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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1925
Page
4
A magazine style piece by William A. Radford explains how bungalow plans can be altered to fit individual tastes. It describes a frame bungalow with wide siding, a full front terrace, French doors, a large living room with built in bookcases, a library, dining room, and a compact kitchen, all arranged around a central hall and adaptable to reader questions.
The article discusses breakfast nooks as a stylish, bright addition to both new and old homes. It emphasizes daylight lighting, kitchen proximity, and cheerful wall tones to ensure a welcoming dining corner.
The article outlines a durable approach for French doors and windows using a six metal weather strip system with an interlocking strip that holds the parting head and applies constant pressure. It recommends a double catch at the center and lower area to prevent warping.
The Department of Agriculture traces wool co operative marketing in the United States to farmers selling collectively since the 19th century. By 1924 twenty two regional and state wide pools handled nearly 12.5 million pounds, with Ohio leading producer states and seven associations handling 68 percent of total wool sold co operatively.
A committee of manufacturers shippers railroads and express companies compared packing methods for eggs under commercial shipping. The study measured money lost per case, with straw and hay stuffing showing a small advantage. Standard cases with cup flats and four excelsior pads fared near the top, while six pads offered similar results in the third rank.
Farmers advised to monitor cows and heifers nearing freshening. Cold nights and minimal pasture raise future costs, so bring cattle to the barn and feed legume hay and silage with no costly grain. Proper conditioning yields cheaper milk later.
Expert from the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station explains leaf blight in horse chestnut and maple trees. The blight propagates via parasite spores on fallen leaves. thorough leaf burning before spring reduces recurrence. For maples, unfavorable weather and drought can burn leaves, mitigated by root growth stimulation and selective pruning.
Instructions advise using carbon bisulphid to kill weevils in peas and beans. Place beans in a tight vessel, add bisulphid on top, and seal. Use about one pound per 100 cubic feet, dry the seeds thoroughly, and limit temperature to 125 degrees to avoid seed damage while ensuring weevils are killed.
Sweet clover grows best on well drained, well prepared soil and can fix its own nitrogen from the air. Experiments in Manitoba show strong winter hardiness and drought resistance, with poor drainage and lack of soil moisture harming growth.
For five cents a nickel gas engine will separate 8 000 pounds of milk at the proper speed to get the most cream. It will pump 6 000 gallons of water, render healthful service for household use. It will shell 50 bushels of corn for cattle, chickens and lambs, grind 12 bushels of feed, cut a ton of ensilage, saw 2 cords of wood, churn 400 pounds of butter, bale a ton of hay, clean 80 bushels of wheat for seed, light the farm for four years, do two weekly washings for the family, or grind mower knives for the season.
A fragmented article discusses pest control and feeding practices to reduce rats and improve winter fodder. It notes barley as a strong winter cover crop to prevent well washing and mentions other succulent feeds benefiting organ health. Housing quality is stressed for profitable poultry flocks, with concerns about tuberculosis in fowls from infected manure at some plants.
William T. Bailey, assistant city attorney, lent $20 to a young widow two years ago as she faced hardship. A letter from her recalls the act and includes a photo, noting she opened a Cleveland millinery shop and will repay the loan soon.
The excerpt recalls Coward remarking that those calling these times immoral are prudes, contrasting a London bishop's warning about the modern girl with a humorous retort about chasing her. The quip showcases Coward's sharp wit and social satire in early 20th century New York.
Film display presented by Film Mr. Sugimura the Japanese accredited representative at the mandates commission session demonstrates the moral and material development of populations under a Japanese mandate in the South Sea islands. Watch Cuticura ads promise skin benefits and quick routines.
The piece plays with puns on aviary and jailbird terms and notes the term intern slide entering English around the year 1000, first recorded in a dictionary. It highlights playful language shifts and etymology.
Brooklyn woman Miss E Rich describes chronic stomach bloating gas and poor appetite with headaches and says Carter's Little Liver Pills relieved her symptoms. She now uses the pills when stomach discomfort returns and endorses them as for sale by druggists at 25 cents.
Pharmacists tout Joint-Evan as a remedy for bore creaky painful inflamed rheumatic joints when other remedies fail. The advertisement claims the product speeds relief and makes joints feel younger with clean penetrating action at sixty cents a tube.
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