Fish Proves Value in Diet Across Experiments
Department of Agriculture reports extensive digestion tests showing high protein and fat utilization from Boston mackerel butterfish grayfish and salmon in a simple diet. Subjects consumed varying amounts daily with evident relish. Bulletin notes freezing preserves fish for months but cannot reverse prior heating or mishandling. chemical analysis finds no significant changes after 27 months.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Boston
Germany Allows Home Remittances for Allied Prisoners
Spanish ambassador in Berlin confirms arrangements for American prisoners in Germany to receive home money via the Bureau of Prisoners Relief. Officers may spend 60 marks weekly, noncommissioned officers 50, civilians 60 for better positions and 50 for others. Remittances to be sent by check or money order through the American Red Cross with limited guarantees.
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Berlin
Germany
B. Givilian
Bureau of Prisoners’ Relief
American Red Cross
Washington, D. C
To the Point: quotes on justice and prudence
A compact table of witticisms contrasts justice and injustice with brief observations on human behavior. The prose shifts from music to social quirks, noting that some hints are hard to take and that borrowed money quickly drains a bronze borrower’s circle.
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Injustice
Justice
World’s Tallest Tree Records Compared
The tallest California giant reaches 825 feet while Australia’s gum trees exceed 400 feet with one felled specimen at 471 feet, claimed by Popular Science Monthly. Gum trees grow very rapidly and demonstrate remarkable height potential.
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California
Australia
Popular Science Monthly
Simple Remedies to Rid Rooms and Offices of Cockroaches
The article cites USDA guidance that roach infestations can be reduced by removing attractive food sources, storing food in insect proof containers, and maintaining cleanliness. It recommends powders such as sodium fluoride, borax mixed with chocolate, trapping, and fumigation as effective controls. It also highlights chickens as efficient in waste disposal and pest control on farms, noting their role in consuming kitchen scraps and insect prey.
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United States Department of Agriculture
England
Poultry Convert Waste Into Food War Guideline
The United States Department of Agriculture urges expanding poultry production as a war necessity. Poultry turns otherwise wasted materials into edible food, creating new meals from waste streams and supporting national food security.
March of the Defenders Poem of Hope and Remembrance
A lyric historic poem invokes knights and champions to honor fallen fighters. It envisions the Maid of France and Nelsons spirit guiding future victory while spring flowers replace bloodstained battles and roses symbolize enduring hope.
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Knights of Hope
Earth
Maid of
France
Nelson
Wisconsin man patents kite with ribbed central disk frame
A Wisconsin inventor patents a kite frame design featuring ribs radiating from a central metal disk, forming a distinctive spoke pattern for the structure.
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Wisconsin
Evian Evacuees and Red Cross Aid at Free France Entry
At Evian near the Swiss border about 1500 returning exiles pass daily into free France. The American Red Cross aids medical inspections and runs a children s hospital with care for thousands of orphans. Convalescent homes in monasteries and chateaux near Evian and Lyons receive Red Cross support as the tragedy of exile gives way to hopeful journeys home.
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Evian
France
Germany
Belgium
Red Cross
Lyons
Eighty Five Year Old Woman’s Advice On Graceful Aging
Elizabeth Cady Stanton at eighty five describes growing old happily with a hopeful temperament and humor. She stresses healthy living, purpose beyond self, and embracing the present while acknowledging age brings new literary voice and public concern for future generations.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Cheaper magnesium may expand future metal supplies
The article predicts cheaper metallurgical methods will open access to new metals, with magnesium highlighted as likely to become a common metal soon.
New Grader Is Marvel for Large Contractors
Popular Mechanics Magazine describes a new grading machine claimed to replace 125 men. It cuts a 5 feet 7 inch wide path and digs up to 2 feet deep, capable of ripping old macadam and moist clay as easily as gravel, standardizing grading costs amid labor shortages.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
States switch to life terms or electrocution in capital cases
Five states abolish capital punishment and impose life imprisonment for murder Kansas Maine Michigan Minnesota Rhode Island. Eleven states adopt electrocution Arkansas Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Nebraska New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina. In remaining states hanging remains common.
