Red Cross drives knitting and war aid in county
The Red Cross plans a yarn supply and knitting for sweaters, with a bazaar and aprons available at the Variety store. Food for 159 American prisoners in Germany is sent weekly, plus Berne bakery bread. A drive seeks $100,000,000 and a reserve list for Nebraska Base Hospital No. 49. Episcopal Guild will sew two to five pm, making garments for refugees and hospital beds shirts.
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Red Cross
Germany
American Red Cross
Berne
Nebraska Base Hospital No. 49
Episcopal Guild
Episcopal Rectory
W. PF. Bassett
Dairy products very essential imports have been stopped
A 1919 wartime article urges broader use of skim milk and buttermilk to curb losses in the milk industry. It cites 1917 figures showing a huge shift in trade balances and a total 84.6 billion pounds of milk produced that year. It stresses better dairying through sanitation, pasture care, legume silage, and selective culling.
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United States
Baby beeves dominate modern beef markets across breeders
Livestock markets see rising demand for well fattened beef cattle weighing 900 to 1200 pounds. Breeders finish cattle at 14 to 20 months, aiming for early maturing stock with Hereford Aberdeen Angus or Shorthorn blood. This shift requires improved bulls, heavier grain feeding, and greater husbandry skill for higher profitability.
Sharing Milk Costs and Farm Management
Rising milk production costs follow higher feed and labor prices, with consumers paying their share. Improved farm management is urged, as many dairies underperform with milk yields far below potential. State agricultural colleges and the US Department of Agriculture offer recordkeeping guidance.
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State Agricultural College
United States Department of Erbanjuira
Unclear text fragment on crown, lungs, and digestion
Fragmented notes discuss importance and processes of crown of a tree and digestion in lungs. Many phrases are garbled and do not form a coherent narrative or identifiable event.
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America
Milk Waste Sparks Guide to Save Thousands
Dairy experts from the U S Department of Agriculture identify nine common leak points driving a 2.15 percent loss in milk handling. Leaky cans, careless transfer, poor draining, faulty equipment, misadjusted valves, filler losses, mishandled cases, incomplete emptying of pasteurizers and evaporation during processing are cited as main culprits.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Two Things Worth Having In A Home Garden
Growing plants benefit health in two ways. Plants absorb carbon dioxide from occupants and release pure oxygen. Evaporation from foliage and pots humidifies air, helping prevent dryness in heated rooms. You can't have too many plants or too many children in the house.
Local residents visit and weekend gatherings in Sidney
Sextorp Mro and Mrs Lewis Brett and son Harold shopped in Sidney Saturday. Will Scheele was nearby for seed wheat last week. Mrs Chas McKee and children visited Mrs Pete Nelson and family. Robert and Louis Seemann spent Sunday in Sidney. Ina Heimer, in Thermopolis hospital, is slowly improving. Mian Ves McNee and children visited Mr and Mrs Lewis Brett. Charles Basher plows with his steamer for EO Fisher. Mrs Eto Morrow and children of Sterling Cole visited the first part of the week with Dan Heimer and Mrs Pete Nelson.
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Mro
Lewis Brett
Harold
Sidney
Will Scheele
Chas McKee
Pete Nelson
Robert
Louis Seemann
Ina Heimer
Thermopolis
Mian Ves McNee
Lewis [Trett
Charles Basher
Eo Fisher
Eto Morrow
Sterling Cole
Dan Heimer
William Scheele
Moon Superstition Across Civilizations and Myths
The passage surveys moon related beliefs noting the mouse carried to the moon by Hindus and Egyptians. It cites De Gubernatis on a pagan sun god trampling the mouse of night and adds lines about cats, night shadows, and the absence of the moon.
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de Gubernatis
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C. W. West
Clayton Parks
Phyllis Corbett
Ann Radcliff
E. S. Sherrerd
Mrs. M. Martin
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APRIT
Dalton Sund
Ie Potter
Gurley
Lodgepole
Ford
Dearborn
Baldwin
Dearborn Truck CO
Chicago
Kopac Bros
David City
Columbus, Schuyler, Norfolk
Nebr
Steere
Tetri Teeter Kariin
Sextorp
Furer Grocery
Post Tosties
Furer Grocery Co
Sidney, Nebraska
O. B. Lansing
Mich
Osborn
M. W. Osborn
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