Pocahontas and John Smith Bronze Memorials Urged at Jamestown
Historical pieces recount Pocahontas saving Captain John Smith from execution and helping preserve Jamestown. The article cites Pocahontas’s role, her English stature, and calls for a paired bronze tribute to Capt. John Smith alongside Pocahontas at Jamestown Island to honor their allied deeds and the colony’s survival.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Mato-aka
United States
Virginia
Elizabeth of England
Wahu-sun-a-cook
Ra-bun-ta
United States of America
Jamestown
Tom Boy
John Smith
Isabella of Castile
Western Hemisphere
Powhatan
Ella Lorraine Dorsey
Pocahontas Memorial Association
Pocahontas
Sylvan
Raleigh
William Ordway Partridge
Washington
Association For the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler
William and Mary College
Elizabeth Epes Fickling
Caroline Banister Baker
Harriet’ Nichols Garret
Aurelia Huger Terry
Richard Minor Ely
Nathaniel Coleman Bryden
Frank Robertson Blackford
J. Stanard
Lloyd Archer
Rebecca
John Rolfe
England
Thomas Rolfe
Randolphs
Murrays
Guys
Whittles
Elbridges
Bollings
Woodrow Wilson
Bolling
Focahontas Memorial Association
Jamestown Island
Jamestown Colony
Pocahontas Association
Smith's
America
Congressional Library
Smithfield
Smith Island
Chesapeake Bay
Captain John Smith
St. Sepulchre
London
Lincolnshire
France
Netherlands
Transylvania
Smith
Constantinople
Russia
James I
Virginia Company
Plymouth
London Company
Edward Maria Wingfield
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Shopkeeper Enlists in War Duty in British Columbia
Early in the war a BC shopkeeper faced a choice between his own enlistment or sending his assistant. Being single and with his mother and sister supported by the shop, he chose to go to serve.
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British Columbia
The Real Thing
A shopkeeper's former assistant Collins joins the army in France, explaining he left the shop to fight and ended up in command of the business and all the keeper's women. He recounts enlisting after realizing the scope of his new duty.
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Collins
France
Sub Arctic Headgear Demonstrates Cold Weather Design
Sub Arctic peoples wear snug bonnets with earflaps designed to seal out cold and conserve heat. The utilitarian headgear emphasizes practical warmth in freezing conditions.
Bonnet construction adapts ornament to limits of fur
The piece describes bonnet making where fur is the base and many small components are essential to shape. Wearers add color through leather strips woven with leather or contrasting hue, with quill work and occasional trade cloth used for bright accents.
Durable Breeding Rack for Bull
A detailed plan from The Prairie Farmer on building a serviceable breeding rack for bulls. It describes using two 2 by 12 by 9 foot planks, side posts four feet high and one and a half feet rear, cross strips to prevent slipping, bracing with 2 by 4s, front end restraints, and a movable front end stanchion to adapt as the bull ages or becomes heavier.
Test to detect remade milk in dairy blends devised by USDA
United States Department of Agriculture chemists have devised a method to distinguish remade milk and cream from natural products. The test detects as little as 10 percent remade milk in mixtures by a yellow color that develops when washed curd from the sample is dissolved in sodium hydroxide.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Take Right Care Of Cream In Hot Weather
Advice for dairy farmers on cooling cream immediately after separation by placing the can in cold water. Do not mix warm cream with cooled cream, and avoid storing cream too long. Ship or bring cream to the creamery at least twice weekly, thrice in hot weather, to ensure better butter quality and price.
Bacteria Aid Nitrogen in Sweet Clover Roots
Sweet clover relies on root-nodule bacteria to supply nitrogen, a natural process common to legumes. Inoculation of seeds with the bacteria is not always required but is generally advisable for best results.
Tomato Wilt Carried Through Plant Sources
Tomato wilt spreads via infected plants and contaminated sources. Caution is advised when selecting plants to prevent distribution of the disease.
Garden Attention Promised for Future Harvest
An encouragement to tend the garden now with an extra hour or two of work. The payoff will be fresh vegetables next summer, thanks to early effort.
Manure Advice for Grain and Grass Crops
Manure on grain and grass crops works best. Potatoes show fewer scab issues with liberal commercial fertilizer application.
Bitter milk linked to weedy hay and pastures
Bitter milk is usually caused by feeding cows hay that contains weeds or by pasturing in weedy areas. The result is a tainted dairy flavor due to plant compounds entering the milk.
The Sacrifice and Society Portrait Sparks Gossip
In a Boston Evening Transcript exchange, Edith questions a society group photo while Isabel defends it, calling Miss Gushing a conceited figure. The brief quarrel highlights local social dynamics and portrait critique within the society pages.
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Edith
Isabel
Boscton Evening Transcript
Radio post born from radio craze, a comic quip
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip says a man nicknamed Mr Grampson declares a radio craze has created a radio post. He jokes that after reading one issue of a radio magazine his middle name is Marconi.
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Mr. Grampson
Radio Post
Marconi
Birmingham Age-Herald
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