University Commons offers opportunity for home economics training
The article argues the University Commons on the Pacific Coast provides practical training for women beyond teaching. It describes cafeteria style operation, student dietitians, and placements in hospitals, tea rooms, and commercial cafeterias, urging a dedicated home economics building with a cafeteria to meet growing needs.
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Pacific Coast
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Commons
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cider declared national drink at apple show
F R Salter of Spokane has won the cider privilege for the seventh National Apple Show to be held in Spokane the week of November 16. A large cider mill will produce fresh cider on cider mill row and visitors may see the jug with a bead or two in evidence while cider from the mill is sold at stands.
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F. R. Salter
Spokane
His Majesty’s Court
Reduced Rail Rates For National Apple Show In Spokane
Special fare of one third off round trip available across all lines and branches to Spokane for the National Apple Show and Fruit Products Congress held the week of November 16. Concession starts before opening and runs after closing. New feature this year allows excursion rates from Portland and Seattle on designated days.
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Spokane
Portland
Seattle
Apple fruit praised as life renewing by New York physician
A New York physician analyzes the apple as a health booster noting its albumen sugar gum and malic and gallic acids. He claims apples neutralize excess chalky matter aid digestion improve complexion and brain function as the gods once did with the fruit of youth.
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Spokane
New York
Court hears wife retracts accusations in German case
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung reports a husband faced the court on his wife’s complaint. The judge’s harsh stance frightened her, and she refused to testify. She conceded no blows, saying the black eye came from a mantelpiece and the ear bite from herself.
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Illustrirte Zeitung
Early Writing Implements Through the Ages
The text traces writing tools from pointed reeds and styluses to pencils and the modern pen. It notes bronze nibs and silver pens as curiosities of rulers and historians, and marks the pencil as a later invention with the first known black lead pencil noted in 1565 in a Zurich book.
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Pompeii
Zurich
Boiling a Fish According to Old Method
A recipe describes boiling any fish in a large pot with water vinegar salt onion pepper and mace. The fish is wrapped in cheesecloth and simmered thirty minutes then boiled ten minutes. Serve with drawn butter and lemon juice.
A Youthful Investigator
A six year old asks a visitor waiting for his mother to take off a shoe to inspect for crow's feet. The child repeats the remark to the stranger Miss Bellam who responds with surprise at the request.
Dangerous street harangue about a child’s dress
A poem warns a young girl about wearing revealing clothing and the risk of danger. The speaker discourages scant attire, urging her to cover up and even suggesting a sack to prevent wardrobe mishaps. The verses imply moral judgment and fear about the girl’s safety on the street.
Peanuts Growth and Origin Discussed
The peanut forms underground after flowering, with sterile above ground blooms. A stalk grows into earth to develop the nut. Botanists disagree on its native country, Africa or America. It is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions and grows best in the southern United States.
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Africa
America
American Union
Rotterdam firm to exhibit at seventh National Apple Show
Despite the European war the firm of W. van Diem of Rotterdam will take space in the industrial department of the seventh National Apple Show to be held November 16 to 21. The firm annually handles large quantities of northwestern boxed apples and has nearly doubled the annual output for several years.
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W. van Diem
Rotterdam
Russet Backed Thrush Prefers Watered Areas For Food
The russet backed thrush favors fruit but stays near streams, avoiding orchards far from water. It is most troublesome during cherry season. Beetles form the main diet, followed by ants and caterpillars.
National Apple Show to feature health value emphasis
The seventh National Apple Show in Spokane the week of November 16 will highlight apples as a rich source of food value. It will stress claims that apples can rival meat in nutrition and promote daily consumption for health, including urging school children to eat more apples and less glucose.
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Spokane
Sloan's Liniment Relief for Rheumatic Pains
The advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment as an immediate remedy for rheumatic pains around joints. It claims fast action without rubbing and broad uses for pains, bruises, sore throats, neuralgia, chest pains, and infection prevention, with a testimonial from Chas H Wentworth of California and a 25 cent guarantee at druggists.
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Sloan
Chas. H. Wentworth
California
Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey Fall Cough Remedy
Stop that fall cough and check your cold with Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey. It relieves irritated throat and lungs, loosens phlegm, and fortifies against colds. Suitable for babies and children, guaranteed for 25 cents at the druggist.
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Dr. Bell
Have you anything to sell or trade Echo ad will do the work
A terse prompt inviting readers to place Echo ads for selling or trading items. The note emphasizes that an Echo ad will handle the transaction.
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Echo
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