Home Canners Set High Mark for 2018 Campaign
United States Department of Agriculture prepared a nationwide home canning drive aiming to produce 1.5 billion quarts this season. Some 3,000 extension agents and thousands of volunteers will train leaders at laboratories and through county and community programs across the South, North and West. Demonstrations, uniform training, and public meetings will engage boys and girls in local canning projects with roughly 30,000 participants anticipated.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Sud Ulria
Tysty
Department of Agriculture
West 6
United States
Ualni
Potato Pens Prove Dismal Failure Says Christie
Last year people nationwide built potato pens hoping to harvest seed. In Indiana not one of 40 pens yielded seed. US Agriculture tests also failed, with poor yields from Washington and a barrel method. The piece labels the idea a failure and advocates proven farming methods.
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Christie
Cluistic
Purdue University
Indiana
Polis
Osborne
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Teach Us to Live with Courage and Compassion Kipling Poem
Fragmentary verse by Rudyard Kipling preserved in a prayerful plea for guidance. The text asks for heavenly aid to teach youth steadfastness, truth, and temperance, to bear burdens with grace, to avoid perfidy, and to act with justice and mercy toward all humanity.
Life of an Airplane Described by Journal
The piece notes a well built airplane endures roughly six hundred hours of flying before accidents occur and suggests at 100 miles per hour, such craft could cover about 60,000 miles in lifetime. The text appears from a People’s Home Journal style article.
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Loaat
People's Howe Journal
Last Half Hour of Day Is Most Important
The piece urges focusing on the last half hour of the day as the crucial period to review resolve and renew. It compares daily figures to a life ledger and encourages dismissing worries, burying bitterness, and resurrecting good deeds to accumulate inner strength for future storms.
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Algo
Old Garments and Shoes Repaired for Soldiers
The quartermaster reclamation division reports wives and mothers at Fort Sim Houston base repair shop averaged 8 000 garments daily in May. New shops for shoework are opening at various places. About 170 000 pairs of shoes were repaired in April. Base washing of garbage waste and metals shows profitable results and inland laundry facilities traveled with troops in France after stationary successes at U S camps.
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Army
Quartermaster Corpu
Fort Sim Houston
France
United States
World War Total Population Figures Muddle
A historical blurb cites wartime population estimates claiming about 1,000,000,000 people on earth with 126,000,000 not in active service. It mentions Teutonic allies at around 100,000,000 and opposing powers at about 1,800,000,000 as part of a wartime demographic snapshot.
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Earth
Pete
Atatlailes
Teutonte
Ways With Fresh Fruits Recipes From Beecher Era
This excerpt blends Beecher’s aphorisms with old time fruit preserving tips. It offers methods to preserve strawberries raspberries currants and gooseberries by canning, syrup sealing, and freezing ideas. It includes fruit drinks frozen desserts and a blackberry flummery and currant ice cream style recommendations.
Brownish uniforms signal courage in colonial legend
The piece recalls British troops in India abandoning white for mud colored khaki to evade sniper fire. It claims khaki uniforms symbolize victory courage patriotism and resilience, connecting to the idea of the Khaki Brigade as a future tribute to Columbus Dispute.
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India
United States
War costs top daily drain of treasury at $50 million
Government records show the first wartime year spent about $13.8 billion, with current daily outlays around $50 million as cabinet heads prepare reports to President Wilson on stewardship of funds. Loans to allies declined in June as expenses surged across army navy shipbuilding and defense programs.
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Wilson
Navy
United States
Steamer Demarees Return Lifts Giants’ Chase for First
The sudden return to form of Al Demaree has been a life saver for the New York Giants. As John McGraw’s pitching faltered, Demaree found his form, twirling effectively to avert a rout by rival clubs. He blanked the Cubs on four hits in New York, then defeated Boston Leaves with four hits, stoking confidence and keeping the Giants within striking distance of first place.
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Demaree
New York Giants
Steamer
Tohn McGraw
Cubs
New York
Boston Leaves
Dick Rudolph
Demarce
Giants
Wilhiy
Rainfall Records Surpass Cherrapunji on Hawaiian Island
A Stanford University researcher notes Waiakea on Kauai Hawaii recorded 618 inches of rain per year from 1912 to 1916. The Hawaiian station sits 5075 feet above sea level and exceeds the famed Cherrapunji rainfall.
