Camp Fire Girls Promote Service Across Nation
Friendly service drives Camp Fire Girls nationwide with projects from Sherman Texas to Portland Oregon. Girls wheel ambulatory patients, host picnics and games, visit hospitals, donate puppets to San Francisco children’s hospital, aide polio drives, and raise funds for a veteran family in Battle Creek Michigan. The program, guiding some 360 000 members, runs through November 30 inviting girls ages 7 to 18 to be friendly and join.
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Camp Fire
Sherman
Tex
Veterans’ Hospital
McKinney
Portland
Ore
Alphagal Horizon Club
Reading- Berks County Council
Reading
Silver Bow
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Butte
Mont
Battle Creek
Mich
Camp Fire Girls
Santa
Tulare
Calif
Children’s Hospital
San Francisco
Fargo, N D
Jamestown
Man Recovers Half-Century Old Nickel
Ed Brant of Winfield Kansas finally received the nickel he earned in 1898 as a school pupil. He dropped it into a floor crack, and it lay hidden for nearly 50 years until the old Ak ron school was torn down and the coin was recovered. Brant notes the coin’s value today would only equal a fifth of its 1898 buying power.
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Winfield
Kans
Ed Brant
Brant
Akron, Kans
Lone Inhabitant Preserves Ghost Town Diamond City
E B Robison has lived alone for nearly 30 years in Diamond CityMontana once a booming gold town near Helena with 10000 residents and 32 saloons now reduced to ruins including a log house that was a drug store and later a stage office. Confederate Gulch earned its name after Civil War miners and a Civil War era rush left memories of a town that yielded vast gold with melts of $180 per pan and later German Montana bar surpassing $1000 per pan. Robison recalls the era and notes total Montana bar removals of about 7 million dollars.
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Helena
Mont
Diamond City
E. B Robison
Robison
Confederate Gulch
Idaho
Montana
Two-Headed Calf Born in Anville Dairy
In Annville Pennsylvania a Holstein cow owned by Harvey Sweigart gave birth to a two headed calf. The creature has four eyes two noses and two mouths though it retains normal ears. The birth details the unusual twin-faced calf with its distinctive facial arrangement.
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Annville
Harvey Sweigart
Baseball Fan Builds Park for Youngsters in Overland Park
Christian G. Segner, 62, built a 7 acre ball field with lights grandstand for 700 dressing rooms and a soda stand at a cost about 15000. The park opened in May and operates most nights. Segner often serves as umpire and mentors youth as team managers hand him the mound nod.
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Overland Park, Kans
Christian G. Segner
Segner
Feeding stimulants to raise weight gain in Herefords
Washington experiment station reports feeding stimulants to four groups of Hereford heifers. Nux vomica produced the highest weight gain and the lowest feed cost per pound of weight gain, compared with Fowler's solution and thiouracil or no stimulant.
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Washington
Nux Vomica
British Percheron breed and characteristics
The British Percheron, imported from La Perche in France, gained prominence in World War I. By 1918 the British Percheron Horse Society formed to promote Percheron breeding for agriculture. Stallions stand at least 16 hands 3 inches tall. mares are slightly shorter. Color is gray or black with little white.
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la Perche
Normandy
France
British Percheron Horse Society
Keep Them Healthy Prevent Lamb Losses From Predatory Dogs
Farmers use truck flares on steel posts to deter wolves and dogs at night. Flares drive away predators with flame and odor, while manure piles or old straw nearby hinder barn fires. Blackhead in turkeys stems from cecal worms. phenothiazine in mash every three to four weeks helps prevent outbreaks.
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Turkeys
Farms Use Six Times As Many Tires as City
A survey by B F Goodrich covers 105 Illinois farms in an agricultural county and finds an average of 32 pneumatic tires per farm. The report notes farmers hold a greater share of rubber volume than urban families.
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B. F. Goodrich Company
Illinois
Salads Lead the Health Parade Across the Table
The article extols salads as a fresh, vitamin rich choice from ancient times. It highlights fruit and vegetable driven platters, party and dessert salads, and gives recipes for Frozen Banana Salad and Ginger Ale Pear Salad. It also mentions serving salads with main courses and as accompaniments like chef and cole slaw varieties.
Lynn Chambers Menu and salad dressings collection
Menu from Lynn Chambers features Cream of Mushroom Soup Roast Chicken Sweet Potato Balls and various greens with flexible dressing options. Includes detailed cole slaw variants and two mold salads Molded Grape Salad and fruit and nut salad served in lettuce nests, released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union
Lynn Says Try Old Salad Favorites With New Touches
Watercress goes well with mayonnaise and a touch of catsup. Radishes and green pepper add crunch. Asparagus tips on tomato with blue cheese dressing taste better. Break cheese into French or oil dressings and add lemon juice for tartness.
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Lynn
Salad ideas with tomatoes avocados and citrus dressings
A variety of fresh produce combinations are described. Sliced tomatoes on lettuce with a light caraway seasoned dressing are paired with avocado halves dressed in lemon juice and orange cubes with a hint of onion. Marinated avocado strips with grapefruit orange segments, pimiento, blue cheese and nutmeats are suggested as another option.
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Dallas
W. J. Dryden
Percheron
Histon
Cambridge
Lynn Chambers
Utah By-Products CO
Salt Lake City
Utah
Ogden
Logan
Garland
Utah Hide and Tallow CO
Spanish Fork
Heber City
Orient
Wirereuour
ACME
Acme White
Detroit
Michigan
Cially
America
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