Given Arkansas recent weather makes me think this may be sarcastic humour on someones part.
It's wikipidia site, but a quick read seems to match up with what I remember of the paper.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark...at-Gazette
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Go to the section after the civil war called the "The newspaper war".
Weather
March was warm, but that happens about 2/3's of the time.
Around Easter Arkansas had a hard Freeze that actually froze the ground in several parts of the state.
It damaged the newly planted corn crops and hurt winter wheat crops. Around my area it took out everyone's gardens killing most of the plants even when they covered them with pots, plastic and blankets.
Many trees lost thier new leaves to the hard freeze and people have been having to deal with fallen leaves like it was the fall of the year.
howard melton
It's wikipidia site, but a quick read seems to match up with what I remember of the paper.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark...at-Gazette
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Go to the section after the civil war called the "The newspaper war".
Weather
March was warm, but that happens about 2/3's of the time.
Around Easter Arkansas had a hard Freeze that actually froze the ground in several parts of the state.
It damaged the newly planted corn crops and hurt winter wheat crops. Around my area it took out everyone's gardens killing most of the plants even when they covered them with pots, plastic and blankets.
Many trees lost thier new leaves to the hard freeze and people have been having to deal with fallen leaves like it was the fall of the year.
howard melton