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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1926
Page
10
Readers in New England consider planting strawberries on old pastures. Experts warn against plowing up pastures due to white grub damage and advise first growing corn or buckwheat to control pests, then reseeding to strawberries in 1927 for a better start.
Observations over four years at the University of Illinois experiment station indicate the Quillen black raspberry, a Cumberland Hopkins cross from Indiana, shows strong anthracnose resistance with 87.5 percent of nursery canes disease free while Cumberland varieties nearby show 5.2 percent clean canes. If confirmed, Quillen offers a hardy, high quality fruit option. spraying and sanitation remain necessary as control may be uneconomical in some cases.
The article explains fruit needs high moisture for a healthy apple crop. It emphasizes soil rich in humus to store water, with porous structure to prevent runoff and a sponge-like quality to reduce evaporation.
Control Fireblight by careful pruning of infected twigs and bark in spring before bloom. Disinfect tools with mercuric chloride solution and cyanide of mercury mixture. Do not store prisumisture in metal containers. Inspect growing trees carefully, especially susceptible varieties.
The tiger stands as Tam many Nall, the elephant for the Republican party, and the donkey used by some Republican papers to symbolize Democrats, all creations of Thomas Nast. Originally the donkey did not belong to the Democratic party.
Dialogue exchange shows two speakers, Him and Her, debating imagination and room for it in a terse, stylized banter. No clear event, date, or location identified.
A jumbled collection of quips and observations spans politics, dress sense, democracy's limits, weather and rain, private faults, and a distant twin visiting from across the continent. The fragment presents social musings with no single event or人物 action.
A humorous Billville column parodies local politics and social mores with exaggerated quotes on governance, devils, bootleggers, and a literary club quarrel. The piece lampoons candidates, town factions, and election chatter, ending with a sly jab at a president’s rigid behavior.
A collection of humorous quips on public figures and daily life. The writer jests about a two middle named busy man, a suffragist's husband, a potential senator, barber college grads, a linguist cobbler, and a Soviet envoy misreading reality. The tone is light satire from Arkansaw Thomas Cat.
The reader asks about connections between Missouri and Mississippi, who starts fires in mountains, whether half sisters form a whole, color blind envy, blue laws, husbands as partners, oyster expansion, and spelling taught at the stenographer’s school.
A humorous meditation on the traits of a car companion. The piece contrasts the eager rider who asks for a lift with the friend who delays, complains about scenery, and hogs the trip with smoking breaks and late hand signals.
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