Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent's pantry doors." Much of the beef, more of the corn and wheat, and 40% of the oil in the U. S., are produced within a day's journey of the Kaw-Missouri confluence. The geographical centre of the U. S. is only 190 miles away near the centre of the northern Kansas boundary. The centre of U. S. population...
Postum Company, biggest trademarked food company, began at Battle Creek, Mich., 33 years ago when the late Charles W. Post pottered around an oven with wheat bran and molasses. By roasting them he sought a coffee substitute. He found the substitute and called it Postum Cereal...
...hypothetical hosts of rustics who are to intimidate the Convention like a Paris mob in a French Revolution, are partisans of the McNary-Haugen bill. According to the farm dailies and the associations of stock and wheat growers, sympathy for this price-fixing measure is neither intense nor intelligent, while the Governor's call to arms is mere political chicanery. But the public confidence in the present method of choice of candidates is already so shaky, that this putative affront by over-alled bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout...
...Wheat, No. 1 Dark Northern Spring, Minneapolis...
Died. Herschell V. Jones, 66, onetime (at 12) printer's "devil" on the Jefferson (N. Y.) Courier, owner and publisher since 1908 of the Minneapolis Journal, a director of the Associated Press, accurate forecaster of wheat crops and famed collector of books, etchings, pictures; of heart disease; in Minneapolis...