Inspectors Scan Imported Plants at Hoboken Quarantine
Scale Sleuth Inspector Herbert Sanford uses a hand lens to detect scale insects on an imported symbidium orchid at Hoboken New Jersey quarantine station. Chief Inspector Emil Kostal examines plants as part of a broad effort to halt plant pests costing the U S about three billion dollars yearly.
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America
Sam
U. S
Ellis Islands
Hoboken
N. J
Herbert Sanford
Emil Kostal
George Becker
Hoboken Plant
South America
Vermont at 150th birth of state and first to join Union
A look at Vermont’s 150th birthday noting its status as the first state admitted to the Union after the original thirteen. The piece traces Vermont’s early English settlement, the Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen, and the 1777 Windsor convention establishing a slave-free constitution before joining the United States in 1791.
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Vermont
Texas
Sisterhood of
Vernon
New Hampshire Grants
Colony of
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Colony
New York
York State
Westminster
James Breakenridge
Albany
Bennington
Green Mountain Boys
Ethan Allen
Great Britain
Burgoyne
Ticonderoga
United States of America
Green Mountain
Samuel Peters
Mt. Pisgah
Verd Mont
John Stark
Graduation Party For Susie Inspires Patriotic Fare
The letter suggests a high school graduation party for Susie with a patriotic buffet theme. Decorations include a white tablecloth with red and blue stars, and star candles. Menu features appetizers, hot dish, salad, hot rolls, cake or ice cream, and coffee. Fun favors include fortune slips and small trinkets. The cake recipe provides a two to three layer chocolate or maple frosted cake.
Graduation Party Menu and All American Appetizers
A party menu outlines American themed appetizers such as Clover Leaf Rolls and Americana Salad. It includes spiced coffee with whipped cream and cinnamon nutmeg, plus dessert suggestions and serving ideas like flag accents and cheese topped chips.
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Susie
Patterns Sewing Circle designs offer child and fashion sewing
The snippet advertises two distinct fashion patterns 1351 B a play suit with flared shorts and a princess pinafore with sunback and buckled shoulder straps. It promotes simple assembly for novice mothers and suggests related sewing and dress ideas along with recipes and a veal on skewers dish.
Faulty Memory Quote Sparks Reflections on Judgment
A clipped aphorism notes that people complain about memory's flaws but rarely about judgment. The saying by La Rochefoucauld emphasizes cognitive bias and self-judgment.
Party game ideas for food themed seating and sardine hunt
Lynn suggests crowd friendly party activities. Guests receive a card with a food name and must pair with a card whose name complements theirs. Examples include liver and bacon and apple pie and cheese. Also describes a sardine hide and seek game where “It” hides for five minutes and others search.
Mystery of sense and history emphasized by Hertzler
A fragment quotes Hertzler noting that the distinction between sensible people and others remains a mystery, a point he stresses as historically significant.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western Newspaper Union
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
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Schwab
Eneat
JOS Tenetrore
Horace
Pala
Fred
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Lynn
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