Ginkgo Tree Described As Only Unthreatened Plant Life
Kansas City Star science notes Dr William A Taylor head of plant industry reports to the house appropriations committee that the Japanese ginkgo is the sole plant species in the United States with no known enemies or pests. He describes its unmolested status, striking fall gold on sidewalks, and its edible but pungent pulp surrounding the nut.
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United States
William A. Taylor
Bureau of Plant Industry
House Appropriations Committee
Washington
Taylor
Cnut
Ylor
Kansas City Star
Science
Fragmentary Exugland invasion note with misread names
A damaged OCR fragment mentions an invasion by Exugland defeated by a French army under Gene Taie. It references a lordly event and unclear details about forces and locations, leaving most facts unreadable.
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Exugland
Celebru
Gene Taie
Tie
Plant produces an entire meal from a single plant
Byron O. Dale, a greenhouse assistant at Iowa State College in Ames, reports a new hybrid tomato potato plant. He grafted a tomato onto an Irish potato roof, yielding tomato crowns on top and sizable potatoes below, pondering whether to name it topato or powat. Large river turtles are rising in Cedar River with several large specimens caught recently.
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Byron O. Dale
Iowa State College
Ames
Passenger Train Schedules for M. & St. P. RY Valley Route
Local service notes show eastward No. 4 daily from Spencer to Chicago via Des Moines Mason City Savanna Clinton and Marquette with Sioux Flyer No. 22 at 5 16 P M serving Sheldon Spencer Des Moines City Madison Albanks and Chicago Also No. 98 Tuesday Thursday and Saturday to Sanborn local eastbound connections and minor schedule garbles refer to pierce and cheek back end.
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ST. P. RY
Thhrgushagek Valley
Spencer
Des Moines
Mason Cite
Marquette
Savanna
Clinton
Sheldon
Des Moinson City
Madison
Albvankes
Chicago
Sanborn
Fragmentary note on a kitchen scene and ingredients
The text appears as a garbled description of cooking actions including picking holes, oil, cream, spear, and sugar, with mentions of a writer, dist or ig hare t Eskings, and an enemy of buiter, leaving unclear context and outcome.
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Buiter
Mrs Borah Attends Diplomatic Breakfast Alone in Washington
The Golden Book recounts Mrs. William Borah arriving solo at a diplomatic breakfast in Washington during Coolidge's late administration as Weslogg anti war treaty negotiations continued. When asked about her husband, she replied he was at home working on Kellogg's treaty.
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William Borah
Washington
Mate Kellogg
One Thing Certain Some questions will forever remain unsolved
A back East physician told a colored woman consulting him about an all goneness that her vitality was run down. He asked how much snow could be melted if she were pecked in a barrel of snow, a quip from Doctor Holmes. The woman shivered and answered she would never find out. Portland Oregonian.
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Holmes
Portland Oregonian
Hernandez Found Dahlia in Aztec Gardens of Mexico
In 1570 Philip II dispatched Francisco Hernandez to record New Spain flora. Seeds reached Madrid's Royal Botanic Garden, spreading the dahlia through Europe. Hernandez found the plant not wild but growing in Aztec cultivated gardens.
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Hernandez
Philip II of Spain
Francisco Hernandez
Mexico
New Spain
Royal Botanic Gardens
Madrid
Nature Magazine
Europe
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Valley Poultry Yards
G. Van’t I Hul
Phene
Aes
Ieading
Bfarmers Lumber Company
Rock Valley, Iowa
Cedar River
J. F. Grawe
Waverly
Bremer County
Newt Marsh
Weber
No. 4
Pirch
Cheek
Iowa
Standard Oil Company
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