Opportunity in School Work Promoted by Harvard Talk
The piece argues that schooling offers fruitful careers in school management and high school teaching, citing President Eliot and Harvard undergraduates. It notes a rising number of high schools, airships’ wartime role, naval tensions, and aviation limits, plus various market updates and curiosities from the era.
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New York Evening Post
Silot
Whn
Harvard
Scivece
Signa
Rez
Farm Workers Hard to Hire in Midwest This Season
The piece contrasts scarce farm labor with abundant city job seekers from the Great Lakes to the Alleghenies. It argues farm work offers better wages, board, and a path to becoming a farmer, urging workers to consider moving from city employment to rural roles despite current unemployment.
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Middle West
Great Lakes
Ohio
Missouri
Alleghenies
Tts
Money Now Measures Success Across Generations
A reflection on changing times and attitudes toward work, aging, and progress. The piece contrasts pessimism of older generations with youth seeking faster advancement, noting farm owners abandoning productive land for urban retirement and tenants squeezed to keep soil productive. It links these trends to a broader loss of responsibility and dignity of labor.
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Ilinvia
Slum Mothers on Biscuit Line
In city bakeries and crackers plants a daily wreckage of broken biscuits is sold in bags to women in slum districts. The biscuit line draws mothers of all ages and nationalities who buy cheap, often for tiny sums, while factories display crates of wasted goods.
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Ayash
Cracker
Wisewit
Leon
Understanding Headache and Nutrition Therapy in Diet Encline
The text explains headache as a subjective state tied to nutrition and nervous health. It argues truth and causes should guide relief, not denial or shock, and notes that proper diet, digestion, and blood quality influence headaches. It discusses mechanical relief, whole grains, and cautious use of nuts and wheat.
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Mra
J. H. Berkeley
Cal
Mra. H
R. Y
Ang
W. H
Joseph B. Bowlens
Floating telescope at Harvard Observatory set for breakthrough
A large reflecting telescope installed at Harvard Observatory rests on a water filled tank. The buoyant steel float supports the instrument while electric motors drive all motions. The two ton mirror can be removed for re silvering and the device aims to observe stars of seventeenth magnitude or fainter, enabling work impossible with other instruments.
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Harvard Observatory
Sentiment in Common Lives and the Christmas Trade
The piece notes sentiment shaping global commerce with Christmas trees symbolizing a lucrative Maine and Vermont market. It laments a German toy ship delay as a potential national disruption and highlights how commercial enterprise reaches hundreds of thousands of homes during the holidays.
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Maine
Vermont
Nuremberg
Nesting solution for hens and cheap pitting net
The note describes a cheap nest net for hens with a netting design to keep birds in place. It mentions Farm and Home and suggests using two boards fourteen feet long for the bottom and two by four crowning pieces for frame work.
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Saya
Building a Hen Coop From Nests and Simple Parts
A plan describes a ground level coop using two 12 inch by 14 foot sections for the front and one back panel. Include top, partitions at every inch, doors with three hinges, holes for ventilation and entry, a liftable top with tin cover, and a screened top hole. Set under or outside in spring to collect hens, hatch chicks, remove old nests, and latch the opening to secure the hen.
Bees Stimulated by Feeding Before Trust Bloom
An old beekeeping note argues that healthy colonies at opening flow secure surplus. strong colonies store more honey and weak ones fail during harvest. Feeding to stimulate breeding is best before fruit bloom and between fruit and clover, with limited testing for beginners.
Beekeeping Tips: Feeding Boosts Young Colonies
A Farm and Home writer advises that short lived old bees die after winter, making it crucial to secure young bees. Use steady stimulative feeding at night when cold, avoid daytime feeding, and continue feeding until warm weather brings steady nectar flow. Erratic feeding reduces success and profits.
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Loney
Causes of Limberneck in Poultry Detailed in Early Report
The piece explains limberneck in chickens from maggot-infested decaying flesh and filth. It describes paralysis of facial muscles, inability to swallow, days of inactivity, and gradual starvation with poor recovery prospects. Treatment suggestions include turpentine-soaked rags and other crude remedies.
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Limberneck
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John A. Howland
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