Woman's Strength Wasted On Farm Need Better Equipment and Vacations
A U S department of agriculture survey of 10 015 farm homes across 33 northern and western states shows farm women work long hours with little vacation and many lack modern equipment. Miss Florence E Ward says better planning and investment in home equipment could reduce energy waste and help rural families stay on the land. Nearly all farm women cook, clean, sew, and manage water and laundry tasks alongside farm chores with limited leisure.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Florence E. Ward
States Relations Service
State Agricultural College
Ward
Minnesota prison nets 455000 for state as revenue fund grows
The Minnesota state prison at Stillwater reports a net income of 455 154 89 for the year ending June 30 after paying 355 024 45 in inmates wages and 76 926 10 to dependents. The revolving fund stands at 3 995 194 89 with net sales from prison industries of 5 065 535 48. The building debt has been reduced to 748 963 and the population dropped to 848. Salvation Army plans an 82 000 drive in Washington state during the week of October 7.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Sillwater
Charless. Reed
State Board of Control
Cull Hens Early Says Washington Experts on Laying
Washington State College experts demonstrate tests to identify laying hens and cull non producers. A. E. Anderson explains pigmentation body and molting tests to judge egg production and timing, advising early culling and careful selection for breeding stock.
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Washington State College
Pullman
A. E. Anderson
Puget Sound
Mr. Anderson
Northwest fruit crop and lumber freight summary
The Northwest apple crop reaches about sixty five percent of normal with quality high as dry weather reduced yield. Prunes are fine but light, pears scarce at about fifty percent normal, while peaches limited and potatoes plentiful. Lumber freight data show improved car availability but muted orders. first week after rate hike saw 825 new orders and mills maintaining operation with some shift reductions.
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West Coast Lumberman’s Association
Mississippi
Thinning and Pruning Boost Backyard Apple Yields
John T. Bartlett of Boulder in Popular Mechanics recounts how a backyard grower, faced with poor color and windfall, earned better harvests by thinning green apples in summer, using two to three pickings, and pruning to increase sun exposure.
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John T. Bartlett
Boulder
Colo
Logged Off Corner Offers Farmer Cost Reduction Tips
A call to readers on the West Coast to study how others farm and share methods weekly. The piece urges collective effort to reduce costs and labor, inviting wide participation and ongoing observation for practical advice.
Clearing Logged Off Lands in Western Washington
The article discusses the problem of clearing logged off lands in Western Washington and notes farmers’ efforts to reclaim fields. It highlights Oscar Newstream and F. J. Sprague clearing fifty acres near Duval with a portable shingle mill turning stumps into roof shingles, earning three dollars and eighty to four dollars fifty-five per thousand. It reflects on the aged logging ruins, stump challenges, and gradual return of land to cultivation.
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Washington
Oscar Newstream
F. J. Sprague
Duval
Newstream
Sprague
Boost for Our Home Town Paper
A call to readers to support the home town paper by citing its ads in purchases. It argues advertising proves value, funds printing, and keeps country papers alive, urging customers to mention seeing ads in the home paper.
Sunken S-5 crew celebrate escape after 41 hours
Navy men aboard the submarine S-5 endured 41 hours submerged off the Delaware capes with no food or lights. They drilled through a three quarter inch shell to escape, using gas masks and a shirt signal later seen by the S S Atlantus. They were rescued to the Philadelphia navy yard aboard a squadron ship.
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Dewey
Manila Bay
Schley
Santiago
Delaware Capes
Flanders
Uncle Sam
S. 8S. Atlantus
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Navy
Joseph Star Yonker
Camden
N. J
History making transcontinental airmail inaugurated
San Francisco begins coast to coast airmail service to New York with the first letters delayed briefly in Salt Lake City for a city celebration. In Chicago, heighten sanitation concerns arise as street commissioner reports alcohol home brew raiders clog East Chicago sewers with raisins.
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New York
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Chicago
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Land under cultivation rises in Whatcom county
Reports from Bellingham show Whatcom county cultivation increasing from 62,890 acres in 1918 to 69,071 acres this year, a gain of over 6,000 acres in two years.
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Bellingham
Whatcom County
U S Army Goods Sale Items and Prices Listed
An old line ad offers U S Army O D blankets tents and clothing with prices from 1.00 to 12.50. Items include heavy water crackers shoes wool undergarments and overcoats with terms for mail orders and C O D inspection and delivery options.
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U. S. Army
O. D. Ghiott
O. D
ST Desceene
Red Cross
Army
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