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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1920
Page
19
A Bridgewater resident planted four saplings in a square near his gate and bound them at 12 feet high. Over five years the elms grew together, creating a single tree on stilts at the entrance. Locals call it the wishing tree and believe wishes may come true when walking between the legs.
The cocoanut provided food and drink with sweet milk and white meat yielding oil for energy. Its leaves served as roofing and for crafts while the wood built huts and rafts showing the tree as a versatile resource in tropical communities.
The Philippines harbor vast cocoanut palms across the archipelago and along Pacific islets. Since the 1890s copra spread commercially, reaching 17 percent of world copra in 1905 and about one third by 1911, with 30 mills by 1918 and 1800 tons daily oil capacity. Modern methods, drying, pressing, and fermentation yield edible oil and by products, while the remaining press cake feeds hogs.
A Chicago Lying-in Hospital system uses baby footprints to prevent mixups. Inked prints with name weight birth time travel home with the mother, allowing quick confirmation of a child’s parentage among hundreds of newborns.
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