Yesteryear Feast Days Reflections on a Family Thanksgiving
A mother recalls past Thanksgivings at a home filled with family life and ritual dish preparation. She notes her children’s success and questions why loneliness and longing persist at the table, realizing life moves forward even as memories linger and parental work evolves.
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Tom
Bob
Ruth Alice
Ruth
Aliee
Ware
Alice
Bell
John Graham
Ute Grahams
Yesteryear
Beauty of Gratitude by Frank Herbert Sweet
A 1923 column urges Thanksgiving to be a home day and a natural expression of gratitude. It warns against hollow praise and urges the young to stay with family gatherings. The piece extols spontaneous gratitude bubbling from the heart like a spring and stresses sincere thanks at home.
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Western Newspaper Union
Preventing Roup in Poultry Through Dry Housing and Care
A Successful Farming writer notes that keeping poultry in dry well ventilated houses with balanced rations prevents roup. If a case appears, sick birds should be culled and buried or burned. Treat isolates with coal tar disinfectants or roup remedies, add potash to drinking water, and separate birds that have had a severe cold from breeding. Protect the flock to avoid financial loss.
Co-Operative Egg Marketing Proves Profitable
Farm women in Fairhaven Georgia learned poultry management from extension agents and began cooperative egg packing and shipment. They secured a local store as customer and have run a steady business for over a year. Reports show 1921 saw about 200000 dozen eggs handled by new co operative groups nationwide.
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Fairhaven
Extension Club
United States Department of Agriculture
Hens Favor Wheat In Feed Preference Test
A state experiment station test weighed hens fed different feeds to reveal preferences. Most hens chose wheat, Kufur next, then corn and cornmeal while oats, bran, and sunflower seeds were less popular. Alfalfa leaves were largely ignored. The study also found beef scrap or surrusk enhances egg rewird versus no animal feed, with sour milk offering a slight edge over beef scrap.
Proper Gare of Poultry Is Apparent in Autumn
Fragmented OCR notes describe poultry care in autumn with reference to pullets and egg production but text is garbled and largely unreadable. Limited readable terms mention core of poultry, rocks, indecision on laying and timing, months, and poverty tint. The passage lacks clear facts or events to summarize fully.
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Tony Dar
His Proper Sphere Dialectal Fan Dialogue
A humorous snippet features a speaker refusing to sweat and a wife quipping about souls moving to another being after death. The dialogue plays on reincarnation as a settle tin hen, highlighting regional vernacular and comic相 tone.
Danderine Promises Thick Beautiful Hair at 35 Cents
An advertisement touts Danderine as a tonic that restores lifeless hair, improves scalp health, reduces falling hair and dandruff, and adds gloss and vitality. It claims rapid results and stresses the product is not sticky or greasy. A lingering divorce quote appears among other clippings.
Distinction Through Fragrance and Skincare Routine
An advertisement touts a refined standard of beauty noting that a woman’s influence comes from a perfume and routine. It recommends Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Talcum to cleanse pores and maintain clear skin. A humorous aside recalls a clergyman urging restraint from bridge playing and a witty reply about time wasted in dealing.
Anxious Young Man Seeks Approval for Marriage
In a London Tit-Bits item a distressed girl tells Tom to calm her father who has been shouting and stamping for an hour. She confides that Tom wishes to marry her, prompting the father to need a steadier temper.
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Bell
Ufe
Rath
Bob
Tom
London
At the Beach Gladys and the Chow Inquiry
A seaside scene asks how Gladys is faring this summer with chatter about personalities. He-On notes she is in fine shape while a question about liking pung chow surfaces in lighthearted banter.
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Gladys
California Fig Syrup Advertisement for Constipation Relief
Advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a harmless laxative for babies and children. It claims to regulate bowels, sweeten the stomach, and start the liver without narcotics. Warns to insist on genuine product and follow directions, noting a catchphrase about thirteen muscles to make a smile.
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California
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
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Prmmeny Mao
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