My Year with Hens and the Farm at New York State
The narrator recalls converting a suburban plant into a working poultry farm in New York during 1921 22. He details migrating for a poultry center visit to Vineland New Jersey adopting 500 more 8 1 2 Christmas? Nah week yearlings, upgrading to electric lighting, feeding regimes, green bone supplements, and vented sunlit hen houses. The operation grows to 1500 pullets 975 hens and 75 cocks with incubators and a mobile fleet delivering to Buffalo and nearby stores.
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Vineland
N. J
New York
New Jersey
Buffalo
Six Centuries for Cologne Cathedral Completion
The Cologne Cathedral in Germany began in 1248 and lay neglected from the fifteenth century until 1823. It was finally completed in 1880, more than six centuries after construction started.
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Cologne
Germany
Unfortunate Character Quote by Auffenberg
A dour reflection on trust and virtue notes that disrespect for confidence leads to a joyless path and the loss of noble actions as faith in virtue fades from the heart.
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Auffenberg
Coal Under Public Utility Laws Considered in Pa Special Session
Harrisburg lawmakers opened a special session with four coal related bills. One would declare anthracite a public utility under the public service commission while another seeks a interstate compact among anthracite states. Governor Pinchot backs the measures as part of the coal program. In Washington the House considers a bill to empower the president to seize and run anthracite mines during a strike. Nine related bills are before the interstate commerce committee.
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Harrisburg
Pinchot
Public Service Commission
House
Senate
Washington
Boylan
New York
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Farm Problems Take Spotlight in Washington Conferences
Farmers from across the nation attend Washington conferences and committee hearings to press for relief. They urge a cooperative marketing bill backed by President Coolidge and a plan to manage surplus grain to shield prices from world market swings and European competition.
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Washington
Coolidge
Europe
Try Steel Mill Next
A sharp tongue account of a lifelong pessimist who jokes about misfortune and a failed burglary attempt that ends with breaking into a grand piano store. The narrator uses self-deprecating humor to vent frustration.
Stamp Request Reflects Family Licking Traditions
A Columbia Jester quip mocks a request to alter a stamp. The joke suggests family members have all handled the stamp, rendering any modification pointless.
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Columbia Jester
Jumping the broom origin in Gypsy Lore
The expression Jumping the broom comes from Gypsy superstition teaching that leaping over a broom warded off evil influence. The note links the phrase to cultural beliefs, reflecting historic romantic and ritual symbolism.
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Archduke Albrecht
Hungary
Admiral Llorthy
Calumet Concrete Construction Co
West
115Th ST
Pale Ee
Cewier
Wae
Owe
Chicago
Earl DE Young & CO
Michigan Avenue
Roseland
Pullman
Poinsette
Fray’s
Michigan City Road
Propper
Dolton
Dolton 5
Twin City
Dolton, Ill
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