The “hex marks” painted on the old barns of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, even on some of the modern new barns, now are merely traditionally ornamental.
Vintage weathervanes were made in almost every conceivable design and pattern. Horses, cows, deer, eagles, ships. roosters and even pigs were hammered in metal and used to register the direction of the wind.
Starting in 1914, there was a lot of hype about a new little town near Phoenix, Arizona called Gilbert – ‘the fastest growing and most prosperous community in the Southwest.” See how it’s grown!
“DDT is good for me-e-e!” The great expectations held for DDT have been realized. During 1946, exhaustive scientific tests have shown that, when properly used,
Phoenix, Arizona was first settled in 1867, and here you can see an aerial view of the city as it looked back in 1885, when the population was estimated to be just 3,500, and was said to be ‘one of the most beautiful and lovely cities in the West.’
Here are images showing New York City’s growth from a frontier settlement known as New Amsterdam to the metropolis of the western world –through the Colonial times, and in the early days of US independence.
Starting around the end of the 19th century, there was a war that was fought not with guns and sharp knives, but with food coloring and butter knives. It was the great battle of Butter vs Margarine.
Organic foods: Are they modern-day cure-all elixirs sold by modern-day hokum medicine men? Or are they a more wholesome alternative to the chemically-treated foods we customarily eat?
Because of the discovery made by this young farmer of Kansas, every dictionary in the world will have to be revised. For all time to come, students of astronomy will read that the ninth planet, Pluto, was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
Farms of the future — High rise barns and plastic domed fields? Farmers of the not-too-distant future may have as much need for off-hour exercise
A dedicated and growing band of people — most of them young — has taken to cooking and serving no-nonsense natural foods.
Kansas farm boy spots new planet Clyde Tombaugh of Burdett First to Detect “Blotch of Light” Flagstaff, Arizona — Discovery of a new world, probably
ILLINOIS. Is about equal in extent to England. with a population of 1,722. No State in the Valley of the Mississippi offers so great an inducement to the settler as the State of Illinois.
The mean trick of a Santa Cruz dairyman, who fools the stock by an electric plant Dairyman Wilder, whose milk-producing establishment is about ten miles
Southside Agricultural Fair Big fair at Petersburg October 17th – 21st inclusive Premiums for exhibits and race purses Great Wild West show and other attractions
Florence Thompson with two of her children “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet,” Dorothea Lange told Popular
Willys turns the Jeep upside down As you know from seeing your car on the greasing lift, most cars and trucks look alike from below
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