Food Shortage Drives Jungle Expedition to Find Edible Insects
Mrs. Von Hagen and her husband, exploring the Amazon in Ecuador and the Galapagos with the American Museum of Natural History, report eating weevils and palm dish chonta as staple fare. She plans a recipe book for explorers, while hoping to return to Guatemala after time in New York.
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Amazon
New York
von Hagen
von Hagens
American Museum of Natural History
Cuador
Galapagos
Funeral Fills Redlands Church for Charles N. Pugh
Large crowd gathers at Redlands Methodist Church in Whitacre Virginia for the funeral of Charles N. Pugh a prominent local religious figure who died last week. The service was led by multiple area pastors with pallbearers named Ira Eaton M J Pease Elmer Patterson G E Johnson R W Sawyer and Ray Gardner. Interment followed at the nearby cemetery.
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Whitacre
Redlands Methodist Church
Charles N. Pugh
Pugh
Frederick Throughou
B. F. Spitzer
United Brethren Church
George W. Stover
Winchester
A. P. Havermale
Martinsburg
W. Va
D. A. Frazier
Jones Spring
C. J. Racey
Berkeley Springs
Mr. Pugh
Ira G. Eaton
M. J. Pease
Elmer Patterson
G. E. Johnson
R. W. Sawyer
Ray Gardner
Supper at Mrs Pinkett’s offers chicken and waffles event
A Thursday night supper at Mrs Pinkett’s 546 N Kent Street supports St Paul Church. The event menu includes chicken and waffles or sausage and waffles. Profits benefit the church, with Pastor J E Richards overseeing the drive.
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Mrs
Growing Fine Wheat Not Easy
CHICAGO Dec 2 The wheat king crown fits Herman Trelle of Wembley Alberta Canada but he says wheat growing supremacy comes only with hard work expert knowledge in plant breeding the ability to cope with disappointments and patience He explains selecting seed suited to the area must have proven germination and vitality meet milling and baking tests The seed bed must be prepared thoroughly free of weeds and planted at the right time to fit the growing season and conditions.
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Chicago
Herman Trelle
Wembly
Alberta
Canada
Nervous wait for precise harvest of prize winning wheat
The speaker notes an anxious 105 day period for hard red spring wheat and stresses harvest at exact maturity to preserve plump color. After cutting and threshing 60 to 200 bushels are screened with a peck selected by hand for the championship, then polished in a cotton bag. He never grew the prize wheat in small plots.
Eight Sailors Die Attempting Boat Escape at Calais
Eight sailors drowned when they tried to disembark in a small boat from a grounded British trawler off Calais France. The sinking occurred on December 2 as the vessel ran aground and crew attempted a perilous exit.
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Calais
France
Grid Coach Gil Dobie and Assistant Injured in Crash
Boston BC coach Gil Dobie and assistant Frank Murdock were seriously injured in an early morning automobile accident. Hospital reports indicate both suffered brain concussions, with severe facial lacerations and Murdock possibly internal injuries.
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Boston
Gil Dobie
Frank Murdock
Murdock
Twelve Drowned on German Freighter Elsa
Twelve people perish when the 849 ton German coal freighter Elsa sinks near Borkum while bound from the Free City of Danzig to Cherbourg. In San Angelo Texas John Boles, screen actor, shoots a 95 pound eight point buck after firing eighteen times according to companions.
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Hamburg
Germany
Freea City
Danzig
Cherbourg
Borkum
San Angelo
Tex
John Boles
Here
Boles
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