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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1937
Page
4
A 1934 poem celebrates Bob and Betty in Nazareth linking them with Nazareth Coal and Lumber Nazareth National Bank and Trust Frank Huth's and Sons insurance and Frantz Brothers Build their bungalow Flick's Market Centre Square Style Shop and many other local firms. The verses praise dependable services and local shops from gas to groceries and shoes.
The article notes coal yields more than coke which provides smokeless heat for iron and steel and homes. It explains coke is produced by heating coal and removing gases and liquids, while coal itself has many other valuable products beyond fuels.
The article surveys coal by products and coke ovens, noting value of by products for gas, ammonia, tar and dyes, and shift of coke ovens away from Pennsylvania as plants rise near markets. It also traces gasoline from petroleum, origins of U S oil in Pennsylvania, and quality advantages. It then reports Pennsylvania apple production: 15,912,000 bushels this year with peak orchard value and recommended varieties for eating baking and pies.
The passage lists apple varieties suitable for sauce and jelly including Maiden Blush Jonathan Twenty-Ounce McIntosh Fall Pippin Northern Spy and Rhode Island Green ing Baldwin Northern Spy Fall Pippin. It notes Grimes Golden Stayman Ganesan pesuuaton caine and Jonathan Winesap Rome Beauty Black Twig York Imperial as cooking or baking capable options in the Pennsylvania belt.
Harrisburg reports fifty-six of Pennsylvania’s sixty-seven counties voted for potato crop control in a referendum by the Agriculture Conservation Committee. The statewide totals were 1,275 for control and 538 against.
Penn State poultry specialists report 4-H club members, ornamental horticulturists, and poultrymen are raising capons for market as a holiday bird trend. Farmers calendar notes spring work and deep-water seepage considerations for water management on hill farms.
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