Coffee as Colombia's Principal Crop Blossoms on Andes
The text traces global food plant origins, noting Europe and Asia as sources for most crops while Africa contributed watermelon. It highlights Colombia as the leading coffee producer, with 450 million trees from the first seedling and 85 percent of its harvest reaching the United States, grown on Andean slopes.
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America
Africa
South America
Abyssinia
New World
Colombia
United States
California Syrup of Figs Promises to Boost Appetite in Children
An old promotional notice asserts that sluggish appetite in children stems from stasis and constipation. It promotes California Syrup of Figs as a gentle, pure laxative that improves eating, color, weight, and spirits, claiming it prevents colds when used occasionally. The bottlers caution only the genuine product in labeled bottles carries the promise.
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California
United States
Nature
Mathers
N.R.A
Thanksgiving Primuitine and the Spirit of the Red Man
A lecture-style overview traces Thanksgiving origins from Narraganset aid to Pilgrims to earlier global harvest rituals. It quotes Dr Bates on native ceremonies, notes the First Nations twelve Thanksgivings, and contrasts colonial and modern American seasons. The piece ends praising the holiday as a hardy, all-American observance celebrated with unity and a national proclamation.
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Old England
Reed
Cape Cod
America
Jer] Bates
New York State College of Agriculture
Tigris Euphrates
Valley
The
Nile
Crete
Greece
Rome
Tas- Moania
Walth
Doctor Bates
Republic
Prayer Poem Praise For Land and Labor
A 1933 prayer hymn from Western Newspaper Taian thanks God for the land and its yield. The verse thanks the Creator as friend and provider for plains, woods, and fields.
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Taian
Thanksgiving origins and meaning across nations
Thanksgiving is described as a distinctively American holiday born from colonial and post Civil War proclamations, while noting global harvest feasts from ancient Greece Egypt Rome England Scotland and Dutch Leiden. The piece traces harvest celebrations from Tabernacles Cerealia Harvest Home Kern and Armis tice day to the American date.
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New England
Tabernacles
Athens
Demeter
Ceres
Old England
Scotland
Leiden
Reunion in Hollywood
Stuart Booth meets Ruth Carver Lysford, once his Romeo and Juliet in Cincinnati. The woman reveals her true identity and declares she will remain a faithful wife, ending their chance to rekindle past romance as she exits.
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Uly
Stuart Booth
Stu
Booth
Romeo
Cincinnati
Ruth Carter
Stuart
Rath Carver
Routh P
Ruth Carver Lysford
Mortimer W. Luxford
World Date Line Ideals and the Practicalities of Time
The article discusses how the international date line and time belts are set by convention rather than constant meridians. It notes the lack of formal consensus in the Far East, contrasts U S regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and cites Prof. George Davidson’s mapping work with local input shaping the widely accepted line.
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Republic
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Far East
Fiji Islands
Australia
New Zealand
George Davidson
University of California
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Tollow
Too Much to Ask Can a machine be beautiful
A provocative musing questions whether utility and aesthetics can coexist in machines and devices. The piece argues beauty alone cannot guarantee practicality and considers how design choices affect function.
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CMD
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Hollywood
Thayer Waldo
McClure
WMO Service
Ake
Filipe
Magnesia
Philips
Phillips Mik
Mber Nra
Phillips’ Milk
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