New Potash Discovery and Caponizing Advice
The Department of Agriculture reports a potential homegrown potash fertilizer from ground rock, replacing German imports and cutting costs, with field tests in tobacco across Connecticut Virginia Kentucky and Florida. Caponizing adds quick profit with 100 percent returns possible, detailing timing tools and humane practice for making capons and boosting poultry margins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Germany
Bureau of Roads
Cushman
Roads Office
Connecticut
Virginia
Kentucky
Florida
Maryland
New England
Mae Dr. Cusman
Celery Planting Tips For A Winter Harvest
Home gardeners are advised to plant celery before August ends for winter use. If April sowing failed, stocky transplants can be bought and planted in deep, cool soil with ample water. Use a furrow filled with manure and soil, space rows two and a half feet apart, trim tops before planting, and soak roots to encourage quick soil integration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Browninc
Jtndy
Savanent
Shoats Blutz Episode With Railroad Conductor
Panama Canal Commission head Mr Shoats addressed by a railroad conductor who demanded extra fare to occupy a drawing room aboard the parlor car. The exchange featured a threat of ejection, a show of calm by Shoats, and a ten minute deadline before payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoats
Panama Canal Commission
Clover Leaf System
Shonts
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Pennsylvania System
Passholde
Simple Rule for Day Length by Sun Times
A brief explanation shows how to determine day and night lengths from sunrise and sunset times. Doubling sunrise duration gives night length, while doubling sunset duration yields day length. For example if sunrise is at five, night lasts ten hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbo
Frocks For The Young Girl Describe Elegant Styles
A regional fashion piece outlines fabrics and styles for young girls frocks. It notes materials like taffeta pique linen and Revival fabrics, detailing skirts with flounces and embroidery, and describes jackets, waistlines and age suitability from tots to teens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batiste
Coats and Hats for Young Folks and Women
Fashion notes describe youngsters coats with loose fronts and narrow basques, shepherds pilot wraps, and silk trims. Lingerie hats praised, capeline caps and fabric hats with wire frames gain popularity, suited to various outfits from frocks to Sunday wear. A tangential quip and oddities about the Oil Trust and office boys appear alongside unrelated lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherd's Pilot
Free Farm Scholarship Opens for Young Men
Dean J. Hollister of Winona Agricultural Institute at Winona Lake Indiana announces a free two year scholarship covering tuition and living expenses for agriculture and horticulture study. Open to unmarried men over sixteen from any state, endorsements required. applicant must submit life history and five reasons for wanting agricultural science by August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HE. J. Hollister
Winona Agricultural Institute
Winona Lake
Indiana
Birthplaces of Common Garden Plants
The passage credits celery to Germany, chestnut to Italy, onion to Egypt, tobacco to North America, spinach to Arabia, radish to China, rye to Siberia, and citron to Greece. It summarizes historical origins of several widely used plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Italy
Egypt
North America
Siberia
Greece
The Dentist's Bill in a New York Toy Shop Visit
Congressman John Sharp Williams visits a small wood shop in New York and chats with Lafe, an old former Williams retainer. Lafe laments paying a dentist a dollar for a tooth extraction, recalling cheaper, harsher experiences in Tennessee and insisting he has been buncoed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sharp Willams
New York
Williams
Lafe
Marie John
Mattah ‘Nough
Tennesee
Doc Tinker
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Guy Elliott Mitchell
Bureau of Plant Industry
Charles J. Pilling
Plymouth Rock Capons
Sertha Browning
Standard Oil Trust
Free Farm
Charles F. Dole
United States
Homecrofters
Maxwell
Main Street
Watertown
Mass
Capon’ Tools
Capon
GRO. P. Pilling & Son
Phila, Pa
Palisade
Olo
Lowa
Hapgoods
Railway Association
Monroe Street
Brooklyn
Lear
Felix Corset Co
Pine Street
Freles
Stiliman
Stillman Freckle Cream Co
Aurora
Dante
Addr Frontier Asthma Co
Delaw
STO Park
JOS. Butler Co
Battery Place
N.Y
Wood Wood CO
Palisade Pattern CO
New York City
City and
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