Real Basis for Improving Corn Plant and Breeding Limits
The article argues that selection and hybridization alone cannot create new traits. It explains fluctuations from nutrition, inheritance through reproductive cells, and three paths to plant improvement. It emphasizes unit characters, unpredictable outcomes of crosses, and the role of genuine inherited variation. It notes commercial varieties arise from hybrids and selection, with breeding plots guiding to desirable types.
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Bigeia
Nature
Tomato Plant Pest Watch and Treatment Advice
Young tomato plants face an enemy that can sap vitality if unchecked. A tiny black beetle, often mistaken for a fly, appears outdoors and can devastate plants in days. Death is simple but sure with liberal leaf sprinkling and careful monitoring for possible repeated applications. Plant location near potatoes invites another pest, so choose site away from potato fields to reduce risk.
Filling Ditches and Gullies for Soil Retention
Practical advice warns against plowing bare soil in ditches and gullies. Instead cover with brush straw briars rubbish to trap soil and reduce wash. As the trash decays, gullies fill and level, creating the deepest rich spots in fields.
Cultivation Guidance for Potatoes Featured in Crop Advice
The article advises frequent potato cultivation as a quick stewing crop. It suggests three or four cultivations to curb weeds, with a total of one to eight cultivations required for a good yield. Each cultivation likely costs more than for other crops, indicating high per-cultivation returns.
Wabash Train Plunges Into Missouri River Wreck In Iowa
A Wabash passenger train No. 4 plunged into the Missouri River thirty miles east of Kansas City. Six died and ten injured, with a large number seriously hurt. Among the dead are engineer Charles Flowers and baggage man Harry Hacket. Rescue and medical aid followed, with Dr. Turner Lohorek cited for rapid treatment. The Des Moines sleeper King and his child were swept away. the child perished. Ground around the wreck bridge washed away. rail bed submerged. repairs will require extensive track rebuilding.
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Kansas City
Ives
Wabash
Missouri River
Here
Charles Flowers
Louis Bond
Dreman
Moberly
Harry Ckert
St. Louis
Daniel
HE. T. King
Eldon
Charles Anthony
Jesse Oldham
Revere
George Metcalf
Cedar Rapids
E. L. Coles
Nashville
Tenn
C. Trump
Dayton
Des Moines
King
Turner Lohorek
Howells Rebukes Boasters at Maine Fourth of July
A Chicago editor recalls William Dean Howells rebuking American boastfulness, noting Howells recently joined a women’s suffrage society and delivered a Maine Fourth of July oration. The preceding speaker boasted, and Howells mocked that bragging as impious, likening it to a child scolding a hen for crowing after laying an egg.
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William Dean Howells
Chicago
Howells
Men’s Society
Itones
Postmasters Meet in Mason City Address Describes Red Tape
Iowa postmasters from Mason City area discuss endless red tape at the district association's second annual meeting. Postmaster Mason of Hanonton and President C C Barry of Walker lead talks with plans to bring issues to the state convention. Officers elected include Manley president and Juhl secretary with several county vice presidents named. Delegates to Des Moines named from Britt Kanawha Thompson Forest City Kensett and others.
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Mason City
District Association of Postmasters
Mason
Hanonton
C. C. Barry
Walker
Iowa, Association
W. , McKercheyr
Manley
P. Juhl
Crystal Lake
W. A. Simpkins
Britt
Charles Terwillinger
Hancock
James Wiickson
Winnebago
Mra. Mason
Worth
William Gray
Cerro Gordo
Hl. E. Wyatt
Floyd
Robert Jensen
Mitchell
Des Moines
W. A. Simpkina
J. A. Thompson
Kanawha
J. Llickson
Thompson
Wugene Secor
Forest City
Bers
Kensett
A. T. Huse
Joice
I. 2
Wyatt
Rockford
J. W. Clyde
Rudd
Asa Bailey
Thornton
W. J. Christians
Dougherty
Lydia Tesen
Robert Jonsen
Carpenter
Skin Eruption Cured by Cuticura Remedies
A vignette describes a two-and-a-half year old girl whose itchy painful skin eruption began on the hips and legs in October. After two doctors failed to help, two weeks of Cuticura treatment fully cured her by February, with no recurrence. The notice cites Mrs. R. R. Whitaker of Winchester, Tenn. in 1908.
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R. R. Whitaker
Winchester
Tenn
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sale Props
Barton
Drowning Victim Found Near Scene of Jamch Accident
Searchers locate the body of Miss Nina Thorson of Northwood in the Raccoon River three-quarters of a mile below the Jamch accident site where Mrs. C. V. Dawson and Verne Macy were drowned Thursday night.
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Ade
Nina Thorson
Northwood
Raccoon River
C. V. Dawson
Verne Macy
Wright Flies Twenty Minutes at Fort Myer Trial
Orvills Wright stayed aloft for twenty minutes and thirty seconds in a Fort Myer aero plane test and made a successful landing.
No Calhoun Juror Yet in Calhoun Bribe Trial
San Francisco July 26 the first week of Patrick Cal houn's trial on a second indictment charging the offer of a bribe ended without the qualification of a single talesman. Byers' funeral held Des Moines July 21 funeral services for Lawrence M Byers whose body arrived in Des Moines from London were held at St Helens and Terrace Drive and were largely attended.
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Calhoun
San Francisco
Cal
Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Talesman
Byers
Des Moines
Lawrence M. Byers
London
St. Helens
Terrace Drive
7 Natural Selection inquiring about an aeronaut garden
The fragment questions what an aviator might cultivate in a garden. It ponders an odd plant suggestion with phrases about an aeronaut and a garden chair. The text hints at playful wordplay and imagined horticultural ideas.
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Chalee
Nationwide school work warns youths on tuberculosis cure
The National Association for the Study and Prevention reports that over 2.5 million of 17 million American school children have been taught about the dangers of consumption and its prevention this year. An additional 4 million have learned through tuberculosis exhibits or specialized classes nationwide. In lighter news, a Philadelphia mayoral candidate’s daughter asks, Do they often die of it, upon hearing her father’s nomination.
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New York
Boston
United States
Goced
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
National Association
Philadelphia
His Handicap and the Restless Man in Society
A snappy, fragmentary dialogue features Dusty Dan and a genteel woman debating social placement and marriage. The piece wittily riffs on restlessness, wit, and the notion that marriage might curb a man who “couldn’t live without” a certain woman. It blends social satire with oblique moral quips.
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Dusty
Dan
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Edward A. Marx
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