Farm Club Songs Sing of Work and Duty in Spring
A nostalgic meditation on farm songs sung by youth clubs under the USDA and state colleges. It recalls how farm youths, garden and pig clubs, and sewing groups chant tunes from Old Black Joe to Over There while toiling in fields orchards and barns. The piece stresses patriotic duty and self reliance through farming labor.
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Shakespeare
Farm Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
State Agricultural Colleges
Virginia
Maryland
Garden Club
Broadway
Chateau Thierry
Morton Promises Indians Breakout Season
Guy Morton of the Cleveland Indians is poised to be the season sensation. He pitched two shutout games early and later showed restored form in New Orleans on the training trip. With Morton and Covaleskie in top shape Cleveland is regarded as a strong pennant contender.
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Guy Morton
Cleveland Indians
New Orleans
Milwaukee
Morton
Cleveland
Indians
Stanley Covaleskie
Tips for the Poultryman
Advice on integrating chickens with fruit trees. Plum trees thrive in the poultry yard when varieties suit the locale and proper site selection. Seek guidance from neighbors, nurserymen, and horticulture departments to choose appropriate apple, pear, plum, peach, and cherry varieties and adapt orchard placement to chicken proximity.
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Horticultural Department
William Sooy Smith First All Steel Bridge Pioneer
William Sooy Smith, born in Ohio July 22, 1830, was a West Point graduate who served in the Civil War and became a leading civil engineer. He built the world’s first all steel bridge and invented the pneumatic caisson, revolutionizing deep river bridge foundations.
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William Sooy Smith
Ohio
West Point
Reverses as Business Man Credited With Making Mark Twain a Writer
Mark Twain faced business reverses in 1894 after publishers failed with The American Claimant. He bore the debt, undertook a world tour to pay it, produced Following the Equator, then turned fully to writing. His later works and essays showed a frank open approach that strengthened his public appeal.
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Mark Twain
Twain
Equator
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Joan of Arc
Words of Wise Men and Proverbs Collected
A compilation of assorted proverbs from various cultures including French Sibyl prophecy and Turkish sayings. The text presents gnomic lines about courage danger fate and perception with brief moral cues and aphorisms.
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Athens
St. Stephen
Poppy Seed Salad Recipe Adorns Mother's Cook Book
A brief feature from Mother's Cook Book promotes summer salad dishes. It suggests a Poppy Seed Salad using grated sage cheese on dried fresh head lettuce with freshly roasted poppy seeds and French dressing. The piece emphasizes practical, appealing dishes for picnic season and simple, wholesome dining.
Diverse Picnic Salads and Sandwiches From Pantry Classics
A collection of adaptable recipes includes Summer Salad with lima beans and apples, a nutty green peas salad, Banana and Pineapple salad arranged on lettuce, and Olive and Celery Sandwiches. Also Mint and Cucumber Sandwiches with cucumber mint and French or boiled dressing.
Crutch and Courage Across Liberty’s Shield
A wounded youth, a veteran, leans on a crutch yet bears a hopeful smile. Old Glory flies as he treads, his sacrifice envisioned by Washington Franklin and Lincoln. Time’s flight marks a signpost to freedom on the road to liberty.
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Washington
Franklin
Lincoln
Liberty
Freedom
Minna Irving
New York Sun
World map outlines emerge in wartime peace notes
A Providence Journal writer surveys a proposed postwar map where Alsace Lorraine returns to France, Luxemburg gains freedom, and new states emerge in Central Europe. Demilitarization of the Rhine Valley, German possessions handed to Allies as mandates, and Chinese and Pacific allocations set the phase for a League of Nations order. Details remain to be finalized as authentic atlases await.
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Providence Journal
Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
France
Sarre
Luxemburg
Belgium
Schleswig
Denmark
Rhine
Austria
Czecho- Slovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Poland
Danzig
Russia
Africa
Japan
Peking
Tsingtao
Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
League of Nations
Antarctic
Entente
Whisky floats more trouble than it drowns
A compact aphoristic column notes that promises shrink with time and a fool killer might retire, while reputation hinges on undisclosed facts. It quips that witnessing others eat provokes hunger and that love, fire, and a bari cough are hard to hide.
Taxis and Other Motor Vehicles Must Pay Tax
Tax on taxicabs jitney buses and hired passenger autos under the revenue act. Cars with seating for three to seven taxed ten dollars yearly while buses over seven seats taxed twenty dollars. Two passenger cars exempt. Tax assessed on the car not the owner. effective January 1.
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International Revenue Bureau
Cape Prince of Wales the Stormiest Region in the World
The westernmost point of Alaska Cape Prince of Wales is described as the stormiest place on earth with perpetual winds and Arctic storms. Frank Hess of the government survey reports snow, bitter cold, and distant Siberia views from the coast while Eskimo igloos underground show whale bone ventilation and driftwood supply from the Yukon coast.
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Cape Prince of Wales
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Frank Hess
Government Geological Survey
Siberia
Bering Strait
Mr. Hess
Yukon River
Great Bodies of Water Not Classed Under Seven Seas
A subscriber asks what the seven seas are and finds scant explanation in cyclopedias. TheOxford English Dictionary notes the seven seas as the Arctic Antarctic North and South Pacific North and South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Curiously it lists four seas around Britain instead.
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Kipling
Arctic
Antarctic
North
South Pacific
South Atlantic
Indian Oceans
Great Britain
Cork Sinks Despite Buoyancy at Great Ocean Depths
A cork cannot reach the surface from 200 feet below the sea due to water pressure. At shallower depths it will gradually ascend toward the surface.
Thrush Uses Slug Slaughter Method in Highland Wood
A wild note describes a thrush in a Highland birch wood using a stone as an anvil to hammer a black slug, breaking its skin and body to reach the edible parts. The observer cites repeated smashing and rebound as evidence of the bird’s method, suggesting the thrush seeks a tenderer meal.
Music as the Ethical Core of Our Time
Julia Ward Howe argues that music binds sacred text and divine feeling, linking Handel and Mendelssohn to contemporary conscience. She recalls the Messiah chorus and Elijah’s wilderness to illustrate how music heightens moral insight and memory across eras.
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Handel
Mendelssohn
Messiah
Palestine
Elijah
Julia Ward Howe
A Few Smiles On the Face of It
A humorous exchange notes a man's habit of proposing to every girl he meets. The speaker claims to read character through features and cheeky "pop" eyes reveal the habit.
Barred by Regulation and a Spitz Dog Rule
A humorous exchange contrasts a driver and a dog in a restricted area. The regulation bans dogs due to expectoration, labeling the dog a spitz. The conversation ends with a quip about horse sense and public speaking.
Fat friend barred from sprinting match in odd quip
An exchange notes a stout friend barred from a sprinting event with a sarcastic remark about a sport for slim chances. A dog growls at medicine, a pun on tonic, and a quip about recognition of the bark.
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Jay
Johnmule
Sam
Pig Club
Sewing Club
Bo-Peep
Little Boy Blue
Hurgerford
England
Flanders
Mars
Music
William
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