Seed Saving Tips For Texas Gardeners
Texas A and M Extension Service horticul turists advise novice gardeners on saving vegetable seed. They outline which crops yield seed, harvest timing, and storage methods for crops like corn beans cucumbers squash and peppers while noting cabbage beet and carrot seed take years to mature. They also suggest drying and hanging seed pods for mustard lettuce and radishes and mention embroidery floss trick for color coding pages.
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College Station
Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service
Texas
Rugged Pioneers and Modern Financial Strains Reflections
A reflective column contrasts early pioneer life with modern financial pressures, noting reduced personal control over earnings, government taxes, and the shift from self reliance to formal obligations. It touches on family dynamics, aging, and practical tips like preserving handbags with crumpled tissue for shape.
Quiet Is Made To Order For Good Husband And Wife
In Chicago Joseph Androski, 56, and Agnes, 53, were ordered by Superior Judge George M. Fisher to live together but not speak to each other while cross bills for divorce are heard. Neighbors testified of a quarrel with Agnes striking Joe with a bottle and earlier with a frying pan in 1934.
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Chicago
Joseph Androski
Androski
Agnes
George M. Fisher
Joseph
Joe
Bobby Soxers Hunted In Luling Robbery
Luling officers seek a pistol-twirling girl in blue jeans and a sports shirt who helped hold up Clyde Nethery at his service station after a gasoline purchase. Two tall blond men and two girls, described as school girls, were in the car. Nethery was forced into the vehicle, robbed of $150, and later left on the road without his shoes.
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Luling
Clyde Nethery
Nethery
Ike's Son Enrolls in Cooks and Bakers School
Washington reports Captain John Shelton Eisenhower, newly married to a colonel's daughter, has joined the cooks and bakers program at Fort Benning Ga. He says interest is military not culinary and aims to learn to handle any sergeant in his outfit. He will join the West Point teaching staff this fall.
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Washington
John Shelton Eisenhower
Cooks and Bakers School
Fort Benning
Ike
Eisenhower
West Point
Halting Tomato Blossom Loss Tips from County Agent
County Agent Ben D. Cook notes tomato blossoms shed due to heat and low humidity. Sprinkling water in the afternoon raises humidity and lowers temperature. Small greenish insects may sting blossoms. repeat rotenone dusting for several days. Summer pruning, removing suckers to first flower cluster can stop shedding. Mosaic virus requires pulling and destroying affected plants.
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Ben D. Cook
Chemists Explain Car Knock Cure at Meeting
G M Brooner and C J Helmers of Phillips Petroleum Co Bar tlesville Oklahoma described a method to vaporize gasoline and strain it through bauxite crystals to remove sulfur impurities that cause engine knocking at the American Chemical Society Midwest regional meeting in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
American Chemical Society
Midwest
G. M. Brooner
C. J. Helmers
Phillips Petroleum Co
Bartlesville
Okla
Six Month Auto Output Beat Only Three Times
DETROIT Despite material shortages that intermittently halted assembly lines the nation's car industry over the last six months operated at an average that would amount to about 4 700 000 vehicles for the year This total has been exceeded only three times in the industrys history.
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Detroit
Protection From Lightning
Westinghouse Electric Corporation reports laboratory tests on manmade lightning. Dr G B Wagner offers safety tips during storms: shelter indoors, suspend outdoor activities, avoid outdoor poles and fences, and stay away from metal conduits. A steel topped car reportedly provides complete protection in tests.
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Arkansas Gazette
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Parade
United States
G. B. Wagner
Westinghouse
Bubble gum not tied to illnesses FDA says
The FDA said tests do not support claims that bubble gum contains toxic ingredients. Reports of children becoming ill from chewing gum prompted tests, but agency officials noted only jaw pain and no toxic effects.
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Washington
Junior
Food and Drug Administration
Horseburgers Not Hamburgers In Newark
Newark health officer Dr Charles V Craster testified that twelve hamburger stands sold horseburgers instead of hamburgers with tests showing the meat 100 percent horse flesh. Two men were arrested for selling the horsemeat to the stands.
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Newark
N. J
Charles V. Craster
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