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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1918
Page
7
A U S Department of Agriculture advisory urges planning a home garden on paper before planting. It recommends diagraming space, rotating crops, and timing plantings to maximize yields, with sections on plot layout, crop succession, and protecting the garden from wind and animals.
The article discusses choosing crops by gardener aims, noting freshness matters for peas beans asparagus and corn which should be cooked soon after picking. It warns potatoes cucumbers squashes and melons occupy much space and suggests planting more potatoes after other crops, as they store well and provide a staple crop.
Plan your garden by deciding what to grow and where. Map your seed quantities and tool needs to save labor and money while increasing yields. Prepare in advance to maximize vegetable growth and efficiency.
All available space should be used with carefully arranged rotation to maximize output. Intensive culture and strategic planning allow every square foot of a small garden to produce more, improving overall yield through careful sequencing and space management.
The Home gardens of America are the home guard in food production. The home guardener of this era in the war is forewarned and forearmed. Before arming with a hoe, he must fortify himself with knowledge. Every peck of vegetables from new ground will release meat or wheat for use behind battle lines. Join the home gardeners.
Five hundred hungry Belgian refugee children, led by trumpeters, arrive in Evian-les-Bains and march to a breakfast at the Casino. They head to a refuge at Le Grandier and are cared for by Belgian and American Red Cross relief teams amid a formal welcome and expressions of gratitude.
Frances Hawthorne Brady daughter of Thomas G Brady of Washington D C is the first and only woman on the staff of the director general of railroads William G McAdoo She was chosen for directing ability and creative ideas shown in Liberty loan work and is the second appointee to the post Since finishing school in Washington she has been active in social circles but joined the government effort at the war’s start.
Seattle report notes Mrs S D Benson raised sheep at Siskiyou and produced six heavy sweaters for the Sedro-Woolley Red Cross branch. She dyed the yarn in gray and khaki tones and knit the garments by hand in the old fashioned method.
In a wartime piece the family suffers hunger as a father quits after German occupation. Their mother works in a municipal kitchen but cannot feed three. The two sisters Lucienne and Louise tell of hardship and hopeful plans to find safety with friends in France.
New York reports a revival of the carpet bag as leather short supply and high prices push a return to the old form. Chicago merchant J N Daley notes its popularity in western cities and predicts eastern adoption soon.
Alfred William Furneaux, chief steward in the mercantile marine, is decorated by the king with the Albert Medal in Gold for actions aboard a torpedoed steamship in April 1917. He amputated a Lascar’s leg with a clasp knife to free him, then aided the wounded man and another severely scalded crewman, putting himself in peril.
In San Francisco a Japanese laborer attempted to steal passage on a trade ship from the Orient to America. He was captured and restrained with his hands tied as authorities intervened.
Three hundred women conductors on New York street cars perform well. Interborough president Theodora P. Shants states conductorettes match men in efficiency and honesty and are more polite.
A stowaway, after twenty one days in the tolls, lost control of his hands and arms, was found by quarantine officers aboard a steamer near a Pacific port. He was ordered released and subsequently sent to a hospital for medical treatment.
An eleven inch piece of bone from Robs Peter to Pay Paul was grafted into the spline near the neck of George H. Wallace. The leg bone graft has completely cured Wallace of tuberculosis of the spine, from which he had suffered for a long time.
report notes K G Beck, called rabbit king of Kansas, agrees to supply a rabbit foot charm to every Negro drafted in the state for protection against bullets. The item is described as a darky charm and is tied to local wartime attitudes and recruitment.
A Newark resident describes three years of nervous breakdown and weakness until Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, recommended by a friend, restored health and energy enabling return to work. The letter credits the remedy with addressing root causes and ending nervousness.
A boy visits grandparents who own a dairy and is seen with a cream rim on his lip. His grandmother suspects he disturbed the cream pans. He nervously explains he only licked the top briefly.
An old advertisement promotes a lemon juice lotion to lighten darkened skin and remove freckles and tan. It instructs squeezing two fresh lemons into three buncles of Orchard White cream, straining pulp, and storing a quarter pint for months of use on face neck arms and hands.
A humorous exchange shows a city niece asking about a folding bed from a country uncle. The uncle replies he will sleep on the floor to avoid sleeping standing up, noting the bed’s use for camping.
A dour note on future kindness. a spring gun is described for casting fishing lines farther than by hand. New Zealand shows a large gender imbalance with men outnumbering women by thousands.
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