Home Garden blooms despite harsh weather boosts planting
The column urges readers to start garden work now after a cold spell. It lists flowers and bulbs to plant in spring, advises on soil, and highlights new roses Hiawatha and Jonkeer J L Mock. It also offers free seed mailings to rural readers in Bexar County for easy care blooms all summer.
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Jonkeer J. L. Mock
Bexar County
San Jacinto
H. E. Dickinson & CO
Losoya St
Harlandale
Pastor Seeks Warm Baptistry With Real Religion
In an eastern city a Colored Baptist pastor asked a plumber for baptismal costs. The estimate covered the tank and water supply but the pastor quipped that heating the water requires more. He insisted he won’t “pet” anyone in the baptistry who lacks religion enough to keep them warm.
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Brooklyn Citizen
Plan for Texas cotton stalk paper mill discussed in Austin
A Friday conference at the Texas State Department of Agriculture in Austin reviewed a plan to use cotton stalks for paper pulp. Participants included Commissioner Fred W. Davis, R. D. Detwilder, M. W. Marsden of Philadelphia, and businessmen William Cassin of San Antonio Alex Sanger of Dallas and W. F. Gohike of Austin. No final decision was made as a follow up conference is planned. Cassin noted millions of stalks now wasted could become paper raw material.
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Austin
State Department of Agriculture
Fred W. Davis
R. D. Detwilder
M. W. Marsden
Philadelphia
William Cassin
San Antonio
Alex Sanger
Dallas
W. F. Gohike
Marsden
Detwilder
Texas
Cassin
Porcupine Kill Reported Near Willon North Dakota
Burnis Simans was called outside by his barking dog and found a porcupine which the dog had stirred up. After effort, both man and animal were involved. the porcupine was killed. The dog suffered many quill injuries and Simans also received quill wounds. Porcupines are rare in this region and were once more common, with quills used by Indians for pigment designs on garments.
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Willon
N. D
Burnis Simans
Simans
Weathercock Shot Recalled By Ill-Timed Wind
In a quip from a Milwaukee Journal feature a waiter recalls a chicken escaped during cooking and a mistaken shot at a weathercock. The anecdote pivots on the misfire and the odd consequence of a bird and a weather vane tied to a cooking mishap.
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Milwaukee Journal
Lignite Fuel Links to San Antonio Manufacturing Boom
Experts foresee gas and petroleum development expanding from large US cities to San Antonio. The lignite deposits within seventy five miles position the area for industrial growth as cheap fuel and electricity spur new manufacturing.
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San Antonio
United States
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