Poultry Pointers for Small Hen Keeping
Keep hens confined to your land and avoid keeping a male bird. Hens lay well without a rooster. Do not overstock and buy well matured pullets. Gain experience before hatching and have a grass plot separate from the yard. Build a dry well ventilated shelter and keep the yard clean. Provide roosts nesting spaces and fresh greens. Feed kitchen scraps and grain daily with a dry mash. Protect from lice and mites and save eggs for winter use. Kill and eat hens as they slow laying.
How to Detect Glucose in Preserves Jam Marmalade
Glucose detection in jelly involves dissolving a teaspoon in two tablespoons of alcohol in a glass vessel. For jam or marmalade filter the mixture through muslin, cool, then add an equal or slightly larger volume of strong alcohol. A dense white precipitate indicates glucose. absence of precipitate suggests none or only trace protein sediment.
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Popular Science Monthly
No Connection Between the Weather and Moon's Changes
A London Chronicle correspondent argues there is no link between weather and lunar phases. Prof Schuster studied a century of data and found no lunar cycle in weather records. Some authorities note cloud dispersal near full moons, but do not support a predictive lunar weather link.
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London Chronicle
Schuster
Potatoes Provide Superior Fuel Value and Prep Tips
University of Minnesota expert Lucy Cordiner notes potatoes have higher fuel value than any other fresh vegetable. Proper prep preserves nutrients. blanch then peel to avoid losses, or cook in cold water only after blanching, with a quick oven yielding dry, mealy, digestible potatoes.
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Lucy Cordiner
University of Minnesota
Certain-Teed Products
Wealthy Quapaw couple in Oklahoma live simply in a log cabin
In Ottawa county Oklahoma, Joe Car waryee te and his wife, two of the county’s richest people, live in a rudimentary log cabin on about 250 dollars a year. They rarely touch their vast gold hoard from mineral lands and only visit town twice yearly to buy gaudy calico for the wife and several pairs of overalls for the husband.
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Ottawa County
Oklahoma
Joe Carwar-yee-tee
Six Smiles and a Pearls Necklace Pieced in Banter
In a playful exchange a savage remark about land for beads prompts Miss Cayenne to recall a man with evening clothes who went broke buying a pearl necklace. The scene shifts to a breakfast complaint about hardship and a child praised as sweet yet accused of swallowing a sugar ticket.
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Miss Cayenne
One Dish Dinners Could Ease Kitchen Drudgery
The United States Food Administration suggests one dish meals to reduce dishwashing and labor shortages. Critics worry these “potted hominy and beef” style plates may strip meals of joy while imports, crockery, and labor remain scarce, risking a dull dinner experience.
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United States Food Administration
The
Food Administration
Portland Oregonian
Becoming a Wireless Operator Requires Similar Training
The article states that to become a wireless operator one must understand the mechanism and be able to receive and send messages. It notes that preparation should be equivalent to that of a land wire operator.
Moonlight's Effect On Plants Declared Wholly Negligible
Scientists deny any moon influence on temperature rainfall or plant growth. C F Marvin notes plant growth depends on temperature light humidity and soil nutrients, while moonlight provides far too little illumination to affect growth.
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Moon
C. F. Marvin
United States Weather Bureau
New Yorker
Wise and Otherwise Wit and Paradox in Brief Sketches
A collection of pithy maxims on memory, social pressure, honesty, and time. Wise is the man who recalls a prior engagement for a disagreeable invite. A man who has something to say knows when to stop speaking. Time is money, joked by a man who paid a jeweler $1.50 to repair a 98 cent watch.
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Wise
Shooting Stars Date Back Into the Prehistoric Times
The article traces the origins of shooting stars to prehistoric history and outlines a theory that meteorites are fragments from small planetary bodies disrupted by volcanic explosions. It notes that meteors travel in swarms through Earth's orbit and that many meteorites have been found in Arizona.
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Popular Science Monthly
Earth
Arizona
Market Term Defined and a Boy at the Gate
A humorous exchange opens with a financial pun about manipulation for a rise. A small boy at the garden gate wails about not being taken to the pictures, as a kindly old lady asks what's wrong and he blurts that his parents sometimes take him and sometimes do not when he cries.
