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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
3
California’s fruit industry faces pests and a novel solution by Alhambra bug house. Scientists breed millions of mealy bug destroyers in a houselike facility, using potato sprouts and citrus foliage to sustain their prey. The operation aims to curb agricultural damage and bolster growers with natural enemies.
Towles asks Jinks for help as memory falters over a domestic purchase. The exchange hints at a strained moment as the husband weighs a furniture decision, reflecting daily life worries in a concise scene.
A California man buys a vacant country home and battles rats and gophers with barn owls. The birds nest in the attic, kill pests, bring meals of gophers and mice, and eventually purge the house of rodents. Readers are urged to plant poppies and consider Burdock Hieers for health.
The article surveys animal domestication from pigeons to bees and fish, noting how humans breed for color, utility, and shape. It highlights historic pigeon auction records, bee tongue length aims, and Chicago fish experiments, then shifts to wintering birds and their moral call to provide food. It ends with a string of light anecdotes and jokes.
A fifteen year old boy in Kentucky won the State corn championship by growing 125 bushels and forty-two pounds on one acre. The record mirrors Ohio methods, with nearly two thousand boys in the contest and many achieving over one hundred bushels per acre. The program aims to boost science-based farming and show the value of youth in agriculture.
A liner captain endures a persistent passenger who asks to see a whale. She explains her aim is to witness blubber and be impressed by the sight of the enormous creature.
A reflective poem contrasts tender images of mothers with distant cries of suffering children. It mourns urban blight and war's impact, asking for divine aid for vulnerable youngsters while invoking Marian imagery and global compassion.
Fragmentary text references skin itching and a mysterious remedy name. lacks coherent context, dates, people, or organizations to provide a solid news item or report.
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