Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — The Banana Described. [ARTICLE]

The Banana Described.

The banana has only won wide favor in England during the past quarter century. It was not unknown, however, half a century B. L. Blanchard, the dramatist, records in his “Autobiography"—July 7, 1564 —tasted bananas for the first time —a vegetable sausage tasting like marrow flavored with pineapple."