Horticulturist Hersch Grows Own Medicine Plants
Horticulturist T Frank Hersch expands his 10 year hobby of growing plants for medicinal use. His collection, now housed in Bever park greenhouse and his Greenwood Drive yard, includes more than 300 tropical and medicinal species such as banana, camelias, crepe myrtle, belladonna, squill, cinchophen, and a “Moses in the Boat” plant. Local florist praises his research and catalog reading habits. The Bever park greenhouse houses rare specimens like a bird of paradise and pampas grass as well as peanuts, a love apple tomato plant, and other unusual plants for medication and study.
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T. Frank Hersch
Greenwood Drive
Bever Park
Bezdek’s
Sharon
Florida
California
Wes Panek
Cedar Rapids
Hellebore Blooms From Leaf Cup At Plant Base
A tiny boat-shaped leaf cup near the base supports spring growth as the hellebore now blooms. The plant’s spring display centers on this distinctive leaf arrangement and early blossoms.
Poisonous and medicinal plants in a home garden
The passage lists plants grown at the Hersch home garden including the Christmas rose veratrum viride monkshood aconite and various sources of cathartics such as aloe nicotine and croton oil. It notes the habit of monksod wintering in the yard and mentions peppermint camphor trees and May apples with cathartic properties.
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South America
Doctor
Bever Park
Dr. Hersch
Hersch
Monkshood
Interfraternity Sing At Coe Slated Tuesday
The Coe college interfraternity sing sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the college chapel. Four campus fraternities may sing two or more songs each within eight minutes. Judges, Sinfonia alumni, will be announced before the event. Tau Kappa Epsilon seeks three-peat, holder of the Ernest A Leo Memorial trophy since 1939, with Leo trophy given in 1940 in memory of Ralph Leo.
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Coe College
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Coe
Max Wesner
Walnut
John Morton
Denison
Harland Rice
Cedar Rapids
Sinfonia
Fone
Reuben Leitner
Mr. Carroll
Alpha Delta Alpha
Richard Keen
Algona
Chi Beta Phi
Ellsworth Burker
Dixon
Ill
Delta Phi Epsilon
Robert Carmichael
Hawkeye
Charles Qokell
Oak Park
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Ernest A Leo
Leo
Ralph Leo
Azores Seen as Key Hub for Transatlantic Cables
The department of commerce calls the Azores a major international nerve center for transatlantic cables, highlighting its strategic location for undersea communication links and network routing.
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Azores
Department of Commerce
19th Precinct Leads Red Cross Roll Call Efforts
The 19th precinct under Mrs Victor Sundberg led Cedar Rapids area drives reporting early in the 1941 Red Cross roll call. Sundberg precinct boosted its pledge from 36 to 107 dollars while Hutchinson Ice Cream Co led local firms reaching full quota. Mrs Wells C Peck urged subscriptions before Thanksgiving as results trickle in and final tallies arrive next week.
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Victor Sundberg
Third Avenue
Red Cross
Wells C. Peck
Linn County
The
Sundbere
Peck
Hutchinson Ice Cream Company
John H Bormann
Cedar Rapids
Lecture Recital On Dance At Franklin Tuesday Night
A lecture recital on Modern dance by Sybil Shearer and Allison Choate will be held at the Franklin school auditorium Tuesday night at 8 45 under the Lyceum committee led by Miss Gertrude James. Bathdance will be explained by Miss Shearer before the recital.
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Sybil Shearer
Allison Choate
Franklin School
Lyceum Committee
Gertrude James
Bathdance
Miss Shearer
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Naomi Doebel
Moses
Chester Beardsley
Iowa
Camera Shop
Second Ave
Palace Theater
National Life Insurance Co
Vermont
Robert O. Bickel
C.L.A
John B. Heidel
W. W. Reams
Fred C. Woolrich
Dows
Walter Wendler
Amana
Abbott
Squibb
Lederle
Uncle Sam
Parke Davis
Viasterol
Paramount Pharmacy
Paramount Theatre Blog
John
Mead Johnson
Interfraternity
3Rd Ave
Smraxceo
Franklin
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