Disadvantages of Big Farms and Rug Care Tips
The piece notes that large scale farming often fails to beat family-sized farms due to labor dispersal weather downtime and travel time challenges. It also offers rug care guidance: sweep with a dry cloth, beat small rugs outdoors weekly, avoid shaking if possible, and use damp bran or paper to sweep floors while avoiding oily sweeping compounds per University Farm Home Economics guidance.
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College of Agriculture
Department of Home Economics
University Farm
Arsenal Captured as Germans Seize Knight Servian Arsenal Town
German and Bulgarian forces press through Servia's mountains with Kraguyevatz as their hub, 59 miles from Belgrade, while Serbs fight fiercely to slow the invaders. French and British aid strengthens Serbs in the south, and Balkan tensions rise as Roumania debates intervention amid naval movements in the Black Sea. Russian transports sighted. Winter weather slows campaigns. French report on German casualties from Laos battle. A Turkish naval clash and German espionage executions in Belgium are also noted.
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Kraguegvatz
Servia
Nish
Kraguyevatz
Belgrade
von Mackensen
Danube
Timox
Uskup
Saloniki
Varna
Bucharest
Romania
Roumanian
Bulgaria
Greece
Courland
Riga
Dvinsk
Dvvinsk
Gulf of Riga
Tukum
Scholk
iDvinsk
France
Butte de Tahure
John French
Laos
Black Sea
Berlin
Breslau
Goeben
Hamil
Constantinople
Thrace
Belgium
How to Make an Ice Pit Card
A common ice house method uses a ground pit with a board roof to protect from rain and snow and provide shade. Straw is packed tightly between the pit walls and the ice to insulate and preserve cooling效果.
Thirteen Killed In Tenement Fire In Brooklyn
A three story tenement on North Sixty sixth Street Brooklyn burned killing thirteen residents. The blaze began in the lower level and raced upward, trapping occupants and blocking exits. Fire crews and civilians worked to rescue many people as flames spread through the building.
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Sixty-sixth Street
Brooklyn
Mremen
Insulation and ventilation tips for ice storage structures
The University Farm agricultural engineers advise surrounding ice pits with bales of straw for insulation, placing bales around walls before packing ice, and using above-ground houses when pits aren’t feasible. Walls must be well insulated to keep heat out, and ventilation near roof peaks at both ends is recommended.
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Department of Agricultural Engineering
University Farm
Incomes from 53 Farms in Thurston County 1914 Survey
Fifty three farms surveyed in Thurston County showed earnings of 1448 dollars above expenses and five percent interest on invested capital for 1914. Average farm size was 214 acres with total capital about 24846 dollars per farm. The favorable crop year and strong prices supported profits. The College of Agriculture and U S Department of Agriculture cooperate to continue the study to identify best long term farm management practices.
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Thurston County
College of Agriculture
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Gage County farmers find northern seed yields higher
On Gage County Farmers' Association farms under the county agricultural agent, potatoes grown from northern seed produced 30 to 100 percent greater and better yield than home grown seed this year.
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Gage County Farmers’ Association
The Lost Chord Clausal Escape
A man laments a missing cord of wood from his property and recalls seeking solace in church on Sunday. He shares the moment when the choir began singing The Lost Chord and he left, unable to forget the theft or the song.
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Silas
Boy ties can to dog to trigger noise for rabbits
A Washington Star quip describes a boy who plans a daily kind act by tying a tin can to a dog’s tail to make noise and “warm the rabbit,” prompting a humorous exchange about the act’s aim and consequences.
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Willie
Washington Star
Patent Office Documents Stretch Around Earth Three Times
If the documents stored in Washington’s patent office were laid end to end they would form a strip long enough to wrap around the earth three times, illustrating the vast volume of records in the agency.
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Patent Office
Washington
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed Again by Peter Hansen
A Nebraska reader, Peter Hansen of Potter, testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills gave him remarkable relief for kidney complaints and back issues. He repeats his endorsement in 1912, urging readers to use the same remedy priced at 50 cents, by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
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Peter Hansen
Potter
Nebr
Dean
Doan
Hansen
Foster-Milburn Co., Props
Buffalo
N. Y
Playful Exchange Sparks Tea Time Banter
A quick quip duel unfolds as a technical critic notes no suspense in the author's play while the writer teases about waiting for royal tea, revealing a witty back-and-forth exchange.
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Royaltea
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