Shopping hints and simple home makes from Betty Wells
The column suggests thrifty shopping over buying and shares easy DIY ideas for home decor. It highlights quilt bed spreads, appliqued headboard covers, seersucker bedspreads, chintz cushions, awning striped hassocks, and bed coverings. It also offers inexpensive window dressings such as swag valances and ruched trim options.
Tips for Serving Cantaloupe and Fruit Desserts
A collection of kitchen tips on selecting ripe cantaloupe, best serving methods, and complementary dishes. Includes how to test ripeness, ideas for cantaloupe with ice cream or other fruits, melon balls in salads, and color contrasts with honeydew or watermelon. Also features recipes for Watermelon Pickle, Orange and Melon Cups, green salad dressings with liver paste, Raspberry Ice, Maple Parfait, and Maple Frosting.
Wanted to Live Heroism on Virgin Islands Sloop Sunk
Floyd Gibbons recounts the 1907 Sea Gull voyage from St Thomas to St John in the Virgin Islands. Harry Zielian of Brooklyn and companions sail from St Thomas with 21 aboard including a cricket team and a woman with four children. A storm and peril test will to live and spark a dramatic survival tale.
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Brooklyn
St. Thomas
United States
Denmark
Harry
St. John
St. Thomas High School
Sea Gull
Sloop Capsized in Gale Tragedy and Brave Rescue
A sloop sank after a gale and a spinner strike. Fourteen-year-old Harry Zielian swam four miles to shore guiding his brothers Ed and Jim as they battled waves. They saved Louis, Jimmy’s brother, and were later honored by Denmark with life saving medals. The tale also notes hay making and handwriting identification.
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Sea Gull
Harry Zielian
Jimmy
Harbor of
St. Thomas
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H. M. S. Ingolf
C. M. T. Cold
Denmark
Feed Hoppers Urged For Young Pullets And Fire Safety
A Montreal Herald writer urges large self feeding hoppers for pullets with 100 birds, noting three 5 foot mash hoppers per 100 birds and daily filling. The piece also warns gasoline and kerosene fires cause millions in farm losses, urging safety and caution.
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Montreal Herald
Room for Young Child With Knotty Pine Panels
A pleasing room for a child features knotty pine wall paneling on one wall. The other walls have a pine dado with the upper wall painted off white. Scarlet venetian blinds with white tapes match red polka dot curtains, a bed coverlet, and a fabric accent.
Prairie Chicken Eludes Hunters in Open Range
The prairie chicken stays wary in its open range habitat and rises far ahead of shooters, making it one of the hardest game birds to bring down. The piece notes its elusive behavior and long flight to escape gunfire.
Bully R described as menace of Dominion frontiers
A muscular six foot killer known as Bully R terrorized wilderness workers from Ontario to Saskatchewan. He boasted a two pound hand ax, threw at dogs, and lifted men by collars to hurl them at trees. A Mountie confronted him after a sled dog death near Saskatoon.
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Ontario
Fant Maranvar
Canadian Northwest
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
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Man of the Mounted
Legume hay aids horse health says Illinois expert
E T Robbins, livestock extension specialist at the University of Illinois, says legume hay and legume pasture reduce grain needs for colts and help keep horses in good health and flesh. Farm and feed practices note 18 percent sugar in mature sugar cane and water needs for hens in hot weather. Soils become acid as lime is leached away in drainage.
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E. T. Robbins
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
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