Roadside Marketing Boosts Farm Income Across Regions
A 1930s study explains roadside markets on main highways as top direct selling outlets for farm produce. It cites Michigan's 16 mile stretch where over half of 39 farms sold directly to consumers, earning about 60 cents of each dollar, versus 19.4 cents via terminal channels. It notes Ohio markets, family ventures like Mrs. Simerson’s six city supplies, and producers forming a cooperative eggs packing unit in Waterloo.
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Michigan
Ohio
R. L. Simerson
Linwood
North Carolina
Waterloo
Iowa
W. S. Brown
Brown
J. P. Nelson
Stillwater
Minn
Nelson
Elmer L. Rhodes
Abilene
Kan
Rhodes
Western Newspaper Union
Lost Gowanus House Story Brings Brooklyn Lore Back
In Brooklyn a stone Gowanus house lost since 1905 is being dug up by unemployed workers after a diagonal trace near Fifth Avenue. The house once served as a Continental block house and Washington’s headquarters for a short period. Civic groups urge a park plan while the tale includes a taxicab recovery and a drummer’s lost drum joke from World War days.
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Brooklyn
Park Department
Gowanus House
Lord Howe
General Washington
Long Island
Washington
Gowanus
Fifth Avenue
Skunk: A Helpful Farm Visitor With Scented Warnings
A poem describes the skunk as a pest for eggs and nests yet useful on farms by eating beetles bugs and rats and more mice than seven cats. It notes the white back stripe and a perfume sack and warns readers not to handle one or risk lingering odor.
Breakfast Benefits Worth Keeping In Daily Diet
Edith M Barber argues against skipping breakfast, noting improved morning efficiency and reduced nervousness with a light morning meal. She suggests a three meal plan, cereal with milk, fruit timing, and occasional eggs, detailing calories and digestion benefits for weight control and sustained energy.
How It Started By Jean Newton
A glossy note on word origins ties linguistic history to human progress, using shrapnel as an example named for General Shrapnel of the British army. The piece then shifts to a 1933 Bell Syndicate WNU Service digest featuring luncheon recipes: scrambled eggs with corn flakes, tomato in seasoned flour, and creamed ham with anchovy served on shredded wheat biscuits.
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Manhattan
Bell Syndicate
Wwn
General Shrapnel
WNU
Associated Newspapers
WNU Service
Barter Exchange Offers Blood for Sale in Fort Worth
A Fort Worth barter exchange begins selling blood to hospital patients. City-County hospital requests a transfusion and Henry Baker, an unemployed local, is assigned the donation task.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Henry Baker
How to set jelly and remove stains in home hacks
The guide explains dissolving gelatin in hot water then adding cold water to set jelly. It also covers removing laundry marks with carbolic acid, treating heat spots on furniture with wood alcohol, and twisting crullers by rolling dough and making slashes before twisting to keep shape.
Remittance and alimony sparks romantic doubt
A terse exchange reveals Maude's divorce and a man remarking that her alimony of two hundred a month will fuel her independence, while another notes the haste of her marriage and its anticipated regret.
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Maude
Mayor Uses Own Funds to Pay Taunton Street Workers
Taunton Massachusetts faced payroll shortfalls for 55 street department workers. Mayor Andrew J. McGraw covered the missing salaries from his personal funds to ensure timely payments.
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Taunton
Mass
Andrew J. McGraw
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