Garden! Column on beans corn and garden timing
The column discusses practical home gardening lessons from wartime food values. It covers growing beans and corn, soil needs, spacing, disease challenges, and choosing varieties like Stringless beans, King of the Garden, Golden Bantam, and Stowell’s Evergreen. It also notes sowing schedules, frost timing, and tips on pinching suckers.
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New Jersey
New Brunswick
Ford
Stowell
Ink Stain Remedies and Breakfast Table Moment
An old note suggests washing ink stains with treval waters and milk or with vinegar and water then soap and water. The piece shifts to a breakfast table scene where a bald-headed Papa asks his two year old Elizabeth how she prefers her egg.
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Papa
Elizabeth
Nutley Boy Scouts Benefit Events and War Service Drive
Nutley Boy Scouts announce a series of events including a May 24 Town Hall benefit for the Camping Fund and a May 17 visit by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. An outdoor demonstration is planned for June with details to come, plus a Peace celebration and a call to Scouts to support Victory Loan subscriptions to earn war service medals.
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Theatre
Toop Four
Town Hall
P.M
Robert Ra lden-Powell
New York
Nutley Scouts
Nutley Council
Powershon Hall
Saline Saga
Memorial Tree Planting Honors Theodore Roosevelt
On Saturday on the Park School campus near Chestnut street a Roosevelt Memorial Tree planting ceremony took place with readings from Roosevelt and a message from James E. West. Mayor Diebitsch spoke on Roosevelt’s manliness and outdoor life as sixty five Boy Scouts joined in passing the shovel for root coverage and several scouts earned promotions and medals from Troop 4 and Troop 8.
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Roosevelt
Park School
Chestnut Street
Colonel Roosevelt
Boy Scouts
National Scout Council
James E. West
Scou
Mr. Roosevelt
Diebitsch
Philip — Redmond
Robert Recardin
Priestly
Richmond
State Federation of Women's Clubs Convenes at Atlantic City
The State Federation of Women's Clubs meets at Atlantic City on Steel Pier Music Hall Meynth and 9th to 16th. Sessions start 11 30 with federation business in mornings and conferences in afternoons. Notable speakers include Hon William Runyon and Count Leo Tolstoy with planned performances at Hotel Chalfonte.
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State Federation of Women's Clubs
Atlantic City
Steel Pier
Music Hall
Meynth
Sesmon
Federation
Uollege
Haversack
Pines
Wm. E. Runyon
Senate of New Jersey
New Jersey
Assembly
Tlya Tolstoy
Ruseta
Olatoy
Chalfonte
Saw Her Limitations Edward’s Ambition to Engineer
Edward pursues engineering work and explains engines to Janet who stays indifferent. He becomes exasperated and tells her she will likely remain just a mother. The text notes the phrase seven seas and seven winds as nautical expressions from travel lore.
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Edward
Janet
Public Service Railway Faces Zone-Based Fare Reform
The Utility Board orders PSR to file a plan by Jan 1, 1919 for an equitable zoning system linking cost of service to distance and value. War wage hikes and material costs push annual operating expenses from 11.1 million in 1916 to about 18.75 million, implying a five cent first zone mile, one cent per extra zone mile, and one cent per transfer.
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Public Service Railway Company
State Board of Public Utility Commissioners
National War Labor Board
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
New Jersey
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