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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1947
Page
6
A noisy surface pencil of trivia style questions. The item lists ten queries about history science and culture including who earned the most in a single match the meaning of US A the first school for the blind and a statue of a man famed for eating a tomato.
The items reference individuals, places, and events: Gene Tunney’s $990,000 share from the second Dempsey bout. the Union of South Africa. the groters. tastelessness to bees. about 290 million people or over 80 percent. the years 1781 to 1789 with 1789 as the Constitution’s effective year. a claim about reflected light seven times stranger than moonshine. Ireland. 1832. Newport Rhode Island, honoring Michee Felice Corne. the tomato once deemed poisonous and the courage to eat one.
A Collier's survey ranks physicians first in prestige, with bankers and lawyers following. It compares to 1925 results where physicians were second and lawyers third. Major shifts include insurance agents rising to tenth, farmers dropping to twelfth, and traveling salesmen sliding to sixteenth.
Tests show whole cantaloupes sealed retain vitamins longest when refrigerated or in chopped ice. No significant vitamin loss observed in cantaloupes kept at room temperature for four days.
Winter Lemurines Winter Legumes prove valuable as a nitrogen and organic matter source. An acre of winter legume cover crops can replace 100 tn. Ironing Tip To Iron children's clothes offers a method: insert small pads made of four layers of thick felt, about five by eight inches, stitched with an old sheet case. The remarks include a Paris spare quote about assembling a car from second-hand parts and the cost.
A humorous wedding anecdote from Popular Winona describes a big church ceremony. A bride asks a small man nearby why he kisses her, and he replies he joined outside thinking it was for butter, highlighting comic confusion at the kiss.
A playful dialogue between Mac and a companion about exploring new items in an exclusive women’s store window displays, noting shops are closed today yet planning a future visit.
A young Abraham Lincoln earned money by ferrying across the Ohio near Anderson Creek. A garrulous passenger recalls George Washington tossing a silver dollar across the Rappahannock and Lincoln quips Washington would need more business or theft. An artist at a private reception boasts his battle scene as war’s horrors captured. A discerning visitor bluntly praises the realism as horrific.
A Chinese patient calls a dentist about a toothache. The dentist asks if two thirty works. The patient confirms, saying the tooth hurts but two thirty is fine, asking again what time to come.
An unusual classified note offers a home business promising 560 percent to 1000 percent profit with no experience required. It mentions your own business under Diktavl Co with an address Ruthelen Los Angeles 44 Cal and mentions shoes in metal pearl gold silver bronze.
For sale well improved half section of nene Lown predominately Barnes loam at 67.00 per acre and highly improved 4 tier Barnes loam at 77.60 per acre both in McCark county. Ward Clark Canistota South Dakota.
A southern congressman and his puritanical wife attend a Washington gala where a debonair dancer in extreme décolletage sits nearby. The surprised politician struggles to speak as his wife hisses a sharp line reminding him to engage with the woman or risk others thinking she is his wife.
A man facing damages sought to bribing a judge with cigars. His lawyer warned against it as a serious crime. After a winning verdict the client boasted the bribe helped, revealing he sent the cigars to the other defendant’s name.
A man on trial for shooting his partner in a distant western court communicated with a juror who was his friend and urged a manslaughter verdict. The prisoner later thanked the juror saying it took four hours to win the decision as seven jurors initially favored acquittal.
A householder confronts a burglar in bare feet as he packs family silver. The intruder demands a call to a cop, but the homeowner jokes about calling his wife who has heard him nightly for 20 years and looks forward to meeting him.
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