Plant Freesias and Shrubs for Next Year’s Bloom
Hints from LM Bennington on garden care including pruning, watering, and soil improvements. Advice covers mulching, keeping roots moist, transplanting from nurseries, and delaying seed set to favor early next year flowering. Emphasis on proper potting, using loam, and protecting young plants from harsh weather.
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Bennington
Prine Nuwertag
Bsap
Baett
Ernes
Ull
Ith Sow Society
Oselis
Freestas
Garden Notes on Plant Spacing and Fertilization
Armament gardeners often plant vegetables too close together. Large fallage crops like tomatoes peppers and beans need space for sun. Use ample potash and phosphoric feed with all vegetables, especially potatoes. Proper preplant fertilization reduces drought stress and keeps plants vigorous for healthier fruit.
Sweet Sultan sweet peppered melon for gardens and borders
The peculiar melon styled Sweet Sultan from Peet Sultan is praised for its large, striking pink and white flowers and fragrant, graceful growth. It notes the variety’s improved portulaca-like features, though it acknowledges greater difficulty in cultivation compared with older, smaller types.
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Centaurenturily
Summer Garden Helps Promote Plantings and Care
A period article advises succession plantings of sweet corn and snap beans through mid July to supply late season vegetables. It recommends transplanting celery multiple times to strengthen roots and better growth, plus cultivating the soil to retain moisture, and trimming cantaloupe vines to encourage branching and fuller fruiting.
Make the Garden Neat
The author warns that a garden loses charm if decaying leaves and fallen blooms pile up. Cleanliness and ongoing care are essential to preserve beauty and prevent a dull, unloved appearance.
Shaved With Glass and Imperial Chins in War-Era Tales
A garbled historical note links shaving with glass to a European discovery and volcanic substitutes used by Mexican barbers. It recalls a peculiar postwar decree after Bepeleon Itt’s fall when French troops wore Imperial chins and the order to shave them led to the disappearance of the term Imperial from 900,000 chins, plus a stray anecdote about Ted and a gray duck at a poultry yard.
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Europenus
The Resurrection Story in the Gospel Accounts
A compact study of Mary Magdalene and the women at the tomb, Peter and John at the empty grave, and Mary’s encounter with the risen Jesus. It stresses the evidence of the folded napkin, the test of witnesses, and the resurrection as central to Christian redemption and proclamation.
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Christ
Joseph
Nol
Mark
Matthew
Mary
Mary Magdalene
Jesus
Mary Magdaleno
Peter
Emmeus
Thomas
Jeans
John
Jexsfully
Rabboni
God
Jesus Christ
Croes
Signs on a Tokyo street reflect old and odd advertising
A historical look at how Japanese shop signs use pictures and ideographs to indicate goods and services. From hemp bundles to clocks, fans, sake leaves, and foreign English errors, signs conveyed function and drew attention in Tokugawa era Tokyo and remain quirky reminders of early advertising practices.
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Japan
T. Nakayama
M. Coligny
Cincinnati Enquirer
Godaigo
Hls
Honored by Turks Mary Graffam Receives Red Crescent Award
The Turkish Red Crescent honors Miss Mary Graffam, American missionary, for her care of the wounded and sick amid Erzerum typhus and front-line dangers. She helped establish hospital care and refugee aid, guiding a group of teachers and students south through winter peril.
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Sionshire
Mary Louise Graham
Order of the Red Crescent
The
Red Crescent
Miss Graffam
Erzerum
Sivas
Sizin Gan
Miss Graffain
Sions
Miss Graham
Miss Fowle
Miss Powle
Real Economy and the Good Wife’s Frugal Call
A Columbus Journal note urges thrift and steady effort to support a discouraged husband. It cites a wife who buys a nickel worth of jemans and cashes a $2 check, framing work as the inevitable condition of human life and a path to welfare.
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Columbus
Journal
Courage the supreme need in life in old Bee lore
Worth the Price, visits by bees who often no man suffers in vain. The piece argues that courage is the ultimate resource gained through hardship, likening the bee’s industry to patient effort for honey. It notes the courage quest as essential to endure defeat and seek future victory. It also touches on bee energy and the vast work behind honey production.
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Denver
Vorner
Rhle Neetie
A Free Agent Becomes a Hermit by Choice
A Kansas City Star quotation frames a man declaring he adopted hermit life by choice to tell only literal truth. He recounts being ostracized, offered lynching or exile, and explains his plan to absquatulate rather than stay. A wry exchange follows about a French doctor's claim of no danger in kissing.
All in the Family and farmyard mischief in old snippet
A fragmented item blends barnyard incident with a boastful rural prank as Angus MacBrath rubs himself near a bull then claims revenge on the beast. A courtroom exchange shows a defendant defending an insult as the judge probes truth and sensitivity. Other bits discuss gambling in Hindu tradition, grape cultivation, and a starlit night camping.
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Angus MacBrath
Angus
Fragmented Humorous Exchange and Classified Lines
A collage of dialogue snippets shows a master interrogating a maid about missing cream, a would be suitor seeking a license to marry with comic mishearing, a Red Cross Ball Blue advertisement boasting whitening merit, and farm folk jokes. The tone mimics a vintage newspaper page with light witticisms and product promos.
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RED Cross
LIFT YOUR CORNS OFF WITH FINGERS
A Cincinnati authority advises using Freezone a drug applied directly to tender corns or calluses to instantly relieve soreness and loosen the corn root. A small bottle, affordable, removes hard or soft corns or calluses with no irritation to surrounding skin. If not stocked, request Freezone from the druggist's wholesale house.
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Cincinnati
Adv
Precocious girl and antifat tale from Indianapolis News
The account describes Taking Antifet a precocious five year old girl living with a family where a member used a flesh reducer. A boy in a loose hat passes by as she calls out in alarm mentioning antifat and a music band, reflecting wartime era child mischief and rumor.
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Jottiny
Indianapolis News
Heal Itching Skins Promises Quick Safe Relief
An advertisement touts a skin remedy that promises rapid relief from itching and burning. It claims daily use prevents serious flare ups and offers free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept L in Boston. Includes a humorous parental exchange about singing in heaven and being found not to sing well.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
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Ted
Wee
Jnyene
Peter of
Chety
the Risen
Lord
Tokio
Sarat Sere
Order of Red Crescent
the Gestacs
New Republic
Beauvais Cathedral
Elier
Kansas City Star
Judgle
Che 4 Ter
Jodar
Mifin
Topeka State Journal
Tropics
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Weil
Chesterfield
Father
Terrile
Marios
Tail
Panos
Szabottle
Absorbine
Terashi
W.F. Young
P.O. F
Temsle St
Springfield
Maca
Torrie
Sesiern
Brooklyr
Eilag
Haweon
Fort Wayne
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