Barn Swallow Habits and Value in Farms
The barn swallow is a common, seven inch bird with a deeply forked tail that breeds across the United States and much of Canada and winters in South America. It is a major insect eater, hunting from dawn to dusk, with nests in barn rafters. Farmers can boost swallow numbers by ensuring barn entry points, as they help control pests though some insects are preserved for use during bad weather.
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United States
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Canada
South America
New England
Franklin’s Gull Inland Habits and Diet Highlight Benefits
The Franklin’s gull is the only inland gull in the United States with a black head and red bill. It breeds in the Dakotas Iowa Minnesota and nearby regions and winters from the Gulf Coast to South America. It favors extensive marshes for nesting and forages in freshly plowed furrows for grubs and worms. Its diet is insect heavy with thousands of grasshoppers and numerous beetles bugs and ants making up most of its meals. It is likely the most beneficial bird of its group due to its consumption of pest insects.
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United States
Franklin
Dakotas
Iowa
Minnesota
Sowthers
Gulf Coast
South America
Gulf
Screech Owl Description and Habits
The screech owl Otus asia stands about eight inches with ear tufts and two plumage phases grayish and bright rafons. It is resident across the United States southern Canada and southern Mexico inhabiting orchards groves and hedgerows. In warm spells it forages widely and stores significant prey in hot low trees.
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United States
Canada
Mexico
Blackbirds Storms and Plows A Bird Study Note
A field note describes the Breeding range of a blackbird species and its diet with high fruit consumption. It details western abundance, flocking behavior around barns, and insect prey including cutworms cotton bollworms and moth pupae. It also includes a long narrative about a thunderstorm tale with King and Queen Thunder and their frolic with Lightning children and rain skies.
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Thunder
Old Queen Thunder
King Thunder
Inventor inmate shows fly trap folly at asylum
A visiting gentleman encounters a resident claiming to be an inventor. He unveils a drawing of a contraption intended to trap a fly by a marble slab, a steel tower, a house with doors, and ladders, promising the insect will fall to its death.
Warming Up Before Sleep To Fight Cold Bed Lowers Sleep Onset
Instructional tip advises warming the body in a cold bed by lying on the back with coverings tucked, alternately drawing one leg toward the trunk and extending it. Repeated about 100 times while vigorous, breathing steady, aims to raise body heat and induce sleep. weaker individuals may perform fewer strokes, resting between efforts.
Improved Match Striker Tack Piece of By Screen
A rough note describes an improved match striker design using a screen over sandpaper of equal size. The concept claims greater durability than standard sandpaper and references Popular Science Monthly as the source lineage.
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Populer Sciences Monthly
Fangies and Fads of Fashion
Bathing fashion this year features longer fuller skirts with sleeves partly covering the upper arm and elaborate needlework. New designs include silk bloomers worn under skirts, princess coats, and stripes in wide color blends, with bloomers and stockings matched to vests and girdles. Swimming salts favor solid plains and tight fits, while princess bathing salts remain trim and shapely in plain fabrics with striped or checked borders.
Elegant Linen and Voile Blouses Debut in Summer Styles
The feature dresses include a hand embroidered linen blouse with a wide sailor collar and blue piping, shown in natural and blue tones, plus a voile blouse in chartreuse with hematitched seams and a high collar. Prices differ by fabric and embroidery, the linen version commanding higher value.
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Volle
Automatic brake for bike tip from The American Boy
A bicycle safety tip explains how to use the right foot against the tire to brake if the bike runs away. By rising in the saddle and pressing with the instep, the rider can throw weight onto the tire to pull the machine up on steep hills and regain control.
Four zones named by pupil in class prompt
In a junior class exercise the teacher asks how many zones exist. A pupil replies four and then names the frigsted horrid temperance and the Intemperance, humorously misstating the term intemperance.
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Willie
Thought He Was Old Enough Dialogue Between Grandfather and Granddaughter
A four year old Lola quizzes her grandfather with playful biblical references asking if he was in the ark and why he was not drowned. The exchange mixes humor with a child's blunt curiosity, capturing a warm family moment.
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Lola
Striped Ponges and Pongee Ailks Arrive in Bright Stripes
Pongee ailks now feature awning stripes in bright red, green or blue on natural pongee ground, set with careful color and pattern.
Crepe Blouses Highlight Spring Color Range
Rare color notes rose and coral shades dominate this spring fashion scene. The piece urges women to try crepe blouses or frocks to see how attractive they can look in soft, kindred hues and new-season garments.
