Bookworm Joke
A lighthearted quip about a boy asking what a bookworm is and a father answering that a book lover is a man who loves books. The line turns to a pun about a man who loves fish becoming a fishworm. A note that some folks mind their own business accompanies the humor.
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Willie
Gloomy Outlook Captain Wilson By Jove Cassell’s Journal
A humorous quotation from Cassell’s Saturday Journal contrasts grim military scenes with witty remarks about patience before marriage. It plays on lines about being cut off and surrounded versus optimism. The piece nods to time and tide waiting and mocks pessimism.
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Wison
Wilson
Jove
Cassell
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Nerre
Mar Weil
International Sunday School
B. Fitzwater
D. D. Ane
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
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Fey Storage & Insur
Penn
Hennery
State
West
Western & Southern
Tate
Hennery Browns
Penn & Arby
Orange Co
Bskt
Jersey
St of Prge
Lima
Cal
N. C
N C
Del
Hale Bu
W. Va
Etberta & Belle of Ga
Carrier
Heiley
Bell
Car
Greensboro
Tars
Mad
Aeria
Nestern
Newark
Pennsylvania
J'y
Virginia
City
Rio
Formosa
Fletcher
Castoria
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
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Ottawa
Can
U. G. Rutledge
East Genesee Sr
Syracuse, N. Y
R. Schiffmann
R. Schiffmann Co
St. Paul, Minn
Chemlanals
Boards of Health Incores
Comfort Chemical Closet
Lexington Ive
New York
Shoe Arch, Inc
New York City
Watson
Coleman
Warrington, D.C
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