Western Canada dairy and cheese industry poised for growth
Western Canada’s cheese industry shows strong wartime demand and rising prices. Calgary and Monarch exporters report high monthly prices for hogs and meat products, with Alberta’s foothills and cool nights boosting milk and cream quality. A farmer in Monarch notes a record carload hog sale at eleven cents a pound, signaling robust markets for farm goods as settlers invest in hogs and dairy.
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Canada
Western Canada
Alberta
Denmark
Rockies
Monarch
Calgary
Kansas druggists endorse Kidrey medicine claim
An 1915 Galena Kansas advertisement touts Kilmer Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. Dr. Haines endorses it with claims of universal patient benefit and urges readers to send ten cents for a sample and booklet. Available full size bottles advertised in drug stores with price details.
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Dr. Kilmer
Haines
Galena
Kansas
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. C
Ady
Concrete manure pits for fertility and economy on the farm
The article promotes concrete fertilizer pits as a way to preserve manure fertility, reducing losses from leaching and fermentation. It outlines pit dimensions, wall and floor thickness, and construction steps, including wiring, tamping, form removal, and anchoring against water. Larger pits need deeper designs and proper sump features.
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Walla
Best Kind of Wire Fencing for Farm Use
An article explains choosing fencing types by purpose. For mixed stock a general woven wire fabric suits, while pastures with only cattle or horses may use cheaper coarser woven fence. Barbed wire costs and stock injury risks are weighed against maintenance costs.
Buffalo Burr Threat to Farms in Kansas and Nebraska
Buffalo burr, a spiny annual weed from western Kansas and Nebraska, infests alfalfa fields via seed in hay shipments. The plant grows vigorously, endures drought, and bears spiny burrs after yellow blossom-like blooms. It spreads by seed and can be controlled by cutting at soil surface before seeding. It is not yet common in the corn belt.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Meat food boosts egg production in Purdue study
Purdue poultry tests show adding meat food to hen rations raises egg output by about 100 eggs per pullet yearly. Gains rely on meat scraps or fish scrap when summer range reduces bug intake. Skim milk, available on farms, can further feed fowl for higher returns. prim milk yielded top income in winter.
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Purdue University
Bees Are Farmers Friends and The Danger of Spraying Blossoms
Bees are vital to fruit production and farmers should avoid spraying mult trees in bloom as it kills bees and harms crop quality. The article urges delaying pesticide applications until petals fall to prevent poison from reaching the heart of blossoms, stressing beekeepers and farmers rely on bees.
Insect Harms Many Plants in Early Season Pests
The cutworm is among the first pests to appear and kills cabbage cauliflower cucumbers squashes melons corn tomatoes and peas. For transplanted plants wrap with a collar of stiff paper below ground and an inch or more above the surface and dig out the worm found just below the surface near the cut plant in slaked lime may be spread over surrounding soil.
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Lima
Caring for Raspberry Tips and Danberries
Dig up all rooted raspberry tips and replant them where you want. Do not allow growth in the original patch to prevent a thicket. Remove surplus plants. old clumps will bear better and be easier to work around. Danberries require the same care as raspberries though vines can run long.
Auto Strikes Hog and Tries Somersault in Cal-Mary Route
Miss Marie Hutchinson of Van Nuys drives with her father C. M. Hutchinson when a large hog appears on the state highway near Nordhoff. They attempt a sharp left turn, the car flips end over end, rolls into a ditch, the radiator and wheel damaged. Both are badly bruised but not seriously injured.
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Marian
Cal
Mary
Marie Hutchinson
Van-Nuys
C. M. Hutchinson
Nordhoff
Miss Hutchinson
Mr. Hutchinson
Sam swaps hat for wife in Savannah marriage tale
A Savannah tale recounts Sam WilEerton who pawned his hat for a dollar to pay a marriage license after paneling a preacher about rates. He marries his fiancee with the hat’s proceeds but leaves without a certificate, the minister noting the cost of the license and the missing document.
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Savannah
Aswain
Sam
WilEerton
Cupid
Man Fights With Jellyfish Off Santa Barbara
G H Wilson Nes, senior partner of Wilson and Schwab auto men, is hospitalized in critical condition after a life and death struggle with a huge jellyfish four hundred feet from shore off Serena. He fought the creature as tentacles and a mass of yellow and white segments entangled him, breaking the mass into fragments but leaving him badly scorched and in severe pain. He is reported to be improving with morphine for pain.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
G. H. Wilson Nes
Cottaga Hospital
Serena
Wilson
Wilson & Schwab
Automobile Men
Dejected Jane Hopes for Night Visit to Settle Difference
In a charged scene a sorrowful Jane, famed for beauty and a troubled past, awaits a possible reconciliation with her partner Paul as a visitor arrives. The icy tone reveals unresolved tensions over a bill, ending with a chilly quip about the iceman.
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Jane
Jacks
Paul
Iceman
Spear Minto Tooth Paste Promises Fresh Breath
An advertisement claims pleasant breath comes from clean teeth and promotes Spear Minto Tooth Paste by Butler D D, offering mail orders, samples, and directions for proper dental care from The Spearmino Company in Chicago.
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Butler
D.D
Spearminto Company
West 63d St
Chicago
Adr
Stratford remark on Shakespeare and his plays
James T. Fields recalls meeting a Warwickshire native in Stratford who asserts Shakespeare’s lasting fame rests on his plays. The anecdote emphasizes the role of the plays in keeping Shakespeare known today.
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James T. Fields
Stratford
Shakespeare
Warwickshire
Cuticura Emollients Offered By Mail Patent Ad
Fragrant supercresmy emollients promise to improve skin scalp hair and hands. Claims clear pimples blotches redness roughness dandruff itching chapping soreness. Free sample by mail with Book Address postcard Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere. A young man quips in wartime thrift.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Ady
Wife Too Ill To Work In Indianapolis Woman Credits Pinkham Remedy
Mrs. Wa Green of 382 8 Addison Street Indiana states her health failed with poor constitution and weight loss before using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She praises the remedy as a godsend and urges other women to seek advice from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Lydia E. Pinksham
Lydis E. Pinkham
Mrs. Wa. Green
Addison Street
Ids E Pinkham Medicine Co
Lymm
Largest Car Ferry Opens Across Carquinez Straits
The largest car ferry in the world now operates across the Carquinez straits between Port Costa and Benicia Del. It carries freight and passenger cars for the Southern Pacific railroad. The 43 foot ferry boat uses wood superstructure and over 2,000,000 feet of lumber held by 76 tons of spikes. It can haul 36 freight cars and two engines or 24 passenger cars with two engines and runs on electric power.
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Carquinez Straits
Port Costa
Benicia
Del
Southern Pacific Railroad
Hell End
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