Standard Containers Aimed at Reducing Losses in Fresh Produce
The USDA Bureau of Markets urges standard packaging for fruits and vegetables to cut losses from short measures and varied container sizes. Outdated local units cause confusion across markets, with 40 cabbage crates and many other crate styles used. Short measure packaging allows price per package to seem lower, encouraging misuse. A standard unit system is needed, as current crates rely on barrels and bushels, creating unreadable, competing sizes. Weight should be the sale basis where feasible, with size-based counts for carefully graded products.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
Ledapiko Cpomo
CMC
Iitereeeeneeenne
Bureau of Market
Congress
Farm management ties home life to business success
United States Department of Agriculture specialists warn farmers, especially young men, that selecting a farm requires weighing diverse factors beyond single conditions. The farm must operate as a business with clear profit potential, yet living conditions and social advantages remain essential. Enduring physical limits like rocky soil can cap income, even with good improvements.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Pick and Prepare Berries for Parcel Post Shipping
Growers shipping blackberries by parcel post must pick and pack carefully to avoid damage. USDA specialists caution that improper handling can injure fruit more than transit. Weather and handling affect success. a quart crate weighs 27 to 80 pounds with postage between 31 and 34 cents within local zones, totaling 58 to 81 cents for crate and postage.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Steamer Seizure by Red Pirates Taught Mutiny Truth
Officials uncovered an official account of the Senator Schroeder mutiny and seizure at Cuxhaven. A mutinous crew overpowered officers and steered the vessel to Murmansk, then returned to Cuxhaven amid trials. Five years for Kruefken, others jailed. bolstering Bolshevist piracy theories.
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Murmansk
Cuxhaven
Washington
Virginia
Carolina
Senator Schroeder
Kriefken
Geta
Knuefken
Hamburg
Schroeder
Iceland
Duchess Wins Rain Bet of Half Million Francs
Paris reports Lloyds of London must pay Duchess Decazes after rain measurements at Eiffel Tower topped the insured threshold. Observers logged three and a half millimeters by 8 PM, exceeding the two millimeter trigger and triggering the payout for the charity Pavlova fete at the Polo club.
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Paris
Lloyd's of
London
Duchess Decazes
Pavlova Fete Bagatelle
Lloyd's
Eiffel Tower
Alx
Widow in Paris Believes Advice From Grave Voice
In Pere Lachaise Cemetery a French widow, grieving her husband's death, is duped into sending 500 francs after a voice from the grave asks for money. A neighbor alerts authorities. the thief is her nephew, later forgiven by the widow after his wife pleas with a baby in her arms.
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Paris
Pere Lachaise
Pennsylvania man and great-grandchild age oddity
Bellefonte is the setting for George W. Weaver who, at sixty eight, has a great-grandchild older than his youngest daughter from his second marriage. Weaver has 18 children, 13 with Irving as a surname, and his oldest granddaughter married Edward Askey. Their eldest son is thirteen and older than Weaver's youngest daughter, making the boy the great aunt to the lad born before her.
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Bellefonte
George W. Weaver
Mr. Weaver
Irving
Edward Askey
Poppy growing ending urged by League report
Mrs. Hamilton Wright urged support for two main League of Nations recommendations to curb opium trafficking. The goals include allowing consuls to press Chinese leaders to abandon poppy cultivation and sending two inquiry commissions to Chinese provinces to assess cultivation and marketing of the prohibited drug.
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Washington
Commission
League of Nations
Hamilton Wright
China
League
Fortune Awaits Missing Maiden In 1920s Chase
Seventeen year old Helen Owen daughter of Warren D. Owen a Roosevelt Rough Rider and "The Rose of Cuba" vanished in Chicago after escapes from juvenile care. Wealthy uncles Perry Owen and William Owen seek her in the United States, claiming a grandfather’s estate and a six acre estate await the heir named Helen Gordon, last known in Oak Park and Chicago.
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Roosevelt Rough Rider
Rose of Cuba
Chicago
United States
Spain
America
Helen Owen
Don Esteban Garcia
Cuba
Owen
Senorita Garelo
Clyde Owen
Pittsburgh
Slace
New Bedford
Mass
Edward Owen
Boston
Perry Owen
New York
William Owen
Oak Park
Warren
Rose of
States
St. Louis
Helen
Condley
Druve Avenue
Pressed Steel Car Company
Gordon
Turtles bear carved initials linked to 44 year cycle
Lenoxburg Kentucky reports an old farmyard curiosity as a farmer in 44 years aside Discovers a turtle with McClanahan's initials carved on its shell and tucked away another shell with John Sheppard's initials carved 28 years ago. The shells are worn smooth but the carvings still visible.
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Lenoxburg
John Sheppard
Aspirin Bayer Label Advised for Safe Use and Pain Relief
An advertising notice explains to take genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin only as directed by physicians, citing medical safety from 21 years of guidance and millions of users. It promotes the Bayer Cross as reassurance, lists conditions like colds and headaches, and notes affordable twelve-tablet tins and larger packages by druggists.
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Bayer
Not Capable Five Terra Haute school board members face critique
A teacher complains of a difficult pupil and hair style, prompting a bold reply from the pupil’s mother. The note, carried by the child, claims the school board did not bob the child’s hair and that a respectable barber was employed. The incident highlights public doubt about the board’s ability to handle local education matters.
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Terra Haute
Indianapolis News
Women Need Swamp-Root for Kidney Trouble Ad
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder issues often misattributed as other causes. Back pain headaches and fatigue signal possible kidney trouble. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root, a physician prescribed remedy, is available at drug stores with an option to request a sample by mail from Dr Kilmer Co.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
The Dull Season at the Old Home Place
A Birmingham Age-Herald quote describes a sleepy rural town where warm weather has dulled activity. A native notes many children and dogs but few incidents, no fights for a week, and no tramps prompting a lack of exercise for the dogs.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Rest Your Feet Allen Foot Powder Relief
An advertisement promises Allen's Foot Base powder relieves pain from corns bunions and tired feet. It claims quick comfort for sweating calloused and tender feet including blisters and sore spots and notes shoes and stockings last longer when feet are comfortable. It awkwardly credits a social remark about women.
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Allen
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Helped Woman
Clearfield Pennsylvania after childbirth severe left side pain fever dizziness long period. Woman reports strong recovery and ability to work again using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a testimonial aiding others.
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Clearfield
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mra
Harry A. Wilson
Mra. Wilson
Pinkhar
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