Yuma Project reports on alfalfa and green manures in cropping
The report highlights alfalfa as a top green manure and discusses using cowpeas to improve moisture in sandy soils. It covers cowpea yields, seed costs, and profitability, plus varieties New Era Groit and Whippoorwill for summer green manure and soil improvement. It ends with farm management counsel and a light moral note.
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Yuma
Arizona
United’ States Department of ‘ Agriculture
Durango
Sudan
Ifield
F. O. B. Yuma
Holtville Water Rate Cut Tied to District Settlement
Imperial Valley Irrigation District approves taking ponds in exchange for the system and arranging payoff of other claims. Principal claims include New Liverpool Salt Co at 600000 and Title Insurance and Trust Co at about 300000. Water rate for Holtville to drop to 0.50 per acre foot starting next month, down from 0.75 as diversion work was funded by the city.
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Page - Oie
Imperial Valley Irrigation Disstrict
Southern Pacific
New Liverpool Salt Company
Title Insurance and Trust Company
Holtville
Allies plan decisive stroke kept secret as talks continue
Report notes no public disclosure of where or when the allied assault will begin to shift the war tide. In the Balkans British and French forces repel Bulgarian attacks while rumors of a Saloniki withdrawal fade as more troops land. Greek tensions drive a tentative modus vivendi and Saloniki dispatches move to implement it. British forces retire to Kut el Amara with Turkish pursuit and hope to hold a strong position as reinforcements arrive.
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Balkans
Saloniki
Athens
Mesopotamia
Kutel-Amara
Glass of Salts Your Kidneys Hurt
An old medicinal blurb explains that meat forms uric acid which overworks kidneys, causing dull kidney pain, backache, headaches, dizziness, sour stomach, coated tongue, and nighttime urination. It promotes Jad Salts or “rad Salts” as a safe, inexpensive remedy to flush acids, soothe bladder irritation, and keep kidneys healthy.
Hamburg Breast Tea for Cold Relief
A folk remedy promotes Hamburg Breast Tea as a safe inexpensive vegetable treatment for colds and the grip. A tablespoonful steeped in boiling water, drunk through the day or before bed, is said to open pores, relieve congestion, loosen bowels, and drive the cold from the system.
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Hamburg
St Jacobs Oil Promises Quick Relief for Aches
A vintage ad touts a 25 cent bottle of St Jacobs Oil to ease back pain sciatica and rheumatism. It claims rapid relief after rubbing into the painful area, promising the soreness will vanish within fifty counts and urging readers not to stay crippled.
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St. Jacobs
Nileery
Advertising Keeps Rolling Through Slow Times
The piece argues that advertising should not be curtailed during downturns. It stresses that advertising is the cheapest and most efficient sales method and often yields harvests in low mood periods. It notes improved outlooks, rising crops, and resilient newspapers when advertisers stay active.
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Heart of Riverside
Heart of
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Pacific Electric Railway
W. C. Bonser
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Corona, Calif
United States
Washington
Advice
S. E. Gomer
Chicago Tribune
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