Millie and Andrew Ware Learn True Happiness at Home
Millicent Ware seizes a city trip with $100 of her savings but returns after a week of discovery. She learns new skills and gains a new perspective, while Andrew negotiates a loan repayment, and the couple reconciles to rediscover love at home.
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Andrew Ware
Andrew
Millie
Letty Weston
Anodrew
Anerew
Letty
Weston
Jed Smith
Codfish Aristocrats and the New Rich in 1850
In a July 6 1850 senate speech Mr Butler from South Carolina mocked a rising Massachusetts codfish elite. He described their ascent from Atlantic cod profits as bumptious and vulgar, coining codfish aristocracy to satirize sudden wealth and ostentatious display.
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South Carolina
Butler
United States Senate
Massachusetts
Mentor Magazine
Lifesaving Swim By Washington Athlete Near Chesapeake Bay
Francis J. Ruth twenty one of Washington D C and his companion Leila G Milstead eighteen were washed from a motor boat in Chesapeake Bay near the middle Ruth guided Milstead to a bell buoy a mile and a half away then swam four miles to shore to tell how the mishap occurred the girl was rescued by a coast guard crew
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Francis J. Ruth
Washington, D. C
3Fiss Leila G. Milstead
Chesapeake Bay
Ruth
Coast Guard
Ground game in English law and hunting rights
The text explains ground game as hares and rabbits subject to extinction by land occupants to protect crops. It notes English law limits property rights over wild animals and that leases may provide for keeping down ground game.
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England
Birds and Weather Foreknowledge of birds and weather patterns noted
The text observes that birds sense weather changes and migrate early. It notes swallows avoid areas with plague and will not nest until the epidemic ends.
Etching Process Explained in Brief
An etching is formed by scratching lines on a metal plate with acid and wax, filling scratches with ink and printing impressions on paper under pressure. A single plate can produce many prints.
A Friend in Need From the Sketch Pad
A playful exchange centers on an artist lamenting poverty and a cartoonish reply from a sketch pad suggesting drawing as a solution. The brief quip highlights humor about creativity overcoming financial hardship.
Vegetable Crop Boosted by Lime On Limed Soil Yields Rise
A. W. Blair of the New Jersey experiment station reports that liming soil dramatically increases carrot and beet yields. In tests on four plots, 2 000 pounds of limestone per acre raised carrot yield to 8 900 pounds and 4 000 pounds to 10 700 pounds per acre, while beets rose to 8 584 pounds with 2 000 pounds and 7 756 with 4 000 pounds. Blair notes timing can affect yields and invites growers to have soils tested free of charge through county agents or the New Brunswick station.
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A. W. Blair
New Jersey Experiment Station
New Jersey Agriculture
Blair
New Brunswick
Pruning Apple Trees for Better Fruit
Ohio horticulturist F. B. Ballou explains pruning aims to improve fruit by increasing air and sunlight. Remove very low branches and shaded inner limbs, cut crossings, manage straggling shoots, and keep top growth sprayable and harvestable. Well-pruned trees spray better and yield quality fruit.
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Ballou
Ohio
Methods to evenly spread lime for soil acidity
The text explains using lime sowers or end gate lime spreaders to neutralize soil acidity efficiently. Spreading lime evenly over the surface reduces waste and labor compared to scattering with a shovel, making lime use more economical.
Tree tops as guide for thinning woodlots
Extension forester E. L. Scovell urges woodlot owners to judge trees by their tops first. Full vigorous crowns indicate strong, sun reaching trees to keep. small shaded tops suggest weaklings to weed out. Focus up then down to select a healthy crop.
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E. L. Scovell
New Jersey
Mr. Scovell
Live Stock Parasites Highlighted In New Publication
The Bureau of Animal Industry releases A Calendar of Live Stock Parasites as USDA Miscellaneous Publication 25-M for free distribution. The guide urges livestock producers to combat parasitic threats from New Year’s Day through year end and may be mailed to interested farmers.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Farm Notes on Crop Destruction and Livestock Care
Farm notes advise destroying all old plants after harvest and using rye as pasture for hogs in fall winter and early spring. A Clemson college scribe notes balanced rations for old cows boost profits. Working teams of horses and mules adapted to the farm may add up to $200 annually to net profits.
Alfalfa Thrives Best in Well-Prepared Seed Bed
John H. Barron of the New York State College of Agriculture advises alfalfa needs a firm seed bed with clean surface soil and minimal weeds. He notes spring grain sowing favors fall-plowed land, and if not plowed last fall, plow early in spring and delay sowing to mid summer.
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John H. Barron
New York State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
N. Y
To Eradicate Barberry Would Kill Stem Rust
A Wisconsin Agriculturist report shows barberry condemned to die in the grain show at the Wisconsin state fair. Officials survey locations and apply salt at the base of plants to halt the barberry which spreads stem rust harming wheat and oats.
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Wisconsin Agriculturist
You Know Him Blinks Laughs at Bill Borum
The comic quip asks what sort of man Bill Borum is and answers that he is the kind you are lucky not to know. The exchange plays on Jinks’s witty put down and framing of Borum’s character.
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Bill Borum
Jad Salts Kidney Relief Urges Cleanse and Hydration
A newspaper health blurb explains that acids in foods can overload kidneys causing backache headaches and digestive discomfort. It recommends Jad Salts a grape lemon lithia solution taken in water for several days plus ample water to flush and soothe sluggish kidneys.
French Army Demonstrates Gas Transport Motor Cycles
Cycles carry poison gas containers demonstrated during French army maneuvers. The device uses a side-car holder to support the gas, and French officials say it provides rapid transportation of the gas for battlefield use.
Elkhart Woman Credits Vegetable Compound Aid
In Elkhart Indiana a woman unable to rise from bed due to fatigue reports trying a vegetable compound on her husband’s suggestion. She says the remedy helps her and plans to continue use, noting the happiness it has brought to her home and the overall improvement in energy. Mars D H Smierer of 1326 Laurel St endorses the treatment.
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Elkhart
Ind
Mars
D. H. Smierer
Laurel
Indiana
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