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Volume 15 , Issue 13

2013

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We hope we have pulled another interesting histories into this week's "OkieLegacy Ezine" for you all. Do not forget to check out the WWI Native American soldier, Sgt. George Baker (1893-1918), who was Killed In Action (KIA) over in France, 1918. We wish the Baker family the best in achieving their goals to get the "Purple Heart" for their relative Sgt. George Baker.

Has Hemp been given a bad wrap from another variety of the Cannabis plant? We have done some research into this Industrial Hemp plant that is related to the Marijuana plant. The Industrial Hemp stalk and seed was used for textiles (linens, fine and coarse), foods, papers (especially early 1900s postcards), body care products, detergents, plastics and building materials.

With Hemp producing four times as much fibre per acre as pine trees, you would think that you could save a few more the pine trees from distinction, huh? Hemp (tree-free) paper can be recycled up to seven times, compared with three times for pine-pulp based papers. They say that Hemp actually conditions soil where it grows.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers and pioneers were a part of those Hemp farmers and plantations that were order to grow Hemp. It you refused to grow it back in the 17th & 18th centuries, you were arrested and jailed. And we did find where Jefferson smuggled Hemp seeds from China to France then to America. Do not forget about Benjamin Franklin owning one of the first paper mills in America that processed Hemp.

The next time you are going through your grandmother's (or great-grandmother's) old postcards from the early 1900s check and see if any of them were made from the Industrial Hemp.

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