Benefactor Steer Highlight of Purdue Short Course Work
The Purdue agricultural extension buys Benefactor a renowned 1700 pound shorthorn steer famed for multiple grand championships. The animal will travel to farmers’ short courses for live stock judging, with students scoring Benefactor alongside other animals to learn selection and feeding practices.
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Purdue University Agricultural Extension Department
Indiana
America
Lencotactor
University
Temeon Prothers
Dover
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural College
Se Joseph
Kansas City
Chicago
Kansas College
St. Joseph
Concoctions of Rice in Healthful Dishes and Desserts
A New York Sun article extols rice as a versatile food and lists recipes from Spanish rice to rice tortillas, cheese cakes with boiled rice, luncheon dishes with ham, corn meal and rice breads, rice puddings including a chocolate version, and a rice pudding baked slowly. It describes ingredient ratios and cooking steps for each dish.
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Mexico
New York Sun
Why Go Incubator Chicks Die And Prevention Measures
A historical guide explains why incubator chicks die before three weeks and outlines two main causes: White Diarrhoea a contagious disease and management or sanitation failures. It details prevention steps including purging parent hens with Epsom salts disinfecting premises and disinfecting incubators to reduce fatal infections.
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Tony
Tornado Wrecks College Building in Central Indiana
A tornado that swept central Indiana demolished the seed and fertilizer building of the agricultural experiment station, built about two years ago, with an estimated loss of 10 thousand dollars. Many station windows were shattered and two sheep sheds for lambs were blown away, marking one of Indiana's most destructive storms.
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Indiana
Agricultural Experiment Station
Broadening Views at Indiana Agricultural Science Meetings
The Academy of Agricultural Science, a group of Indiana experiment station men, meets bi monthly. A department specialist presents a facet of work, inviting questions and opening cross department contact to broaden perspectives across the station.
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The
Academy of Agricultural Science
Indiana Experiment Station
Clover rotation yields worth five to twelve dollars per acre
Indiana experiment station findings show clover in rotation with corn and cereals can add from five to eight dollars per acre in crop value, with conservative estimates ranging from five to twelve dollars per acre depending on soil conditions.
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Indiana Experiment Station
Penochi Recipe For Creamy Nut Candies
A historic recipe lists brown and white sugar with milk and butter. It instructs to cook until no waxy ball forms, add half cup walnuts, chop three or four digs, then stir in cream of tartar, cool until grainy, then add vanilla nuts and figs, pour into buttered a dish, and cut into squares once cooled.
Plum Pudding Recipe Summary Card
A traditional plum pudding mix with bread crumbs milk and butter and sugar. The instructions list ingredients such as baking powder sweet milk eggs raisins currants suet citron and spices and citrus. The batter is steamed for four hours resulting in a rich dessert.
Spice Box with Oilcloth Lining and Hanging Curtains
A lidless spice box about kitchen-table length and eight inches square is lined with white oilcloth on all sides except one long side. It can be hung on a nail above the table to hold spices baking powder and more. A colored oilcloth cover hangs over the ends to form a curtain. Brass screw eyes on each end serve as hanging points for kettle holders.
Kitchen Aprons Match Wash Dresses for Neat Look
A Ladies Home Journal contributor urges pairing kitchen aprons with wash dresses for a neater appearance. Even white dresses seem nicer with a matching big white apron, suggesting coordinated outfits for tidy, cohesive styling.
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The
Ladies Home Journal
Sweet Pickle for Hams Recipe Notes
Boil water with salt and sugar then skim and cool to make sweet pickle for hams. Uses one gallon water with rock salt and saltpetre for curing. Includes measurements given as fractions and percentages for precise mixing.
Fichu in Graceful Drape Shows Openwork and Black Silk Trim
A delicate frock features a newly imitated fichu draped open to reveal a vest in fine white batiste with openwork stripes. Black silk double hem stitching outlines the waist and cuffs, with a cordeliere waist trim and panels in the skirt. praised for its modern, intricate yet manageable needlework.
Vancy Gauze Hairbands and Christmas Ribbon Trends
The Dry Goods Economist notes Pisin gold and silver gauze ribbons are popular for fancy hairbands. Numerous warp printed ribbons with satins create varied bags from work bags to vanity cases. Gold lace braid and ruches on narrow ribbons trim edges and conceal seams.
Negligee Collars for Boys DIY Guide
Directions for making soft double collars at home for boys. Use a linen collar pattern or replica collar, with one yard and three quarters of heavy linen to yield twelve collars. Interline with coarse white muslin and ensure lining matches the outside cut to prevent stretching during laundering.
Novelty Boots with Silk Tops and Pearl Button Detailing
A description of high class novelty boots featuring silk tops with patent leather, champagne kid with patent leather, and brown suede cloth. New material resembling real leather also uses patent leather. Silks include ottoman and liner corded weave. Boots have sixteen to eighteen real pearl buttons, straight foxings, and Cuban heels measuring one and seven eighths inches.
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Champagne Kid
Hair Headdresses Shine With Fashionable Florals and Fillets
The piece notes choices in elaborate headpieces by top costumers Ime Paquin Poiret and Beer. It describes walls of rhinestones and bullion lattice cups with turquoise garnet and aigrettes, black velvet bands, and pearl coral Italian caps inspired by Juliet, all surfacing amid pink fashion trends.
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Ime
Paquin
Paul Poiret
Beer
Troy
Juliet
Pretty Evening Waist Trimmed with Lace and Embroidery
A dainty pale pink mousseline de soie waist features lace bands and floral embroidery. The accompanying guimpe is white mousseline de soie, offering a coordinated ensemble piece.
Knocked-Through Neglige Styles Bake Cozy Knit Matinees
Attractive negliges have entered the fashion for knitted garments with delicate silk and lace. White and light shaded worsted matinees feature accordion plaiting to preserve slender lines while adding fullness. The empire line dominates Parisian silk and lace designs with a plain bodice, silken girdle, and full accordion plaited skirt.
Federal Health Board Sparks Opposition Across Nation
The San Francisco Argonaut argues against a federal health board, warning it would enforce one medical school, threaten individual rights, and marginalize unorthodox practices. It cautions the plan would enforce medical orthodoxy and resemble an established religious sect in power.
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Federal Health Board
United States
Federal Board of Health
Health Board
San Francisco
Boy ponders Othello's plot after theater trip
A boy, after watching the play Othello, questions his grandfather about the black man killing a lady in the tragedy. The brief dialogue captures a child’s curiosity about dramatic violence seen on stage.
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Bobby
Hisrandfather
Bobbys
Grandpapa
Natural Deduction. Why are lawyers always bad in papers
A child asks why lawyers are portrayed negatively in legal pages. The parent explains that cross examinations are often depicted, prompting discussion about bias in courtroom reporting and public perception of lawyers.
Kindred Spirits and a Square Meal Bid
A fragment shows dialogue with Plodding Pete and a resolute noy as a dog is turned loose name Towser referenced, hinting at a swift meal or plan within two days. The lines suggest a rural or frontier tone with coined character names and quick exchanges.
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Pete
Noy
Towser
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Purdue University Agricultural Extension
Championship Steer
Purdue University
A. G. Philips
Animal Husbandry Department
Purdue University Experiment Station
K. G. B. Morse
UA. 3
Bureau of Animal Industry
PF. Retiger
FO OH. Stemebarn
Connecticut Suen Ostaiien
Neapon
Penochi
Spice Box
Photographed
Underwood & Underwood
N. Y
Fichu
Vancy
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