Reports show more weevils survive across stations
Washington July 6. Cotton boll weevil emergence appears complete at most cooperative reporting stations. Emergence to July 1 matches June 1 at all but four stations Florence South Carolina College Station Texas Aberdeen North Carolina Rocky Mount North Carolina. Compared with 1926, greater survival prior to June 16 is noted at several stations. A new menace to Texas cotton, angular leaf spot, could cut Texas yields by 5 to 10 percent.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Florence
S. C
College Station
Texas
Aberdeen
N. C
Rocky Mount
Florence S. C
Raymond
Miss
Rockymount
Description of cotton blight and its effect on bolls
Del Curto notes a blight that causes cotton stalks to shrivel and die before boll maturity. Bolls rot and drop from the stem before opening, and there is no remedy once the disease attacks the crop.
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del Curto
Texas
Meteor fragment from another world sought by Dallas society
About 30 years ago a giant meteor fell between San Angelo and Brownwood and was sent to the State Fair of Texas by Professor Cummins. The Dallas Astronomical Society seeks a tablet and more details on the fall including date, direction, landing site, witnesses, and any loud explosion. Local notices mention various residents and family updates.
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San Angelo
Brownwood
State Fair of Texas
Professor Cummins
Cummins
State Fair Association
Fair Park
Dallas Astronomical Society
Dallas
E. F. McIntyre
Texas
Death notices and family updates from local Texas town
Mrs Geo C Hill receives word of sister in law Mrs I R Chatham s death in Paris Texas and will attend burial in Gatesville. Mrs C W Gregory ill this week. Dr and Mrs J W Dixon and family spend time on Llano River. Miss W Marie Stephens daughter of Rev and Mrs H H Stephens underwent appendicitis operation Sunday evening and is doing nicely. Are you thinking of flying the Atlantic this summer.
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Geo. C. Hill
I. R. Chatham
Paris
Texas
Hill
Gatesville
Mrs. J. W. Dixon
Llano River
W. Marie Stephens
H. H. Stephens
Sea Gulls Help Utah Settlers Fight Grasshoppers
Amid California's Tule Lake district boom of grasshoppers a vast swath of grain is threatened as 20 000 acres face destruction. Utah history recalls how flocks of sea gulls aided pioneers in 1848 by feeding on crickets, a miracle commemorated by Salt Lake City's Sea Gull Monument on Temple Block.
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California
Utah
Tule Lakes
Modoc
Siskiyou
Zion
Salt Lake City
Rocky Mountains
City
Brigham Young
Great Salt Lake
Rome
Heaven
Hell
Orson F. Whitney
Temple Block
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Germany
Clarence A. Chamberlin
Charles Levine
Berlin
New Cotton Menace
Austin
J. M. del Curto
Dunnam Bros
Winters
Carl Davis
Abilene
Mrs
Arch Adams
San Antonio
Louise Burton
East Winters
Mrs. I. M. Preston
Lanham Brown
Lynna House
Roby and
Breckenridge
J. R. Cook
South
W. E. Hickman
Coleman
S. E. Hunt and Sons
Fred
Pecos River
Davis Mountains
Miles
Nervine
Ievin Nervine
Winters State Bank
Trons and Friends
Cial
Winters, Texas
Sea Gull
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