Efficient Drier Is Cheap and Easy to Build
A drying method using heated air is promoted for preserving many soil products longer. Simple, inexpensive home driers made of galvanized sheet iron or wood can be placed atop ordinary stoves. The design holds eight trays with adjustable spacing and a radiator to distribute heat. Guidance includes cabinet-style closet organization and DIY cleaning tools.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Air Currents Speed Up Uniform Drying in Driers
The text describes how air movement over and through a product accelerates and equalizes drying. It notes that dry air flows over the surface and through the product, drawing moisture away, and suggests swapping upper and lower trays to maintain even drying as processing continues.
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Pantec
Etheridge
Gulf oil fields see production gains across Texas and Louisiana
In Texas and Louisiana fields, weekly gains push North Louisiana output higher by about 4 000 barrels daily with Goose Creek and Humble showing increases. Gulf and Royal Oil, Duff & Jackson, and Crown Oil report various flows from several wells, while Batson and West Columbia see new completions and increased pump rates.
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Humble, Goose Creek
Saratoga
Sour Lake West Columbia
Louisiana
Houston
Texae
Toredo
North Louisiana
Goose Creek
Avera
Humble
Royal Oil and Refining Company
Duff & Jackson
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Gaillard Peninsula
Crown Oil and Refining Company
Gillette
Gulf Production Company
Welden Oil Company
Mary Hopkins
Vinton
Edgerly
West Columbia
Brazoria County
Texas Company
Japhet
Batson
Ada Beil Oil Company
Knight
G. Camp
Brooks
Damon Mound
Sour Lake
Yount-Lee Oil Company
Jackson
Murray Oil Company
Murray
Texas Farm Management Association session program
Dallas, Tex. The seventh annual Texas Farm Management Association session outlines joint sessions with the Texas Experiment Station and Texas Field Crops Association. Programs include talks by William A. Bowen editor and publisher, John Gorham, EF R Himbert, L. L. Johnson, G. H. Alford, H. M. Elliott and lists topics on crop varieties, plant improvement, farm management during war, and organizing for marketing and supply chains in county units.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas Parm Management Association
Texas Experiment Station
Texas Field Crops Association
William AL Bowen
Texas Farmers’ Mireside and Bulletin
Artineton
Texas
John Gorham
Waco
EF. PR. Himbert
Texas Agriculture Experiment Station
College Station
L. L. Johnson
Amarillo
G. H. Alford
Progressive Farmer
H. M. Elliott
Extension Service
A. and M. College of Texas
Texas Bar Association Backs Judicial Reform Amendment
Wichita Falls Texas The Texas Bar Association urges the next legislature to submit a constitutional amendment to voters to radically change the current judicial organization. The association closed its session Friday after unanimously adopting Judge Sam Dabney's committee report on reform.
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Texas Bar Association
Wichita Falls
Tex
Texas
People of
The
Bar Association
Sam Dabney
Houston
Brazil Plans Expedition to Palestine and Naval Aid
Brazil, a leading Latin American ally, prepares to deploy troops to Palestine to substitute British forces and continues active participation in European waters aiding the British French and American navies with its fleet.
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New York
Brazil
Palestine
Negro Soldiers Executed at Camp Dodge
Three African American soldiers hanged at Camp Dodge Iowa after court martial for assaulting a 17 year old white girl on the cantonment grounds the night of May 24. The entire division witnessed the executions.
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Camp Dodge
American Airman Escapes Huns Paris
Corporal Everett Buckley of Kilburn Jr an aviator in the French service was captured by Germans at Verdun and has escaped from Germany.
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Paris
Everett Buckley
Kilburn
Verdun
Germany
Duck Lays Ten Dozen Eggs in Seven Months
The duck averages ten dozen eggs in about seven months of laying.
Only Full Citizens Can Vote in Texas Primaries
Texas Attorney General Looney ruled that only full fledged American citizens may vote in state primary elections. The mere taking out of first papers is not sufficient.
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Austin
Tex
Looney
Japanese Boy Confesses to Accidental Strangling of Girl
Discovery Saturday of an 8-year-old girl’s body behind a Tokio temple followed by a confession from an 18 year old boy that he unintentionally strangled her while attempting to reenact a scene from a film.
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Tokio
Tokio Temple
1917 Cotton Crop Totals From Census Bureau
Final official figures show the 1917 cotton crop at 11,302,375 equivalent 500-pound bales, the smallest since 1909 aside from 1915. Sea Island production reached 92,619 bales.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Convicted Under Espionage Act in Austin Federal Court
R. E. Dorris of San Marcos received three years on each of two counts under the federal espionage act in a local Austin federal court. The six year sentence follows alleged unpatriotic utterances and acts.
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Austin
Tex
R. E. Dorris
San Marcos
Fire Threat Fires at Yellow Pine Paper Mill Plant
Fire at the Yellow Pine Paper Mill Company plant in Orange Texas on Saturday menaced a plant valued near 2 million dollars. The blaze was brought under control.
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Orange
Tex
Yellow Pine Paper Mill Company
Troop train wrecks near Haughton and Doyline injure six
Four coaches of a troop train carrying soldiers on the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific line overturned Wednesday between Haughton and Doyline Louisiana. Six soldiers received injuries in the wreck.
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Shreveport
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad
Haughton
Doylene
Roosevelt down German plane in Marne battle
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt youngest son of former President Roosevelt shot down his first German aircraft in a clash north of Chateau-Thierry as American forces pressed the Marne front.
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Roosevelt
Marne
Quentin Roosevelt
Chateau-Thierry
Enamel Trade Brings Down Aint Julep Rumor
A cryptic note hints that a stubborn enamel issue and a joke about Aint Julep intersected in a manner that suggests a playful yet puzzling local controversy. The fragment references a key figure and a beverage motif without clear resolution.
Mild Liver Pill Remedy for Bilious Headaches
Slogan style ad claims simple cure for bilious headaches by stimulating the liver and cleansing poisons. Recommends Bond's Liver Pills taken nightly for two or three nights with a large bottle priced at 2he at drugstores. Ends with a digressive joke about a husband.
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Bond
Buy Bonds or Fight Series Shocks Mother
Dialogue depicts a mother reacting to Willie Csulkily after a fight. The boy is bloodied and torn while discussing Liberty bonds amid wartime pressure. The scene contrasts civilian concern with wartime finance and patriotism.
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Willie
No Worms in a Healthy Child
A promotional claim for Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic to cure intestinal worms in children with poor color and stomach disturbance. It asserts regular use for two to three weeks will enrich blood, improve digestion, and strengthen the whole system, with a promise of natural recovery and pleasant taste at 60 cents per bottle.
Doubtful. Thow's your wear garden old man
A short, humorous dated phrase references garden care and a cutworm drive in progress as noted by the Boston Transcript in a casual aside.
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Boston Transcript
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