Insects from Abroad Threaten American Crops
A historical overview explains how foreign insect pests invade the United States, causing hundreds of millions in annual losses. It highlights sanctions by the USDA Bureau of Entomology and the Federal Horticultural Board, with examples like the San Jose scale, oriental peach moth, Japanese beetle, European corn borer, boll weevil, pink bollworm, and little Mexican beetle.
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America
Columbus
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology
Federal Horticultural Board
United States
Department of Agriculture
Asia
China
Japan
New Jersey
Eastrn
Federal, Horticultural Board
Canada
Mexico
Alabama
Good Qualities of Crow Outlined
The article explains that indiscriminate killing of crows is not warranted and emphasizes preventive measures to reduce nuisance. It lists USDA suggestions such as coating seed grain with deterrents, scattering grain at sprouting, stringing deterrent lines, and using frightening devices. It also notes lawful drastic measures like poison where allowed, trapping, nest destruction, shooting with crow calls, mounted owl decoys, and coordinated night roost removal by several hunters.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Sweet Potatoes for Sirup
Chemists of the United States Department of Agriculture say sweet potatoes make superior table and cooking sirup. No large commercial use yet. department offers guidance on making sweet potato shup at home and using it in cookery and candy making.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Liming and alfalfa boost farm fertility and marketing
A local agricultural note urges liming to improve soil fertility and identifies twenty one percent of the day acreage as alfalfa. It stresses cooperative marketing based on local organization and asks readers not to let their livestock starve, questioning why starve Boll.
Engellent Plan for Small Home Interior Well Arranged
Architect William A. Radford presents a compact brick house design ideal for a small family. The 18 by 17 living room features an open brick fireplace and connects to a 13 by 10 front bedroom, dining room, and kitchen with a bright triple window. A breakfast nook and pantry accompany an efficient layout emphasizing permanent, attractive construction.
A Modest Brick Home as Solid Long-Term Shelter
The article extols a brick home set back on a terrace with 18 concrete stairs, a broad front porch, brick pillars, and a dormer. It argues ownership provides security, stable payments, and bankable security unlike rent, promoting home ownership for moderate means and above.
Turnips First in His Mind A Scottish Philadelphia Man
A Philadelphia man of Scottish origin tells a tale of Randy McManus living as a farm hand in Scotland for forty years. An American lawyer arrives to identify him, revealing his brother James left him a large fortune in Philadelphia. McManus agrees to discuss the will at six after finishing tending turnips.
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Philadelphia
McManus
Scotland
America
Philadelphia Laweyer
Randy McManus
James
Canada
Dante Dies in 1521 and Ravenna Holds Dante Year
The city of Ravenna inaugurated a Dante year to mark the six hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death on September 14, 1521. Prominent figures from politics, literature and the arts attended a solemn procession to the church of San Francisco where the poet lies buried. A great meeting followed with speeches by the minister of public instruction and the mayor of Trent.
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Dante Alighieri
Ravenna
Italy
Dante
Church of
San Francisco
Trent
Territoriea
Unclear Threats in Protective Quasi-Legal Context
A fragment cites threats: a speaker vows to blind a motorist's eyes and claims the law limits actions to dimming lamps, implying legal backing to intimidation and arrest posturing. The text presents a guarded confrontation within a policing and legal framework without full context.
How to Live More Than One Hundred Years
A Philadelphia Public Ledger excerpt debates women's sameness and suggests a recent book titled How to Live More Than One Hundred Years raises questions about object and time. The exchange features Cynicus and His Experience discussing consistency among women.
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Sillicus
Cynicus
Philadelphia Public Ledger
We All Do and a Tailor Price Cut Reverie
A fragmented dialogue discusses fashion, double lives, and a call for price cuts. A riddle references Eden and the Adams family. The line about time’s swiftest flight ties movement to a promissory note.
Eruptions of the Skin Offer Torturous Itching Relief
An old advertisement promotes 8.8.8 as a blood purifier claiming it cleanses impurities to counter germs causing skin disorders. It offers free expert advice from Chief Medical Adviser at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta after submitting a case history.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanya
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Fulton Street
New York City
Spohn
6Pohn Medical Company
Goshen, Ind
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W. V. Benhett
Bee
Omaha
Neb
Garden of Eden
Adamses
Cascara
la Grippe
Hill
Diane
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