Bread and not battleships in wartime planting call
Editorial argues bread, farming and home gardens determine victory more than munitions. It cites Germany's crop yields, calls for night plowing and 2000 tractor plows, and urges Pennsylvanians and Americans to plant and seed every available plot by April. It warns half of US farmland is unimproved and stresses national duty to cultivate food.
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Germany
Texas
Arthur Lee
British Food Production
Italy
Europe
America
Pennsylvania
George Si. Roberts
National City Bank
New York
Inois
Texan
Maine
Difference Between Results And Consequences
A child explains the distinction in playful terms quoted by the Country Gentleman. She says results are what you expect while consequences are what you get.
Daylight Saving Urged To Extend Sunshine Hours
A May 1 proposal urges setting the clock forward one hour to create more daylight at 6 AM and noon. It argues sunlight boosts health, warmth, and morale, reduces illness, and promotes social welfare by letting people rise earlier and enjoy longer daylight hours.
What Women Are Doing Highlighting women in real estate and suffrage efforts
The piece notes women's growing influence in real estate across the country and cites nearly 7 million American women offering government service in potential war. It mentions a China suffrage movement pushing reforms including opium, foot binding, and child slavery, and praises Miss Josephine Crisler for pushing a Tennessee Commission for the Blind through lobbying.
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Queen of Holland
Sioux City
United States
China
Northampton
Mass
Jesse Bonstelle
Josephine Crisler
Tennessee
Louise mocks claims of superior intelligence
The Way Miss Louise ridicules talk of the alleged lord of creation showing she could pick one willing man and force him to fail at a task he knows cannot be done, if she merely brags about him.
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Miss Louise
Lord of Creation
Big Plans for May Baby Week Across States
The Children's Bureau reports widespread Baby Week plans in 34 states with Nebraska and others proposing staggered local campaigns. States emphasize birth registration, infant care, and paralysis prevention while local committees select targeted goals to sustain results.
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Hershey
Children’s Bureau
United States “Department of Labor
Nebraska
California
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Washington
Illinois
Iowa
New Hampshire
Ohio
Delaware
North Dakota
Kansas
Children's Bureau
Spinach German Style with Bacon and Egg Top
Wash and soak spinach, cook until tender, drain and chop. Brown four slices of bacon, add spinach, season with salt and pepper. Serve with hard boiled egg pieces laid on top.
Beet Salad Recipe Instructions
Instructions to mix equal portions of cooked diced beets onions and celery with boiled dressing and to finish with chopped parsley. This reads as a kitchen method for preparing a beet salad rather than a news item.
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Carter
Spring Creek Cemetery of the Church of the Brethren charter notice
An application will be made to the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County on April 16 1907 at 10 AM under the Corporation Act for a charter to form Spring Creek Cemetery of the Church of the Brethren to establish and maintain a public cemetery with burial lots and driveways for sepulcher use and related rights.
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Court of Common Pleas
Dauphin County
Penna
Spring Creek
Church of the Brethren
Hershily
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David Gordon Hershey
B. Curry Estate
Swatara Station
Curry
Havana
J. W. Brenneman
Millersville, Pa
Hershey Company
West Indies
Central America
Mexico
Hershey Chocolate Company
Hershey, PA
THE
State Normal School
Millersville
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