Thanksgiving in America Then and Now
A reflective essay contrasts early Plymouth harvests with 1911 national Thanksgiving practices. It notes productivity from Oregon to Florida, the role of women in homemaking, and the nation’s unity under a democratic government. The piece stresses gratitude for peace, education, a free press, and Jehovah’s guardianship, urging continual thanks beyond one day.
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Massachusetts
Bradford
America
Oregon
Michigan
California
Connecticut
Florida
Home Influence And The Child In Everyday Life
A mother’s song and a father’s welcoming words shape a child’s growing awareness. The piece argues that home environment, patience, and gentle speech foster respect for work, law, and humanity, while impatience and harsh words breed contempt for social norms. The child witnesses the couple’s ritual of returning home, guiding its early sense of social order.
Keeping Down Human Supply
The piece argues that artificial life creation is near and could be commercialized. It contends overpopulation raises living costs and calls for reducing birth rates. It blames tariffs, gold inflation, and other causes but asserts the core issue is too many people and impending societal trouble.
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Europe
Advice to Alpine Climbers in Early 19th Century
The article cites Murray's Hand Book from 1838 advising against ascent of Mont Blanc and notes, about twenty years later, that many who achieved the ascent were of unsound mind. The tone reflects cautious or skeptical views of early mountaineering among climbers.
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Mount Blanc
Murray
Innuendo About a Bald Gentleman Walking On His Head
The excerpt jokes about a man walking on his head for edification and remarks on hair growth, suggesting walking on one's head stalls hair. The exchange notes dandruff microbes as a humorous barrier to hair development.
How He Landed the Fish Expert Angler Tactic Story
A New York angler recalls Bob Esam six foot six inch and mountain roots in West Virginia. While touring Grady county streams he improvised a red flannel fly decoy using a wallet rubber band and elastic to reel in trout. He rigged a pole from the bank and drew a raft of fish onto the makeshift lure flipping 69 trout onto the bank.
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Bob Esam
West Virginia
New York
Grady
Hiam
Bob
New York Sun
Convenience in Fencing Pasture Lots Pasture Hurdles
Farmers face limits on labor and costs and adopt movable hurdle fences. The design uses 3.5 ft bases with notched notches and 4 ft cross pieces to form 12 or 16 ft panels. Proper construction ensures sturdy, reusable fencing for hogs sheep and calves with long service if well stored and cared for.
Practical Tests In New Farming
The Missouri experiment station collaborates with farmers across 105 of 114 counties to find best farming methods. In 1911, 366 cooperators used 3,000 seed packages and over 20,000 pounds of fertilizer to boost yields, with alfalfa proven adaptable to every county and orchard profits rising with proper fertilization and spraying. Dairy co operators in southwest Missouri saw over 20 percent profit gains. Farm management assistance lifted yields and finances. farmers report quadrupled corn yields, hundreds to thousands of additional dollars, and greater farm viability and morale.
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Missouri Experiment Station
Hizperiment Station
Columbia
Missouri
Dairy Department
Department of Farm Management
The Watering Trough Copperas Treatment
Aimed at farmers, the note advises treating watering troughs with copperas. It suggests adding a pinch monthly or, better, scrubbing the trough and spraying with a copperas solution to keep water clean.
Proper System of Bookkeeping
Farmers Bulletin 511 from the Department of Agriculture urges farm bookkeeping by applying business accounting principles to farming. It outlines key points: treat real estate as one unit, pay the operator's family in cash, and separate household food use from farm cash flows for clear records. It emphasizes calculating true costs and profits to maximize net returns.
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Department of Agriculture
Hoe esteem grows in the garden and field
The hoe is praised as a versatile and indispensable tool for gardeners and farmers. It is described as the most comfortable implement in use and essential for many farming tasks.
Beet Pulp Tested as Dairy Feed in New Jersey
A trial compared dry beet pulp with corn silage on two cow lots over two 15 day periods. Milk cost per 100 pounds was 2.8 cents higher with pulp while butter cost rose 61 cents. Pulp raised yield about 10 percent but with higher overall cost, not proving economical without corn silage.
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New Jersey
Robber Cows Cry Urges Farmers to Review Dairy Practices
A call to farmers to inspect feeding shelter and care for dairy cows to ensure they remain profitable producers. The phrase market your robber cows signals scrutiny of dairy management and efficiency.
Building bird houses from an old box by A Neely Hall
A Neely Hall article guides boys to craft simple bird houses from common boxes. It describes two basic designs with steps for construction, mounting, and weather protection, plus material ideas and finishing touches to attract birds and deter predators.
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A. Neely Hall
Great Crowds at Blackpool in Atlantic Writing
W. D. Howels recalls Blackpool as a glittering social epicenter drawing masters and men from England’s cotton and iron trades. He contrasts London and New York, lauds English municipal purity, and portrays the Blackpool promenade crowd as a vast, writhing, camera-framed throng that astonishes and overwhelms.
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Blackpool
W. D. Howels
Atlantic
Llandudno
Tia
Liverpool
England
London
New York
Folkestone
Margate
Brighton
Atlantic City
Story Telling Game Using Magazines Pictures
An illustrated story game uses large magazine or postcard pictures pasted on brown paper sheets to form a narrative. Players view the collage and craft a 250 word tale, told or written, with multiple participants possibly choosing the same image series. prizes awarded by audience vote.
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Around
Margaret E. Sangsters
Rome
Washington
White House
Commonwealth
Plymouth
Mass
New England
Republic
Jehovah
Jane Addams
Wisconsin Agriculturist
Missouri Station
Handy Boys
Ark
W. D. Howells
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