Tips to Gardeners Choosing Flowers
This guide lists early bloomers for seeds such as nasturtium Virginia stock zinnia sunflower bachelor's button and alyssum. It notes easy growers nasturtium alyssum California poppy and recommends petunia and zinnia for bright color with low effort. It advises rust and wilt resistant varieties for snapdragons and astels and suggests rock-garden choices like African daisy linaria lobelia statice verbena Virginia stock Columbine English daisy forget me not Iceland poppy.
Ed Howe Refuses Bribe of Fountain Pen
The famed Atchison writer Ed Howe, dubbed the sage of Potato Hill, rebuffed a salesman who offered a fountain pen. Howe quipped that dipping his pen in the bottle was the only rest he allowed himself that day and asked if the salesman wished to work him to death.
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Ed Howe
Atchison, Kansas
Potato Hill
Not Terribly Bored at the Glen Picnic
A gray haired man rushes back to guard his wife’s car with valuables while a bored heiress nurses an ankle. A chance encounter with John Swinton leads to shared lunch and a budding romance as both couples return, planning daily letters.
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the Glen
The
Glen
Marcia
John Swinton
New York
California
the Falls
John
Ghost Town of Louisville Minnesota Fades From Maps
Shakopee witnesses recall Louisville Minnesota a trading post founded 1850 by Louis La Croix. Promoter H. H. Spencer moved it toward Shakopee, named Louisville after Louisville Kentucky, offered free lots, and grew to about thirty homes. Rail line rerouted trade to Merriam, sealing Louisville’s decline.
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Minnesota
Louisville
Minn
United Press
Louis la Croix
Minnesota River
Shakopee
H. H. Spencer
la Croix
Spencer
J. O. Fuller
Kentucky
St. Paul
American Seamen's Friend Society Founded and Expanded
The American Seamen's Friend Society organized in 1828 and incorporated in 1833. It pioneered seamen’s work by founding Sailor's Magazine and the first sailors' home in New York. It has run a loan library for seamen sailing from New York since 1859 and, in 1908, built the Sailors' Home and Institute. It also helped erect the Seamen's House at Eleventh Avenue and Twentieth Street with two partner organizations.
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American Seamen’s Friend Society
Sailor's Magazine
New York City
New York
Sailors’ Home and Institute
Seamen’s House
Eleventh Avenue
Twentieth Street
Hungary Plans Bear Breeding Revival Under Government Watch
Hungary will revive the ancient bear hunt as an officially supervised sport. The forestry department will import bears and release them in the royal Szini forest to breed under state protection after bears disappeared postwar.
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Hungary
Transylvania
Forestry Department
Ministry of Agriculture
Szini
Glenn Cunningham Aces Mile Runs From Kansas Childhood To World Record
The story traces Glenn Cunningham from a Kansas county fair childhood where he won a first mile in Elkhart while barefoot to world record pace. It notes his four minute four and four tenths second mile at Dartmouth, 1934 indoor 4084, 406.4 outdoor mark by Syd Wooderson, plus a Madison Square Garden 3 48.8 1500m. Cunningham’s rise is linked with grit from a schoolhouse fire to elite competition with Archie San Romani noted as last year’s runner-up.
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Glenn Cunningham
Glenn
Dartmouth College
Kansas Star
Syd Wooderson
England
Cunningham
Madison Square Garden
New York
Plains of
Kansas
Elkhart
Kan
University of Kansas
New York Curb Exchange
Archie San Romani
Archie
Future of Track Revival Seen Across Rural and Small Schools
The champion envisions a strong future for US track events as communities revive interest. He argues track benefits health, development, and morale and that even cash-strapped schools can host meets. Rural schools could sponsor track programs as many already manufacture equipment in shop classes.
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United States
Glenn
Planning draperies with buckram valance and shirred edges
A Ruth Wyeth Spears guide explains how to design chintz draperies with a shirred valance on a standard rod. It details buckram backing, casing strips, and stitching steps, plus notes from the Sewing for the Home Decorator book and a request for 25 cents to obtain a copy.
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Spears
Sp. Desplaines St
Chicago, Il
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Ferry's
Ferry
Ferry-Morse
Ferry-Morse Seed Co
Detroit
San Francisco
Cicero
Sioux Falls
S. D
Clayton Wheeldon
N. Phillips Ave
Dr. Pierce
Nujci
Fair Grounds
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Smith Brothers
Smith Bros
Abarat
AHN
Quaker State
Pennsylvania
Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation
Oil City
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