Agricultural News on Corn Borer Spread and Cucumber Mosaic
The USDA plans an investigational force from Sandusky Ohio to study how the European corn borer travels from Canada to the US shore of Lake Erie to inform control efforts. Observers at lighthouses may track moth activity and island resting spots to assess migration patterns and the threat to the corn belt. The Seed Trade Association backs withdrawing wild cucumber seed to curb cucumber mosaic, with temperature affecting infection rates. The department will test eradication methods before broad recommendations.
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Canada
Lake Erie
United States Department of Agriculture
Sandusky
Ohio
United States
Seed Trade Association
St. Louis
Middle West
Progress in Controlling Cucumber Disease
Investigations over the past year show cucumber mosaic disease is carried over winter by common perennial milkweed and wild cucumber. The USDA warns both plants threaten cucumber, musk melon, and related vines. Eradication of wild cucumber near fields has improved control, and removing both may further curb the disease.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Cheap Team Hire Encourages Winter Road Construction
Prices for the hire of teams in winter offer inducement for road work when conditions suit during the season. Figures from the Bureau of Public Roads show drivers’less teams price 28 cents an hour from Ohio to Mississippi, 31 to 52 cents west of the Mississippi, 25 to 35 cents in the Mountain states, and around 42 cents in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Some southern states permit year round work. northern areas have gravel roads built by freezing-week hauling before warm weather finishing.
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Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Mississippi
Kansas
Missouri
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mississippi Valley
Electric Shop ad at Hardy Building Peaite Court Heuss
For your Electric Supplies go to the ELECTRIC SHOP in the Hardy Bidg peaite Court Heuss.
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Hardy Bidgpeaite
Heuss
Harding Invited to Address Editors at National Convention
President Harding plans an Alaska trip next summer to attend the 37th annual National Editorial Association convention in Missoula Montana in early July. Aдвanced preparations include two deluxe trains for a 21 day tour starting and ending in Chicago visiting 20 towns and parks, with water travel on Flathead Lake. The itinerary features Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks and local entertainments with Missoula hosting three days and Yellowstone Park marking a semi centennial celebration. The Blackfeet Indians will welcome editors near Glacier Park with tribal quill traditions.
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Harding
Alaska
National Editorial Association
Missoula
Montana
Chicago
Yellowsue
Glacier National Parks
Flathead Lake
Yellowstone
Yellowstone Park
Glacier Park
Rocky Mountain Country
Fred Parks lauded for boxing and wrestling coaching at university
The article praises Fred Parks for shaping a new university boxing and wrestling program. It notes green talent becoming capable under his coaching, with a full roster across weights from 115 to over 175 pounds. Parks works selflessly, without pay, driven by college spirit, and logistical prep for first public tryouts next Monday in the gymnasium as Laramie Republican reports.
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Uni
Fred Parks
Wyoming
Fort Collins
Parks
Wrest
Anl
Laramie
Killed While Riding Truck in Shelton
George Cook of Grand Island, about 60 years old, was fatally injured this afternoon at Main and River streets while repairing postal lines with a crew. He fell from a small truck when balance was lost near the Lincoln Highway garage, fracturing his skull and dying an hour and fifteen minutes later after being treated by Dr. J F Cross at the hotel office.
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George Cook
Grand Island
Cook
Postal Telegraph Company
Shelton
Commercial Hotel
Lincoln Highway
J. F. Cross
Shelton Clipper
Heredity Explanation for Black Lambs Emerges
A government bulletin clarifies why black lambs appear in white Shropshire flocks. Dr. Sewall Wright explains recessive color genes and how 25 black lambs from 175 ewes indicate many carriers. Feeding does not affect color, and mating white carriers with blacks yields about half black offspring.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Sewall Wright
Department of Agriculture Bulletin
Superintendent of Public Documents
Government Printing Office
Washington, D. C
Land Office Closure Ordered for Alliance District
The Interior Department orders the Alliance land office closed and all records shipped to Lincoln. No reason given, but tied to retrenchment and 1922 appropriations. Alliance district spans 18 000 square miles from Keya Paya and Rock counties to the state’s west line, with 1200 pending entries and cases.
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Alliance Land Office
Lincoln
James H. Hewett
Department of the Interior
Alliance
Keya Paya
Rock
Exservicemen
North Platte Project
State Journal
Rural mail carrier wins $500 prize in letters contest
Robert E. Dunham, rural mail carrier on Route No. 1, Midwest, was notified by Rural American Minneapolis farm publication that he won $500 in a letter contest. Two higher scorers who lacked a subscription would get $25 each, while Dunham receives the $500 prize by check mailed April 6. The surprise was noted by the Scotts Bluff Star-Herald.
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Robert E. Dunham
Rural American
Minneapolis
Bob
Dunham
Scottsbluff Star-Herald
American Legion News From Nebraska Posts
Lincoln posts boast Pershing member and Hartington ties to a Paris bride in a Nebraska Legion feature. The tale shifts to the return of 1,203 American soldiers aboard the transport Cambrai, a New York parade, and the overall tally of 45,712 bodies brought home, with 31,366 remaining overseas.
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Cambrai
New York
Legion
William F. Deegan
Pier 2
Brooklyn
New York City
Caumbrai
France
New
Navy
Army
War Department
United States
Washington Delegation to Attend Legion Ceremonies
A 10 member delegation from Washington including five senators and five representatives along with ex service members and regular army and navy officers will participate in ceremonies planned by the New York American Legion for the arrival from France of the last contingent.
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Washington
Army
Legion takes over Shogo Lithin Springs for public park
The Shogo Lithin Springs at Milford is now owned by the local Legion and opened as an amusement park and tourist camp. Grounds will be kept in good shape with tables benches Dutch ovens and other equipment installed along with signs on the O L D Highway twenty miles from Milford directing visitors.
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Milford
Igns
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Jesse C. McNish
Martin W. Dimery
J. L. McCarthy
J. L. McIntosh
Frank G. Schroeder
T. Cash
Geo. E. Taylor
American Legion News
Department OF Nebraska
Lincoln Post
American Legion
General Pershing
Douglas County
America
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hartington Legion
Lester J. Matheus
Paris
Nebraska Legionnaire
Marie Hahn
Matheus
Wilbur F. Bryant
Hartington
Mateus
Marie Haln
Lester Matheus
Miss Hahn
Sidney Steam Laundry
National Laundry Owners’ Association
Orne Acu
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