War boosts value of tablesmen and health aids
The piece notes war drives demand for tablesmen and touts Red Cross Ball Blue for wear, Garfield Tea to cure constipation indigestion sick headaches and bilious conditions. It ends with a witty quotation about family lines and rope.
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Red Cross
Pleasant people differ in consideration given
The main difference between pleasant and unpleasant people lies in their demand for consideration. Pleasant individuals are quick to give consideration, while unpleasant people tend to demand it from others.
Nourishing Winter Soups and Dishes From Veal to Italian Eggs
A collection of old fashioned soup and dish recipes includes Veal Soup with stock, potatoes, catsup and lemon. Onion Soup with consomme and parmesan. Stuffed Turnips baked with seasoned meat. Italian Eggs and Onions with cheese. and vegetable sides of peas carrots and onions with salt pork.
Duty and happiness hinge on action not waiting
The quote urges that happiness comes from doing one’s duty rather than waiting for a just cause. Life is found in purposeful effort and in striving rather than in rest.
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Whittier
Dinner ideas from a vintage home cookbook
A tomato soup recipe with vegetables and herbs, plus rice with chicken, and an apple cake. The tomato soup uses sweet pepper onion carrot turnip cabbage parsley celery bay leaf and cloves with tomatoes and water, seasoned and thickened with flour and fat.
Graceful Spring Oat Wraps Highlight Fashion
OATS are graceful and dignified this spring, suggesting leisure and deliberation. The pictured models showcase new coat styles with generous drapes, one with a striped collar and patent leather accents, the other a mantle-like design with a gathered body and tassel-edged ends.
Frocks Reflect Simple Childhood Styles in Spring Dresses
The article praises spring girls frocks for simple, appealing designs with sampler-like trims. Chambray and gingham dominate knickers and collars, with organdy for dress-up options and colored ribbons and sunbonnets completing coordinated outfits.
Best Fowls for Back Yard Hens Explained by USDA
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines ideal back yard fowl choices. Medium breeds like Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons suit small spaces. large or nervous birds pose laying and behavioral issues. Buy from local breeders when possible and inspect vigor comb color and foot condition before purchase.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Plymouth Rocks
Wyandottes
Rhode Island
Orpingtons
United States
Department of Agriculture
Better Sires for Bantams at Sullivan & Sons Farm
Sam Sullivan & Sons in Culpeper county Virginia has joined the Better Sires Better Stock movement guided by the USDA. The farm raises Holstein cattle Duroc Jersey swine Rhode Island White chickens White Holland turkeys white guinea fowls Coch in bantams Muscovy ducks and purebred horses. All stock is bred to pure bred sires under the program.
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Sam Sullivan & Sons
United States Department of Agriculture
Culpeper County
Virginia
Rhode Island
Geese Rearing and Egg Hatching in Winter
Geese are fed to produce eggs in the late winter so goslings hatch under hens or geese. Some breeders raise all the goslings under hens due to geese’ tendency to be hard to manage. Incubation of goose eggs ranges from 28 to 80 days.
Advertising in Old Days in Philadelphia Display
A Pennsylvania museum purchases a large collection of 18th century advertising media for Memorial Hall. The items include billheads cards newspapers and other ad materials showing merchants use of newspaper space and copper plate bill heads copied from English practice with original Philadelphia styling.
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Philadelphia
Dock Street
Pennsylvania Museum
Memorial Hall
England
Philadelphia Public Ledger
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