Efficient Handling Methods Add To Value Of Apple Crop
The United States Department of Agriculture promotes better picking and handling to reduce waste and improve fruit quality. It covers maturity indicators, picking utensils, use of sacks and baskets, ladder types, packing in open yards or central houses, and the growing role of packing houses. Sizing machines and conveyors are highlighted to ensure uniform size and efficient labor use.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Cost efficient canning implements urged by agriculture experts
United States Department of Agriculture specialists say costly equipment isn’t needed for home canning. A washboiler or lard can with a tight lid, plus a false bottom rack, suffices. Jars should not touch metal. use wooden racks. Processing can be on a stove or outdoor furnace. Options include water bath and steam pressure outfits, with various pressure capacities.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Food Product Inspections Rise in May See Major Increase
In May 2,028 cars of fruit and vegetables were inspected by the Bureau of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture, at 22 large marketing centers. The program aims to provide an unbiased basis for adjusting issues among growers shippers wholesalers and transporters. Additionally 1,608,169 pounds of fruit and vegetables moving in interstate commerce were inspected for the Army supply at New York with 144,647 pounds rejected for unsatisfactory quality or condition.
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Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Food Products Inspection Service
United States
New York
Crop notes on legumes celery moisture and tractor lighting
Legume cultivation should expand acreage with celery given ample moisture for best results. Tractor night lights are marketed by accessory dealers. Qualifowers struggle in dry weather, underscoring the need to keep the 4 ante well cultivated.
Vampire Iris Ybarra Meets Hamlet Dream On Central Park Bench
Iris Ybarra, the famed vampire, wanders Central Park in fall, contemplating a life away from wrecking others as she and Cyril Smith, star of the Gaiety Girls, discuss marriage and Hamlet ambitions. Iris rebukes the coin method for life decisions and hints at a dangerous, hopeful romance amid theatrical glamour.
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Iris Ybarra
Central Park
Iris
Indy
Cyril Smith
Tony
Return to Essentials and Scrapped Utopia Views
A Scribner's Point of View essay debates returning to basics. It contrasts a hopeful democratic simplicity with a radical urge to erase civilization and rebuild. The piece argues souls endure, praising thrift, virtue, patriotism, and continued intellect while acknowledging women's shift from labor to hotels and memory of household treasures.
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Scribner's
Hnes
Power Over Snakes Brief
A Wide World Magazine item notes Indian snake charmers change victims yearly, releasing new snakes each year on the same date. The belief holds power wanes after exactly one year, supposedly proven by a warden’s fatal bite when a female charmers kept a fine snake beyond the year. The tale hints the charmers’ superstition persists despite lack of evidence.
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India
The
Wide World Magazine
Oil Transmitted From Haku To Batum Pipe Line Story
Oil moved from Haku on the Caspian to Batum on the Binek by a 100 mile pipe line with 10 pumping stations. The pipe measured eight inches and carried a capacity of 60,000 per year. The project cost about 18 million dollars or 000 rubles.
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Haku
Caspian
Batum
Binek Son
Welcome Relief From the Tortures of Rheumatism
A vintage ad style note praises S. S. S. as a blood purifier claimed to fight rheumatism by removing germs from the blood. It includes anecdotes about a bachelor and a leap year girl and ends with a promotion for medical advice from Atlanta.
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect It
The ad promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for hidden kidney issues. It cites insurance rejections due to unrecognized kidney trouble and claims wide success. Available at drug stores in two sizes, or sample by sending ten cents to Dr Elmer Co. in Binghamton NY with paper reference.
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Dr. Elmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Hairless humans in coming centuries predicted
The article debates a future where hair loss spreads across generations. It notes men under forty becoming bald earlier and claims women adopt bobbed hair as a deliberate, Providence influenced trend started by Russian women escaping bolshevist Russia. The piece traces the fashion through bohemian New York circles to broader adoption.
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United States
New York
Dinner With Friends Ends In Tin Knife Revelations
A narrator recalls late realization that hosts used tin cutlery, spoiling appetite as memories of camping return. Exchange notes a girl withholding corn from a cot unless she has false teeth and suggests faults show on the face, prompting social observations.
Thrifty suitor hints at candy gift
In a paneled drug store window a thrifty man is teased by a girl who notes a kiss at the top of every candy box. He replies that when he has time he will look under one to see if he can find one.
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Indianapolis
Bobby
Ao Drug Store
Cuticura Soap Ad Promises Daily Shave Benefits
A vintage advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for doubling razor efficiency while promoting skin purity comfort and health. It claims no mug lathering no germs no waste and no irritation even with twice daily shaving and suggests one soap for shaving bathing and shampooing.
Real Reason for His Tears at Terre Haute Graduation
A Terre Haute high school class honors a teacher with a farewell gift. One boy sobbed during the speech, prompting the teacher to note his emotion. A classmate explains the boy saved 50 cents to contribute and cried not for leaving but for the cost of his gift.
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Terre Haute
Teft
Wen
The Greater Trial Of A Recently Married Bride
A bride pleads with her mother over marital neglect saying she has only months married and husband George goes out almost every night leaving her alone. The mother comforts her noting her own trials and that her father never goes out.
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George
In a Tender Spot
Dialogue fragment shows characters Mr. Benover-No Miss Romantique and Miss Leech discussing wounds and a bank roll, framing a comic encounter with wordplay on engagement and affection. The exchange hints at marital or romantic misunderstandings and social banter.
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Mr. Benover
Prince
Flow as the fop in the play stirred praise
The dialogue notes Flow played the fop and was described as a dandy, with remarks highlighting his suave style on stage.
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Setor
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