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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1942
Page
8
The article advises thinning beets carrots and celery cabbage for better storage. It suggests hand weeding while thinning seedlings and lifting tomato vines to place clean straw to keep fruit clean and reduce spoilage. It notes potato berries are seed pods and discusses long stolons and early digging to prevent rot.
The piece notes that infested apple trees cannot be saved by spraying now but recommends collecting discarded fruit weekly and burying it three to four feet deep to protect the following season's crop.
Harvesting of cantaloupes on Muscatine Island and in Conesville is underway with good quality fruit though lighter yields than last year. Watermelons will start this week and sweet potatoes soon. Numerous picnics and reunions were held at Columbus Chautauqua Park with many local families attending.
The bulletin records Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Morris visiting Des Moines for the week with Mrs. and Mrs. Frank Duncan. Janelle Pence stays with grandparents Mr and Mrs. H. J. Boutson at Fairfield. Claud Ross and Paul Smith parties vacationed in Minnesota. K. M. Arington, ill recently, resumes work at Eclipse Lumber company yards.
Salem notes a Missouri trip by Dewey Weeks family with remarks on central Missouri flooding and a cooperative bale gathering at Walter’s farm. The piece describes a swarm of horse flies tormenting livestock, trips of relatives to Iowa City and Hillsdale, and a newborn Lana Kay Shalla with local family updates.
A newly found tribe in a valley near the Papua New Guinea border laughs at steel axes and prefers its own quartz axes. The group lives within a ring of mountains and shows strong adherence to traditional tools.
A historical estimate states the human population at about 1.85 billion while rats total around 10 billion, yielding roughly five rats per person worldwide. The figures illustrate a stark disparity between species on a global scale.
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