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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1935
Page
19
An Iowa writer details life in Summertown England noting housing costs about 13 dollars weekly, heat and coal usage, and the warmth challenge. She compares market scenes in Oxford and Summertown with fresh, affordable produce, delivery by bicycle, and cheaper small grocers, plus typical prices for bread, milk, tea, meat, and staples.
An extension horticulture article describes tomato plant health and growth factors from the New Jersey College of Agriculture and Experiment Station. It emphasizes careful attention to essential principles, good seed quality, and well drained soil to achieve strong vine growth and ripe crops.
The soil should be well supplied with plant nutrients. Apply lime and manure or lime and a 5-8-7 commercial fertilizer to compensate for nutrient deficiency. A properly grown tomato plant will be resistant to wilt.
The piece notes a cool spell yet favorable conditions for perennials and bulbs. It highlights crocus varieties, a white snowstorm bloom, blue and white grape hyacinths, chronodoxas, hyacinths, and daf fodils brightening south facing exposures. It reports thousands of trillium nivale in local woods and advises on grouping and combining shrubs and perennials for better garden color.
The piece discusses carrot varieties and soil needs, then outlines garden layouts to sustain continuous bloom. It highlights mixing pink almonds with Pride of Haarlem and Clara Butt tulips, plus Chinese ancula and hollyhocks. Designs include garage side plantings, trellises, wisteria, a pool, rock gardens, and combinations with Artemisia Silver King, sedums, Phlox Guy Moore, and Hemerocallis.
A reader, Jeanette Beyer, asks for letters to be sent in care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette for several months in England and offers to reply with a postcard. She notes the absence of American cookbooks and requests no embarrassing questions.
A narrator describes cooking a boiled fowl with two leeks carrot rice and canned tomatoes. The slow simmer preserves delicate flavors and yields a handsome platter with white rice and vegetable specks. Dessert features Roquefort cheese and a Mrs Hester fruit pare.
In St. Louis probate court a will for Mrs. Gertrude Merry 82 disposes of a $15 000 estate. A daughter says the estate was hidden with the will addressed to her children Mrs. Andrew K. Miller Denver Mrs. B A Langan St Louis and Aaron Burr Combs Marshalltown Ia. The letter explains reimbursements for clothing jewelry board doctor bills rail fares and nurses paid by the children as they cared for her. Mrs Merry died at Mrs. Langan's home.
A Green County jury awarded Clyde Stough $25 after finding a Worthington company owned a bed bug infested house he lived in with no rent. Stough had sued for $16, alleging bed bugs destroyed two mattresses a wooden bedpost sleep deprivation and humiliation.
The fifth garden talk in a series will be given by E S Smith Linn county garden director at the Friendly Cooking club meetings Tuesday and Thursday 2 to 4 p m in Cedar Rapids Gas company basement. Smith will discuss When How and Why Cultivate Your Garden Crops with a cooking demo by Kathryn Kendall assisted by Mrs Edward Hurley and Alma Sentner. Menu includes baked cabbage and tomato with cheese and rhubarb tapioca dessert.
The article discusses testicular descent, the role of the anterior pituitary in development, and new hormone therapies that may replace surgery for cryptorchidism. It contrasts conservative medical treatment with traditional radical surgery and critiques brass surgeons pushing operatic cures.
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