Alfred Cumback and His Brutal Truth in Social Reform
A satirical profile of Alfred Cumback who claims a right to pain and misery, taunting clerks and salesmen with blunt questions and harsh humor. The piece narrates his sharp, abrasive method in social critique, his clashes with clubmen and staff, and his death.
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NCE
Alfred Cumback
Brickbat Through Window Is Needed In Poultry Housing
University of Minnesota WNU Service outlines a simple cure for poor poultry housing: ensure adequate fresh air without drafts. It favors open front houses with controllable curtains or screen-like frames to regulate airflow and prevent damp, foul conditions that hurt health and egg production.
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W. A. Foster
Agriculture Department
University of Minola
WNU
Illinois
Few Poor Birds Lower Crate Prices, Chicago Poultry Merchants Say
Poultry commission merchants in Chicago urge shippers to send uniformly good quality birds. A crate with a few poor birds lowers overall price, while well-fattened dressed poultry should be uniformly dressed and cooled, not chilled or frozen. Keep thin poultry at home and ensure even grading to maintain market value. cooperation with commission men is requested to secure better prices.
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Cumback
Gonds
Geoffrey
Poultry Commission
Chicago
Commission
Good and Cheap Housing for Poultry Houses
The text outlines key principles for poultry house design including ventilation, dry quarters, light interiors, easy cleaning and disinfection. It stresses economy of construction as vital for profits and notes standard unit types fit diverse sites while cleanliness and sanitation guide interior fittings and accessories.
Profit Years for a Laying Hen How Long Best
Poultrymen ask how many profitable laying years a 300 egg hen yields. Cornell reports a hen in her eighth year with seven good years prior and still laying. She has laid 1,401 eggs in seven years, averaging about 200 yearly. Thirty three other hens of the same strain are four years old or older.
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Cornell University
Diet and Like It: Weight Loss and Calorie Awareness
Diet and Like It discusses fat as a concern and recommends balanced dieting with vitamins minerals and protein. It explains calories high versus low calorie foods and how desserts and snacks can add pounds. notes acidosis and cyclic vomiting in children and links fat intake to migraines, advising moderation.
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Mabel E. Baldwin
Baldwin
K. Tallerman
British Medical Journal
Divided Skirt and Shorts Pattern for Active Girls
A Barbara Bell pattern offers a divided skirt suitable for golf tennis bicycling riding and hiking with a sports pocket Peter Pan collar raglan sleeves and a feminine bow. Shorts option available with proper length perforated pattern. Pattern No 1875 B in sizes 12 to 20 with busts 32 to 38 requires fabric and 15 cents to order from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago Illinois.
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNN Service
Mamma’s Whiskered Angels Joke Sparks Heavenly Shave
A humorous exchange where Mary Lou asks why angels lack whiskers and the mother quips that men reach heaven by a close shave, delivering a lighthearted domestic pun.
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Mamma
Mary Lou
Golf exchange on missed putt sparks playful remark
The miss prompted a quip about the hole being four and a quarter inches wide and the wider world beyond. The exchange shows light banter between golfers.
Hat hunt leads to lamp perch in playful exchange
A husband asks where his hat is and is told it hangs on the lamp. He jokes about finding it in a strange place again. The wife retorts that it is on his head, in a teasing domestic moment.
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