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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
14
Weather Bureau data show crop insurance expanding into many forms beyond hail frost wind and rain policies. Banks require windstorm cover, rain policies can insure events like a ball game or sale, and freak coverages such as eclipse sky or lack of snow exist. Maude Howell noted as America’s sole woman motion picture director.
Gardening advice covers top dressing late crops with nitrogen rich fertilizers and manures to hasten maturity and quality. It explains nitrogen usage, phosphate and potash needs, mulch for celery, and practical tests for ripeness of watermelons and muskmelons including thumping and stem cracking.
Charles A Smith reports from London on radio voices and spiritualist experiments led by George Valiantine. The piece notes cooperation with the Society for Physical Research and mentions figures like Sir Oliver Lodge and Lord Balfour, plus observations on radio affecting rural migration and urban desirability.
London reports rising myopia among English, with 24 000 London grammar school children needing spectacles and 50 000 potential soldiers rejected for weak sight in the past year. An ophthalmologist notes one in four English children born today will need glasses.
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