Dark suspicion shadows Billy Louise and Ward romance
In a frontier tale, Billy Louise battles doubt that Ward is tied to criminals while nursing her sick mother. Ward, hopeful yet weary, endures long separations and vague warnings as rumors of cattle theft swirl. A frail faith forms, then strains under illness, distance, and whispered danger.
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Lowlee
Phoebe
Billy Louise
Ashe
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Boise
Hilly Louise
Huy
Billy Loulke
Wali
Charlie Fox
Louise
Lindii
Pardewlagt
Mies
Jim Iain
Lim
Tilly Louise
Mommie
Sinc Ward
Corral
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Hower
Hilly Loulie
John Prine
Hick Olney
Mil Creek
Seabeck
Abe
Mrs. MacDonald
Mill Creek
Momuile
Wir
John
Wolverine Ranch
John Pringle
Wolverine
Willy Louise
Ike
Billy Tonixe
San Sorigin misprint tale and a home stain fix tip
A Nashville style misread cable from a war dispatch leads to a French phrase misinterpretation about a young officer in France. The piece notes the error and explains Sans origin means somewhere. A household tip suggests removing gas jet smoke stains with a starch and water paste.
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Thdianapolis
France
Indianapolis
Oungieutenant
San Sorigin
Canadian Soldier Wounded 84 Times Returns to Calgary
Lance Corporal A. T. Staines of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, the most wounded man treated in London military hospital, is invalided home to Calgary after sustaining 84 wounds chiefly from a single rifle grenade explosion.
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A. T. Staines
Canadian Mounted Rifles
London
Calgary
Gardeners urged to boost home and commercial garden output
Secretary Houston outlines 1918 agricultural production plan urging market gardens near cities to meet local demand and reduce transport strain. Emphasizes home gardens for family needs and future use, with commercial perishables to rise where transportation and markets allow. Last year perishables output topped normal by about 50 percent.
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America
Department of Agriculture
KEEP UP BIG POTATO CROP ADVISE U S SPECIALISTS
The department of agriculture urges maintaining 1918 acreage for Irish and sweet potatoes despite 1917 crops. It promotes greater potato use, especially Irish, as a partial wheat substitute in bread making, and stresses disease-free varieties, seed treatment, and blight spraying to improve yield.
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Department of Agriculture
Efforts to Conserve Perishables Across the Nation
The text notes reduced difficulties this year due to widespread public and government actions to conserve perishables through canning preserving pickling and drying. The department will again assist in conservation efforts as last summer, offering more effective support through federal and state agencies.
Three New Agriculture Bulletins Aid War Gardeners
The Department of Agriculture released three new publications to aid war gardens. Farmers' Bulletins 997 984 and 990 cover northern southern and urban vegetable gardening respectively. Additional bulletins discuss cultivation of key garden crops for truck growers.
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Department of Agriculture
Department of Agricul
War Gardens Initiative Aims Broad State Cooperation
With its largely increased staff it will cooperate with all state agencies especially the state agricultural colleges to plant more war gardens and maintain them through the season. It will ensure prompt consumption or preservation of perishables and extend market news services and truck crop production reports for better marketing and supply awareness.
Farmers Bound to Win Says Secretary Houston
Secretary Houston says last year’s farmer record inspires confidence to meet this year’s challenges. He notes labor and fertilizer difficulties, rising farm machinery prices, and acute sections of farm labor. cantonments are built, reducing urgent labor needs. Draft rules allow deferment of skilled farm labor. population has risen, and war powers may furlough National Army soldiers for agricultural service.
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Houston
Secretary of War
Congress
National Army
Secretary seeks 6 million to buy seed for farmers
The secretary of agriculture requests a 6 million appropriation to enable the department to buy, test, store, and sell seed to farmers at cost. The fund would operate as a revolving fund, with cash sales and the aim to return most or all of the money to the treasury once the emergency ends.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Department of Agriculture
The
Treasury
More Food Is Needed Says Secretary Houston
Secretary Houston states that despite 1917 production, wheat supplies are inadequate worldwide. Short crops have drained reserves of important commodities. Demand will remain strong due to population growth and European needs, with meats and livestock especially in demand even after peace returns.
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Houston
Europe
Alfalfa Failures Linked to Soil Acid Imbalance
Report notes that most alfalfa failures stem from acid soil conditions rather than other causes. It cites estimates that American farmers lose about one third of their stock manure due to runoff or improper application, underscoring soil acidity as a major factor in reduced yields.
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