Standard Breeds of Fowls for Practical Poultry Keeping
Poultry experts outline standard breeds across laying meat and general purpose classes. Leghorn Minorca Andalusian Ancona Campine suit laying. Brahma Dorking Cornish for meat. Plymouth Rock Wyandotte Rhode Island Red Orpington balance eggs and meat. Standard breeds fit local needs and reproduce true to type.
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Minorca
Ancona
Campine
Prymouth Rock
Wyandotte
Rhode Island
Orpington
Plymouth Rock
United States Department of Agriculture
Make Progress with Fowls Breeding to Select Top Breeders
The article argues progress in poultry breeding comes from selecting the best individuals as breeders rather than breeding from the flock as a whole. It emphasizes careful culling and aiming for superior bloodlines to improve show stock, table stock, or egg production.
Compel Fowls to Exercise in Henhouses and Yards
The text urges placing thick litter layers in henhouses or yards to force fowls to exercise. It argues confinement without exercise harms health and recommends straw hay or leaves to create an engaging environment inside and around the house.
Seasonable Cookery and Moral Toasts from 1920
A 1920 Western Newspaper Union column offers beef larding tips for tenderloin with bananas and a Poivrade sauce, plus peach sherbet recipe. It closes with a Mackay quote about independence, resilience, and a pep exhortation to straighten up, walk, and breathe deeply when worry comes.
Homemade Corn Bread Muffins and Veal Cutlets Menu
A collection of kitchen notes details making Country Corn Bread and Delicate Muffins with ingredients and bake times. Includes Cream Cheese Salad with pimento olives almonds and a Veal Cutlets recipe offering stuffing, rolling method and casserole finishing steps with vegetables and mushroom prep.
Familiar and Welcome Gifts for Christmas Morning
A catalog of decorative satin ribbon gifts designed to please. It describes a lace and ribbon cap, ribbon hanger for a baby’s coat, a lingerie bow, a satin camisole, and a talcum powder box, all ornamented with rosettes, loops, and knotted ribbons. Each item features detailed construction using wide and narrow satin ribbon and lace.
Coats for the Smaller Girls Show Cozy Home Trade
The piece discusses affordable home sewing for little girls coats. It notes materials from wool coatings to duvetyn and velveteen, with dressier options in faille silk and fur trim. It describes two sample coats, a full skirted style with velvet collar and a gray chinchilla like coat, both turning on shaping, buttons, and matching fur hats.
Fabric Resembling Baby Lamb Unveiled in New Colors
A new fabric imitates the look of baby lamb with various colors suitable for trimming serge frocks and similar garments. The material aims for a soft, plush appearance and versatile use in fashion.
Blood Purity and S S S Remedy Ad
An old medicinal ad extols S S S as a blood purifier promising prevention of rheumatism eczema and other diseases caused by impure blood. It urges readers to obtain literature and free medical advice from the Chief Medical Adviser in Atlanta.
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IDR. Hartman's
Ss. S. S
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Peculiar Orator Delivers Condemnation at Kansas City Star
The speaker appeared strikingly odd, drawing gasps and giggles from the audience as he condemned wasting time on various speakers and performers. He crustily summed up his view and bowed off the rostrum, ending the address.
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Kansas City Star
Variety the Spice of Meats
A Yonkers States man humorously notes how a man should vary meals and jokes about days with two meals, one meal, or none as a seedy companion agrees. The exchange highlights appetite and casual banter in a lighthearted local column.
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Yonkers Statesman
Labor Leader Defends Strikes In Doubted Pay Talks
A veteran labor figure argues strikes underpin higher wages while a young bookkeeper recounts asking his boss for a dollar raise. The boss refuses, citing prior promises and conditions, sparking a sharp exchange about satisfaction and pay.
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New York
Maggie Goes to the Dentist for Gas
A brief chat between Maggie and Lizzie is recounted as Maggie explains she is headed to the dentist and will take gas, insisting she won’t sit in the dark with a strange man.
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Maggie
Lizzie
Houston Post
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Western Newspaper Union
Mackay
Isla Fertile
Cascara
la Grippe
Hill
Postum
Battle Creek, Mich
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