Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Credit Corporation to make loans of 9? or 10 ? a lb. on the new crop, pay farmers the difference between what they eventually get for their cotton and 12? a lb. Similar means will be taken to meet any serious price declines which may follow anticipated bumper crops in corn & other grains...
...Scholl's corn pads . . . President Roosevelt, 8 x 10 . . . floor polish . . . screw drivers . . . garters . . . Melorol Mammoth Tulip Sundae . . . Flit . . . feathers . . . razor blades . . . Lucky Sapphire Birthday Brooches...
...Amelia, Sought by Air and by Sea." "Of Rain, Though Corn Begins to Need...
Entomologist Orlando S. Bare of Nebraska Agricultural College last week warned farmers in his State not to relax their poison campaign, or they would suffer a double penalty: continued heavy damage to this year's corn crop, and a heavy deposit of eggs to menace next year's. Most of the 462 carloads of Federal poison shipped in had been used up, however, and many farmers in desperation were paying from their own pockets for bait bought from private dealers. In Colorado, an anti-grasshopper council was organized by the State agriculture extension director. In Arizona, a State...
Elitch's Gardens is the great-grand-father of all U. S. summer stock corn-panies. In 1890 a sentimental showman named John Elitch established in a grove of big cottonwoods outside Denver a combination zoo, amusement park and botanical garden. Main attraction was a theatre where vaudeville was performed. Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin and Phineas T. Barnum were on hand to open Elitch's Gardens, and Eugene Field was there to report it for the Denver Republican. The place has been a repository of big names ever since. After John Elitch's death...