Insurance paradox on life risk and personal interest
A dialog frames a moral twist on life insurance. One asks why not accept a life insured applicant. The other replies that a good insurer would be a bad client for him, implying conflicting risk and benefit.
Courtroom Gaffe Prompted Brief but Humble Apology
An attorney addressed the court as gentlemen after a fellow lawyer flagged the error. He rose and apologized, saying he spoke in the heat of debate and offered a humble apology to the court and its honors.
How Dust Causes Fires and Spontaneous Combustion
Spontaneous combustion is caused by floating coal dust particles clashing and friction raising temperature to ignition. Ventilation may worsen fires by aiding oxidation. damp and quiet air helps prevent ignition and keeps dust from rising into flames.
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Popular Science Monthly
Major Billy Wellborn A Key Figure In Draft Work
Washington sidelight features a young girl nicknamed Major Billy Wellborn who manages draft rules for boards, memorizes new regulations, and is hailed by officers as a significant factor in the draft machine despite being a child. Her signoff initials are Wy. Wellborn.
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Ashington
National Army
War Department
Enoch Crowder
Hugh Johnson
Allen Gullion
Billy” Wellborn
Billy
Baker
Crowder
Wy. Wellborn
Wilhelmina Ellborn
Judge Advocate General’s Office
Major Billy
Veteran 68-year-old seeks to join cavalry in war drive
An aged but resolute man, age sixty eight, arrives at headquarters by long journey to ask a general to let him enlist. He insists he can ride and shoot as well as any, but officials explain regulations bar volunteers over forty five. The two men walk out arm in arm, the old man pleading while the general defends policy.
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Jake
Mack
Many Lonesome Girls Working for Uncle Sam
In Washington a flood of 50 000 young women have arrived to work for the government since the war began. They seek homes as housing is scarce and comfort is scarce without family support. Organizations like the YWCA try to help, but the girls miss their homes and families.
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Washington
The
Union
Uncle Sam
France
March Through the Park With a Jonquil Candle
A man marching through a park carries a jonquil like a candle, sparking observers’ curiosity. He offers the flower to a passing girl with old-fashioned courtesy before continuing his march, leaving bystanders to wonder about his inner thoughts and motives.
German Joke Sparks Bond Booth Incident Near Station
A Liberty Bond booth near a terminal station drew a man who claimed to be German when asked to buy a bond. The woman pursued him with officers, leading to his arrest and transfer to the justice department. He later said it was a joke, prompting the officer to note Washington is no place for German humor.
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Liberty Loan
Department of Justice
Washington
A Life Saver and a Doughboy Dad Joke
Gutzon Borglum urged originality at a New York luncheon in a riff on the aerial program. A doughboy recalls his brave father who enlisted and saved his regiment two weeks after joining by shooting the cook, prompting a camp chef’s surprised exchange.
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Gutzon Borgium
New York
Important to Mothers Examine Castoria Bottles Carefully
Parents urged to check each Castoria bottle for the signature and note the long history of use. Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria, a remedy trusted for infants and kids, widely advertised to reassure caregivers.
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Fletcher
Father and Daughter Debate Credit Life in Slanted Exchange
A daughter tells her father that a man saves fifteen a week from his salary while he questions how long he can sustain living on credit. The brief dialogue captures concerns about frugality and debt in a tight economy.
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Killjoy
Simultaneous Arrivals Prompt Frugal Exchange
A brief dialogue contrasts mutual difficulties with finances as one speaker jokes about money and time, noting not the end of money but the end of the week. The exchange captures social humor on budgeting and pay cycles.
Different Circumstances She and He Conversation
A dialogue fragment shows She asking if He loves her less than a week ago when gifts were given. He replies that love remains but money pressures from payday a week away leave him routinely broke by mid month.
Locust Eggs Used as Fertilizer in Med Countries
Locust eggs treated with sulphuric acid and lime are used as fertilizers in Mediterranean countries during insect swarms.
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Mediterranean
Nothing is more gratifying than the consciousness of doing good
A reflective statement on the moral value of virtuous acts and inner satisfaction from helping others. The text emphasizes personal fulfillment through ethical conduct and benevolence.
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