Peribonka Village Tales and a Crippled Lady Idol
A look at Peribonka a French Canadian village with the Crippled Lady as a beloved figure. Paul Kirke a descendant of Molly Brant joins Claire Durand in Peribonka while engineering work continues nearby. He contemplates Carla the village teacher and writes to his wife. The narrative hints at family ties and distant European connections.
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Peribonka
Paul Kirke
Molly Brant
Joseph Brant
New York
Paul
Claire Durand
Europe
Carla
Love and longing deepen in the Mistassini hope
Paul battles a growing love for Carla while a death and memory bind them. He returns to the pit to work hard, seeks solace in flowers at Peribonka, and the pair face unspoken loss as Carla reveals her enduring love for another man who is gone. The tense bond shifts as both cling to duty and desire.
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Carla
Mistassini
Mistassins
Roberval
Peribonka
Blueberry Plains
Perlbonka
Claire
Perihonka
Paul
Mrs. Haldan
Nigerian Women Power in Yorubaland and Community Roles
Yoruba women hold formal authority in village governance with a head woman and her council, issuing native administration orders. Potters, all women, run a guild and burial prerogatives. Religion blends ancestor reverence with nature worship and subordinate gods for thunder lightning and agriculture.
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Yorubaland
Nigeria
Training U S Sailors and Naval Academy Origins
The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Maryland opened on October 10 1845. It was founded by George Bancroft the secretary of the navy. The total of authorized appointments to the academy is about 8 000.
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U. S
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Md
George Bancroft
Secretary of the Navy
Soy Beans Rise in Popularity Across the Country
The soy bean crop shows strong growth nationwide with a 25 percent rise in northern states and total acreage reaching 634 000 in 1924, up from 452 000 in 1928. States like Missouri report about a 50 percent increase as seedsmen race to test climate and soil suitability and develop this newer farm crop for forage oil and human food.
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Missouri
United States
Essential for Success Bees Must Have Honey Stores
Beekeepers should open hives early in spring and ensure two to three frames of sealed honey are stored to prevent starvation. Adequate honey boosts brood rearing in late spring and early summer, while short stores delay brood growth and weaken the colony before the main honey flow.
Controlling Gophers by Poisoning in Spring
A spring poison strategy for alfalfa fields urges treating infested ground with poisoned wheat once dry enough. One bushel of strychnine poisoned wheat is said to kill 600 plus pocket gophers, eliminating 100 plus acres per bushel at six gophers per acre. Early April noted as most effective for the 1929 gopher crop.
Agricultural Hints For Better Hay And Garden Crops
Red or alsike clover yields more hay value than timothy. Asparagus tolerates heavy salt application. Feed sweet clover from early spring to late May. later seeding cuts weeds. Do not plant garden seed too thick to ease thinning. Properly seasoned fuel wood yields maximum heat in stoves and fireplaces. Do not fear rich soil for cabbage lettuce spinach and beets. well rotted stable manure is best.
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Timothy
Home-Grown Wood Seen as Sound North Carolina Fuel
Extension forester R. W. Graeber argues for using home grown wood in North Carolina homes. He notes 50 million cords available this year and says two pounds of dry wood equal one pound of coal in heating value. He cites lighter woods and heavier woods by cord weight and estimates $200 million added state wealth if wood sells at $4 a cord. He says wood use keeps money in state and does not deplete forests, aiding future timber quality.
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R. W. Graeber
North Carolina State College
North Carolina
Graeber
Expert Garden Planting Times From Farm Journal
Expert advice outlines when to plant various vegetables in open ground and the garden. It notes peas radishes spinach onions can be planted as soon as soil is workable and beets cabbage lettuce carrots Swiss chard parsley salsify turnips kohlrabi watercress when peach and plum trees bloom. It adds timing for hardening off seedlings protecting early plants and Saint Patrick's day for potatoes with a note on disinfecting seed using organic mercury products.
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Farm Journal
Italian broccoli joins University of Illinois garden
The University of Illinois introduces Italian broccoli as a hardy, cabbage easy crop closely related to cauliflower. It yields two to three crops per season with edible green buds resembling a cauliflower head and regrowth after the first harvest. The plant withstands higher temperatures and matures about 60 to 70 days after planting.
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Illinois
University of Illinois
Lee A. Sommerg
University
Sweet Clover Used For Hay Pasture And Soil Help
Sweet clover serves as hay pasture and soil improver. It trails alfalfa and red clover as hay but yields abundant grazing in its second year. It can pasture and soil enrich at once, boosting sugar beet yields similarly whether pastured before turning under or not.
Honey Supers and Bee Health for Harvest Yields
This tip sheet warns that farmers who keep bees may lose part of the honey crop if they fail to provide enough supers. Nectar varies yearly and a rush of nectar, if bees lack storage space, drives them to loaf or crowd and reduces honey production.
Genuine Fletcher remedy for children's coated tongue and fussiness
The excerpt urges using a trusted Fletcher remedy for minor childhood ailments. It emphasizes the need for a package bearing Chas. H. Fletcher's signature and presents it as the first choice when a child is coated tongue, fretful, or unsettled.
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Chas. H. Fletcher
Always in Good Humor Health Claim Ad by Bill Freeman Jr
The ad features Bill Freeman Jr of Key West sharing a health secret claiming simple lubrication with Najol keeps him and his family in good humor. It asserts Najol is tasteless non absorbed non habit forming and helps internal cleaning without drugs. The message urges readers to buy Najol at drugstores.
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Bill Freeman, Jr
South Street
Key West
Florida
Bill
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Bayer
Bayer Aspirin
Psil
Najol
William A. Freeman, Jr
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