Five Million Dollar Chinese Egg Shipment Reaches U S
A single shipment of Chinese eggs arriving in New York was inspected by the Bureau of Chemistry and valued at about $5,000,000. The cargo from Nanking and Hankow included 43,369 cases and 128,262 tins of frozen eggs plus 16,090 cases of dried eggs. Weight totaled 9,600,000 pounds frozen and 1,609,000 pounds dried, equivalent to 435,000 cases of shell eggs at over $10 per case. The load represents about a year and a half of work for roughly 1.5 million hens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
New York
Nanking
Hankow
Local Social Notes and Weekender Movements
Ella and Mildred Ray of Parkwood spent Saturday with relatives. Garrie Sharp returned home from a visit with friends in Johnstown. Grange officers will be elected next Tuesday evening. Mrs. Norman Schrecengost of Indiana guest of Mrs. Francis Kline Saturday. Margaret and Laura Sharp of Indiana visited here over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. John Carnahan and Nora Irwin spent the past week with friends in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. John Wiggins move to their new home this week.
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Ella
Mildred Ray
Parkwood
Garrie Sharp
Johnstown
Grange
Norman Schrecengost
Indiana
Francis Kline
Margaret
Laura Sharp
John Carnahan
Nora Irwin
Ohio
John Wiggins
Local Notes and Obituaries From Hillsdale and East Run
Social visits and family news from Hillsdale and East Run include funeral of David Conrath at Cockport. Spouse and kin report arrivals, baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Clair Maize, and Ku Klux Klan meeting at M P church. Blanche Farnsworth returned to New Kensington where she serves as charge nurse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Spicher
G. BH. Getty
Merle Huey
David Conrath
Cockport
Charles Pitter and Son
Deckers Point
Claire Maize
Ray Butterbaugh
Violet Ginter
Lew Litzinger
Bert Lockard
Miles
Elmer Woodruff
Commodore
Cartara
Stock Raisers Seek Guidance On Farm Feeding Methods
The U S Department of Agriculture and cooperating states have a new service that answers stock raisers questions about rations. A Maryland farm queried sow and pig diets while a Kentucky feeder sought finish rations for spring and fall markets. Replies emphasized balanced rations, pastures, mineral mixes, and alternative roughages. Requests came from Alabama Colorado Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Missouri New York North Carolina Ohio South Carolina Utah Vermont West Virginia and Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Agriculture and Co-Operating
Maryland
Kentucky
Alabama
Colorado
Massachusetts
Missouri
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
South Carolina
Utah
Vermont
West Virgina
Wisconsin
Corn Shucks Fund a Montgomery County Girl's Schooling
Georgia Sharp a 17 year old girl from a remote Tuskegee inspired tenant farm in Montgomery County Alabama earns money for school through corn shuck weaving. Under the county home demonstration agent she learned to twist shucks into chair bottoms handbags and hats. She attended a Tuskegee short course for boys and girls and rode a railway for the first time. This training has generated orders helping her fund her education.
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Montgomery County
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
United States Department of Agriculture
Georgia Sharp
Georgia
Tuskegee Institute
Bell Telephone Employes Apply For 50 Million In Stock
Subscriptions for 60 million dollars of Bell Telephone Company 8 1 2 percent preferred stock were largely made by its Pennsylvania employees in the last four days of the week. About 76,000 workers across the Bell system in the state qualified as salesmen and received quotas split into teams led by captains. Installment plans allow ten dollars per share monthly with first payments due late December and certificates delivered after payments.
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Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
C. L. Ritchie
Securities Department of the
Bell Company
Mrs. Lewis to Remain on Job in Pittsburgh
Mrs Idda Lewis of Marchand, a prohibition enforcement agent in Pittsburgh, will not be transferred to Washington D C at headquarters it is decided for now she remains in Pittsburgh. The sole woman in Indiana County employed in this capacity she has led raids and recently helped seize a carload of bonded whiskey and serves as president of the Indiana County W C T U.
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Pittsburgh
Idda Lewis
Marchand
Washington, D. C
Indiana County
Mra. Lewis
W C.t. U
The Garden Lady a tale of Miss Amber and gardens
In a village a newcomer Miss Amber tends gardens for neighbors and refuses payment. Her charm masks a quiet sadness linked to lost love and a troubled mind yet she finds happiness in making others happy. A former lover, Hartwell, returns and reunites with her, ending the tale with shared joy.
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Miss Amber
George Martwell
Amber
Hartwell
George Hartwell
Mrs. Filson
Nimrods from Pitcairn Honored at Walker Home Supper
W M Walker hosted a turkey supper in honor of three Nimrods from Pitcairn. Murray Contrath and family from New York were visitors, spending a few days in the area for country hunting small game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Walker
Pitcairn
Murray Contrath
New
York
Old school chums joke about music at dinner
Two former schoolmates meet in a restaurant. One asks if the other still plays. The reply: I play second fiddle at home. London Tit-Bits.
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London
Was It Mutual Flapper Dinner and Theater Romance
A flapper recounts taking a gentleman to dinner at the Florentine then a theater, gifts of flowers and chocolates, champagne and oysters at the Valhalla, ending with a tuxedo home. The exchange shifts to skepticism as a London diarist notes the scene and tone.
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Florentine
Valhalla
London
An Important Guest Prompted by a Flapper Bore
Frances questions inviting a silly Mr flapper as Philippa defends the guest saying they cannot do without him. They note paying bin two dollars an hour to dirt with the chaperon.
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Frances
Mr. Flapper
Philippa
Coal Run Residents Visit County Seat
Among those from this place who spent a day at the county seat recently were Harvey McClure and family and George Ditech and family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dennison called on relatives in Clairaville during last week. The Tait children have been confined to their home with the chicken pox. Robert Cunningham and his mother visited Mrs. Cunningham's son, Boyd, and wife, of Slippery Rock, on Sunday.
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Harvey McClure
George Ditech
Frank Dennison
Qlairaville
Tait
Robert Cunningham
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John Langham
L. B. Barbour
Cherry Tree
Blanche Farnsworth
New Kensington
Citizen General Hospital
Bell, Telephone
Mrs. Lewis
Dodge Brothers Commercial Car
F. O. B. Datroit
Pitza
McGregor
Thomas
IN & CO
Western Newspaper Union
Cookport
Jerry Lydie
Clymer Co
H. Keating
Prank Tydie
Tudiana
W. H. Meekins
Layton Lowman
M. P
Wilt
Qgloyd
Mr. c
D. He Witt
Harry Lydie
J. R. Spicher
N. Smith
Punxsutawney
GW. McCullough
I, R. Spicher
Mr. Conrath
Wiliam Keeley
Albert Wad Dhiverent
Wagley
Charlie Walker
Reed Johnoe” Neeson
Earl Walker
Glen Campbell
Walter Mumau
John Walker
Rochester Mills
Albert Wagley
Teed Johnson
Billa Keeley
Phtearrn
Idaho
Jean Weaver
South Bend
Wn Ae
Wo. George
J.P. Stott
Harold Scott
Near South Bend
Ray Meyer
Wifinwild
W. W. Barr
Frank George
Vandergrift
Merit
Wilgus
Hart, Schaffner
Larx
Moorhead
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