Back to the Farm Movement Urges a Legislative Clearout
A wartime editorial calls for a sweeping house-cleaning of statute books to cut extravagant and useless expenses. It argues redirecting funds to aid indigent families, employ surplus workers on farms, and promote rural prosperity. It cites farm wages, idle land, and the appeal of returning to agriculture. It ends with a quotation about country life and a French critic.
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Federal Agricultural Department
United States
Umbrella care tips and leather shoe maintenance
A sponge in a porcelain umbrella stand prevents umbrella strikes and absorbs rain. A carriage sponge fits the bottom and is inexpensive. Patent leather shoes last longer when wiped with olive oil on a soft cloth kept in a tin box.
Reproach to Femininity In a Woman's Hat Commentary
A quatrain notes how a woman's hat with black and orange wings mirrors leafless trees and stripped elms as a metaphor. A mother questions her daughter Laura about a frequent caller, and the daughter answers confident in her own intentions.
Use Vaseline to Protect New Umbrella Frame
For a new umbrella inject a small amount of vaseline into the hinge areas to prevent rust and staining. When drying, stand wet umbrellas on their handles to let water escape from the joint where silk and ribs meet, avoiding rust and rot on metal and fabric.
Joe Petrobon Ends Cobbler Trade to Fight Abroad
In Gardner Massachusetts Joseph K. Cotton notes a cobbler closing his shop to join the war effort. The town man is depicted as brave, with patrons recalling his kindness and the shop sign remaining above the old corner. The piece underscores a personal sacrifice amid wartime devotion.
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Joe Petrohon
Joe Petroben
Joseph K. Cotton
Gardner
Mass
There Can Be No Two Loyalties
Henry Weismann of the German-American Alliance declares there can be no two loyalties and that German Americans should be America first. He warns against anti American newspapers and spies undermining the majority and calls for loyalty to the law and Constitution.
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Henry Weismann
German-American Alliance
America
Germany
Paradin
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