Signs of Modes for the Season Frocks Bring Long Skirts and Sleeves
A fashion writer notes spring frocks will feature fuller silhouettes with added length but not extreme. Long skirts divide opinion. looser panels and sleeves dominate, with coats and wraps pairing to form coordinated outfits. Lelong models highlight dark blue velvet dresses with braided trim, puffed sleeves, and panel effects creating varied skirt lengths. Silk and kasha cloth gain favor for street wear, offering texture and color while maintaining structure.
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New York Times
Lelong
New Silk Crepe Weaves Invite Modern Wear
The article extols silk crepe fabrics for daily and formal dress, praising their lightness and comfort. It notes silks for capes, coats, and evening wear, with silk on silk linings enhancing charm and a graceful standing silhouette.
Charming roomy stucco house plans promise eight rooms
Architectural feature spreads seven rooms with three sleeping porches in a two story stucco design. The description highlights a 14 by 23 foot living room with fireplace and built in bookcases, a bright 18 by 17 dining room, and a compact kitchen. Second floor offers three large bedrooms including a master 29 by 14 feet with a sleeping porch. Additional flex space allows a possible extra bedroom at no cost.
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Familly
Suburban Home Features Porte Cochere and Stucco Finish
A residence measures 308 by 32 feet with a porte cochere and rear garage adding breadth. The house uses stucco over hollow tile, adaptable to brick or frame, and includes a partial front porch. The design aims for economical, satisfactory arrangement and quality for a buyer.
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Wileness
Taffeta Sets Fashion Pace for Afternoon and Evening Dresses
Taffeta in softest quality gains popularity for puffed skirt dresses with old world charm. Crepes remain favored for afternoon drapes and satin for evening drapery. Tweeds emerge as the season’s staple for town and country wear and accessories, promising varied colors and bold forms.
Pope's Love for Reading and Silent Company
A fragment quotes Pope praising reading over social talk and notes the speaker’s preference for books over conversation. The excerpt hints at solitary study and the value of literature in companionship.
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Pope
Cock fighting in ancient sport history and reach
The piece traces cock fighting as one of the oldest sports from India to China and Egypt, noting its spread via Greece after Themistocles, Athens commemorating victories with public cock fights, mentions school matches and Henry VIII’s Whitehall cockpit as historical anchors.
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China
India
Egypt
Asia Minor
Themistocles
Kim
Athens
William Fitz Stephen
Henry VIII
Whitehall
Costume talk and compliments in a 19th century vignette
A business man describes a dress to his wife after admiring a striking young woman. He notes the garment as made of cloth with trim resembling lace or shrimp pink color, and mentions a hat like those worn by women, all creating an effect he wishes his wife could have seen.
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Nof
Fiddler
Comparing Whalebone Adaptations in Sharks and Whales
The passage explains that whales rely on whalebone to filter small sea creatures from water. It compares this to basking sharks and whale sharks whose tiny teeth are nonfunctional but have gill rakers forming a net to capture shrimp-like prey. These sharks can exceed 40 feet in length.
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Indian Ocean
Mystery Remark Sparks Debate in Boston
A clipped quote about familiarity and self admiration surfaces in Boston provoking readers to ponder vanity versus humility. The remark invites reflection on human ego and social behavior amid urban life.
Should She Speedo Sing Topica of the Day Films
A quirky dialogue fragment mentions a wife singing and a playful exchange about speedo attire. The line hints at a lighthearted column item titled Topica of the Day.
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Speedo
Sad Fate of Jones and Bocker’s Hooded Wagon
The New York Sun reports on the mysterious fate of Jones and the hooded wagon of Bocker. Details are scarce but the implication of a dramatic event surrounds both names.
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Jones
New York
Best Plan for Succession Planting Peas and Rotation
The article explains choosing pea varieties Gradus Laxton Alaska Surprise and Thomas Laxton with dwarf to tall forms benefiting from support. It recommends succession planting a week to ten days apart and double-row spacing with four feet between rows for vigorous types. Rotation is urged to protect soil and prevent repeating crops in the same spot.
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Alaska and
Maude
Alaska
Thomas Laxton
San Jose Scale Resurgent in North County Orchards
After a period of decline due to sleet, the San Jose scale is reappearing in northern home orchards. Without another sharp sleet event, growers must use lime-sulphur and scalecide to save trees, spraying best on still days to reach all branches.
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San Jose
Gardeners urged to keep planting records for varieties
Gardeners should maintain records of planting dates and maturity times for various vegetables to identify earliest latest and mid season varieties. This practice saves trouble and helps plan planting times and harvests during the growing season.
Fertilizer Boosts Yields With Soil Preparation Advice
Commercial fertilizer increases yields and profits but cannot replace good soil. A seedbed with sufficient humus is essential for profitable returns. For home use, secure pure seed of Early Ohifo or Irish Cobbler, cut to two eyes, and mulch after initial cultivations. For sows, reserve fat helps piglets during lactation.
Sugar beet seed tests in Florida to detect mangel wurzel
The Bureau of Plant Industry of the USDA conducts open air tests in Florida on imported sugar beet seeds to detect stock beet contamination. Samples from beet-sugar companies are tested, with通知 to senders if seed contains stock beets. prior greenhouse tests helped locate mixed red and orange varieties, while white flesh stock beets require larger growth to identify.
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Florida
United States Department of Agriculture
Destroy Last Year’s Pests To Clean Garden Beds
To prepare for spring, remove and burn last year’s vegetable stalks. Ashes fertilize soil and burning destroys insect pests and fungal spores sheltered in old stems. This helps prevent disease as warmer weather returns.
Preparing Potato Seed Bed
Guidance on choosing soil for seed potatoes emphasizes selecting the best ground. Clover sod is ideal for potato beds, bluegrass acceptable if plowed and worked deeply, timothy sod is poor, and fresh manure should be avoided to prevent disease.
Products That Pay Farmer Poultry and Dairy Focus
The article advises farmers to shift from staple crops to poultry and dairy due to steady demand and profitable returns. It warns against planting whole potatoes and notes that even good vine growth may yield little marketable potatoes, urging investment in labor for higher value outputs.
Alfalfa and Rhubarb Tips for Poor Soils
Advice on farming practices notes alfalfa fits well on fertile ground but fails on thin poorly drained land. It urges starting rhubarb from root pieces with at least one eye and planting four feet apart. It warns corn alone yields poor pig litters and cheap seed is costly long term, while Japan clover cannot replace alfalfa on poor soil.
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Japan
Care for Dry Cows in Winter Requires Extra Attention
The dry cow needs extra care during winter to yield a valuable calf and maintain her body condition. Proper feeding, comfortable housing, and monitoring health support steady future milk production and herd profitability.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Review
Ailing housewives report nervous spells and painful female troubles eased by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Medicine. Letters describe weight gain, regained strength, and renewed ability to perform housework and chores.
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Gordia E. Pinkham
Horatio
Ark
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Jim Rerrice
Arkansas
Reading
Sporl
Lydia
Pinkham
U. Prorem
Mulberry St
Fish as a Mousetrap in Gaspe River Catch
A brook trout weighing in large size and caught by J. Barbour and partner of Paterson New Jersey in the St John River Gaspe Canada on June 20 1921 yielded nine mice in its stomach five large when opened The craft of the tale ends with a quip about boys going to heaven and a stray remark about throwing stones.
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J. &. Barbour
Paterson
N. J
St. John’s River
Gaspe
Canada
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