Western Canada’s Cereal Crop Prospects in 1617 Advertised
The article highlights Western Canada’s record cereal crop value in 1617 and strong livestock returns. It notes wool prices doubling since 1016, widespread land ownership through crop proceeds, rising automobile ownership, and higher bank clearings in Western cities. It urges early spring settlement to boost food production for the Allied war effort and advertises the opportunity as a national good.
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Western
Canada
Western Canada
Winnipeg
United States
West
Names Through Time In St Louis Society
The article notes how baby names like Mimi Virginia and others spread from old French families after Bernardine de Saint Pierre’s 1797 novel Paul and Virginia. It traces rapid cultural mixing in St Louis, stating few of Madeaine Chouteau’s 1000 descendants retain French names today and highlighting the city’s evolving genealogies.
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Mimi
Virginia
Old Dominion
Paul
Bernardine de Saint Pierre
St. Louis
Missouri
Walter B. Stevens
His Vacation Tale Reveals Bar Temptations
A temperance lecturer recalls a Boston steamer trip where a husband vanishes into a bar’s dark interior. Hours later his wife pleads for him to enjoy the scenery as he, after drinking his ninth beer, refuses to ruin his vacation.
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Boston
Urey
George
Pathfinder
A Yearn for Beauty and Public Benefaction
A fragment reflects on choosing a band framing an aesthetic indulgence and men neglecting families to pose as public benefactors, revealing social duplicity and vanity in pursuit of image.
Bird in the Hand Proverb Mock at City Post Office
At the Wastington City post office before Christmas a satire shows a thousand dollars in candy and a dime altering the proverb A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush The candy bought by Bill Sherwood for the City Post Office club would be shared among members He handed the messenger a thousand dollars in candy and the messenger demurred preferring ten cents a camlog as the roll was weighed and counted
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Asiington
Bill Sherwood
Chines
Sherwood
Chance
City Post Office
City Post Office Club
Sam
Worth Waiting For Worm and an Eagle In a Train Station Scene
A distorted meditation on a waiting woman at Union Station who resembles a Corday figure, her face set in ash-gray, as a large, sunburned man named Son lifts her in a joyful kiss. The prose toys with metaphors, ending by noting worms in natural history can lack reason to turn.
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Coulid
Unio Station
Charlotte Corday
puzzling views on selective service questionnaires and exemptions
A verbose account from a wartime exemption board depicts the vast effort by lawyers and registrants to navigate new selective service rules. It highlights claims of exemption on industrial grounds, self described experts in polishing work, and even a comical misreporting of income that included the pied vausser of two pigeons.
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Legal Advisory Board
Exemption Board
Army
Fle
Stay-at-Home Day Proposal to Ease Streetcar Jamming
A philosopher suggests women should stay home one day weekly to reduce overcrowded streetcars. He argues most cars are packed during 4 to 6 pm with workers’ rides and that a stay-at-home day could ease the problem. The idea prompts a reply to ask women their views.
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Washington
Ife
Plan Outlined for Marketing Produce in One Neighborhood
The Progressive Farmer reports a plan where a single market agent handles produce for a group. Collecting stations at farmers' homes send vegetables eggs butter and poultry to the market on designated days. The agent, earning a 15 percent commission, builds a steady customer base and secures favorable prices.
Movable hay shed roof system described for stacks
A reader describes a movable hay shed roof able to raise and lower. Two 16 foot sheds with posts set four feet deep and 18 feet above ground. Posts bored with 1 inch holes to hold the roof via iron pins and moved with a tackle turning around corners for full height.
Factors for fertile soil and soil management
A fertile soil must be sweet not acid and rich in organic matter and humus. It needs suitable texture tilth and an aerated structure with adequate soil moisture through tillage irrigation and drainage. All factors must align in a systematic plan of soil management to keep land fertile and yield large crops.
