Bladderpod Poison Threatens Cattle Pastures
A poisonous weed known as bladderpod or Glottidium vesicarium is spreading northward in pasture lands, threatening large cattle herds. Oklahoma A&M botanist Dr. Featherly reports no effective remedy, noting frost-triggered beans kill animals that graze after infestation. Tests in lab show cattle, steers, rabbits, and chickens succumb to the weed.
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Richard Kleiner
Stillwater
Okla
NEA
W. Featherly
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College
Featherly
Oklahoma A. & M. Laboratories
The Paralyzing Plague Plant Moves Northward Across Plains
A field report details a steer killed after ingesting bladderpoo, showing severe acute intestinal inflammation. It then describes a tall annual weed with yellow pea flowers and a distinctive pod spreading across the South and moving north as growing seasons allow.
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Plains
Caroline
Kentucky
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Florida
West Indies
Featherly
Smuggling Job Won Honor For Jefferson
Florence South Carolina AP report notes a 1787 rice smuggling effort helped Thomas Jefferson gain honorary membership in the Agricultural Society of South Carolina Atttor ney W Marshall Bridges cites Jefferson noting Italian rice was superior due to Piedmont Italy strains The anecdote includes Jefferson’s notebook quote about an Italian muleteer smuggling rough rice to Geneva and the success of that rice strain leading to his recognition
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Florence
S. C
Thomas Jefferson
Agricultural Society of
South Carolina
W. Marshall Bridges
Jefferson
Great Britain
Piedmont
Italy
United States
Geneva
Marshall
Malaria Carrier Found in Elephant Shrew
New York AP report: scientists on an African expedition identify the little elephant shrew as a new host for malaria amid parasitology studies in the Angl...
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New York
Ang
Expedition Collects Parasites for US Study in Africa
The United States Naval Medical group of UC Africa Expedition headed by Cmdr. Trenton Roebush and Chief Deener Lawless gathered parasites from many animals in the Egypt Sudan region southeast of French Equatorial Africa and northeast Belgian Congo. Wendell Phillips, expedition leader, said the specimens will be preserved in the United States for further study.
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Sudan
French Equatorial Africa
Belgian Congo
U.S. Naval Medical Group
University of California African Expedition
Cmdr
Trenton Roebush
Deener Lawless
United States
Wendell Phillips
Swiss Parliament Approves UNESCO Membership Bid
The Swiss upper house backed applying for UNESCO admission by 22 to 1 after a foreign affairs committee recommendation. Concerns about neutrality and a 167 percent budget share were raised, but Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre assured the chamber of safeguards.
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Bernap
Switzerland
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Foreign Affairs Commission
Unesco
United Nations
Chamber
Commission
Max Petitpierre
Chinese Generals Lose Lump Sum Pay
Chiang Kai-shek pushes a modernized finance plan to end lump-sum payments to generals and ensure soldiers are paid on time. Maj. Gen. Wu Sung-ching leads the nine regional disbursing offices in implementing the system with American advisors aiding the reform effort. The change began Sept toi and Oct 1, expanding to more units and aiming to curb corruption.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
China
United Stated
Wu Sung-ching
Paris
UNESCO Withdrawal Clause Referenced by Swiss Officials
Deputies noted that the constitution of UNESCO would permit Switzerland to withdraw at any time if the government believed the organization could threaten the country’s neutrality or vital interests.
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Unesco
Switzerland
Nation’s Defence Ministry backs new energy patent methods
National Defence Ministry endorses patented methods for alternating current control and distribution. German and Belgian firms cited for pioneering apparatus enabling push toward efficient power systems and improved storage.
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Rice
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Arcane
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Kansas
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Robin Hood
Brace el
Jonews
OLD South
Ajax
Kraft
Small Club Steaks
Hamburger Ib
Stanton’s Super Market
East Main Street
Phillips Delicious
Phillipe 245A Love
Steve
Dea Stew
Phillipe Dei
Foward
Entre National Defence Ministry
Vicksburg
Bermuda
C. L. Hubbard
North Foster Street
Dothan
Griffin Feed and Grocery
W. Crawford
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