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...cents' worth of a certain bird seed, planted in any back yard, will grow into a yardful of marijuana. Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant. The male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced...
Editor Walker assured the lady that he could not drive a car, had never owned one, never went above 59th Street. Following up the story, he asked her to come to his office. Soon she flounced in, a comely Jewess. Taking one look at ruffled, bird-like Editor Walker, she said: "You're right. He was much better looking than you are." Amused and annoyed, he set out to find his impersonator. The Herald Tribune did not print the story...
...others have employed clear-cut descriptions of dominant physical features to make their characters living personalities. We know how true this is in our own day and age. We must have all the available facts about the Movie Stars, and if our favorite Prima Donna sings like a bird, we must know if she has legs like a canary. Humorous as this may be, isn't it the truth...
...asked the State Department if a sale to Germany could not be arranged on terms similar to those proposed for overproduced U. S. wheat, cotton, copper. To feather-men throughout the world this was cause for great rejoicing; to ostrich farmers in South Africa who have not killed their birds it was a vindication, although they still recall the high of $175 a pound reached in the boom days of 1910-1912. The ostrich reaches his prime in three years. During his period of immaturity he is delicate, must be kept out of the rain. The mature bird likes alfalfa...
Wesley Gilliam, park patrolman at Lynchburg, Ya., said he saw a robin pounce on a bullfrog, try to carry him away. The frog was too heavy for the bird, plopped back into the water. The stubborn robin tried again & again, until the bullfrog got a clumsy hold on the bird, pulled it under water, drowned...