Dumb as Oysters Surprising to Foreigners
Washington columnist George Clinton laments American secrecy in diplomacy, noting public indifference to state department plans under Lansing and Wilson. The piece contrasts British demand for advance notice with U S policy, while detailing Panama Canal security, Danish West Indies sale, and Library of Congress holdings.
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George Clinton
Washington
Lansing
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State Department
Wilson
Foreign Office
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Great Britain
Venezuela
Waorhington
Uncle Sam
Sam
St. Thomas
St. John
St. Croix
Danish West Indies
Denmark
United States
Congress
Panama Canal
Isthmian Canal
Isands
Two Ocean
theAtlantic
Pacific
Canada’s First Farmer Louis Hebert and Quebec soil
Louis Hebert, an apothecary from Paris, landed in Quebec in 1617 with his wife and children. He cleared and cultivated the land now part of Quebec City’s cathedral site and seminary, using a spade as his only tool. He sowed seeds from France and planted apple and rose trees.
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Canada
Louis Hebert
Paris
Quebec
Cathedral of
France
Golden grain and flora greet the sun in travel memories
The passage evokes sunlit fields, waving grain, flowers, and fruits from a homeland, described with reverent nostalgia for a motherland. It centers on nature’s beauty as a symbol of origin and memory.
Kept at home to go a-taturiog
British Farm and Home reports a village schoolmaster received a single word note, Cepatomtegonatatur ing. A neighbor’s child absent produced the note via a pupil. After study the master solved it as a phrase meaning kept at home to go a-taturiog.
Popular and Common Breeds of Geese
The Toulouse goose is a large native of France weighing 15 to 20 pounds, sometimes 25 to 80, with gray plumage and white patches. Embden geese are snowy white with yellow legs and bills, similar in size to Toulouse, valued for market carcasses. Chinese geese come in brown and white, stand taller with longer necks, and the Brown Chinese is highly prolific. gander weight about 15 pounds, goose 12 pounds, with females laying 40 to 50 eggs or more.
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Congress
Panama
Clarence R. Edwards
Canal Zone
Toulouse
France
Feeding for Egg Production From Missouri College Advice
Based on U.S. census figures Missouri's 21 million hens lay 111 million dozen eggs yearly. The article urges liberal feeding, noting hens need 70 to 80 pounds of feed annually and benefits from dry ground feed, buttermilk, and constant access to limestone or oyster shell. It cites University of Missouri Circular 76 as guidance.
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Y H. Ll. Kempster
Missouri College of Agriculture
Missouri
Poultry Department
University of Missouri
Procedures for Market Poultry Slaughter
The guide instructs starving chickens 24 hours before killing to remove food from crops and intestines for flavor. After the last feed, provide water at will and allow a complete fast until slaughter. For market purposes, kill by bleeding through the mouth and brain piercing.
Hens Cackle If They Eat Well And Lay Eggs
The note argues that hens cackle when fed well with bugs worms grass and water. It states eyes are valued at 40 cents a dozen or 3 18 cents per cackle and urges ensuring egg-producing hens receive the right feed to trigger cackling.
SELECT HENS WITH RECORDS
The article notes modern hens average around 140 eggs yearly with some high records near 200. It advises selecting pullets or hens with high egg counts and mating them to good laying-strain cockerels to gradually raise flock productivity. Individual variation means progress will be slow but steady.
Selection of Best Layers for Egg Production
The best laying hens show a full well-developed breast and crop with a large pocket to carry food. This indicates strength vigor and the ability to eat and convert feed into body mass and egg production. Pullets from good productive mothers may also lay well if they share the same body formation.
Fatten Poultry In Crates On Special Ration
Instructions describe placing poultry in crates for a fasting day then feeding a mix of seven parts cornmeal three parts middlings and one part bran with buttermilk to pancake batter consistency. Over 10 to 14 days birds gain 15 to 25 percent in weight and improve flavor.
Rules for Dragging Roads
Instruction from Colorado Agricultural College on using a light drag to improve dirt roads. Push earth toward center during each pass, drive at a walk, ride the drag, and start at one edge then return on the opposite. Drag after rains but not when mud sticks. do not drag dry roads. Maintain 18 to 20 feet width, widen gradually, raise road edges 10 to 12 inches, and repeat applications for best results.
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E. B. House
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Highway Magazine
Iowa highway commission promotes country road numbering plan
The service bulletin from the Iowa State Highway Commission urges a statewide numbering system for roads and residences. Centered on the state capitol, roads are numbered north, east, south and west from this point, with a base map to locate any road or house. The plan keeps existing tourist route names intact while standardizing designations across the state.
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Iowa State Highway Commission
State Capitol
Lincoln Highway
Federal-Aid Road Act Funding for Rural Roads
The federal aid road act will direct spending of 160 million dollars by federal and state governments on rural road improvements over the next five years. Costs for country roads rose from 28 dollars per mile in 1904 to 109 dollars per mile in 1915.
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United States
Idea of Good Roads Without Ragweed Borders
A reader suggests better roads by removing ragweed bordered edges, advocating for clearer routes and safer driving conditions. The comment frames infrastructure as a priority for public use and maintenance.
10 Cent Cascarets For Bilious or Costive Relief
An advertisement touts Cascarets at 10 cents claiming a torpid liver and clogged bowels cause furred tongue bad taste indigestion and headaches. It promises thorough cleansing overnight and a morning reset, with a box from the druggist lasting months.
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Adv
A Motorist’s Criticism of a Route Map
A motorist voices a complaint that the map shows many landmarks but fails to clearly locate repair shops. Mr. Chuggins responds that while landmarks are listed, essential services like repair shops are not precisely identified.
Dandruff and Itching Remedies for Hair Health
An advertisement urges using Cuticura Ointment on the scalp followed by Cuticura Soap for dry hair and itching. It promises skin and scalp protection with Cuticura as a daily toilet preparation and offers a free sample by mail with a book from Cuticura Boston.
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Boston
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Ends in Pure White Clothes
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as a pure true blue laundry product that makes clothes whiter than snow. It warns to use the best, noting a large package sold by good grocers for 6 cents and encouraging readers to ask for it today.
Popped Out at the Popping in Boston Transcript
Aunt Edith recalls a sudden marriage proposal moment with Mr Slow, as the niece admits excitement led to an unintended exclamation. The Boston Evening Tran script captures a playful exchange about an abrupt engagement.
Pape's Diapepsia Promises Fast Relief for Indigestion
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsia as a rapid, harmless cure for stomach upset. It claims relief from indigestion, sour stomach, gas, heartburn, and related symptoms within five minutes and urges readers to buy a fifty-cent case from any drug store. A humorous line contrasts with a holiday party kiss game joke.
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Librarian of Congress
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Drotect
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Coleman
Was
John Skelton Williams
Spain
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