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Cherrapuni
Himlinga
Assam
Cherrapunji
Branford
D. G H. Campbell
Stanford University
Waiatenle
Kauai
Hawaii
Disjointed Clippings Describe War Era Oddities
Fragmentary text mentions German totemed aliens in Arkansas and a Texas loyalty law alongside U S statutes. It notes a soap shortage due to glycerin demands and a Los Angeles man suing a doctor over radium burial. Content is garbled and lacks coherent narrative.
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Arkansas
United States
Texas
Los Angeles
French Inventor Shows Way to Obtain Coffee Extract
A French patent describes an integral coffee extract method. Powdered coffee is heated near roasting point in heated closed vessels with cold or inert gas passing through to capture aroma. The aroma laden air is directed into chambers with a dry coffee extract prepared from previously treated coffee lacking aromatics.
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Vesgeld
Distinguishing Iron From Steel in Early Machinery
A repairer distinguishes wrought iron cast iron and mild steel using a nitric acid test. A bright spot on the metal turns ash gray on wrought iron, brownish black on mild steel, and deep black on cast iron, per Popular Science Monthly.
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Meachinery
Jnson
Popular Science Monthly
How Whittling Saved Food Demonstrations in Kentucky
The Uy Sr department of agriculture notes national food saving work with drying demos across Kentucky last year. About 1,800 homemade dryers were built as home demonstration agents urged drying, turning idle whittling into a productive task. Kentucky saved 800,000 pounds of dried products.
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Kentucky
Uy Sr Department of Agriculture
Choy
Eat More Chicken and Eggs for Farm Self-Sufficiency
United States Department of Agriculture urges farmers to raise poultry and eggs for home use and market surplus. Analysis shows average farm egg and poultry consumption, with high variation by state, and notes preservation methods like water glass extend usability. Encourages keeping eggs when cheap to buffer against off-season price spikes.
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United States Department of Agriculture
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Anlysia
United States
Ksept
Thirty five Persons Lynched in U S First Half of Year
Thirty five persons were lynched in the United States in the first six months of the year, per a Tuskegee Institute division of records and research. The total tops 1917 by 21 and 1916 by ten. Of the victims, thirty four were negroes and three were Negro women. Eight lynchings occurred in Georgia and Louisiana, seven in Texas, five in Tennessee, two in Mississippi, and one each in Alabama Arkansas Florida Idaho North Carolina and South Carolina.
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United States
Tuskegee Lnatitute
Tuskegee
Ala
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Foyt
Tennessee
Minassippi
Alabama
Arkansas
Torida
Tinos
North Carolina
South’ Carolina
To Measure Day Length Through Sun Setting Time
Instruction notes how to determine day length by doubling the sun's setting time for the day and doubling the time of night, explaining a method to gauge daylight duration at any date.
War Industries Board restricts clothing styles for wartime
The War Industries Board announces wartime limits on wool and leather use. Men’s sacks shorten to 80 inches for size 86. long sizes add 1½ inches. Double breasted overcoats vanish. topcoats at 43 inches for size 36. long add two inches. Only three outside pockets allowed. trousers stripped of side back straps. wool reinforcement banned. Rain coats max 48 inches. Shoes limited to black, white, tan. heel to top 8 inches. no new styles for six months.
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Elvidlin
Tata
Most Unusual and Other Skits From A Weekend Show
The excerpt humorously portrays a peddler and housekeeper disputing worn tins, a pompous investigator returning from the front, a couple debating a staged show’s political tone, and jokes about marriage, family dictatorship, and cab driver anecdotes. The dialogue strains for bite with brisk, punchy banter.
Curious slang and social quirks in old days
A fragmented column notes changing manners and slang, jokingly comparing past blushes to today’s color wave. It mocks quick tips and covert mischief, and muses on German substitutes for the Kaiser. The piece closes with a quip on food for thought and unpremeditated acts.
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Jinny
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