Peony seeds yield fourteen varied varieties in a single pod
Geltz Peony Gardens owner Lewis Geltz explains that fourteen seeds from one pod produced fourteen distinct peony varieties, with blossoms differing in size color and shade. He notes frost damage to some blooms, highlights prize winners Therese and La Cyne, and mentions eighty to ninety varieties in his garden along with the curious flowering Oriental poppy.
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Lewis Geltz
Cleveland Av
Flower Grower
Westerners Must Have Fun Even If They Must Fight
A 1925 Canton Daily News letter recounts a Paris night in Montmartre where an American, after a glass of cironade, slapped a Frenchman in a friendly scuffle. The magistrate explains French custom, noting a duel would follow a fist and a slap, but no one was hurt in this curious clash of cultures.
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Jesse Henderson
Canton Daily News
Paris
Montmartre
Alexander the Great
Sendarmes
Monsieur le Prefect
Megally
Parisian diplomacy on dueling and North South American tensions
A narrator discusses the complexity of handling conflicts with Americans from the north and south in Paris. He notes foreigners underestimate how amicable Parisian dispute resolution is by duel, while acknowledging the quick temper and knife threat from South American visitors. The speaker asks for ten minutes of the listener’s stay to proceed.
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Geltz Gardens
J. Geltz
Monsieur
Paris
North
South
Radio Police Force to Keep Air Lines Free
Washington report details a plan by the Department of Commerce to create the world’s first mobile radio police force with a $125,000 appropriation. Secretary Hoover aims to deploy inspectors nationwide to reduce radio interference from broadcasting station wavelength errors and electrical equipment.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Congress
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
J. 8. Davis
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