Western Canada prize success at El Paso Dry Farming Congress
Western Canada swept prizes at the El Paso Dry Farming Congress winning top honors for wheat oats barley rye and alfalfa. The piece notes Western Canada as a premier mixed farming region with strong market prospects and railway outlets opening via Hudson Bay and Pacific routes. It highlights virgin land prices from 15 to 20 dollars per acre and Dominion Government homestead offers near rail access, urging readers to seek information from a Canadian Government agent.
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Canada
Texas
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Northwest
el Paso
Western Canada
Prairies
Chicago
Ehidson Bay
Panama Canal
Dominion
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No Wonder He Wonders
A fragmentary dialogue questions love for self versus possessions. A speaker recalls a past relationship and a line about a car altering affection. The brief hints at doubts about genuine feeling.
How to Treat Dandruff and Promote Hair Health
Advice promotes Cuticura Ointment for dandruff relief and itching. Instruction includes using Cuticure Soap with hot water next morning for a clean scalp, claiming freedom from crusting scalings and burning in most cases. Sample requests via postcard to Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Fragmented exchange hints at budget and distraction
The passage shows a person named Air responding to questions about the high cost of living while another speaker Groweher notes being too busy with mice to count or reflect. The text suggests a tense, busy scene with implied financial concerns.
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Air
Groweher
Values of Cheese and Calorie Content in Cream Varieties
The article explains cheese calories from 400 to 2585 with cream cheeses highest. Cottage cheese has little to no cream and up to 77 percent water. Flavoring before serving can lead to overeating. chefs using pastry syringes create small tarts with currant jelly.
Helpful Household Hints From Practical Cooking And Cleaning
Practical advice on preserving flavors in jars and spoons, using hot water bottles for stomach comfort, avoiding hats and oats clutter, cleaning window shades, best way to wash delicate fabrics with potatoes, cleaning piano keys and ivory with cloth soaked in alcohol, and using cologne-moistened flannel for yellowing items.
Basket-shaped pie crust baskets with whipped cream
Roll out a short crust bake until barely set then cut into four inch squares. Pinch two diagonal corners to form basket shapes, fill with sweetened whipped cream, return to oven a few minutes to warm and set.
Chicken Patties Recipe From Old Cookbook
Mince cold chicken and mix into a white sauce thickened with corn flour and seasoned with pepper and salt and butter. Line patty pans with puff paste bake briefly then fill with the mixture and bake in a hot oven to brown.
Coffee Custard Recipe From Old Cookbook
Coffee custard uses two cups milk two tablespoons ground coffee three eggs quarter cup sugar one eighth teaspoon salt one quarter teaspoon vanilla Scald milk with coffee strain Beat eggs slightly add sugar Salt vanilla and milk Strain into individual molds set in hot water bake until firm
Wicker Furnitura War Cleaning Method
For wicker furniture mix two measures of soapy water with three tablespoons of ammonia. Scrub thoroughly with a stiff brush. Rinse with a cloth dipped in warm water and air dry in the open.
Corn and Egg Custard Bake
A simple recipe instructs to bake corn ground smooth with milk and egg yolks, seasoned with salt and pepper. The mixture is beaten vigorously, poured into a dish, dotted with butter bits, and baked until browned.
Hospital Ship of U S to Set Pace for Navy Health Care
The United States plans a modern hospital ship costing 2.5 million dollars to be built in a navy yard. The 460 by 60 foot vessel will house 800 patients, include specialized wards for contagious cases, soundproof hearing tests, dental and biological labs, an animal testing yard, and a morgue. It aims to eclipse all rival ships with advanced stabilizers, hot meal delivery, and extensive medical facilities.
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Uncle Sam
Europe
Uncle’ Sam
United’ States
Navy Department
Congress
Navy Yard
B.C. Bolcomb
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Specral
Holcomb
Tae
Custer
Uncle Sam on Wheels A Federal Traveling Demonstration
The government funds a growing convoy of railroad cars each year to carry scientific demonstrations to the public. Cars from the food research lab, animal industry, mines, standards, fisheries, and chemistry travel to educate on welfare, weights, mine rescue, and food safety as a mobile laboratory advances.
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Sam
United States
Federal
Food Research Laboratory
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Mines, of Standards and of Fisheries
Bureau of Chemistry
Pacific
Atlantic
Great Lakes
Bureau of ‘Standards
Bureau of Mitesear
Uncle Sam's Doctors Call For More Fresh Air Advice
United States public health service urges Americans to exercise outdoors more and eat a simple moderate diet to combat gluttony and related ills. Dyspepsia is said to be improved by outdoor work and increased outdoor activity is recommended for better health.
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Uncle Sam
United States Public Health Service
United States
Paper twine from Madison tests shows strong mailability
Experiments by the U S forest products laboratory at Madison Wisconsin wrapped hundreds of packages with light weight paper twine. Each parcel containing a medium hook arrived intact with no fault traceable to the twine. The method cuts paper into strips then twists to form a cord. Strength depends on paper quality and treatment. Foresters note no factory use yet.
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Uncle Sam
Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
United States
Sugar Beet Industry Grows with Record Harvest and Output
Preliminary returns from nearly all beet sugar factories show 918 800 short tons of sugar produced in the current campaign. The area harvested reaches 680 000 acres and beet tonnage 671 000 short tons, the largest ever in the United States. Sugar production tops the 1915 record by over 44 600 tons, as US consumption nears four million tons annually.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Banker ponies of Albemarle Sound chase fish and thrive
Along North Carolina s coast a wild breed called banker ponies roams the Albemarle shore where they fish by digging holes in the sand at low tide. Twice the size of Shetland ponies they are intelligent when tamed and make strong draft animals.
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North Carolina
Albemarle Sound
Swamp-Root Promises Kidney and Bladder Relief
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a physician s prescription for kidney and bladder diseases. It claims rapid results from thousands of cases and offers a bottle for one dollar or a sample by mail with ten cents.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Foxy Jack Confesses to Love Declarations Before Proposal
Edith recalls Jack telling a dozen girls he loved them before proposing to her. Ethel comments the declarations were steps in a larger plan toward his current ideal, signaling a humorous tale of romance.
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Foxy
Jack
Edith
Ethel
An Ardent Wooer. on't elope and imagination run away
A witty Town Topics brief notes a fervent suitor pressing marriage while a beloved scoffs at elopement suggesting imagination outpaces reality. The quip captures playful romantic misreadings in social chatter.
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Bess
Lazative Hromo Quinine Patent Claim Circulates
A vintage ad urges customers to seek the genuine product as Lazative Hromo Quinine and cautions that only one brominated formula will cure two colds in one day. The notice bears the signature E. Wr. Grove.
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E. Wr. Grove
Tragedian Flubdub Faces Mixed Audience Dides
Critics note uneven acting by Tragedian Flubdub with some viewers claiming better performances from friends in the audience who appeared more impressed than the star.
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Tragedian Flubdub
Congressman's Courageous Word for Capitalists Cited
A remark praises a congressman for occasionally voicing support for American capitalists, noting his courage to align with business interests despite potential political risk.
Navy manpower swells to over 1.9 million on land and sea
The British navy's working forces extend beyond 1,900,000 personnel both afloat and ashore, reflecting vast manpower across maritime and land commands.
High Cost of Living Promotes Cheaper Meals with Skinner Pasta
An item urges households to fight rising food prices by serving Skinner’s macaroni and spaghetti as the cheapest nutritious option. It promotes a free cook book from Skinner Mfg. Co. and notes a central American humming bird as the smallest bird.
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Skinner Mfg. Co
Oroaha
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