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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
12
Breeding season triggers vivid iridescent colors in male common pike and other fish such as eel tench roach and perch. The text notes silvery hues in eel during breeding times and highlights social remarks from periodicals.
A holiday game features a large brown tissue pie crust with ribbons forming letters: Six a s two m s three g s four r s three y s one c two h s two b s one t two u s one d two p s one w and one i. Children circle the pie holding threads as they sing and then arrange to spell A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Poles and eastern Europeans celebrate Christmas with a picturesque custom where men dress as storks bears and other animals or birds roaming from house to house singing carols. Processions are led by keepers and end with gifts of cakes sausages and other dainties.
The Emporia Gazette critiques a pompous man described as vain and condescending. The column mocks his pretensions by imagining him strutting over the earth in fine garments, slipping on a banana peel, and leaving a trail of smoke as he moves with exaggerated self-importance.
A new seven thousand foot pier is under construction at Minster on the Bea England. The project highlights continuing coastal development with emphasis on maritime access and tourism potential for the town.
A poem like verse depicts four stockings of different sizes. A magistrate questions the thiefs and each admits stealing a foot. Court exclaims in tragic accents as children laugh in bed. A political jab follows about supporting a wife and family while maintaining life insurance.
Winsborough of Kansas City urges extending beautification from the downtown area to residential districts. He cites the 800 and 1100 blocks as starters and notes past efforts by the Manufacturers and Merchants auxiliary, which faded after its dissolution. He argues flowering landscaping educates children, strengthens citizenship, and that health and police departments could help enforce cleanliness ordinances.
A brief reflective line from the Detroit Free Press notes that conceit is the mindset that if one had married sooner, he might have authored the Bible, using a sharp, satirical tone about ego and destiny.
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