Women Lead Nation in Clean Up and Paint Up Drive
Allen W. Clark details the 1915 nationwide Clean Up and Paint Up campaign led by women with over a million participants from Bangor to San Diego. The effort aims at all year round civic improvement, sanitation, and beautification through street cleaning, painting, gardening, and community projects with support from national and local women’s clubs and newspapers.
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Allen W. Clark
National Campaign Bureau
St. Louis
Lves
Bangor
San Diego
Cal
Fortes
Bureau
T. United States
Mr. Clark
New England
Natonal Bureau
Clarence Baxter
Kirksville
Civics
National Federation of Women’s Clubs
E. T. Senseney
Pure Food Committee
Consumers’ League of St. Louis
W. R. Chivvis
Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs
Philip N. Moore
St Louis
National Federation of Women's Clubs
Thomas Sherwin
Department of Streets and Allers
Women's Municipal League of
Boston
National
United States
National Bureau
Clark
The
St. Mra. Baster
Mra. Senseney
Ecuadorian Rice in Diet and Trade Practices
The article explains Ecuadorian rice as a staple for all social classes, noting limited domestic production and heavy imports. It details May harvest, hand stripping, typical yields of twenty bushels per acre, and a system where Janda rent fields to small farmers who sell to town merchants who then exchange 180 pounds of unhulled rice for 140 pounds hulled, with six months storage.
Clean Up and Paint Up Movement Boosts Community Pride
The Clean Up and Paint Up movement in the United States gains traction as communities push for year round property upkeep. Citizens are urged to beautify yards, fences, sheds, and alleys with durable paint, soap, and water, viewing cleanliness as civic duty and health, with hospitals and schools cited as examples of superior upkeep.
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Bureau
ELLOW
Napett
United States
Sexton
Trouble in getting stand of clover
The article advises on methods to establish clover stands amid dry seasons at Missouri College of Agriculture. It covers use of nurse crops like rye wheat and oats, timing for fall or spring sowing, drilling with disk drills, and crop combinations with timothy and wheat. It notes conditions where nurse crops help or hinder and references Circular 48 from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Hutchinson
Missouri College of Agricuture
Missouri Agricultural Experimentatation
Columbia
Good roads advocates push elites to fund city links
A Washington Star report captures sentiments of successful business leaders urging wealthy interests to finance better highways. They argue improved roads raise farm values, cut transport costs, boost social life, and expand city markets from Maryland and Virginia towns toward Washington, with Frederick and Warrenton cited as benchmarks.
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Washington Star
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Frederick
Warrenton
Fairfax
Expert Testimony Attacks Alcohol's Harms and Prohibition Hope
Dr John Dill Robertson Chicago health commissioner links alcohol to 25 percent of deaths and various diseases and notes its mental and social harms. Sir William Osler cites stomach inflammation, heart disease and insanity. The piece argues prohibition is near as dry towns boost business for circuses and challenges saloon needs.
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John Dill Robertson
Chicago
William Osler
Johna Hopkins
Oxford
McGill
Pennsylvania
Bright
Hagenbeck-Wallace
William Allen White
Emporia
Kan
Missouri
Kangas
Mr. White
John Parleycorn
John
Vacant Lot Gardens Promoted By Clean Up Campaign
A committee within the Clean Up and Paint Up campaign seeks permission from owners to plant gardens on vacant lots. They will organize children's garden clubs modeled after successful programs in many cities towns and villages nationwide and offer prizes for the best vegetables and summer flowers.
Man mutters color list to recall wife’s store request
A worried man on a street car mutters a string of odd words like Thope roseda and peach while his seatmate asks if he is crazy. He explains he was sent by his wife to a department store to check color options and is trying to recall the exact information to give her.
