Billie Brownie visits zoo friends and keeps a polite farewell
Billie Brownie chats with the Seal family at the zoo about their playful diving and fish feeding routine. He then visits the Zebu and family and finally greets Teddy Tahr and Leddy Tahr in India. The animals share witty exchanges and gentle, humorous insights into their lives.
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Illie Brownie
Billie Brownie
Zebu
India
Eddy Tahr
Aid Leddy Tahr
Indi
Teddy
Tahr
Tyler 1
Teddy Tahr
Milk of human kindness origin in Macbeth cited by Jean Newton
The phrase meaning gentleness and compassion traces to Shakespeare's Macbeth Act I scene V where Lady Macbeth remarks that Macbeth is “too full of the milk of human kindness.” The note explains how the expression evolved from a reproach of weakness to a general term for kindness in modern usage.
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Shakespeare
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
The Why of Superstitions by Harving King
The piece explains the saying let the old cat die and links swinging rites to magical and sun worship origins. It traces swinging across Europe to solstices, harvests, and weather magic, noting that restarting the swing after the phrase is uttered is considered bad luck.
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Europe
Frazer
Russia
Akes Price
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
For Meditation by Leonard A Barrett
Service is the greatest thing in the world and the key to prosperity success and happiness. Careers of notable achievement come from creating a product that satisfies a human need and earning the goodwill of comrades. True leadership leads by personality and common sense with regard for others rights and feelings. The biggest asset in any achievement is service.
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Henry Drummond
Orion
SAWS By Viola Brothers Shore
A fragmentary verse note contrasts suspicion and watchfulness with a wary tone. The text references a host and guest dynamic, a stolen overcoat, and suggests cautious judgment in social situations amid cryptic imagery.
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Viola Brothers
Separate sexes while yet young in poultry flocks
Poultry experts from the New York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca advise separating cockerels from pullets once cockerels reach 1.25 to 2 pounds. This reduces crowding, improves growth for both sexes, reduces fighting, and supports breeding readiness. Group cockerels by size, provide large ranges and multiple feed/water points to prevent under nourishment. Begin selective breeding or market cockerels at 6-12 weeks depending on breed. Early crate fattening boosts per‑pound price.
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New York State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
Prime broilers fetch profits with timely sale
New Jersey poultry experts advise keeping broilers in prime condition with rapid uniform growth. Farmers nationwide dump excess cockerels in May to July, and only the best, well fed birds fetch profits while poor or fair stock sells at a loss.
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Jersey
C. S.platt
New Jersey
Laying Mash Suggestions From New York Station
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station outlines ingredients for egg laying mashes. Common materials include wheat bran, middlings, linseed oil meal, corn meal, ground oats, alfalfa meal, meat scrap, fish meal, and dried buttermilk feed. The Cornell standard mix uses equal parts wheat bean, wheat middlings, corn meal, ground oats, and oat scraps with bone meal or lime often added.
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New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Cornell
Poultry House Dimensions and Spacing Guidelines
Authorities advise a poultry house 16 to 20 feet wide with a south facing shed roof or 10 to 25 feet wide with a low double roof. Large waste and half monster designs are unpopular. Space guidance ranges from four to five square feet per bird, implying four fowls per foot of length for a 16 foot wide building.
Poultry House Floor Designs Compared in Old Guide
The article compares floor options for poultry houses noting that double wood floors with heavy paper insulation resist drafts but wear out quickly. Dirt and sand can sift through with gravel or sand floors. Cement floors are solid when well constructed and foundation walls should extend 12 to 18 inches into the ground.
White accessories and silken shawls charm summer fashion
The piece highlights white silken shawls with heavy fringe in various origins and colors plus white kid shoes and white accessories for summer ensembles. It notes hand painted lace shawls, delicate strappings, and the trend toward white pumps and flannel wraps. Julia Bottomley reports from Western Newspaper League.
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Billie’s Zoo
Sieedee
Ruth Taylor
Atotides
Grand Rapids, Mich
Miss Taylor
By Jean Newton
Girugagp
Saya Rena Milzi
Leonard A. Barrett
McClare
New York
Julia Bottomley
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