Letters From Our Readers and Local Harvest Reflections
Bible verse opens a page of reflections on Letters from Our Readers. The piece notes those letters range from entertaining to rational, praising purposeful readers and critiquing fashion trends. It observes grocery prices, state food bargains, and fruit-tree resilience after a November freeze, highlighting agriculture’s constant battle with the elements.
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Iowa Department of Agriculture
Delicious
Grimes
Winesap
Jonathan
Community Echoes on Labor Strife and National Defense
A long readers’ note surveys labor disputes, conscription, and national needs. It argues for unity, warns against sabotage of railways and canal, and endorses a modern high speed highway as vital to war and peace. It also shares garden news and a string of light-hearted jokes and quotes.
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France
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific
England
Panama Canal
Press Portraits Press Portraits
A brief feature hints at a June graduate stepping forward to steady affairs as the world keeps together for a few more weeks. The note, attributed to the St. Louis Star-Times, frames the young graduate as a hopeful remedy amid ongoing upheaval.
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St. Louis Star-Times
Apple milk beverage pitched by Virginia Tech researchers
Virginia Polytechnic Institute developers describe a new drink named apple milk that blends ground whole apples with skimmed milk and could be produced at one cent per pound. The item highlights a novel dairy fruit hybrid concept from the college.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute
I Must Not Interfere With Any Child Poem by Alice Judd
A Columbus Ohio writer Alice Gay Judd reflects on parenting and autonomy in verse. The speaker rejects forcing a child's will while acknowledging parental pain. She compares growth to flowers and weeds and weighs discipline against natural development.
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Alice Gay Judd
The Australian duckbill deemed world’s strangest animal
The duckbill of Australia is described as the strangest animal, having a duck like beak and weblike feet yet covered with hair and feeding its young with milk. The male duckbill is noted as the only poisonous mammal in the world.
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Australia
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Iowa Southern Utilities CO
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