Rural Delivery romance ends in misunderstanding and reconciliation
On Route 21 near a farm, postman Worth Merrell flatters Pearl Foster with gifts and notes. A mix of shy glances and roses leads to a mistaken message and a dramatic rescue of Miss Blake. Pearl’s heart is revealed when Merrill learns the truth and plans a meeting to confess his love.
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Adam Foster
Worth Merrell
Nellie Blake
Merrill
Pearl Foster
Blake
Pearl
Miss Blake
Miss Foster
Tuberculous Children at Farmingdale Preventorium
The Farmingdale New York Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children houses over 180 youngsters with TB exposed mothers and now admits infants under one year. Children stay about four months, serving nearly 600 per year with a regimen of good food, constant outdoor time, and hygiene plus simple religious instruction.
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New York Medical Record
The
American Medical Association
Farmingdale
N. Y
Tuberculosis Preventorium
Camel Plant Stores Water from Desert Soil
The New York Botanical Garden houses a desert curiosity named guarequi from Sonora Mexico. It grows a thick root and stem base and, during a brief water gathering season of a few weeks, uses short tendrils to absorb moisture, then dries away and detaches. It reportedly stores enough water to last a quarter century.
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New York Botanical Garden
Sonora
Mexico
Wide World Magazine
Destroy Little Red Mites in Your Poultry Coops
An old poultry care piece explains red mites harm hens by feeding at night. It recommends dusting, cleanliness, and scraping to reduce infestation, with spraying using cresol or kerosene emulsion and thorough fumigation as the most effective long term control.
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Tess
Biddy
Good Roads Help Schools and Rural Life
Women see schools tied to road quality as essential for progress. The text argues bad roads waste national wealth, isolate families, and trap rural women at home, delaying marketing of farm products and lowering returns when roads finally clear.
Ventilating a Sheep Shed for Fresh Air
The illustration shows a method to arrange a sheep shed that provides fresh air and keeps out rain. The shed can be left open at the top most of the time without harming the flock, and conventional doors may not always stay closed against strong winds.
Colt Ration Suggested by Ohio Agricultural College
A grain ration for colts mixes six pounds of oats or corn, three pounds of bran, and one pound of oil meal. Feed one pound of the mixture for every 100 pounds of colt weight, in addition to the hay they consume from alfalfa or clover.
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Ohio Agricultural College
Weaken Bird's Vitality Through Feed and Surroundings
A brief note explains that unhealthy feed and surroundings rapidly reduce a bird's vitality. It emphasizes the impact of diet and environment on welfare and performance.
Clean water for chickens keeps poultry cool and tidy
A simple frame covering a water pan keeps drinking water cool and clean for poultry. The slatted frame sits above the pan on circular boards, allowing access while preventing tipping and making refilling easy.
Crude Oil Good for Swine
An article explains hogs pastured in wet rape may develop skin sores or scurvy from irritation. It recommends applying crude oil or automatic oiling devices to soothe the skin and prevent growth loss. Oil also helps deter lice and improve farm efficiency and profits.
Notes on Sheep Flock Quality and Management
The article argues for aging country farming and field fertility decline increasing sheep value. It stresses early maturity, selects for superior quality, and notes medium sized sheep often excel. It advises selling aged ewes and fat lambs, keeping a few gentle ewes with lambs, and discarding diseased stock for breeding.
Pure seeds and improved stock urged for farms
The agricultural press calls attention to pure and improved seeds and urges poultry raisers to improve their flocks. It argues this is as important as seed grain and notes a sharp contrast between common dunghill stock and better graded birds.
Time to Market Sheep Prime Lamb Weight Guide
The best sale time for a sheep is when it is a lamb. A lamb around 80 pounds, fat and high quality sells as a prime lamb year round. A lamb weighing 84 to 85 pounds on the farm will weigh about zero dollars on the market.
Steer Feeding Experiments Cut Feed Costs at Purdue
Purdue tests show corn silage in steer rations reduced cost of gain by 1.47 dollars per hundred pounds with clover hay and 2.30 dollars per hundred pounds with alfalfa hay.
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Purdue
Flavor for Winter Menus with Elderberries
Guide to preserving elderberries with grapes for preserves jelly wine and canned berries. Recipes cover grape and elderberry preserve elderberry jelly elder blossom wine and canned elderberries with steps and ratios for sugar water and boiling times.
Simple Puddings Prove Wholesome Daily Desserts
The American housekeeper learns simple puddings save money and boost nutrition versus rich creams. Rice puddings require slow cooking two and a half to three hours. milk or skim milk with fat adders improves texture. A basic recipe uses four cupfuls milk, one third cup rice, half cup raisins, one third cup sugar, and salt, cooked four to five hours with occasional stirring.
Museum Aims to End Worker Fatigue in Providence
A Providence museum of fatigue elimination devices opens after schools studied the science of management. Frank Gilbreth leads efforts with fatigue reducing chairs for filing, sewing, and vibrating machinery, plus adjustable work heights. He invites further ideas to remove fatigue in offices and factories.
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Providence
R. I
Frank B. Gilbreth
Thin
Gilbreth
Poor Man's Pudding Recipe Note
A kitchen note lists quantities for a pudding using milk rice sugar and butter with salt nutmeg or lemon. Step by step bake until rice is tender and a shorter method boils the rice first. A meringue topping idea is mentioned but the passage is partially garbled.
Pineapple Peel Juice Sauce For Pudding Or Rice
Instructions describe making pineapple peel juice by simmering pineapple peels with sugar and water to form a syrup. Boil slowly for 16 minutes, let stand overnight, strain through cheesecloth, bottle and store in a cool place. Used as pudding sauce or served with boiled rice.
Mint Cup Mixed Drink with Claret and Mint
A vintage style recipe mixes one quart claret with soda water, curacao, and sugar. It adds bruised mint leaves and two pounds crushed ice, stirred briskly and served cold.
Cream Cheese Salad Balls with Walnut and Chive
Mash a cake of cream cheese with chopped walnuts and chives. Add a dash of paprika. Form into balls with butter, press into paddies, and serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing.
Getting Even at the Used Car Lot
A farmer tests three cars, pays 1200 with twelve hundred dollar bills, and buys a seven passenger model. He asks to be shown how to drive it, then proudly runs over a man with mules, declaring that is how drivers dine with him.
War Note On Dreadnaughts And U Boat Threats
A wartime note laments the power of dreadnaughts as instruments of destruction while warning of the menace posed by U boats to Allied shipping and naval strategy.
Children Safety Rule Emphasized by Keep Busy Campaign
A safety-first guideline for children emphasizes careful traveling habits. The Keep Busy program promotes rules to protect kids during transit and daily activities, aiming to reduce injuries and encourage vigilant supervision.
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W. G. Chapman
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