Blazer Stripes Feature in New Cottons
Blazer stripes appear in the new cottons and are effectively used for coat collars and for sports coats and suits.
Modish Color Trend Guides Spring Wardrobe
In the spring to choose a modish color for her stand by suit nine out of every ten women end by buying some shade of blue.
The Common Chores and Blue Suit Exhibition
A costume house showcased seventy five styles of blue suits attracting attention from well dressed women. The feature highlights ongoing display and shopping appeal for formal attire.
Sailor Hat Styles for Present Wear
A perfectly plain sailor hat is the best type for present wear. It is fairly broad in the brim and smart with a low crown. Options include black with a ribbon, all white, or navy blue with a ribbon. overall, the color choice matters little beyond navy blue.
Monument to Rowley Reflects Minneapolis Civic Spirit
A Minneapolis ceremony unveiled a monument to Rowley, the plain citizen who helped build the city’s electric railway and lay the foundation for a thriving metropolis. The editorial urges other communities to honor such civic builders.
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Minneapolis
Rowley
Minnesota
Bia
Huron Times-Herald
Art in House Terracing
Terraces belong to architecture and should stay closely connected to buildings. House terraces near structures should be kept tight to the adjacent area with a plants bed, path, and outer apron, then the terrace. When multiple terraces exist, each level should be broader than the one above to ease down to the field.
Housing aliens in industrial towns contest prizes outlined
National Americanization committee offers $2100 in prizes for immigrant housing plans in industrial towns. Two groups cover worker housing for towns up to 35000 and a second for better railway construction car housing. First group prizes: 1000, 500, and 100 hundered each for third to fifth. second group prizes: 200 and 100.
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National Americanization Committee
How a Builder Financed Operations
A builder explains financing his home project by securing a cooperative bank loan for land and plans, subscribing for shares, and drawing funds in installments. He used his deposit bank for short term notes to pay cash as work progressed, saving money and gaining purchase advantages by using his bank as reference.
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Home Builders
Bank of Deposit
Co-Operative Bank
Boston Herald
Shipbuilders Busy Build Private Vessels in 1916
Shipbuilders report ongoing work in private American shipyards as of February 1, 1916. Steel merchant vessels totaling 901,371 tons are under contract, with 250 of 901,371 tons recorded in the returns to the Bureau of Navigation, Department of Commerce.
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Bureau of Navigation
Department of Commerce
Not on the Right Tack in Chicago Poets Whiskers Debate
A Chicago man argues against a defense of whiskers by noting that many beloved poets wore facial hair, but the piece contends he is taking the wrong tack in the discussion.
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Chicago
The Juggler: Saloon Money Trick Exposed
A satirical scene titled The Juggler shows a performer claiming to reveal how saloons drain town revenue. He demonstrates moving twenty thousand dollars into a town official’s pocket while secretly removing two hundred thousand from the other pocket, exposing a classic pickpocket illusion. The quip targets the saloon business and its perceived financial impact.
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Mr. Jones
Jones
Better Off When Driven Out Saloonkeeper’s Dry Town Threat
A Rockford NL saloonkeeper told a Retail Liquor Dealers meeting that if Rockford becomes dry, dealers would be better off once out of the business. He warned many would fail financially as breweries profit, saying health declines and more refuse the business, but they would persevere until driven out.
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Rockford
Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association
Hill
Practical Result in Russia Prohibits Vodka
The British Weekly quotes Prof J Y Simpson on Russia showing labor prices rising after vodka ban. Peasants accumulate money, repay loans, buy land and securities, and start small businesses. He notes 100 million roubles monthly previously spent on vodka now stays in peasant economy and cites a duma speech urging permanent prohibition into law.
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Russia
J. Y. Simpson
Duma
Prohibitory laws urged by temperance union speakers
The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union advocates prohibitory laws as the kindest act for men in liquor trade, arguing it drives alcohol out of business and into legitimate work, while quelling the drink evil. A hospital scene contrasts an abstainer Scot with a strong drinker, illustrating whisky’s harm. Dr Campbell Morgan urges Americans to back measures to curb the drink traffic.
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Saya
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Abgard
Mac
Campbell Morgan
Soclology
Drinker Pays Revenue as Bartender Collects Tax
A short note states that the drinker bears the revenue tax while the bartender merely collects it, illustrating an apparent shift in tax collection responsibility.
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Brewer
Texas
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Guatemala
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Old King
Daddy
Nancy
By Julia Bottomley
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Tings
National Woman's In Christian Temperanes Union
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Kraspelin
Germany
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