Aland fortifications strain Swedish views on Baltic security
Sweden debates Russia’s Aland archipelago fortifications seen as a Baltic barrier and potential Port Arthur of the Baltic. Stockholm reports Russia may loosen after the war. Sweden weighs North Sea Baltic treaty limits and how new taxes fund defense and aid German war victims.
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Russia
Aland Archipelago
Aland
Swedish
Stockholm
Sweden
Alands
Baltic
Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of Finland
Germany
Aland Isles
Arthur
Cleaning Hair Brushes Method From Historic Advice
Cleaning hair brushes and combs with ammonia in hot water is advised. Dip the brush up and down in the basin and let the comb soak for a few minutes. Rinse afterward in cold water.
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Wasi
Noted Man Rejects Luck Says Uncle Eben
Uncle Eben argues there is no luck and mocks those who claim talent alone leads to success in a humorous dialect exchange. The line lampoons self important thinkers who credit only themselves for wins. The piece captures rural voice and social humor.
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Uncle Eben
Norway News Highlights on University Plans and Wireless Station
The Stavanger wireless station receives thirty tons of equipment from England, first wartime shipment since the war began. A Norwegian university plan grows in Bergen with private funds and a free-site grant, museum as nucleus, centennial math and science aims. The 1915 Norwegian yearbook lists city populations and storthing representation, noting Flekkefjord’s small population advantage. Ten linotypes shipped from New York mark a first Norse American printer supply, almanac prices rising to 25 crown, boosting university revenue. The centennial exposition deficit is fixed at 300,000 crowns.
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Stavanger
Norway
England
Christiania
Storthing
Bergen
Bergen Museum
Department of Mathematics and Science
Central Statistical Bureau of Norway
Trondhjem
Drammen
Christiansand
Fredrickstad
Aalesund
Haugesund
Skien
Sarpsborg
Fredrikhald
Arendal
Horten
Larvik
Flekkefjord
New York
America
Germany
Hops Used as a Vegetable in Ancient Rome and Bavaria
The article notes that hops were eaten as a vegetable by ancient Romans and are still eaten by Bavarians. They prefer the tender top shoots of the hops plant, prepared similarly to an asparagus salad rather than the blossom.
Feeds to Increase Butterfat in Milk
The article discusses how cow feeding affects milk fat content. It notes protein-rich feeds can raise fat in some cows, while others show no change. It emphasizes the nervous system controls milk production and that stress lowers quality. testing determines profitability.
Insecticide Mixtures Advised for Orchard Health
Guidance from the New York experiment station recommends applying two or three insecticidal materials at once to combat pests like the coo ling moth San Jose scale canker worms plant lice and diseases such as apple scab. It lists safe and unsafe chemical pairings and notes better results from certain combinations.
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San Jose
New York Experiment Station
Bordeaux
Plan for Feeding Milk to Chickens in Connecticut Contest
The Connecticut egg laying contest tested milk as a feed by five groups of two pens each. Odd pens used the regular ration while even pens received the same mix with thick sour skim milk replacing the meat portion. Milk consumption averaged one to two quarts per ten birds daily. Storrs station has used milk for growing chicks for years, and data from other stations support milk as a valuable ration for both chicks and laying hens.
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Connecticut
Storrs
Good Strain of Seed for Cabbage Tomato And Onion
Advice emphasizes obtaining quality seed and florist plants. Focus areas include cabbage tomato and onion seeds as well as pansies verbena and petunias for strong plant growth and blooms.
Not Good for Orchard Pasturing Harms Orchards
The text warns that grazing all season is detrimental to an orchard. Repeated trampling by animals, especially during wet periods, damages tree roots and trunk surfaces and reduces fruit production.
Unsatisfactory Dealings Prompt Personal Stock Visit
The notice urges the prospective buyer to visit in person to select stock, suggesting that direct inspection would prevent unsatisfactory dealings. It emphasizes choosing items on site rather than remote inquiries.
Manure Use Advice Urges Cutting Waste Before Buying Fertilizer
The note promotes feeding livestock and using manure efficiently to learn fattening benefits before purchasing chemical fertilizers. It urges farmers to value manure as a resource rather than waste.
Manure Advice for Upcoming Corn Planting
A short farming note urges spreading manure on the sod prepared for planting corn next year, emphasizing soil readiness and nutrient buildup for the crop rotation.
Six Year Cabbage Test Of Interest
A six year experiment at Pennsylvania State College tested the idea that larger cabbage plants yield more. Seedlings sown in drills or broadcast showed little yield difference between large and small plants. Height differences of about one inch at transplanting faded after field planting.
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Pennsylvania State College School of Agriculture and Experiment Station
Straw Valuable as a Soil Fertilizer
A Missouri county ships straw to a local paper and strawboard plant earning farmers about 50 cents per ton. A spile of 1 000 tons at Sikeston is seen as a fertilizer worth 2 50 per ton plus soil organic matter value. The county agent campaigns farmers to sell straw and use it for stable bedding and feed lots. Straw as a fall wheat top dressing improves clover stands on otherwise difficult lands.