Take Good Care Of Manure Increases Crop Yield
Manure boosts crop yield as rainfall declines the more manure is applied the better returns when prices rise. It adds plant food and organic matter to soil, allowing plants to use less moisture when soil is rich in available nutrients from manure decay.
Protecting Peas in Store With Lime and Carbon Bisulphide
The article explains a method to keep seed peas free of weevil damage by storing them in air slaked lime at one part lime to two parts peas by weight. It notes liquid carbon disulphide can be used to dip the seed for a few minutes, but the effectiveness depends on the moisture percentage of the seed at dipping.
Disk Harrow Asks Better Role In Cultivation
The disk harrow is described as a superior all around cultivating tool that cuts up soil like knives rather than digging. By angling disk bars to cut sideways it performs light soil turning for broadcast grain, excels in rough land, and rivals peg and spring harrows in versatility.
High Value of Good Roads in Hawaii Awakens
The Hawaiian awakening to road value plans $1,000,000 for Oahu projects in two years with extensive use of concrete. American engineers influenced Honolulu street design, which totals 234 miles in the city and 474 countywide. The city relies on a territorial agreement to receive 300,000 annually for construction and 360,000 for maintenance, a model Texas could heed to avoid neglecting upkeep.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Oahu
Estimate Value of Pasture Land by Season
The land can yield up to $10 per acre in a season on very good pasture, though average figures are lower. It is shown possible to produce dairy and beef value of $5 to $5.50 per acre in about 80 days, but these figures are uncertain. A rental value of really good pasture is about $50 per season with limits on season length or cattle numbers.
Jewish blood in royal lines through Hapsburg intermarriage
The article speculates that Albert II, founder of the Hapsburg line, married a pope relative with Jewish ancestry. It traces lineage from Albrecht II to Rudolph VI and Albrecht IV, suggesting Jewish blood entered European dynasties via intermarriage with the Hapsburgs and Lorrainers across generations.
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Tegend
Gount
Albrecht
Albert) II
House of Hapsburg
Rome
Hapsburgs
Asd
Albrecht II
Rudolph VI
Tapshburg
Albrecht IV
Rudolph
Hapsburg-Lorminers
Hold On To Your Ideals, Rossetti’s Judgment, and Memory
A narrator recalls a painter who advised a gifted youth to hold on to talent. Rossetti judges later works as promising, while the older man admits failure to sustain promise. The tale stresses the value of perseverance and the cost of giving up. A light quip closes with a cigarette sketch involving Pershing.
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Dickens
Rossetti
Trossetti
Nnn
Rosseutti
Moan
Oiling Of Much Importance In Machinery Damage Warning
Specialists warn that lack of oil or grease on bearings can cause more harm in half an hour than a season of weather exposure. They urge strict lubrication to prevent costly damage and downtime.
Calf Needs Good Stabling and Care
The fall calf demands food, sturdy feeding, ample water and milk. It requires prompt attention and a feeder in sympathy with the charge, ready to supply variety whenever available.
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Anlimat
Fertilizer Value of Livestock Manures Highlighted
The report states hog sheep and hen manures top the list for fertilizer value due to concentrated feed. Stall fed cattle are noted as producing the richest fertilizer material based on feeding. context emphasizes manure quality over direct fertilizing usefulness.
Selecting Eggs for Shipping
Selecting eggs for shipping by mall, avoid thin shelled or irregular shaped eggs. Each egg should be wrapped in enough paper to fit snugly in its own compartment in the container.
Proving It Jubbe in a Man of Nent Promise
A fragmentary dialogue reveals tension over alleged borrowing. The line hints at trust issues as another character accuses Jubbe of debt, suggesting strained relations and a potential motive or burden within a local scene.
Fortune's Foundation Hen Tale
A lighthearted quip about building wealth, claiming the speaker did not lay the fortune’s foundation. He contrasts wealth with poultry work, joking that a hen told him. The line plays on misunderstanding between financial fortune and farm life.
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