No. The Mother Who Serves at Home and Nation
Collier's Weekly highlights a Ohio farm mother whose thirty years yield 432983 meals 3123 garments 32000 loaves of bread 5390 cakes 7932 pies 1500 gallons of lard 1432 bushels vegetables 7660 chickens 5430 pounds butter 3625 jars preserves 177725 laundry items and 4839 hours of hard labor valued at 115480.60. The World Hearths calls for wide reprinting and notes women as builders of wealth and mercy yet underrecognized by history.
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Collier's Weekly
Ohio
Hearth
Collier’s
Be Prepared and the Scout Code in Shackleton’s Wake
The piece recalls the growing Be Prepared movement thirteen years after its start and notes Sir Ernest Shackleton choosing two Boy Scouts for his Antarctic expedition. Sir Robert Baden Powell writes to the boys, urging them to follow the Scout Law, endure hardships with a smile, and stand up to temptations to serve their country.
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Boy Scouts
Ernest Shackelton
Scout Movement
Robert Baden Powell
Sir Robert
Scouts and ideals guiding futures beyond known realms
A reflection on how scout ideals could shape every boy toward bold exploration. The quote envisions a world where youth embrace discovery, preparing civilization for voyages into unseen realms. The Omaha World-Herald framing echoes a call to proactive, global-minded character building.
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Omaha World-Herald
Red Cross Roll Call Runs From Armistice Day To Thanksgiving
The Red Cross conducts its annual Roll Call from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving to raise funds for chapter activities in the state and nationwide. Contributing and sustaining memberships and the annual daily memberships support year long programs and operations.
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Red Cross
Railroads vs Workers Heats Up Over Wage Cut Rulings
The public has a representative in the United States Railroad Labor Board which must decide if wage reductions are fair. The board acts as arbiter of disputes and will determine if a ten percent cut is justified, urging workers to accept the ruling.
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Blic
States
Railroad Labor Board
Federal Labour Board
Lincoln Star
Government to Reduce Size of Paper Money Bills
The government plans a radical change to the form of its paper money, moving toward smaller sized bills, especially for lower values. The shift aims to cut costs by using paper more efficiently and to deter counterfeiting by preventing small notes from being easily enlarged to larger denominations while keeping higher value bills unchanged.
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Republic
The Story of Home Town Paper Week
A country editor proposes Home Town Paper Week to celebrate and promote local newspapers. The idea gains interest from a value driven company and the National Editorial Association as efforts expand.
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National Editorial Association
Subscribe for Your Home Town Paper Week Declared
A call urging readers to subscribe during November 7 to 12 to support the home town paper. The piece frames local papers as community service, stable and worthy of investment, encouraging immediate action for those not yet subscribed.
Why Phosphorus Is Taboo
The article traces the invention and commercial rise of phosphorus friction matches from their 1833 debut to US production in 1836 and notes the deadly poison risk of white phosphorus and the resulting global movement to ban its use in matches.
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United States
Springfield
Mass
Why Cattle Are Mavericks From Sam Maverick to Modern Meaning
Sam Maverick immigrated from Massachusetts to Texas and raised cattle. He left stock unbranded so cowboys found unmarked cattle and cried there’s a Maverick. The brandless cattle earned the surname Maverick and the term came to mean independent or nonconformist views.
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Sam Maverick
Massachusetts
Texas
Great West
Maverick
Home Town Paper Week Refuses to Face Hard Times
Local paper urges readers to recognize journalists during Home Town Paper Week set for November 7 to 12. It notes rising production costs and the need for advertisers and communities to support press reliability amid a fast-moving world and economic challenges.
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United States
Precautions Against Sleeping Sickness Warned by Health Ministry
The British ministry of health issues guidance on encephalitis lethargica advising isolation of the patient in a separate room, limiting contact, and keeping schoolchildren away for three weeks after isolation. It suggests antiseptic nasal sprays or throat gargles for others and notes household cleaning and disinfection after recovery.
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Ministry of Health
Buffalo Express
Use of Knife in Carbuncle Treatment Quoted by Board
State board of Ohio examined medical students on carbuncle care. The official answer from Rose and Cariess prescribes opening the lesion, scraping to healthy tissue, disinfecting with carbolic acid or hydrogen peroxide, packing with iodoform gauze, and healing by granulation, with supportive diet and medicines as needed in diabetes.
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State Board of Ohio
Rose & Cariess
Why India Is Losing Cattle Census shows nationwide herd declines
A census of India's cattle reports declines across all herds in recent years. The famine of fodder caused food shortages for cattle in many districts and was widespread nationwide.
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India
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