Botanical wonders rival those found in animals
A Princeton professor notes peculiar plants and cases of mimicry or danger in nature. Descriptions include evening primroses whose buds never open, etc. The article catalogs global oddities such as sausages on trees, edible but deadly flora, and plants causing animal impairment, plus note on rare giant rafflesia and welwitschia.
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Washington
Princeton
National Geographic Society
Central Africa
Australia
South Africa
Les
United States
New Zealand
Africa
Four Million Cars Listed in Storage in Atlantic City
A forecast from Edward P. Chalfant of Detroit, president of the American Trade Association executives, estimates 1,600,000 stored cars will return to service by end of 1986. He notes 2,600,000 new cars and trucks to be produced and 1,500,000 old autos junked by year end 1935.
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Atlantic
United States
Edward P. Chalfant
Detroit
American Trade Association
Odd fruits and plants in everyday diets
The article notes unusual edible plants in certain regions, including ivory-white agat tree blossoms eaten as vegetables in Ceylon. It highlights vanilla from orchids as a Western cooking staple and describes the miraculous fruit that makes all foods taste sweet by temporarily paralyzing tongue papillae.
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Ceylon
American Type to Emerge From Blended Immigrant Lines
Anthropologist Albert E. Jenks of the University of Minnesota predicts a distinct American race forming from intermarriage among British German and Scandinavian settlers with later Southern European arrivals. He cites 1776 and 1930 population changes and notes counties shifting from homogeneous to mixed, with German Italian English Scottish Welsh and Irish among the largest foreign groups by 1980, as intermarriage continues.
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Jenks
United States
Free State
French war veterans chief arrives in New York on US tour
Chief of the federation of international wartime veterans Jean Desbons of France arrived in New York for an extended tour of the United States and Canada. He is visiting American war veterans during the trip.
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Jean Desbons
France
D. A
Federation of International War Veterans
New York
United States
Canada
Lady Bugs Groomed to Counter Aphis Threat
Readable fragments describe lady bugs groomed by growers in Pendleton for a counterattack against aphids on pea crops. The passage notes aphids as pests and mentions the chief pest status and a metaphor about ice cream. No clear date, organization, or named individuals are provided.
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Aphis
Pendleton
Fewer Farmers Bankrupt as Drouth Eases in 1934
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports 4,716 farm bankruptcies in the year ended June 30, 1934, down from 5,017 in 1933 and 4,849 in 1932, with larger declines in the east north central and Pacific regions. Twelve states, mostly in the south Atlantic division, posted increases led by Illinois with 527 cases.
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Drouth
Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
East North Central
Pacific
South Atlantic
Tlinois
Spinning Wheel Keeps Rolling For 80-Year-Old Oma
The Oklahoman notes Mrs. Phoebe P Davidson, age 80, who has owned a spinning wheel since childhood. She received it from her father on her twelfth birthday, two years after the Civil War, and still demonstrates the device in Waynoka.
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Oklahoman
Grandmothers Craft Family Wardrobe Tradition Recalled
A group of friends describe how their grandmothers and great-grandmothers crafted the family clothing. Mrs. Davidson carded wool on well-worn cards and displayed many items she made, including mittens, scarves, and wool-filled comforters.
Whitehead Emerges Rookie Sensation For White Sox
Chicago White Sox rookie Johnny Whitehead has impressed in his first major league season after coming from Dallas in the Texas League. He stands as one of the year's standout newcomers and is delivering strong performances.
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Johnny Whitehead
Chicago White Sox
Dallas
Texans Favor Farms Fort Worth Fort Worth Texas
Tarrant county shows a back to the farm shift with 8,866 farms on April 1, 1980, rising from 4,058 last January 1, a gain of 692 across four years. The farm census outlines this rural movement and its impact on the county's agricultural landscape.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Tarrant County
Here’s American of the Future
The Manchester Union notes Professor Albert H Jenks of the University of Minnesota suggests the typical American will become a definite racial classification. He predicts a fairly tall, dark eyed, darker skinned person arising from interbreeding of diverse arrivals. The piece frames curiosity about origins and the notion of America becoming a distinct race.
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Minneapolis
United States
Albert E. Jenks
University of Minnesota
Professor Jenks
Europe
Albert
Jenks
America
Manchester
N. H
Union
Calf Tops County Record at Sawyer Dairy Farm
An Holstein calf born at D. M. Sawyer’s Gloucester dairy weighed 180 pounds, the heaviest calf on record in the county and perhaps the state, surpassing the prior county record of 108 pounds.
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Gloucester
Ohio
D. M. Sawyer
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