Home decor tips for two rooms and a living space
Betty Wells offers color and fabric ideas for a girls room with green and white gingham, a blue denim accented sons room with walnut desk, and a living room using dark blue walls white tiling yellow linen and embroidered organdy curtains. Suggestions include rug choices bedding spreads curtains slipcovers and furniture styles to harmonize with existing blue and green accents.
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Candlewick
Gertrude
Betty Wells
WNU Service
Pineapple Dishes Celebrate a Fragrant Tropic Taste
A 1555 description frames pineapple as a divine fruit. The article details canned pineapple from Hawaii and practical prep tips. It provides recipes for Shredded Pineapple, Pineapple Cucumber Salad, Chocolate Bavarian Cream, Raisin Conserve, Savory Canape, Pinwheel Sandwiches, Hollandaise Sauce and serving ideas with notes on timing and storage.
Death Defying Escape Aboard a Fire Swept Train
Fenton Barrett actor from Shaker Hollow New York tells of a July 1928 Washington to New York rail journey where a wash room fire engulfed the smoker car. The group fought flames at 65 mph, jumped from a rear platform as brakes failed, and survived with scratches and exhaustion.
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Ello
Fenton Barrett
Shaker Hollow
South Salem
N. Y
Fent Barrett
New York
Fent
Washington
Elizabeth
N. J
Indian Runner ducks as egg producers on poultry farms
The Indian Runner duck excels as an egg producer, often matching or surpassing hen eggs, while being lighter in weight and non-sitters. They lay large white eggs and produce broilers of 2½ to 3 pounds by six weeks, but are not suited for large green duck production.
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New- Yorker
Brahma Chicken Breed Noted For Size And Hardy Laying
The Brahma is a very large poultry breed with a pea comb of three ridges and weights for cock and hen ranging up to 12 and 9 1 2 pounds. It is praised as a majestic table fowl, hardy and vigorous, a heavy egg producer, with Dark Brahma color varieties and distinctive black and gray plumage.
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Philadelphia
New England
Rhode Island
Agricultural Notes from Uncle Ab on Farm Power and Chicks
Estimates show 12 000 to 13 000 licensed veterinarians in the United States. Cannibalism in chicks stems from boredom crowding or hunger. China’s 350 million hens lay about 26 250 000 000 eggs yearly. A 1200 pound cow producing 40 pounds milk daily needs two ounces salt. Green feeds supply vital vitamins. USDA plans divert surplus hops to fertilizer mulch. Hens unresponsive to feeding in summer should be culled. January 1 1938 farm horses numbered 11 163 000 with 4 477 000 mules. Only 47 percent of U S fluid milk is pasteurized. In 1936 thirty two epidemics caused 28 deaths linked to unpasteurized milk.
Dingo and Phi Beta Kappa Noted in Historical Sketches
The article discusses the dingo as an ancient wild Australian dog and outlines Phi Beta Kappa’s origins and evolution from a social literary society founded in 1776 at William and Mary to a non secret honorary fraternity by 1826, selecting members for scholarly excellence.
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Phi Beta Kappa
William and Mary College
Williamsburg
Yale
Harvard
William and Mary
The Name Eunice Meaning and Biblical Note
The name Eunice is of Greek origin meaning happily victorious. It appears in II Tim 1 5 where it implies devout faith and refers to Timothy's mother.
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Eunice
Timothy
James Watt Pioneered Steam Power in Scotland
James Watt, a Scottish engineer born in 1736 and died in 1819, conceived the potential of steam power and laid the groundwork for modern engines. his name later became the unit of electrical power, though he made no electrical discoveries himself.
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James Watt
Blue Grass Grown Widely in Virginia Regions
The southwestern section of Virginia grows natural blue grass, as does the Shenandoah valley and the Piedmont counties east of the Blue Ridge, indicating a broad regional suitability for blue grass cultivation.
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Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Blue Ridge
Piedmont
Curiosities at Abbotsford House Scarce Remnants Seen
In Sir Walter Scott's Abbotsford house visitors view Mary Queen of Scots crucifix Napoleon pistols and blotter Rob Roy's gun and other curios objects from the era displayed in the historic rooms for public interest and relics.
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Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford
Mary Queen of Scots
Napoleon
Rob Roy
Doilies Soon Done In Jiffy Crochet Pattern 1669
Pattern 1669 offers directions and illustrations for oversized doilies in three sizes using heavy thread. Contains materials, stitches, and a photo. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York with name address and pattern number.
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Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
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Tropics
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
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China
Department of Agriculture
Australia
C. Houston
Goudiss
Eaders
C. Houston Goudiss
East 39Th Fe
Bulle Ful
Ae Cte
Eae Boys Aviation
Wright's Pill Co
Gold St
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