English Children Learn Gardening At Sutton Schools
English children now require practical work with gardening included as a core subject. Sutton schools report keen participation with fourteen boys in the gardening class each managing their own plots and harvesting spring radishes lettuce and peas. The program aims to teach timely action method and observation while fostering an outdoor life. Infants also maintain small allotments under the schoolmaster’s wife as part of this broader training in growing vegetables fruits and flowers.
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Sutton
Sutton School
Parks and Boulevards Prove a Commercial Asset in Kansas City
The Louisville Courier Journal notes Kansas City has built forty five miles of boulevards and over two thousand one hundred acres of parks in fifteen years. The system cost ten million dollars yet fronting property has risen beyond that. Initial opposition was fierce but courts cleared the way for improvements. Cities finance parks differently, but the asset remains a sound investment.
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Kansas City
Outlook
George B. Kessler
The
Park Board
Lkely
Louisville Courier-Journal
Parks and Politics in City Park Management
The article argues that city parks perform best when managed independently of the city council. It notes that council members are often practical politicians with similar education and tastes, leading to parks that often lack artistic quality. The piece clarifies no blame on politicians, just the reality of governance.
Quaint American Cities and New Bedford’s Appeal
The New Bedford Standard objects to the term quaint while noting New Bedford’s population rise from 62,442 in 1900 to nearly 100,000. The description is not pejorative but hints at elegance, beauty, and preserved traditional architecture suited to modern needs.
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New Bedford
Mass
It Was Pay. Children Learn Garden Habit In Memphis
The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes that paying attention to garden habits among school children will help Memphis grow into a more beautiful city. The piece frames school programs as a catalyst for community beautification.
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Memphis
Cold Frames and Hot Beds for Early Vegetable Starts
An agricultural note by R G Weatherstone on starting cabbage lettuce cauliflower tomatoes peppers eggplant radishes and other vegetables in hot beds using horse manure as heat. Instructions cover bed size soil layering sash placement thermometer guidance and when to sow seed.
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R. G. Weatherstone
Lost Her Chanticleer Hat
A New York City woman visiting an uncle in New Jersey loses her large Chanticleer hat to a chicken hawk. The bird swirls around the church lane on a sunny Sunday, snatches the hat from the girl’s head, tears it free from hatpins, and carries it away toward the river while she screams.
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New York
Jersey Farm
New Jersey
New York City
Desirable Young Men for Farm Work
Desirable young men are sought for farm positions who embrace hard work and farming as a worthy career. Applicants should be willing to learn scientific modern farming and to care for livestock with diligence and quality effort.
Potato Speculators and the Dairymen Balance
The piece contrasts farmers who speculate in crops with those who run dairies. It notes many communities have up-to-date dairymen who can pay their bills, while others chase crop speculation.
Full Crop of Rape From Barnyard Manure and Fertilizer
The article discusses boosting rape crop yields by dressing the land with abundant barnyard manure and sowing a small amount of commercial nitrogenous fertilizer with the seed to achieve a fuller crop.
Hessian fly damage in wheat and weather effects on control
A Missouri farmer asks if weather will influence Hessian fly damage in twelve acres of wheat and if sowing oats or flaxseed forms next. The answer explains that brown flaxseed like flaxseed is not eggs but maggot stages from last fall, that hot dry weather hinders their development, and that fields heavily infested will reduce next year’s yield. plowing up may be advised only if last fall’s maggots heavily damaged plants, otherwise keep wheat and consider feeding to other crops. Oats and barley are less affected while rye is slightly troubled.
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Missouri
Wallace
Wwe
Plant New Vegetables In City Demand Brussels Sprouts
In planning the summer garden consider new urban vegetables many country readers know little about. Brussels sprouts are in demand by city residents and scarce in supply.
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Brussels
Farm Help Plan Aims to Solve Farm Labor Shortage
A proposal suggests employing married men for a year and providing two houses to address farm labor problems. The plan argues stability and housing would draw workers to farms.
Agricultural notes on crops and orchard practices
The article offers farming tips on weed control with disking and dodder, soil quality for corn and sorghum, early sowing of oats and field peas, clover seed quality, canker worms in trees, sorghum yield, tomato seed quality, grain drill advantages, land selection when buying a farm, garden seed quality, clover nitrogen, clover pasture cautions, cranberry culture water control, nitrate use for early vegetables, and orchard cover crops for poultry and soil health.
Poultry and Farm Care Tips for Spring
A broad guide outlines spring poultry care and farming practices. It covers chick rearing, feed blends, housing, breeding, and humane husbandry for hens, ewes, pigs, cattle, and turkeys, with notes on crops, soil, and grazing for improved yields and animal health.
Wise Man Seeks Man Who Struck His Wife
A bystander asks what he would do if he found the assailant. Mr Wise replies he would introduce him to his mother in law in a sharp, darkly comic exchange.
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Mr. Wise
Bird Jekyll and Hyde and the Catbird’s Dual Song
The catbird appears plain and restless yet can deliver a divine melody. Its dual nature shines when love tunes its voice, warbling like a nightingale then shifting to a sobering screech, as described by the Philadelphia Press.
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Philadelphia Press
Cure for His Dyspepsia Dialogue Row
A humorous dialogue shows Hogan and Grogan debating a quick cure for dyspepsia. Mollie teases while Grogan boasts the doctor said rest an hour after eating, seeking a bet on fitting rest into the meal.
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Hogan
Grogan
Mollie
A Budding Star In Spotlight At School
A teacher notes Mary Anderson Wombat shows notable dramatic talent. The comment highlights her expressive recitations and stage presence as she experiments with performance.
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Mary Anderson Wombat
Opposite Methods Brings Wit on Miss Writem’s Look
A humorous exchange about Miss Writem’s demeanor as she is described with a paradoxical near genius pose. The quip plays on sharp wordplay and literary irony.
Woman abandons coffee for Postum restores health in Wisconsin notice
A Wisconsin woman recounts headaches heart pain and dyspepsia linked to coffee. After switching to Postum two years ago she reports fewer heart spells no sick headaches and improved digestion. The letter praises Postum from the Battle Creek company and notes coffee harms the liver and blood.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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