Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern peanut planters have little economic reason to thank Archdeacon Thompson or Dr. Charles R. Mills of the American Presbyterian Mission to China. Thirty-five years ago, these gentlemen imported four quarts of U. S. peanuts. Half of them were given to two Chinese farmers as the basis of a Chinese peanut crop. One farmer ate his peanuts instead of planting them. The other, however, planted and replanted his peanuts, until now the Shantung Peninsula grows 18,000,000 bu. per annum. The Chinese peanut crop now exceeds even that of this country...
...peanut production, during a recent year, amounted to 623,000,000 lb. valued at $30,000,000. Norfolk, Va., is generally considered the centre of the business, although Texas, with 205,000 acres in peanuts, leads all other states in output. Peanuts are grown extensively through the historic river plantations of Virginia; and one secret of Southern hams is said to consist in feeding hogs peanuts instead of corn and other food. In recent years, it has been observed that certain Mediterranean ports had suddenly become large importers of peanuts; on investigation it was discovered that oil was extracted from...
...Brooklyn Daily Eagle, expanded, colored up, bigger and better in every way. There was the letter puzzle which come:; out: "Wise you are, wise you be. I see you are too wise for mo." There was the well-known optical illusion of the elephant swallowing a peanut. There was a well-known matchbox trick, fully explained diagrammatically. A note referred the reader to the World's Magazine Section-where were set down little-known facts about Harry Houdini: that he was born to the name of Weiss, son of a scholarly rabbi; that he tock his name from...
...even if the inspiration is divine, the result hardly justifies such a high origin. So far the revelations from above have merely led him to discover hundreds of commercial compounds made from the lowly potato, the peanut, and the clay of the South. The prayer of the South to have the monotony of corn pone and "side of hawg" replaced by more palatable dishes is being answered through the black magic of Dr. Carver; and if that is not divine it is at least commendable...
...enterprising theatrical producer?one of those who stages Follies and Foibles and Vanities and Scandals?has yet put an Investigations on the boards. In Washington the Investigations of 1924 is a leading attraction. Everybody flocks to it. Smoking is permitted. As yet admission is not charged nor have peanut and pop concessions been sold. Otherwise it is a first-rate amusement...