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...Just to remind the public that railroads were still railroads, Maine's potato-carrying Bangor & Aroostook fell from grace last week, passed its dividend for the first time since...
...Peeling potatoes, to modern housewives, is a sin. Potato jackets, they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin...
...Johns-Manville's Lewis H. Brown attributes his success to a lesson his father gave him about peeling potatoes ("Just do one potato at a time...
...whom I signed up were mostly laborers from . . . the slum district north of town, and transient workers following up the potato and beet harvest, the damp earth still caked on their overalls and arms. All day long they straggled into the basement of the courthouse, their suspicion, disgruntlement and sometimes defiance thinly veiled by meticulous courtesy, cooperativeness and attitude of resignation. It seems to me that Uncle Sam is going to have one grand headache keeping tabs on these transient workers. Many of them were stumped when asked to give their address or the name of a person who would...
...Defense James Garfield ("Halfway") Gardiner ordered that they must not be called "draftees" or "conscripts," and that all heavy camp work must be done by Canadian regulars. Reason: in the short period of training no time could be wasted. An emergency at Long Branch Camp occurred when the automatic potato-peeling machine failed to arrive in time and some of the men had to be asked to sit down with knives and peel potatoes...