Royal hospital nurse sisters serve in Portugal and England
Royal hospital notes describe Queen Augusta Victoria wife of ex King Manuel of Portugal serving as a nurse at Third Wandsworth General Hospital England alongside her mother in law Queen Amelie of Portugal. The piece places Augusta Victoria as eldest child and only daughter of Prince William of Hohenzollern, linking to the Kaiser’s branch.
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Augusta Victoria
Manuel
Portugal
Queen Augusta Victoria
Wandsworth General Hospital
Englad
Queen Amelie
Prince Willam of
Hohenzollern
Kaiser
Best Spray In Artenate of Lead Applied To Cherry Trees
An 1880s horticulture note warns of dark brown sawfly-like larvae on cherry and sour cherry leaves in June and July. It describes the pest life cycle, damage to foliage, and recommends arsenate of lead as a mist spray or white hellebore as safe alternatives for fruit nearing maturity. It gives mixing ratios and emphasizes covering the upper leaf surface to control slug-like larvae.
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Cp Gi T
Colorado Agricultural Colline
Fort Collita
Cole
Good Apple Picking Rules From a Gently Told List
A fragmented set of instructions outlines careful apple picking. Rules emphasize low lifting, gentle ladder use, careful handling of fruit, avoiding speckled or small green apples, and brand new crates. The list advises slow transport, gentle emptying, and careful staging of baskets and crates.
MAKE FRUIT PICKING EASIER IN HESSTON CONTRIVANCE WORKED FINE
On account of scarce help last year H W Prouty of Hesston Kanin Farmers Mall and Breeze describes a contrivance to ease fruit picking. It proved effective, showing how labor saving devices can improve harvest efficiency.
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H. W. Prouty
Hesston
Kanin Farmers
Mall
Breeze
Canvas Helps Apple Harvest With Simple Two Person Method
The method uses two people to harvest apples from a tree. One shakes fruit from under the limb while the other holds a canvas around the outer end. Circle around the tree as fruit drops, with the canvas continually turned to collect and dump it. A wagon cover works well as the canvas.
Hawks of America The vigilant defender or pest from the skies
The piece argues most hawks do more good than harm, naming the sharp shinned, Cooper, and goshawk as injurious to poultry. It praises the duck hawk for its bravery while warning against needless killing, concluding that few hawks are truly harmful and the balance of good and evil is usually even.
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America
Vernon Bailey
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Cooper Hawk
Coopertl
Velox
A. K. Fisher
Fanture
Falco
Palseo Peregrinus Anatum
Florence Merriam Batley
United States
Condensed facts mix of historical data and trivia
A jumble notes Canada cheese output 130 million pounds with Ontario half, US petroleum share 66.36 percent of 400,483,980 barrels in 1914, Entente Cordiale term origin, Flowers turning to electric light, soup solution used in waterproof concrete, potassium salt concessions in Spain with national reserve aims.
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Canada
Ontario
United States
France
England
Budapest
Spain
Health insurance seen as path to national strength
Feliz M. Warburg of Kohn, Loeb says France’s health legislation signals America’s move toward universal health insurance. He cites Germany’s system as effective, arguing universal coverage improves worker care and ties health to economic responsibility. A separate note mentions a French parachute accident on aircraft.
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France
America
Feliz M. Warburg
of Kohn
Loch Sud Company
Paul M. Warburg
Federal Reserve Board
Warburg
Germany
Locust beans produced yearly at 30000 tons
The passage notes locust beans are produced annually to about 30 000 tons. It remarks on impressment by Britain lasting centuries and nearly ending just before the Crimean War, with crews sometimes taken from foreign ships. It cites Pennsylvania cancer deaths expected to reach 6000 this year.
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Pennsylvania
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Galicia
Carranza
Mexico
Ignacio Boullias
Albero J. Pant
Mantaer
Luis Cabrera
Fiance
Public Credit
Royal Hospital
Bishop Coorné
Newport News
Cal Clay
Cal
Calhoun
Douglas
Washington Sta
Colorado
Kansas
Edward B. Clark
Birds of Prey
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