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Terry Brewster rents a four room flat in Harrington Arms and lives frugally while chasing city life. A burglar appears. Terry discovers a young man, Bob Gray, quietly cleaning and guarding the home. He confesses he and his mother, Mrs Gray, run the apartments. Terry plans to help them while supporting Bob's law career and marriage proposal follows.
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Terry Brewster
Harrington Arms
Terry
Washington
Mrs. Gray
Wall Street
Bob Gray
Hewes & Tuttle
Bob
George Eliot Seldom Read
The essay lauds George Eliot as a writer with immense charm and influence yet notes contemporary critics find her work unreadable. It praises her singular character drawing and solemn style while suggesting these traits made her timeless aims hard for modern readers to grasp, equating her to a great but imposing figure.
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George Eliot
George Blot
Retarded Laying Guarded Against in Poultry
A discussion on how consistent growth from hatching to maturity yields early laying pullets and how disturbances to growth or environment delay egg production. Regular growth and reproductive organ development are essential, with disturbances from diet or movement altering outcomes and profitability for poultry keepers.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Keep Pullet Growth Steady for Early Egg Laying
The text urges maintaining steady pullet growth to avoid delays in laying eggs. It notes that growth retardation can come from disruptions from hatching to maturity and even minor disturbances like movement or radical changes in rations. Ensuring calm conditions helps pullets lay early when prices and egg scarcity are high.
Price of squabs not changed by big war
Squabs remain affordable and close to prewar prices, unlike other meats. The shift toward squab as a meat source is driven by the American Squab Breeders' Association, influencing about 10,000 breeders and impacting roughly 50,000 pigeon meat producers.
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American Squad Breeders’ Association
Get Chicks Started Nicely
A guide advises providing milk or meat products to quickly start chicks growth. It emphasizes early feed choices to induce rapid development. Birds should receive suitable nourishment soon after hatching.
Changing Size of Bay Window
A bay window large in a room should be broken by curtains between casements and avoid valances to prevent emphasizing glass. To enlarge apparent window size use a long valance with few side curtains. Valances vary in shape and material to suit room style from Jacobean to informal spaces.
Oberammergau Village Devastated by War Losses
Atlantic Monthly reports Oberammergau, Bavaria, now a nearly deserted village after all men under 45 join the Bavarian army. The town mourns 40 killed and 48 wounded in the first year, five hundred fifty of 1800 residents gone, with finances ruined and the Passion Play uncertain as many players and musicians lost limbs.
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Oberammergau
Bavaria
Madeleine Doty
Atlantic Monthly
Giants and the plowman tale in Alsace legend
A Christian Science Monitor retells an Alsace legend of giants living in a castle who observe a child giantess lifting a peasant, horse, and plow. The giant father declares the field laborers produce the food that sustains them, and the peasants are no longer molested.
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Alsace
Christian Science Monitor
Senator's Providence Talk Echoes German War Stress
A Washington Star anecdote quotes a senator at a Providence event comparing Germans to a children's dispute. He recalls a story told by a schoolteacher about two pupils in a wood. the older boy Gus steals candy from Tommy and asserts he need not be fair, preferring to fight.
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Providence
Gus
Tommy
Washington Star
Women in War Service Across Armies
The piece notes many women serving in both Northern and Southern armies and mentions at least one who reached near France in disguise. It praises American women for potential wartime service and honors Russian women who joined the army for morale. it asserts American valor in past conflicts and readiness in future war against the Hun.
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Germany
France
America
Russia
Voluntary Rationing Observed Across Washington
Controller Hoover lauded the capital’s adherence to voluntary rationing noting universal observance. He recounted a child’s strain over meatless day as bees not observing the meatless rule underscoring public spirit.
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Hoover
Washington
In Plain Sight Willie Stone Encounters a Blind Moment
Willie Stone visits the home of rich Mr. Lott and learns he is going blind after a misheard question. The boy recalls Mr. Lott asking for his hat while the hat sat on Willie's head the whole time.
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Willie Stone
Mr. Lott
Willie
Harper'a Magazine
Better Dairy Cows and Cow Testing Associations
The USDA urges higher dairy efficiency through better calves and selective culling based on milk output and Babcock butterfat tests. It notes 472 cow testing associations nationwide, with 261,831 cows tested last year, and shows average butterfat of 247 pounds per cow, suggesting potential 50 percent production gains and lower costs if all cows matched the association average.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Temperature for Churning Butter Desirable Firm Granules
The ideal churning temperature yields firm granules without being hard and varies by season. Summer use 52–60°F and winter 58–60°F, with adjustments as cows graze and cream properties change. Too low or too high temps cause poor churns, brittle butter, and tallowy texture.
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United States Department of Agriculture
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