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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1923
Page
3
A New York Times fashion view argues sports clothes have secured a permanent place in the American wardrobe for informal wear. It highlights material choices from calicoes and prints to ratines and linens, emphasizing practical silhouettes, short sleeves, and comfortable skirts suitable for everyday activities.
Coats of this type are replacing sweaters for afternoon wear and more dressy sports outfits, appealing to outdoor enthusiasts especially women avoiding mannish attire. Accessories matter. flat heeled shoes, lisle stockings and restrained colors like black gray and tan create the desired effect, while colored shoes risk misfit with conservative styles.
Instructions advise applying a few drops of castor oil to a loose sewing machine strap and leaving it overnight so the belt tightens and returns to proper tension by morning. This common home remedy suggests lubrication to restore fit without disassembly.
LR L Cochran of Lincoln, a World War I veteran and American Legion member, was selected by Gov. Bryan as Nebraska state engineer. A University of Nebraska graduate, he worked as a rodman, Lincoln county surveyor, consulting engineer, and state bridge inspector before his army service. After discharge he settled in North Platte and supervised paving projects.
The national rehabilitation committee of the American Legion proposes a district contest to boost post effort in helping ex service men reintegrate into community life. A loving cup would honor the post with the most service, based on points for hospitalized men, compensation, training, insurance reinstatement, and job opportunities.
The Veterans' Bureau opens a hospital at Pikesville Kentucky to treat World War veterans afflicted with trachoma, a rare eye disease, according to information sent to the Legion service division.
The article recounts barberry bushes spreading black stem rust to nearby wheat, with Dr. E. C. Stakman of the USDA noting epidemics disappeared after bushes were removed. It traces 18th–19th century debates, De Bary's 1865 findings on rust life cycle, and confirms barberry as the rust source.
A Colorado woman improved family finances through poultry keeping after a poor crop year. She sold culls for 106 dollars to buy lumber for a larger poultry house, and eggs and chickens brought 597.20 dollars. The income covered taxes, interest on farm debt, new poultry-house space, and interior home work, giving the family a cozy three-room house.
The dairyman notes flies are costly and reduce milk output by annoying cows. Extension division suggests a protective repellant mixture of ecarbolic acid turpentine tar oil and tannin to be diluted with kerosene to five gallons and sprayed on cattle twice daily.
Alfalfa ranks as a leading forage crop, adaptable to many soils and climates. It prefers dry air with irrigation, tolerates heat, but suffers in cold and thaw cycles, especially with poor drainage and high water tables. Deep loams with open subsoils and good drainage favor growth. prolonged flooding during growth harms plants.
Guineas can be tamed if training begins after hatching and kept confined in hen houses. Some may remain wild if hatched by guinea hens and allowed to roam with predators about, but tame birds are quieter and valued for meat and eggs. Demand grows in Eastern markets and eggs are considered rich and longer lasting.
A historical notice urges using formaldehyde or corrosive sublimate to treat seed potatoes to ensure cleaner, higher quality harvests next fall. Farmers encouraged to dig more and improve storage practices for better yield.
Harry Embleton of the A and M college explains fowls crave certain foods they miss. Milk, tankage, meat scraps, or alfalfa pasture satisfy this need. supplying enough of these feeds helps end the feather eating habit.
Farmers with heavy clover crops should cut when heads brown, cure in windrows, haul under cover, and salt each two-horse load to absorb moisture. If salt is unavailable, layer straw between loads. Side delivery hay rakes aid efficient curing by allowing hot air and sun to dry without breaking fine leaves.
A hen with a white ear lobe lays a white shelled egg while a hen with a colored ear lobe lays a colored egg. Leghorns and Anconas have white ear lobes and Plymouth Rocks Rhode Island Reds and Wyandottes have red ear lobes.
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