Insects That Convey Disease Exposures On Health Exhibit
An article explains how insects spread diseases including tuberculosis via flies and bacilli on spittle. It details malaria and Anopheles mosquitoes, typhus via lice, bedbugs with smallpox risk, fleas spreading bubonic plague, roaches transmitting infection, and cattle ticks spreading Rocky Mountain fever. It urges public health actions and notes guidance from health services.
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Serbia
Balkans
Montana
Man
Texas
Ike
Hamlet
United States Public Health Service
Washington, D. C
United States Bureau of Agriculture
Boomerang phrase critiques and the war reference
The piece argues boomerang misdescribes returning words and notes the phrase misleads about retribution. It cites Colonel Miles during the war calling us a boomerang returned to conquer a continent and be reused.
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Miles
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Noted Child Refuses To Leave Private Lesson
A five year old boy named Billy defies being sent out of his private lesson to avoid judgment. His mother wanted the tutor to speak privately, but Billy insisted on staying, fearing an opinion would be formed about him.
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Billy
Economy. Are you trying to get thin
A humorous exchange questions if weight loss is linked to opportunity. The quip implies slimness improves chances of getting a space or standing room in crowded transit.
Stand Your Ground Upholds Personal Burden and Cheer
A quoted Exchange piece urges individuals to bear their own burdens, stay mindful of truth, and strive to do their best. It extols cultivating a habit of smiling, noting a good-natured face aids when the world seems awry and that a laughing woman can master any problem she faces.
How to Hang a Picture Straight with Tape
Step by step method using a small adhesive tape. Moisten one end, attach to back near the top center, moisten the other end, and fasten to the wall to ensure the picture hangs perfectly straight every time.
Dignified Rebuke in a Family Moment
Two young girls attempt to interrupt as Aunt Mary asserts control with a dignified rebuke. Mary asks Susie to let her finish the story noting that it isn’t nice to chip in.
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Aunty
Mary
Susie
Resignation in Fire of Park Row Editor
A city editor and a reporter in the Park Row mercury rooms witness a dramatic resignation. The reporter, angry, destroys chairs and declares he is resigning to haunt the editor’s memory. The editor later offers doubled pay, but the staffer refuses and joins the colors, becoming a fighter.
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Mercury
Park Row
New York Sun
Inevitable Angel Pursuit in Afterlife
A small reminiscence recalls Mary Agnes who lived in the building and believed an elderly neighbor chased children. After the neighbor’s death Mary asks if she is now an angel. A companion hopes so, and Mary adds the quip that the departed must be chasing all the little angels above.
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Mary Agnes
Mary
Levantine Divers Promote Rapid Sponge Growth
The Levantine divers harvest sponges from the eastern Mediterranean by diving. They cut pieces from large sponges replant them and tie them to stakes to prevent drift. The fragments soon regrow at a remarkable rate.
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Levant
Mediterranea
Lavantine
Ink Spots Ink Removal Tip From The Past
An old instruction suggests removing ink from white goods by soaking for half an hour in vinegar, then in a wash solution of chloride of lime. The remedy reflects practical household advice once common in newspapers.
Government Tightens Canning Rules Amid War Demands
Government bans tin use for canning air and disallows odorless poisons in packing houses. Regulators require cans to be fully filled and meat products heated to 170 F for at least 80 minutes. Inspectors will supervise temperature tests and adapt methods to each packing establishment.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Campaign boosts tick eradication and livestock output
The initiative will free 100000 more square miles from the tick and substantially raise meat and milk production nationwide. Success depends on cooperation from every cattle owner in infested territory, with only a few holdouts remaining against eradication methods.
They Shall Not Pass Becomes Home Front Meat Pledge
A wartime appeal urges Americans to cut back on beef and canned beef to save meat for soldiers overseas. It emphasizes that home sacrifices support Militant forces abroad and calls on every citizen to consider the impact on the war effort.
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France
Flanders
Dairy Cattle Need Grain for Maximum Dairy Production
USDA warns even efficient dairy cattle require some grain to maximize milk output. With war disrupting grain imports in Europe, millions of cattle have been slaughtered there, causing milk shortages and humanitarian concern. Preserving and expanding U.S. dairy herds aids postwar supply and food security.
