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...Bumper crops of such staples as potatoes, peas, dry beans, rice...
...Wrote Mrs. Luther Osborn, of Route 4, Rushville, Ind., to an unknown Russian woman : "Through the window the grass looks so green. . . . Indiana has had much rain in the past few weeks, but truly, I am thankful for it. ... It does look as though we would have a bumper strawberry crop. Our berries are the Premiers, fine for shortcakes, canning and preserves...
...under the cover of darkness, endless deserted villages, beggars swarming at every city gate, babies abandoned to cry and die on every highway. Nothing can transmit the horror of the entire great famine in Honan Province, or the irony of the green spring wheat with a promise of a bumper crop which is not ripe for harvesting for two more months. Most terrible of all is the knowledge that the famine might have been averted...
...thumbnail classic on Latin American politics. Mencken has heard all the great U.S. exhorters, from William Jennings Bryan on, and it is his considered opinion that none was "worthy of being put in the same species, or even in the same genus, as Gerald L. K. Smith ... a boob-bumper worth going miles to see and hear." Mencken heard Smith speak on the same platform with Father Coughlin and win hands down, despite his opponent's "habit of enforcing his points by revolving his backside...
Expecting a bumper crowd, the H.A.A. has announced that Saturday night's hockey game between Harvard and Dartmouth, the third installment of the hottest rink action in collegiate ranks this winter, has been moved from the Boston Skating Club to the Boston Arena...