Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1929, Page 42

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WHITE DUCK TROUSERS $2.50 EISEMAN'S, 7th 3 D3 DAY 3 Y3 USED CAR SALE For details see our ad in Classified Section THE TREW MOTOR CO. COAST 1S SUITABLE FOR PASSION FRUIT Nine Edible Varieties of Aus- tralian Product Grown in California. By the Assoclated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 27.—Be- cause a famed German scientist who was here for his health desired to eat | fruit for which he cultivated a taste in Australia, a new industry seems pos- | sible for a limited portion of the United States. The scientist is Dr. H. K. W. apher, explorer and philanthropist, umm, An Exelnnnly American Crop. Broom corn is one of those natural products, like cork, that are so per- fectly adapted to the uses to which they are put that no substitute has been found or is likely to be found. It is .almost exclusively an American crop. The first hroom-corn market in|the Shakers and others in New Eng- this country was developed by the community at . Y., in 1798. In the early part of the eighteenth century broont<corn raising and broom- making were largely in the hands of Until well past the middle of the cen- ‘Watervliet, Your Floots - -Make or Mar ---The Looks of the ---Summer Home The expanse of floor is about the first thing in a room to make an impression on the eye. Screen & Porch Paints “Duco” for Furniture and his newest hobby has demonstrated that the tropical fruit of the passion vine can be grown in parts of America suitable to the growing of avocadoes. Dr. Kumm has made 9 of the 10 WONDERFUL REUEF? e w As FOUND lN | considerable success on cross pollination ONE_BOTTLE | to improve the size and reduce the num- | ber of seeds. | Friends Also Agree With Her | That Miller’s Herb Extract Give Two or Three Crops. The varieties in production are ever- | Is Indeed a Wonderful | Health Builder | oo green and give two or three crops a year. | Tests have shown that an acre planted in passion fruit will yield from seven to /1| eight tons yearly, against the average ||| of three to four tons of the varieties ||| grown in Australia. | Some of the passion fruit on Dr. i “Words cannot describe the won- dertul relief I received from the first ||| like the banana, while another variety | in southern California. | bottle of this medicine I used and ||is round and as large as a grapefruit. | I understand now why so many At the outset of his work three years | Washington people are praising Mil- || ago, Dr. Kumm was encouraged by Lu- | ler's Herb Extract (formerly called ther Burbank, who had been experi- Herb Juice).” | menting with the fruit, but found his Given Blanket Permit. The United States Department of Agriculture has given him a blanket permit for the importation of passion ||| vines, and interest in the experimental work has been taken by the Smithsonian | Your home can easily have good-looking floors, through the use of Reilly-sponsored finishes. ffFloor Stains, Varnishes, Wax, Polishing Brushes and all other dependable paint supplies at— Specially Low Prices HUGH REILLY CO. PAINTS & GLASS 1334 New York Ave.—Phone M. 1703 Enamels & Lacquers couldn’t take you G there as quickly. Long s distance telephoning has never been so fast, so cheap, socompletelysatisfactoryasnow Brushes & Sprayers Sugar to Make Own Power. its own power is to be tried by 27 Alcohol made from surplus sugar of | Mills at first, and if successful will be sugar mills in San Salvador, is to run |used at other piants. The alcohol will the mills when they grind more suger. | be used as fuel for the motors and is ‘The plan of making the product supply ' expected to provide a great saving. LOOK FOR THE RED TAGY /@ L WM o Lional’ iy |Illlui|mmn' i Kumm’s plantation is shaped and looks Dr. H. K. W. Kumm (inset) and some of the passion frult he has devel own gardens were too far north. Institution. ‘The commercial production of the fruit has been limited to marketing of samples of sirup and jam and jelly flavorings in San Diego. As the experi- mental den could not meet the de- mand, the samples were withdrawn, ‘The passion vine is 5o named because its flowers bear a fanciful resemblance to the cross. ‘The astringent taste of the fruit smacks of the pineapple, apricot and loquat. The vine grows 10 feet high. RAILROAD DEPRIVED OF 2,800,000 ACRES Hoover Signs Bill Reclaiming Land Grant to Northern Pacific. 3||||HHIN' M I" i e I||I|||I||I|mul ! DELIVERS ANY All week long the store has been CROWDED, in spite of the bad weather, with throngs of happy customers, who have found BARGAINS GALORE in this great UNDERPRICING event! If you have not attended this sale as yct, you don’t know what you are missing! Below are some specials for Friday and Saturday—and DON'T HESITATE TO ASK FOR LIBERAL TERMS! I Y - o ~ Values/ Ii / MRS. L. Z. ZENTGRAF. | Such was part of the statement | made by Mrs. Zentgraf, 1ou !‘ourlh Street N.E, Wi C., | few days ago when she culed as dld a number of others to express their gratitude for the wnndertul health is medicine had brought them. Continuing with her statement she By the Assoclated Press. . A bill removing 2,800,000 acres of na- tional forest land claimed by the North- ern Pacific lway from operation un- der the land grant acts was signed yes- terday by President Hoover. " I Under the act the United States re- = = = tains the title to the lands in question. 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