Bread and Butter Dreams of Mary Jane Martin
Mary Jane Martin, earning eight dollars weekly in a magazine’s circulation department, starts a lunch club by selling homemade bread and butter sandwiches to coworkers. Her venture grows, profits cover transit, and she imagines a future with John Henderson as their bond deepens during visits to her farming home and its family.
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Mary June Martin
Mary Janets
Mary Jane Martin
Mary Jane
Mary Jane's
Inch Club
Tys
Tye
John Henderson
Amey
John
Cora
Fang
Cora Henderson
Gora
Tim
Gila
Fiendish Delight in a Moorish Conversation
Broggs quips about his mother-in-law and a phonograph, Moggs boasts the pleasure of starting the machine and stopping it mid sentence in a darkly comic exchange.
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Broggs
Moggs
God’s Good Man: The Hero of the Hotel Fire
Adam Ross, a financially strained father, sacrifices for his daughter Dot amid costly gambling debts and vanity. After a near-fatal car crash and a hotel fire rescue, he loses his sight and wealth while saving a child. The Dale family falls into poverty as Dot’s extravagance continues, but the old man’s deed endures in memory.
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W. G. Chapman
Dorothy
Dot
Shea
Dobbin
Cat
Tam
Vernon
Mr. Ross
Ross
Grash
Old Ross
James
Nernon Dale
Adam Ross
God
Eradication of Quack Grass Urged at First Appearance
Idaho Experiment Station reports quack grass spreading in fields. identification relies on long slender spike and underground rhizomes. Roots broken by harrow or cultivator can replant and spread. early action with disk harrow is advised to stamp out a patch before it grows.
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Kennard
Idah
Love, Lies, and a Trip Home in Kerry
Paddy Sheehan confronts Tim Murphy over Kathleen's suit. Tim defends his love, revealing he plans to visit Nora Finnerty in Ireland. In Kerry, Paddy meets Nora and Tim is revealed as Nora's long-most lover's stepson. The family reunion ends with Paddy surrendering, blessing the match and hinting at Nora's three marriages.
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Paddy Sheehan
Tim Murphy
Kathleen
Exulderman
Mr Sheehan
Tim
Paddy
Ireland
Lome
Nora Finnerty
America
Sandy Hook
Intaw
Queenstown
Kerry
Sheehan
Finnerty
Chicago
Michael O'Rourke
Steehan
Tim O'Rourke
O'Rourke
Murphy
Flynn
Controlling Weeds and Pest Grass by Deep Plowing and Burning
A historical guide urges early removal of weed patches to prevent seed set. Dig up the patch deeply to expose roots, shake out and burn, explaining that initial labor pays off by reducing long term extermination. It recommends first heads appearance then plowing six to eight inches, pulverizing with disk and harrow for easy future cultivation.
Weeder One Of The Best Implements For Killing Young Weeds
The Weeder one of the best implements for killing young weeds may destroy the grass on some soils. Replanting may be advised in the fall or generally not until the following spring. Two years of this rigid treatment should discourage the quack grass and it will give up possession of the land.
Causes of Roup in Chickens
Roup, a troublesome disease in fowl, is mainly caused by damp housing. Keep coops dry and warm and yards clean to prevent roup.
Cute Trick Hurts Egg Production in Flock
The essay suggests that letting a puppy roam through a flock to chase hens may seem cute but it damages egg output. It warns that such behavior disrupts the birds and reduces production. The piece frames it as a costly, counterproductive prank on farm operations.
Practical Cow Testing Associations Boost Dairy Profit
US Department of Agriculture notes cow testing associations expanded about 63 percent in 1944 as a method to improve dairy farming. Tests record milk and butterfat per cow, feeding, and cost, revealing which cows pay for feed and which do not. Tests cost about $1.50 per cow and are conducted by testers with college training, visiting farms daily to measure milk, fat, and feed, then calculating monthly profits.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Fremont
Mich
New York
Babcock
State Experiment Station
States Department of Agriculture
Cost of spraying per tree in hog orchard study
An Nebraska experiment station trial notes spraying per tree cost twenty four cents and net income two dollars thirty five cents for sprayed trees while unsprayed yield less, with sprayed surpassing unsprayed by one dollar eighty in net income. It warns disease and insect prevalence drive profit differences and urges selecting suitable breeds and feeding for fat or breeding.
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Bone
General Nebraska
Nebraska Experiment Station
Rotation in Best Hope for farmers and butter factory
Rotation in Best Hope means abundant feed for cows and full meal for the butter factory. Settlers who conscientiously apply the principle expect better farm yields and satisfaction from a smarter, balanced irrigation dairy system.
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Hope Ainslee
Sebisieleinibetetins
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Alvah Jordon Garth
Illing Quack Grass
Nora Firnerty
Govshall
Newaygo
Michigan
Ash
Sista
Tose
Zene
Fea
Geaaa Pere Mterze
Coca
Bascom 4A
Fenmsyl Yama
Balan
Be Mesa
Eksetts Varga
Maeverse West Aga
Babe Carl Ase
Corvette
Aes
Soth
Ape
Jofal
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