Organic food: Hokum or healthy? (1972)
By Trudy Lieberman, Free Press Consumer Writer
Organic food: Hokum or healthy?
Organic foods: Are they modern-day cure-all elixirs sold by modern-da... Read more...
“DDT is good for me-e-e!” (1947)
"DDT is good for me-e-e!"
The great expectations held for DDT have been realized. During 1946, exhaustive scientific tests have shown that, when pr... Read more...
Meet Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto (1930)
Because of the discovery made by this young farmer of Kansas, every dictionary in the world will have to be revised. For all time to come, students of astronomy will read that the ninth planet, Pluto, was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
A new town! Visit Gilbert, Arizona (1914)
In 1914, there was a lot of hype about a new little town near Phoenix called Gilbert -- "the fastest growing and most prosperous community in the Sout... Read more...
Converts to organic food sprouting up all over (1970)
A dedicated and growing band of people -- most of them young -- has taken to cooking and serving no-nonsense natural foods.
Pluto: Kansas farm boy spots new planet (1930)
Kansas farm boy spots new planet
Clyde Tombaugh of Burdett First to Detect "Blotch of Light"
Flagstaff, Arizona -- Discovery of a new world, p... Read more...
Illinois: Farm land from $8 to $12 an acre (1863)
The finest farming lands equal to any in the world
EQUAL TO ANY IN THE WORLD MAY BE PROCURED At FROM $8 to $12 PER ACRE
Near Markets, Schools, R... Read more...
Wilder makes artificial sunrise: Milks before daylight (1896)
The mean trick of a Santa Cruz dairyman, who fools the stock by an electric plant
Dairyman Wilder, whose milk-producing establishment is about ten mi... Read more...
Farms of the future: Domed fields in the year 2000? (1967)
Farms of the future -- High rise barns and plastic domed fields?
Farmers of the not-too-distant future may have as much need for off-hour exercise ... Read more...
More of Dorothea Lange’s iconic Migrant Mother (1936)
One of the most iconic images of the Great Depression was a photo of Florence Thompson taken by Dorothea Lange. The pictures were part of the "Migrant... Read more...
Willys turns the Jeep upside down (1946)
Willys turns the Jeep upside down
As you know from seeing your car on the greasing lift, most cars and trucks look alike from below -- engine at fro... Read more...
New Amsterdam to now: New York since the frontier days
Old New York: A perspective from 1898
The story of New York's growth from a frontier settlement to the metropolis of the western world -- Pictures of... Read more...
Yuletide in the country (1921)
Christmas Day In the Old Farm Home recalls fond and pleasant recollections
Christmas in the country. Christmas day in the old farm home. What pleasan... Read more...