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United States Department of Agricalture
Europe
Origin of Holstein Breed by United States Department of Agriculture
The Holstein-Friesian breed originated in northern Holland and has grown in popularity in the United States, especially in the midwest and west. Holsteins are black and white, docile, and high milk producers with lower butterfat percentages. Records show top cows producing about 14 623 pounds of milk annually with around 3.424 percent butterfat and fat yields near 600 pounds. The ten highest producers averaged 28 827 to 31 247 pounds of milk and 1 017 to 1 205 pounds of butterfat.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Holland
United States
Middle Atlantic
Middle Western
Pacific
Dipping Ticks Guard Nation’s Cattle in Wartime Campaign
A million and two quarter head of cattle across 275 Southern counties visit 28,000 dipping vats biweekly to shield meat and milk supply. Some 1,565 federal state and county workers staff the vats, creating a guard every 880 feet along a barrier from New Orleans to Pensacola to halt cattle fever ticks.
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America
Gulf
New Orleans
Pensacola
United States Army of
Four Keys to Low Milk Bacterial Count
The U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin reports experiments in an ordinary barn showing milk with low bacterial count requires sterilized utensils clean cows and small-top pails. Maintaining milk at 50 degrees Fahrenheit or lower is an additional essential factor.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Watch Stock for Fly Injury Prevention
Farmers should monitor livestock for maggots in wounds or soiled wool and apply remedies promptly. Chloroform is cited as the best remedy to kill maggots in wounds, followed by cleansing the wound and applying a repellent like pine tar around the edges.
Creamery Cuts Waste by Skim Milk to Cottage Cheese
New York creameries condense about 2000 pounds of skim milk daily saving waste. The bureau of animal industry cites this and similar efforts in its annual report as part of the conservation campaign to boost food supplies.
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New York
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Weighing Hog Health and Feeds for Better Stock
The article notes worms plague many pig herds and roughage can cut costs. White scours may be infectious in sows and young hogs. It stresses careful care of young animals as key to stock success.
Unified branding boosts local stock market savings
Community stock raisers gain advantages by adopting a uniform brand. This practice can secure better sale prices and help acquire suitable breeding stock nearby, supporting local agriculture.
High producing cows drive profitable dairying tactics
The text emphasizes that profitability in dairy farming relies on elite cows. It notes that eco nomical results are unattainable with poor performers and highlights the importance of selecting and maintaining high yield stock.
Care of Dairy Heifers Sets Farm Profit Path
Proper care of dairy heifers influences future milk production and farm profitability as they join the milking herd.
Seed Corn Watch Urged to Prevent Shortage This Year
Farmers are urged to monitor seed corn supplies and seed companies to avoid a shortfall in the coming season. Authorities stress ensuring adequate stocks and timely purchases to safeguard harvest goals.
Record of Promising Seeding Conditions in Western Canada
April weather bodes well for Western Canada seeding as farmers put every acre into production. By May 1 wheat sowing finished in many areas with oats and barley following, moisture nourishes germinating grain, and optimism grows for a record harvest. Mr. J D McGregor of the Federal Food Board notes unusually good soil and even luck should yield a large crop.
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Western
Canada
J. D. McGregor
Federal Food Board
Calgary
Prairie Provinces
Food Control Board
McGregor
Freezone Removes Corns Without Pain Reveals Easy Cure
A Cincinnati genius introduces Freezone a cheap topical solution that instantly relieves corn pain and lets the corn be lifted away. It claims to remove soft corns and callouses between toes with no irritation and costs only a few cents per bottle available at drug stores.
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Cincinnati
Adv
Substitution. Living on the fat of the land?
A dialogue reveals strain as the questioner asks about affluence and the response admits limited access to real butter due to cost. The exchange hints at rising prices and economic pressure on households.
Cure dandruff with Cuticura scalp treatment ad
Advertising copy promotes Cuticura Ointment to rub into the scalp for dandruff and itchy dry hair. Next morning wash with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Free samples offered by sending address to Cuticura Dept X Boston. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.
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Dept. X
Boston
Barridge Pronounces Barrage Like Garage Consistently
Barridge remarks on a teammate's consistency noting he pronounces barrage as garage the same way he speaks garage. The exchange highlights a running joke about pronunciation within the group.
WHY WOMEN DREAD OLD AGE
Health advice pamphlet extols aging with vigor using GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules to keep kidneys and bladder clean. Claims pills restore vigor, prevent ailments, and renew youth like by a periodical treatment.
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Haarlem
Adv
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