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Missouri
Sikeston
Couple of Reasons for Growing Seed
There are a couple of reasons for raising your own onion seed. Onion seed costs from $1.25 to $2.50 per pound. It could be saved with very little trouble. One has a chance to cultivate a variety of his own and establish a reputation as a seed producer, which in years to come may bring more ready money than the onions he raised. At screening time in the fall, pick out the most solid globe shaped deeply colored onions of whatever varieties you want for your next crop. Large or medium sized ones are best. Estimate the seed required to sow your crop. It takes 4 44 to 5 pounds to the acre and one bushel of onions will produce three pounds of seed on an average. Always sow a few more for safety.
Bosom Farm Friends in Dairying and Fertility Use
Dairying and farm fertility are linked as a farmer maximizes cow herd value and uses manure to enrich grain, alfalfa fields, and meadows. A wiser farmer maintains a good dairy herd and applies manure strategically to boost yields.
How to Teach a Calf to Eat Solid Feed
Instructions show a farmer can train a calf to eat solid feed by placing bran on the calf’s nose after it finishes drinking milk. The calf licks the meal off and gradually learns to eat the feed.
The Allure and Anxiety of Fashions in Shop Windows
A detailed reflection on how women linger before gowns in shop windows and showrooms. Salesgirls tire from endless fittings and the pressure to close sales, while customers balance desire with budget, often imagining a life in luxury and risking heartbreak.
Clever Promises in Love and Duty Fail to Deliver
The piece warns that reckless promises before marriage ruin trust and spark heartbreak. It contrasts empty fantasies of wealth and comforts with the reality of a modest salary and shared future, urging honest discussion of finances and expectations between lovers.
Too Much Wedding Finery Turns Delusion and Snare
A humorous lament on wedding wardrobe excess. The piece notes brides demand lavish gowns, hats, gloves, and trunks, while grooms face mounting baggage and stress. A packing expert ends the dispute with one trunk needed for a fortnight, nineteen suitcases shipped home.
Honest counsel on money and marriage vows in a letter
The writer explains he has few savings and cannot offer a house or rent in advance. He pledges to work hard to save while allowing small pleasures, urging honesty with his partner and warning that deceit damages love and respect.
Receipt to keep warm a whole winter with one billet
In the Virginia Almanac from the eighteenth century a whimsical recipe suggests heating yourself by repeatedly throwing a single billet of wood from a garret window into the yard and racing to fetch it back. Paul Leland Haworth notes it in George Washington Farmer as proof of curious old cures.
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Paul Leland Haworth
Doom Species. Harold and the typhoid buttermilk vow
Harold, recovering from typhoid fever, must drink plenty of buttermilk per doctor orders. He despises it but dutifully drinks. When a nurse brings an extra large glass, he laments wishing every buttermilk cow in the world were dead.
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Harold
War tricks a farmyard deed in Nebraska tale
An elderly Nebraska woman explains aloud how World War I changed her view of killing as she bravely dispatches a rooster. A neighbor questions the war connection while she recounts her method, comparing the poultry act to war casualties while keeping a stubborn nerve.
Not So Much If We Only Think About It Yacht Charter Irony
A humorous exchange notes plans for chartering a yacht for summer. A wife and husband discuss the idea, with a quip that the plan would be affordable as long as they keep the notion in their thoughts.
Rough Stuff in Barbershop Conversation
A barber asks to review the man’s face with the line Shall I go over your face again The man in the chair retorts I don t mind your going over it but please don t go under the skin like you did the first time
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad Promises Quick Healing
The ad touts Cuticura Soap to cleanse and purify and Cuticura Ointment to soothe and heal for rashes eczema pimples dandruff and sore hands. It claims immediate relief and often complete speedy permanent healing with free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Senate passes Mills bill on health insurance commission
The New York senate approves the Mills bill to create a commission to study health insurance for workingmen and to report proposed legislation to the 1917 legislature. The commission includes two senators two assemblymen and four other appointees with an appropriation of $25009.
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New York Senate
Lawyer and convict debate sentencing outlook in jail cell
In a whispered exchange, the convicted murderer's lawyer claims the judge will give twenty years rather than life. The defendant notes his former life insurance actuary experience makes twenty years feel like seven years longer than life imprisonment, framing the perceived outcome.
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Lfe
Diamonds and Smoke Sparks Old Prospers Secret
A well groomed man wearing a diamond ring and scarf pin buys two five cent cigars at a counter. Onlookers mock the display and the buyer quips that his diamonds came from his riches, illustrating a boastful era attitude toward wealth and luxury.
What Do the Children Drink Postum Story
A mother urges replacing coffee or tea with Postum at meals for healthier children and adults. A Battle Creek company testimonial claims Postum eased the narrator’s nervous headaches and kidney trouble, noting two forms: Postum Cereal and Instant Postum with similar costs.
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