Too Old for Dreams Wins Elsie Van Nugent
Dick Sittingwell, a veteran drummer, falls for Elsie Van Nugent the old maid who owns a large house at Bourne End. After learning her finances are ruined by her lawyer, he buys the place for the contents but chooses not to take the furniture, revealing his true aim is Elsie herself as he declares his love with a kiss.
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Bill
Dick Sittitiewell
Dick Sittingwett
Misa Elsie van Nugent
Bourne End
Misa von Nugent
Olympia
Elsie van Nugent
Miss Blale
Dick Sittingwell
Hisle van Nugent
New England
Elsie
Garden
Misa Isles
Mias Risile
Miss Blate
Ven Nugent
Staples
Sharples
Miss van Nugent
Ono
Alay Elsie
Monk Parrakeets Build Communal Nests in South America
In the Pampas monk parakeets form large communal nests within eucalyptus trees and other tall branches. The aerial structures host multiple pair dwellings, sometimes six or eight feet in diameter, used year after year. A tree teal duck also uses a chamber in the same nest complex amid noisy chatter.
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Monk Parrcheats
Monk Parrakeets
South America
Banda
Pampas
Parrakeeta
Icientife
Riches Require Work and Honest Effort
A Grit quotation asserts no magic turns trash to gold. True wealth comes from hard work guided by prudent thinking. Overnight riches come only to those who steal others savings or earn through lawful effort.
Poultry Care Tips For Winter Egg Production
Practical advice on ventilation, sun exposure, and consistent egg gathering. Emphasizes selecting good laying stock, avoiding drafty coops, and maintaining feed like milk mash greens and minerals. Recommends calcium sources and safe lice prevention while noting winter hens increase grain use for body heat.
Points Marking Profitable Hens in Fall Production
In fall conditions hens that molted in May August or September tend to be poor layers The late moltier has a long production period A good layer shows vigor health and strong physical traits including wide back deep body pliable skin and well spaced pelvic bones The comb wattles are bright when laying and shrink when not laying Broody hens should be identified with colored leg bands and culled if they brood repeatedly Cull lighter breed brooders and mark persistent broodiness with caution C Ufford Assistant Professor in Animal Husbandry Colorado Agricultural College
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C. C. Ufford
Colorado Agricultural College
Green Feed For Hens Proves Vital In Winter
Ohio State Experiment Station tests alfalfa red clover and soy bean hays as winter substitutes for fresh greens. Green color preserved hay cut small or large amounts uncut aids palatability and intake for about 100 hens, with leafy barn floor scraps long valued.
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Ohio State Experiment Station
Feeding Hogs for Profit Depends on Ration Choices
A North Carolina State extension specialist compares two hog feeders over 70 days. One uses economical feeding yielding a $4.02 profit per pig. the other pursues maximum profit with higher feed use, producing about $6 per pig. The example stresses feed efficiency and timing drive profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Shay
North Carolina State College
Shay
Badger Stockmen Favor Shipping Associations
Wisconsin farmers increasingly use cooperative shipping associations for live stock marketing. About 46 percent of state stock moves through these groups, reflecting higher returns and price effects. Savings come from lower shrinkage and assembling costs, with farmers aligning stock quality to market demand.
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Badger
Wisconsin
Marvin A. Schaars
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Schaurs
Bchaars
Live Stock Notes on Feeding and Health Practices
The note discusses feeding schedules for horses and sheep, water needs, pasture types for hogs, and best practices for pregnant ewes. It emphasizes separate grain from feed, adequate water, soy bean and corn mixes, tankage or ash meal, and avoiding overripe hay plus timothy for pregnant ewes to prevent poor lamb outcomes.
Dislike for Cave Heritage of Man Explains Cats Fear
Albert Payson Terhune argues in Liberty that instinctive dislike of cats stems from cave dwellers. He says darkness allowed big and small felines to prowl unseen, shaping early humans fear of the cat tribe and threats to their families.
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Albert Payson Terhune
Liberty
Dandelion Butter Color Sold Widely for 50 Years
A harmless vegetable butter color called Dandelion has been sold for decades in drug stores and general stores. The product is marketed at 85 cents per bottle and used by millions.
Sicilian sulfur mines to be electrified by GE contract
The Sicilian sulfur industry development body contracts General Electric of Sicily to electrify all mining services. A va fuel power plant at Catania will supply 40 000 volt main and 10 000 volt subsidiary lines to Catania to Campo Franco and Caltanissetta Sommatino districts. Estimated cost about 1 280 000 dollars with 292 000 dollars from the corporation. Approximately 800 miles of line will be installed and the project should finish within three years.
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Sicily
General Electric Company of
Catania
Caltanissetta
Campo-Franco
Caltanissetta-Sommatino
Stamp History Remembrance Spur Global Postage
The article notes how nations issue special stamps to mark historic events and figures. It highlights planned issues including White Plains battle, Portugal’s tercentenary of liberation, Bulgaria’s fiftieth anniversary of freedom, Poland’s Mme Curie stamp, Spain’s aviator stamps, and Canada’s portrait stamps.
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White Plains
Portugal
Bulgaria
Poland
Mme. Curle
Spain
Canada
Dominion
War Babies in France Lord Beaverbrook Luncheon Comment
Detroit Free Press quotes Lord Beaverbrook remarks made at a New York luncheon. He says wartime policies aimed at restricting birthrates now shift to encouraging births to supply future soldiers. He argues nations seek more babies to increase military manpower for the next war.
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France
Lord Beaverbrook
New York
Germany
Detroit
Prickly Pear Dress Pushes 500 Acre Lease Textile Plan
Australian women's groups lobby the government for perpetual lease of 500 acres and 125000 in aid to build a textile industry turning waste country products into fabrics. Mme McCracken of Dublin leads a delegation before the labor minister at Sydney showing garments from prickly pear and other waste materials. A note mentions a Roman road in Gogland now Watling Street built by Julius Gauear during Roman times.
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Australia
Mme. McCracken
Dublin
Bydney
Gogland
Watling Shreet
Juling Guaear
Tribal customs and population contrasts in Backward Africa report
A government report from West Africa describes a Bali based man with 98 wives and 460 unmarried men in the town. It notes another man with 27 wives and seven warriors with two spouses, highlighting slavery, witchcraft, and trial by ordeal in some tribes and their primitive conditions.
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Africa
Bali
British Cameroons
West Africa
Footwear Customer Preferences Spark Small Debate
A shop dialogue shows a customer choosing sizes with a practical twist. The shopper prefers size five but finds five and a half comfortable enough to wear sixes, highlighting leniency in sizing habits.
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W. G. Chapman
General Ration
J. L
Campbell-Ewald Co
Enares Motors
Troit
Michigan
Cave
Vrslow
Proerrners Hevenieca
Tomach
Providence Laboratories, Inc
Providence Brig
Milwaukee
Wis
Dodds Pills
Bright
Dodd
Pastor Koenius Nervine
Deq Moines
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