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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1929
Page
2
Raleigh dispatch reports extension entomologist C. H. Brannon warning tobacco farmers that standing late growth stalks become food for all tobacco insects. He urges cutting or plowing under stalks to destroy next season’s pest supply and improve soil, noting stalks harbor thousands of insects if left.
Charlotte Hornets owners Felix Hayman and Bud Moore fear a fast deal, after sending Frank Roscoe to Wilmington for Ted Veach. Roscoe was sold by Wilmington to Waco of the Texas league within 48 hours, linking the Carolina and Texas circuits in a rapid series of transactions.
In Berlin a new mechanical postbox stamps and posts letters. A letter is weighed, correct postage is placed, stamps are applied, and the mail is posted automatically.
A Kansas City greeting card company hires or recruits budding artists from local high schools to create designs for its line of cards. The initiative aims to nurture young talent and provide practical industry experience.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains how poisonous gases affect breathing and brain tissues. He notes the brain receives a large share of blood and is first harmed by small gas doses. He classifies gases into asphyxiants irritants and those with drug like actions affecting blood oxygen transport.
Ames, Iowa Dr A L Blake reports about thirty trace elements in plant tissue that markedly affect growth. Elements such as boron copper manganese aluminum zinc and arsenic can stimulate or harm plants depending on quantity. Boron is needed by some plants while copper can hinder barley but aid lettuce in certain soils.
Dr Blake notes that trace elements in soil, though present in minute amounts, can control flower production. While phosphorus potassium sulfur calcium iron and magnesium are known essentials, researchers seek to understand how smaller elements influence plant growth beyond size.
Pozharevatz District Government with Finance Ministry authorization loans five million dollars at seven percent to build a normal gauge line from Pozharevatz to the Danube and a narrow gauge link to western Serbia and Bosnia. The project aims to connect Belgrade with Romania and provide a Danube Adriatic outlet via Dubrovnik and Kotor Estuary, signaling rising foreign interest in JUgoslavia’s wealth.
Seven of nine children of Ed ward H Wilson a Choctaw Indian have attended or are attending Oklahoma A and M college.
Publication of an industrial survey by the Department of Industry Commerce and Labor reveals peon wages in over 400 regions ranged from 12 to 25 cents daily. About 35 percent toil beyond legal hours, with those working longest earning the least. Conditions are worst in mining districts and remote farms, while industrial areas pay slightly more yet still barely suffice.
Dr. Fred E. Angle of the University of Kansas medical school reports a new serum treatment for Malta fever. The bacterial vaccine is derived from brucella abortus cultures and aims to combat the disease newly prevalent in several midwestern and eastern states.
Dr. H. E. Hasseltine of the United States Public Health Service in Washington studies a serum for the affliction. Though not always curative, Dr. Angle notes many instances show decidedly beneficial results.
New York reports Brazil ships snakes and snake bite serum for study by chemists. M. C. Brown of Busch Terminal notes Brazil leads in snake combat methods and Brazilian approaches are being studied here for broader progress.
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