Roselle a Rival to Cranberries in Jelly Making
Roselle plants now in California and Florida offer a wider cultivation range and easy care. The calyx is used for jelly and resembles cranberry in color and flavor, with maturing fruit coinciding with cranberry season. As a tropical annual, it thrives in subtropical regions but is frost sensitive, requiring yearly seed saving. Stem and calyx provide versatile jelly and sauce uses, promising broader US cultivation.
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California
Florida
Tropics
United States
America
Moss Supply Replaces Horse Hair in Cushions
A moss found in Alabama and Louisiana is mistaken for horse hair. After seven years of regrowth, the moss is harvested, dried, washed, and dyed from yellow to inky black. It is graded, baled, and sold to plantation stores for 1 to 2 cents a pound before shipping to New Orleans factories for blending into upholstery materials.
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Philadelphia
New Orleans
Dynamite Raised Tomatoes Disaster In Parker Town
G P Davis of Parker attempted to raise tomato plants using dynamite. He filled a shipped explosive box with earth and seeds, placed it on a stove, and exploded during dinner. The blast shook the town, stunned Davis and his wife, wrecked the kitchen, and sent some tomatoes through the roof. Davis suspects the explosive's contents saturated the box.
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G. P. Davis
Parker
Davis
Grace
Butler
Penn
Cor
Phila
Fatigue as Self-Poisoning and Exercise Advice
The article argues fatigue stems from body waste buildup, calling it self poisoning. It promotes rest, massage after exertion, and changing activity to avoid fatigue, urging outdoor play and gradual exercise, noting 19th century training ideas and the July 4 1826 signers scene.
Jobs and sales ad blitz across Greencastle Indiana listings
Multiple clipped notices show men wanted for day and night shifts at American Zinc Products with roles in architecture contracting and landscape gardening, plus help wanted for truck hauling. Public sale announces two stacks of Timothy hay and livestock auction at Brothers Barn on May 1 1920. Also listed are horses cattle hogs a six year old mare and contact details for local sellers and auctioneers.
Dummy Editor in Japan Suppresses Papers
A "dummy editor" in Japan helps publications avoid government suppression. When a paper attacks the government, the dummy editor is jailed while the real editor renames the paper and keeps publishing under a new banner.
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Japan
Gruesome Rosary Tied to Lhasa Priests
A traveler returns from Tibet with a rosary from Lhasa formed of 112 rings carved from the skulls of 113 priests. The artifact, linked to the Thirteen Club, is described as morbid treasure and a stark relic from Buddhist history.
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Thirteen
Tibet
Lhasa
Sunflower Philosophy of Engagement and Tact
A column notes that men think they judge beauty, while many women marry differently. The piece observes a bride-to-be’s expectation that her engagement ring be noticed, and jokes about storytelling by men. It contrasts female tact with male amusement as two enemies are kept apart or allowed to clash.
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Opera House
A. Cook
Mgr
Lewis J. Selznick
Eugene O’brien
Tuly
DuVernet Rabbell
Ralph Ince
National Film Company
Bill Parsons
Goldwyn
Princess Crysanthemum
Gmsyst
HURST
le Jursts
Albert Cooper
Cloverdale
E. R. Harris
Cranberries
Woods Hutchinson
Nature
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Adams
Jefferson
White House
East Washington Sf
Donner
O. M. Coffin
Fillmore
Ind
Plymouth Rock
Will Glideweil
Dobbs & Vestal
American Zinc Products Company
O. T. Ellis
W. H. Evans
Greencastle
Indiana
Raymond ‘Thompson
North Madison Street
Jones
Sunflower Philosophy
T.A. Sigler
Fred Nelson
Brothers Earn
Shoes Paint Stores
Rugsires
Alwa
Hurst & CO
Terre Haute
Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company and
Sonnerting Lines
Ilinois
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan
T. WU. IT
Traction Terminal
Indianapetis
Golden Sun
Silver Sea
Vienarch
the Canby, Ach & Canby CO
Dayton, Ohio
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