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Kansas
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Rhode Island
Arkansas
Indiana
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Ten Year Old Flight Story From Kitty Hawk
Nor folk reporter D Bruce Salley filed a dispatch from Manteo North Carolina detailing Wilbur and Orville Wrights first powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903 The accounts describe long glides and a later eight mile flight with the craft finally crashing after a control lever caused a nose dive The event sparked global attention despite initial skepticism and foreshadowed rapid aviation advances with later glider experiments by Orville Wright in 1911
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D. Bruce Salley
Norfolk
United States Weather Bureau
Manteo
N. C
A. W. Drinkwater
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Wrights
North Carolina
Kill Devil Hill
Europe
Salley
Dispatch
Dayton
Kitty Hawk
New York
Elizabeth City
Roanoke
Pamlico Sound
Wright
Hadeen
Thomas
Missouri
Washington
Liesavers
Cleveland
Guy Wiro
Real Poverty and the Quiet Chill of the Spirit
A reflection on poverty that distinguishes born hardship from constant need. It argues poverty includes not only cold and hunger but unsatisfied hunger of the mind and heart and a chilling failure of spirit. The passage cites Laura Spencer Porter from the Atlantic.
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Laura Spencer Porter
The
Sailors Collars Show Three White Lines Symbolizing Nelson Victories
The article explains that sailors collars feature a border of three parallel white lines, with regular Navy collars straight and Naval Volunteer force collars wavy. The lines are believed to honor Nelson's three naval victories at the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, perpetuating memories of British sea triumphs.
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Nelson
Wisdom Shown by Venetians in Glass Making
A historical note highlights Murano glass produced near Venice with many island residents tied to the industry. It cites a Venetian law banning child labor in heat exposed summer work as foresightful, humane governance.
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Venice
The
Adriatic
Murano
Lghter
He Had an Alibi
Our correspondent notes a small boy was polite when a lady caller arrived. The child sat before the visitor because there was only one chair, prompting his mother to remind him to seat the lady first.
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T. H
Sop
Modern chemistry creates durable imitation leather
A 19th century discovery leads to durable substitutes from linseed oil resin paints and gum forming a tough leather like material. The process traces to 1864 when Frederick Walton developed a sanitary floor covering later becoming linoleum and a modification yields patent leather.
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Frederick Walton
Popular Science Monthly
Apt Comparison Reflects Spendthrift’s Wasteful Ways
A sharp appraisal likens the spendthrift to a buzz saw, scattering dust as he moves and leaving only his board as evidence of effort, underscoring a lack of tangible results.
How Mrs Boyd Avoided an Operation
Canton Ohio woman recounts relief from female troubles using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. Doctors urged surgery, but she improved and kept up housework after trying the remedy. She recommends others to do the same before any operation.
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Canton
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Marin Boyp
6Th &T
N. E
Bny
Lydia KE
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Masa
Birds prove food defense by eating vast insect and weed seed meals
Scientists cite dramatic bird diets such as a scarlet stanager consuming 630 gypsy moth caterpillars in 18 minutes and a tree sparrow in Iowa removing 875 tons of weed seeds yearly. The piece urges readers to protect birds as defenders of the nation’s food supply.
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Beale
Iowa
Old Salt Knew Sailor Dismisses Rescue as Futile
A pastor’s pulpit sermon on a distressed ship prompts a blunt reply from an old sailor. In the London Tit-Bits anecdote, the sailor declares the situation too tangled to warrant action, quipping that the vessel is in a “tarnation mess.”
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London
Man who howls at pain imagines silent suffering
A reflective line notes that many men who cry out in pain presume their distress is hidden. It contrasts outward noise with inner endurance and questions the myth of quiet endurance.
Failure of a Joke Tied to Victim Indigestion
A humorous observation notes that a joke often fails when the person targeted experiences indigestion, implying comfort in timing and audience reaction matter in comedy.
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