Indiana towns push for second class status
East Chicago officials plan immediate steps to call a special election under 1915 law to promote East Chicago to second class city due to census estimates. The move aims to raise official salaries and attract capable candidates as incumbents threaten to resign.
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East Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
Jeffersonville
Indiana
Clark County Association
Clark County
Porter County
Harold McCulloch
Charlestown Township
Clinton
Iinois
Vermilion County
Mr. Fineberg
Evansville
A. L. Melham
Charles J. Orbison
United States Prohibition
Indianapolis
Tinois
Blanford
Jacksonville
Petersburg
Gars
Preaf Products Corporation of
New York
Gary
Central Metallic Door Company
Gid
Quad
Leonard ‘Tractor Company
Griffich
Alexandria
Afennae
Rushville
Wilfong
Irvin
Jasper
Dubois
Madison Township
Pike County
Ferdinand
Jackson
Jefferson
Columbia
Munriean
Washington
Richards & Son
Terre Haute
Sanly Hook
C. E. Richards
Indiana Reformatory
The
Conservation Commission
Early garden planting advice from agriculture department
United States Department of Agriculture urges year round gardening to curb high food costs. Grow hardy crops such as peas onions lettuce radishes and beets with early, spaced plantings and repeat sowings. Start tomato eggplant and peppers indoors, plant greens like spinach kale and turnips, and keep planting through the season in Gulf Coast areas.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Gulf Coast
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Early Planting of Corn Proves More Profitable
Experiments by the bureau of plant industry show that planting large productive corn varieties earlier yields more ensilage in northern areas and earlier maturity in the South. Short and long season varieties, grown in alternate rows, boost yields under limited moisture, with uniform types isolated for breeding.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Industry
Barrel Fountain Is Handy For Poultry Water
A homemade poultry fountain uses a watertight barrel as a cistern connected to a drinking tank by a pipe with a one elbow. A float and plunger form a self locking valve that stops water when the tank fills, ensuring a constant supply if replenished periodically.
CHICKENS NEED GREEN FEED FOR WINTER LAYERS
Green foods offer succulence and digestive salts that aid digestion. In winter, green feed helps maintain laying stock in good tone and can increase egg production according to poultry keepers.
Obtaining Eggs in Winter for Fowl Care
A farmer should provide bone meal or beef scraps before the fowls and feed them freshly cut bones every few days. Include occasional vegetables, make them scratch for grain, and keep the birds warm at night.
Feed mixtures for laying hens and egg components
The article explains no single grain provides all nutrients for hens. It outlines that yolk, white, membranes, and shell require different food elements and specific combinations to form each part of the egg.
Danderine Promises to Halt Hair Loss and Dandruff
A vintage advertisement claims Danderine cools and cleanses the scalp, nourishes hair roots, and revitalizes each strand. It asserts hair becomes thicker and less prone to shedding after a few applications, with reduced dandruff and brighter color. A bottle sells for a few cents at drug or toilet counters.
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W. F.young
Temple St
Springfield
Mase
Its Present Uee Menu Prices Explain What You Can Buy
A humorous line defines a menu as a printed paper with the prices of food to show what you can not get. The exchange contrasts scarcity with available items, reflecting daily life.
Cuticura Soothes Baby Rashes Advertisement
Ad reads Cuticura Soap for soothing baths and Cuticura Ointment for gentle anointing of baby rashes. A dusting of Cuticura Talcum is suggested for finishing. Claims the products are purer and sweeter and offered at 25c each everywhere.
San Luis to Welcome Its First Bank
The Spanish town of San Luis Colorado closes a long chapter without a bank as the State Bank of San Luis announces opening doors. Established as Costilla county seat and historic Fort Garland outpost, the town grows with prosperous, Spanish speaking residents and a history dating back over a hundred years.
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San Luis
Costilla County
Colo
State Bank of
Santa Fe
Frank Baldwin
Denver
la Veta Pass
Fort Garland
Picking the Bones in a Sparse Meal Scene
The narrator recalls a sparse meal where one chop was shared and a hungry man nearby stared emaciatedly. A fellow diner leans over to take the discarded bone and eats it, highlighting stark hunger and tense scarcity.
The Retort Courteousquip
The narrator goes to visit the newly rich Mrs. Alleash at her refined apartment and is told she is not at home. He replies by sending a message through the maid that he did not expect her to be in such surroundings.
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Mrs. Alleash
Consolation for Mother at the Beach
A boy recalls a day at the bathing beach with his parents, noting the other boys teased a large woman but he kept quiet about his mother, offering a quiet consolation to his mother.
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Jack
Nothing Left in Juvenile Hall After Immediate Shower and Wart Removal
Ragged Tom Brown, committed to juvenile hall, receives bath, clean clothes, hair cut, and his old clothes burned. Adenoids removal aids breathing. wart on his thumb to be removed by the matron. Tom recoils at the thought, uttering a single shocked exclamation.
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Sullivan
Indiana
Sullivan County
L. N. Hines
Richard Park
Indianapolis
Stanley Wyckoff
Eli Stansbury
Washington
Ind
Wyckoff
St. Louis
Huntington
Board of Works
Tom Brown
Tom
Harper’s Magazine
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War Department
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Food and Drug Division
State
Boands of Health
Brockville Pike
Cincinnati
Rush County
Shelby County
Indianaapolis
Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations
American Farm Bureau Federation
Anderson
Richland Township
Here
Institute of Madison County
Thomas Riley Marshall
Vincennes
Bicknell
Knox County
Colorado
Hill
Mr. Hill
Qrade
Mother Gray
Mother Gray CO
le Roy
N. Y
Jesk Company
Nashville
Tennessee
W.N. Y
Postur Cereal Co
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