Women Can Now Do More
Fifty years ago few occupations were open to women and most stayed in teaching, housework, or nursing. Now women work in factories with many in roles like architects and lawyers, yet health costs can rise. Elizabeth Chamberlain, a factory worker from Trenton New Jersey, credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with improving her health and endorses it to other women.
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Elizabeth Chamberlain
Unionall
Lydia B. Pinkham
Women Lose Tons of Hair to Bobbed Styles
A Popular Science Monthly estimate says American women have shed about 8,500 tons of hair to bobbed hairstyles. About 14 million women sport bobbed heads and half spend 15 million dollars yearly for waving their locks.
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Popular Science Monthly
Elixir Offer Promises Digestion Relief and Refund
A druggist advertises Dave's Mentha Pepsin as a pleasant elixir that quickly relieves indigestion gas and heart pressure. It guarantees relief or refunds, urging victims of dyspepsia to try one tablespoonful for immediate comfort and long term well being.
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Dave
Wash goods prettily styled preferred lingerie types
In 1927 Julia Bottomley notes washable fabrics like gingham rayon and voile dominate summer wardrobes. Cottons and silklike weaves gain prestige at social events while two in one garments slim the silhouette. New trims, embroidery, and color schemes emphasize ease of laundering and feminine styling.
High Mortality Lowers Profits In Farm Poultry
Poultry expert H TH Alp warns 12 percent annual mortality in farm flocks means lower production and potential state losses of about 8 000 000 birds. He cites sanitation lack and personal attention as main preventable causes and urges preventive measures over drugs.
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H. TH. Alp
College of Agriculture, University of
Ventilator use in incubators guides hatching care
The New York State College of Agriculture advises closing incubator ventilators for the first ten days to limit oxygen and moisture loss. After day ten the chick needs more air, increasing to wide openness by day eighteen. Maintain moisture in pans and aim for about 15 percent moisture loss over three weeks. Sprinkling eyes with warm water in the last days is safe but not very beneficial.
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Poultry Department
New York State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
N. Y
Narragansett Turkeys Compared To Other Breeds
Narragansett turkeys weigh about six pounds lighter than the Bronze and are similar to the Bronze in habits. They are good rangers and dress out nicely, with color lighter than the Bronze. They are not as popular as the Bronze White Holland or Robbin Red, so securing new stock will be harder.
Charcoal Aids Turkey Digestion Through Regular Feeding
Powdered charcoal in the feed is an aid to digestion. Indigestion in turkeys stems from irregular meals and the turkey’s habit of expecting meals at set times. Irregular feeding makes it restless, causing it to go past feed or overeat.
Ban on Noises Aims to Civilize Angora Streets
Edicts in Angora restrict loud goatherd calls and advertiser shouts while driving flocks and hawking lost articles. The inland capital of Turkey under current administration declares some noises uncivilized and other sounds acceptable to endure.
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Angora
Turkey
Erler
Absent Minded Invention Triggers Wristwatch Alarm
Capper's Weekly mentions a patent office device that attaches to a wrist watch. A small wheel with points pricks the skin when it goes off. The note adds that relatives are very useful and tell you where you are wrong.
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Patent Office
Salmon tagged by Canadian department traced to Quebec
The Canadian department of marine and fisheries tagged Athintie salmon with silver fins to track movement. A salmon released June 11 off Burns point Port Maitland Yarmouth county Nova Scotia was later killed in the Moisie river Quebec. If it went direct it covered about 800 miles. along the coast it exceeded 1200 miles.
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Department of Marine and Fisheries
Burns Point
Port Maitland
Yarmouth County
Nova Scotia
Moisie River
Quebec
Ab out of it Or Save the Music Atchison Globe
Fragmentary note from the Atchison Globe hints at a discussion about a music issue. The readable text references caution and a choice between speaking out and preserving a musical matter, with no clear event or outcome given.
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Atchison Globe
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