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Finglly
Cray
Kansas City Star
Diversification Essential On Farm
By 8 B Cleland Minnesota Experiment Station. A farm management demonstration shows larger farms, diverse operations and efficient labor deliver higher yields and income. The ten best farms averaged 60 percent more land, 10 percent more income per animal, 122 bushels per acre of potatoes versus 99, and labor income near $1,400 compared with $414 locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Cleland
Minnesota
Tve
Important Chick Feed Milk for Young Chicks
Milk whether sweet or sour is an important feed for young chicks. It increases vitality and strengthens resistance to disease when fed early.
Feeds Necessary for Eggs and Farm Care
A fragment urges best grain ration for eggs, notes other essentials like animal food and green foods, and stresses a good comfortable house as part of farm care. It cautions against overreliance on open-air advocates.
Poultry Protection in Cold Weather Across Mild Climates
Even in mild climates poultry require shelter windbreaks and dry roosting areas during winter. Proper housing helps prevent exposure hypothermia and disease while maintaining egg production and flock health through cold spells.
Egg Gathering Habit Warns of Danger to Hens
The text warns that repeated egg gathering throughout the day risks leaving eggs in the nest until evening, which invites the hen to break and eat them. Once a hen develops this habit it is nearly impossible to break, and the suggested remedy is to kill her at once.
Asphalt Oil Best on Roads Says University Opinion
Dean FB J McCaustland of the University of Missouri school of engineering endorses an asphalt base road oil. Oils with paraffin evaporate quickly, leaving roads muddy and sticky, while asphalt base oils perform nearly as well as asphalt paving according to engineering experiment analyses from the station.
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FB. J. McCaustland
School of Engineering
University of Missouri
Engineering Experiment Station
Dean McCaustland
Good Roads Fill Churches and Communities
A compact reflection on the value of good roads as a sign of culture and civilization. The piece argues that better highways keep rural youths connected, foster neighborliness, and sustain schools along the route, asking readers whether their communities pass the test.
Maintenance of Roads Principles
A historic note emphasizes road upkeep with drainage as the first and last commandment in maintaining earth roads, stressing surface water control as essential for durability and usability. It highlights drainage as core to road maintenance strategy and long term performance.
Teakettle season advice for chick feed protein content
A farmer advises buyers to select feed with high protein content to promote rapid growth and healthy chicks during peak season for purchasing tea and feed.
Trap Nest Update for Flock Yield Enhancement
A note describes using a trap meet method to select for leg-rich traits in poultry. It suggests testing across several seasons to maximize cee yield, emphasizing incremental trial and selection to improve leg count in the flock.
March Dry Voter Drift Expands North American Prohibition
In March Manitoba voted dry by a wide margin extending prohibition by 251,882 square miles. Canada rapid drift to dry, with Alberta Prince Edward Island Newfoundland Nova Scotia excluding Halifax and Saskatchewan enacting controls. New Brunswick, two thirds of Quebec dry. Ontario and British Columbia plan plebiscites this year.
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Manitoba
Canada
North America
Dominion of Canada
Alberta
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Saskatchewan
New Hrunewick
Quebec
Ontario
British Columbia
Saloon Abolition and Bartender Futures Debate
The piece argues about the fate of bartenders if saloons are abolished, noting a bartender’s salesmanship skills transfer to other roles. It compares employment needs for bread and clothing versus liquor, and cites a suggestion from Duncan C Milner that real estate deeds should restrict saloon introduction to protect future homeowners in saloon-free neighborhoods.
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Galeaman
Charlea Stelzle
Duncan C. Milner
Chicago Daily News
A Kansas Woman Physician Reflects on Drinking Habits
A mature Kansas woman physician recalls a childhood environment with no saloons and strict drinking norms. She notes that drinking was considered inappropriate for respectable people and that she never encountered drunkenness in her upbringing.
Saloonkeepers Expectations and Public Concerns
A harsh critique argues liquor traffic drains dollars while returning little benefit, linking it to crime, misery, and degradation. The piece calls for public acknowledgment of the negative social effects and questions the gratitude often extended to saloonkeepers.
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Syria
Gowers
Washington Suburb
Emperance Des
National Woman's Christan Temperance Union
University of Missouri Engineering
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