Knitted Capes and Suits Add Beauty and Class
Knitted capes and suits enter the season with style and practicality. Designs feature angora collars, accordion plaiting, and contrasting color borders. Outdooring wear includes detachable scarves and practical pockets, with silk versions rising in popularity for summer wardrobes.
Summer Blouse Styles in Color and Lace Delights
Summer fashion notes highlight white blouses with high backs, pale lace accents, and colorful washable cotton options in delft blue, lavender, and pink. Georgette remains dominant with variations from tie-on to long peplums, while white voles with drawn work and embroidery endure as enduring, easy-care pieces.
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Feeding Best Choices for Baby Chicks by USDA
A USDA prepared guidance urges delaying feed for 24 to 86 hours after hatching, then feeding four to five times daily for the first week or ten days with dry crumbly mixtures. It recommends johnnycake or hard boiled eggs with crumbs, then a growing mash of bran middlings corn meal and meat scrap, and offers substitutions if corn or infertile eggs are unavailable.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Feeding Chickens for Rapid Growth and Health
Practical guidance for raising chicks with hopper access to mash and grains. Recommends transition to larger grains as chicks mature, plus constant supplies of grit oyster shell and charcoal. Advises green feed or grass range for confinement care and inclusion of sour milk to boost growth, with meat scrap adjustments. Includes market context.
Poultry Notes on Hen Health and Housing
Practical poultry guidance advises that 200-egg pullets rarely come from 300-eye hens and emphasizes consistent timing, ample gravel, grit, and a dry dust bath. Roosts should be level and low, not exceeding two or three feet above the floor, avoiding tall perches.
Average life of motor cars and replacement demand
Analysis from Scientific American notes the average use of two million cars retired from service over seven years was about 5.3 years. As highway transport broadens, first purchaser share declines and annual new car demand stays close to retirements, guiding the trade on replacement needs.
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Scientific American
Castoria’s Signature Prompts Child Health Review
A Washington Star note urges careful inspection of Castoria bottles for the authentic signature as a trusted remedy for infants and children. The item also mentions a Spanish painter Senora Pilar Sereda defending bull fights and an American visitor’s Madrid remark about the spectacle.
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Ingenious Illusion Windows Up This Chicago Room
A Chicago Journal item describes a man’s clever interior design that creates the look of windows in a windowless room. An improvised window frame with glass, a blue sky effect, curtains, inner shutters, a potted plant, and indirect electric lighting mimic air access and brighten the space.
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Chicago Journal
Won't Take Any Chance Woman Ends Long Courtship
Grace confronts eight years with a cautious fiancé as spring walk leads to a test of courage. He quips about a Jersey ball in violets, she rejects the red sweater, and she warns him he cannot save her from spinsterhood or an approaching bull, revealing his lack of boldness.
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Grace
Indianapolis News
Surgical Chronology and the 1917 Appendixes Joke
A Birmingham Age Herald quip frames a surgical chronology with two doctors discussing operations. A memory of 1917 sparks a joke about appendixes, ending with aphorisms about honesty, time, and money.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
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