Downstairs Powder Room Transforms Tiny Space Into Chic Corner
Betty Wells recounts a small gloomy downstairs lavatory turned stylish with bold blue walls red accents and clever storage. A forthright owner uses space well and keeps costs infinitesimal while creating a functional charming powder room.
Life on Earth Is Found in 1 1/2 Million Species
Theodor Dobzhansky estimates more than 1.5 million species exist globally in a Columbia University Press work Organic Diversity. He notes 822,765 animal species, 133,000 flowering plants, and about 100,000 lower plants, calling diversity seemingly endless and explaining species discreteness with examples of cats and lions.
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Earth
New York
Theodosius Dobzhansky
California Institute of Technology
Columbia University Press
Dobzhansky
Practical homemaking tips and phonograph-like reflections
The fragment offers household guidance on plant care temperature cooking and storage recipes for tapioca and cornmeal mush plus a moral reflection on human fallibility and the enduring truth that love never faileth. It also includes a brief Associated Newspapers opinion about mistakes and safety in society.
What Is Permanent About Life and Security
Leonard A. Barrett examines the human quest for permanence amid shifting cosmic, social, and economic forces. He questions where lasting security and ultimate authority can be found, warning that the search for the absolute carries many pitfalls.
Prodigy Mercedes Williams Impresses at Typewriter
Three year old prodigy Mercedes Williams of Rochester New York sits at a hotel typewriter in New York calmly while educators marvel at her high IQ over 150. She names capitals of 48 states and 50 nations and recalls inventors of the cotton gin telephone and steamboat. She also lists Supreme Court justices and recites the Gettysburg Address.
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Mercedes Williams
Rochester
N. Y
New York
Supreme Court
Permanent things and love guide through life
The piece asserts that knowledge fades while faith hope and love endure. It credits love as the greatest permanent reality guiding people through uncertainties and storms, with inner, not outward, possessions as life’s true worth. Love is the dynamic eternal constant.
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Western Newspaper Union
American youth in Lincoln Brigade captured in Spain
Everett Hobbs Jr., 24, son of an Inglewood grocer, was captured by Franco’s insurgent troops in Spain. He was among 3,000 Americans fighting with the Loyalists in the Abraham Lincoln brigade.
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Everett Hobbs, Jr
Inglewood
Calif
Franco
Spain
Hobbs
Abraham Lincoln
Naming Mason and Dixon Line
The Mason and Dixon line is named for Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyors who between November 15 1763 and December 26 1767 surveyed the boundary to settle disputes between the Lords Baltimore and the Penn family.
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Mason
Dixon
Mason and Dixon
Charles Mason
Jeremiah Dixon
Baltimore
Penn
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Selecting pullets for laying houses by body size and vigor
The poultryman should cull unhealthy pullets and prefer larger, vigorous birds for laying flocks. Small pullets tend to lay smaller eggs and may reduce livability in the pullet year, while eliminating small birds from breeding improves overall body size in the flock.
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F. P. Jeffrey
New Jersey College of Agriculture
WNU
Milo Grain Cuts Feed Costs as Alternative to Corn
Farmers plan to use milo grain in fall and winter rations due to lower cost and similar feeding value to corn for most livestock. Milo compares well with corn for cattle and lambs, but requires grinding for dairy cattle and hogs yield about 91 percent of corn value.
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H. B. Osland
Colorado State College Experiment Station
Fort Collins
Texas
Milo
Osland
Kansas
Egg Shell Hard When Laid
The shell of the hen's egg is normally hard when laid. Minerals secreted in the reproductive system harden the shell, with the yolk released 24 to 26 hours before laying. Soft shells occur only under physiological upset in the reproductive organs.
Farm News Roundup From Italy to Texas 1936
Harvest totals show 293 million bushels of wheat in Italy and heavy egg production advice for hens. Texas 4-H club work boosts farm youth. Pullets molt less with weight gain. Soil erosion lifts rocks, and potato spraying focus shifts to winter storage readiness.
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Texas
Foxy Terrier Tea Towel Pattern Readies Quick Stitch
The Sewing Circle presents pattern 5746 featuring a terrier motif on tea towels. It offers six motifs about 5 by 8 inches, with single outline and cross stitch options. Material needs and color guidance included. Send 15 cents to the Household Arts Dept. in New York for the transfer pattern.
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Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
He Smiled and the Workplace Shone with Joy
A reflection on a man whose constant smile shaped his home and business. Children greeted him, coworkers thrived, clients spoke highly, and his enterprise grew as he offered encouragement and a helping hand. His smile, repeated through the years, kept him seeming younger.
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