Peking’s vast streets and dragon screen fascinate visitors
National Geographic describes Peking as a Tatars-built capital with wide arterials, bustling traffic, and surprising architecture. It notes imperial palaces, the Temple of Heaven, and a hidden dragon screen behind a hill, while warning of cluttered gates masking sights and praising the temple’s serene core.
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Peking
Hamas
Forbidden City
Yamen
Imperial Palace
China
Capital
Temple of Heaven
Winter Palace
Movable hog houses aid disease control and pasture rotation
The article warns that muddy quarters and filth foster hog diseases like a severe throat and stomach infection leading to death. It promotes movable hog houses designed by the Iowa station at Ames for easy cleaning, sunlight, ventilation, and disinfection, noting pastures reduce parasite infestations.
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Stouder
Iowa Experiment Station
Ames
Italy
Thin Your Garden Crops to an Even Stands
Agricultural guidance advises gardeners to thin thick seedings to achieve even stands for good yields. It covers peas, beans, corn, radishes, lettuce, beets, carrots, and parsnips with specific thinning distances and timing to avoid crowding and waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Monument Heat Warps Washington Monument Copper Spur Shifts
The Washington Monument shows heat expansion on its southern side causing the massive shaft to tilt slightly north. A copper fire line reports a few hundredths of an inch shift and winds trigger noticeable plummet motion. still air reveals subtle crust vibrations.
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Washington Monument
A Proposal On Purchase Of A Typewriter By Young Athlete
A fragment notes a proposal about buying a typewriter involving a young athlete. The limited readable text hints at a discussion or transaction centered on obtaining the machine for the athlete.
Cheap seed and weed control warn of early action
The article notes a 1920 Maryland Delaware seed disaster where 1700 acres of Alaska pea seed, poor in quality, produced dark canned peas hurting market value. It stresses that cheap seed can be costly and advises tackling weeds early before they grow strong.
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Alaska
Maryland
Delaware
LeRoy Cady
University Farm
St. Paul
Good Teams Appreciated in Cultivation Efforts
A brief note praises teams in farming work highlighting proper ground packing and sweeps for cultivators. The text urges feeding the teams and waking them for their reward.
Windbreak Planting Proves Popular In Minnesota
Windbreaks started as a state forest project in Minnesota have shown strong popularity after just over a year. Demonstrations led by forestry experts show trees supplied by the forestry department and planted widely under cooperative guidance.
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Minnesota
State Forest Department
Windbreak for an Orchard at Cloquet Station
Forestry department inspected the Cloquet experiment station windbreak project. Across 14 counties 72 demonstrations were shown through 1920 and 1921 with plans for 1922 and 1923 plantings. A year of soil preparation precedes planting of conifers and deciduous trees.
Corn Based Recipes From USDA Home Economics
A historical compilation from the United States Department of Agriculture cooking notes presents corn centric recipes. It features bread and custard corn cake waffles cheese pudding and corn meal muffins with details on ingredients steps and yields for six to twelve servings.
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United States Department of Agriculture
America
Home Economics
Cleaning Gloves by Home Methods in Early 20th Century
An article advises practical at home glove cleaning methods from USDA experts. It covers cornmeal moistened with gasoline for white kid gloves, air drying, and gas exchange in a jar for stain removal, stressing open air due to flammability. It compares care for white silk, washable kid, cotton, and colored gloves.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Carrots Served In Soup And Salad Variants
Carrots can be prepared in multiple appealing ways. Carrot soup uses mashed soft boiled carrots with white sauce, parsley, and paprika. Carrot salad combines cold boiled carrot pieces with peas or beans, dressed in mayonnaise and served on lettuce.
Preventing Rust and Depreciation of Farm Tools
Article advises painting wooden parts and applying grease to metal surfaces to prevent rust and winter depreciation of farm tools and machines. It notes paint stops warping and rotting on implements like cultivators and mowers and suggests grease on plows. Also reports a local doubt about arson in weed burning.
When Frying Eggs Prevents Sputtering With Flour
A kitchen tip suggests sifting a small amount of flour into hot fat just before adding eggs to reduce objectionable sputtering and splattering during frying.
Guard Against Free Other If Snap Beans Or Salee Wane Range
Fragmentary text mentions beans and sale context with uncertain phrasing. Attempted reconstruction notes potential agricultural sale or protection guidance but lacks clear facts, dates, or named entities to confirm a specific event or notice.
Whitening Bath Tub Stain Removal Cautions
A borax and salt mix used on a bath tub to whiten a stain may harm the enamel glaze. The compound can spoil the glaze while removing the stain, so avoid this combination for whitening tub surfaces.
Avoid Finger Burne While Handling Hot Jars and Foods
Avoid finger burns by hanging tongs near the oven to lift hot fruit jars and baked potatoes. They also serve to lift hot items drained from boiling water, preventing burns.
Mustard Mix With Milk For Freshness
Practical kitchen tip advises stirring mustard with new milk instead of water to remove bitterness and keep the mix fresh for a week.
The Housewife Tips From An Old Recipe Page
Old kitchen tips cover soup dressing bread crumbs cocoa substitutions and cleaning hacks. Advice includes onion soup serving on cold nights soft eraser removes mercury from jewelry and using sugar to keep cheese fresh. Some lines appear garbled.
Change of Life Health Improves After Pinkham Remedy
Mrs Emma Culver of Metropolis Illinois testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills cured her Change of Life symptoms after eight months of illness. She reports improved energy ability to work daily and walking two to three miles. She notes neighbors also benefited and recommends the medicine for nervousness irritability hot flashes headache and dizziness.
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Metropolis
Illinois
Lydia Pinkham
Mrs. Smith
Lydia E. Pinkham
Emma Culver
E. 7Th St
Ilinois
E. Pinkham
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