District kids lead drive to save newspapers in DC campaign
Washington schoolchildren gather old papers to save on print costs and fund playgrounds. Teachers promote paper conservation, bids for old papers rise from 40 to 60 cents per hundredweight, with potential yearly revenue around 25 000 dollars. Parents mostly buy the daily paper, and weekly pickups could total about 28 long tons, funding playgrounds and social activities.
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Washington
Diatrict of
Columbia
Board of Education
Stork Busy at National Zoo as Newborns Arrive
The National Zoological Park reports a flurry of births including a 12 pound baby named Mama born to Nama and her mate. Sept 27 saw first guanaco at the zoo, a baby elk and five coypu also born. Camel and yak infants, plus a monkey baby, accompany a season of lively arrivals as mothers care for their young.
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Stork
National Zoological Park
Hama
Nama
Washington
Philadelphia
South America
Zoo
Argentina
Patagonia
Camel
Government Scrapbook Worth 16000 Dollars in Treasury Vault
The most valuable scrapbook in Washington is valued at 16000 dollars and kept in the Treasury vault. Maj Alfred Rt Quaiffe, 80, vault clerk for over 20 years, oversees a collection of Uncle Sam’s paper money notes from Civil War to present. He notes the vault also holds vast gold and silver reserves ready to redeem the U S paper currency.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Maj
Alfred Rt. Quaiffe
Treasury Department
Pictura
U's
United States
Major Qualife
The
Treasury
Tolks
Pure Food Experts Probe Clam Health Risks
Pure food investigators from the agriculture department study the clam’s contamination risk, led by Dr. Carl L. Alshberg. The inquiry aims to uncover the clam’s habits and pollution pathway, comparing it with oysters which are treated as relatively free of disease due to interstate shipping rules. The investigation also considers cleansing methods and the seasonally pressured clam supply from nearshore waters.
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Department of Agriculture
Carl L. Alshberg
Bureau of Chemistry
Small Tractor Gains Favor Among Farmers
A study of 200 tractor users for the U S department of agriculture shows three fourths find the Marm tractor profitable if land is cultivated to use it. About one third increased acreage by averages of 120 acres. two, three, four, and five plow tractors suit different farm sizes from 270 to 420 acres. A trend toward smaller plow machines is noted as large eight to ten plow models see little use.
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United Stated Department of Aericulture
Illinois
Minnesota
J. J. Mowry
Division of Agricultural Engineering
University Farm
St. Paul
Problem of Winter Vegetable Storage
Agricultural notes advise storing vegetables in a root cellar with ventilation, above freezing temperatures, and moist dark conditions. Use moist sand for cemented floors, keep soil slightly moist, and cover roots with loose earth. Temperature 10 to 80 degrees advised. use furnace or stove to raise heat if needed. Picking guidance: harvest 12 to 14 inches high, avoid jerking stalks, pull from the inside with care, and thin when many stalks sprout.
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B. F. M'Kunt
Colorado Agricultures College
Fort Collins
Rhubarb Forcing In Cellar In Winter
Instructional notice from W. AH. W. Doyle of the Department of Agriculture, Kansas, on forcing rhubarb in a dark winter cellar. Describes light exclusion, partitions, little ventilation, space needs, root selection, and steps to plant and store roots for an abundant harvest, noting freezing helps flavor and color.
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W. AH. W. Doyle
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Widwinter
Grit Supply Essential for Healthy Hens and Food Savings
The article stresses that grit is vital for fowl digestion and overall health. Regular grit prevents grain wastage and improves feed efficiency, especially when range grit is insufficient. It suggests buying commercial grit or homemade alternatives like broken pottery or nutshell shells, emphasizing irregular shapes with sharp edges.
Health for sick Women Health for sick Women
Letters from women in North Crandon Wisconsin Lawton Oklahoma and Roxbury Massachusetts praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from displacement ulcers backache irregularity and fatigue A grateful user in Roxbury recounts improved health after treatment and urges others to seek advice from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts
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North Crandon
Wis
Twina
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Mayum Asnaca
Lawton
Okla
Lydia Hy
Mrg. A. L
Massachusetts
Roxbury
Mass
Lydia
Mrs. B. M. Oscoon
Haynes Park
Mass,t
Tydinik
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
Bad Feed Is Cause Of Hog Dysentery
Dysentery in pigs is linked to bad feed and dirty quarters. Mothers’ wet filthy spaces spread illness. provide clean whole food in sunny, sanitary surroundings and regular intervals until pigs regain feeding.
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G. W. Garner
Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station
Y M C A Expands Worldwide War Aid Efforts
The Y M C A plans a 4.5 million dollar budget for next year expanding in Europe Asia and the Americas. It now runs 250 graded schools and colleges with about 8.26 million enrolled. for the first time the organization has a foothold in Austria and Russia. In Texas border areas it operates nearly 40 schools with Spanish as a key course and allocates half a million for Texas work and a million for its industrial department nationwide.
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M. C
Switzerland
Russia
Austria
Texas
Leslie's
One Way to Do It in a Rochester Times quip
A Rochester Times joke features a father advising how to fill a fountain pen by filling a bath tub with ink and getting in to fill the pen. The piece ends with a wry note that a spice fence prompts neighborly reconsideration and that anger governs many matters poorly.
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Johnny
Father
Rochester Times
To Live Long A Physician’s Life Elixir Advertisement
A historic health ad promotes kidney care and poison elimination through a plantlike remedy. It urges avoiding meat salt alcohol and tea, drinking water, and notes Anuric by Dr Pierce of Invalids Hotel Buffalo NY. It claims strong uric acid relief and offers trial packaging for 10 cents.
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Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
Pierce
Make the Liver Do its Duty Headline Fragment
A fragment mentions a woman and her husband with dire warnings about stomach and liver function and the costs of labor, in a period voice.
Sufferer backs Anuric for back pain relief
Walter Carlson of Chicago says four years of back pain vanished after using two boxes of Anuric. He describes severe bending pain and urges others with similar symptoms to try the product for results.
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Chicago
Til
MR. Walter Carlson
N. Brauke
Ady
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