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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1916
Page
2
The piece warns that rushing between work and pleasure harms the nervous system. Chronic nervousness causes indigestion worry and irritability and reduces efficiency. It urges offsetting modern life pressures finding pleasure without frenzied activity and stressing periods of true rest.
Practical advice on managing chicks and fowl health from an old guide. Emphasizes clean water, frequent feeding in measured amounts, boiled dish sanitation, rolled oats in feed, variety of grains, sour milk or beef scraps for muscle, bonemeal, shade, and careful breeding to promote heavy laying. Also notes large pigeons called runt among the pigeon family.
A portly middle aged woman watches circus trapeze artists and asks an usher if a safety net prevents harm. She explains she wants to buy a net to send to her nephew in the aviation service to hang under his aircraft in case of an accident.
A fragmented dialogue showcases Mr Grabecoin and Neumodt discussing recreation, pleasure, and foreseeing mortgages. The exchange hints at unusual habits and humorous quirks, including sugar, bonbons, and gendered social observations, in a trailed, era-tinged speech.
Distinguished English actress rises to movie star status after starring in a new photoplay by John Randolph and Lillian Offester.
Samuel Larper, former University of Chicago lecturer, returns from four months in Russia and says war pressures have made Russian institutions more democratic. Bureaucracy failed to supply armies, leading to reliance on provincial councils and zemstros, while the government favors American capital with Russian control to protect native workers from German factory practices.
A Belgian aviator, his clothes riddled with bullets after a mission, recounts being charged by a Fokker with two machine guns. Unarmed, he chose to photograph the attacker rather than fight, demonstrating audacity and coolness emblematic of wartime aviators.
A polite court judge condemns a clock theft with ten days at the works. The prisoner pleads to reduce punishment citing the clock’s eight day nature, but the judge declines noting the offense.
A garbled fragment mentions Frongled and Owmar Philadelphia as potential money making places. It questions why OMine would be a good place and whether the government would have a tit backated jhege, indicating a satirical or confused discussion of finance and public policy.
Edgar A. Guest reflects in the Detroit Free Press on longing to reclaim the joys, freedoms, and simple mischief of youth. He contrasts childhood’s dirt and play with adult care and time’s passage, noting that joy is fleeting and aging brings sorrow, yet memories persist.
The article surveys how nations name battleships to reveal culture. The United States uses state names. Britain favors grand, martial names like Invincible and Indefatigable. Germany sticks to homeland places. France favors ideals like Truth, Justice, Democracy and honors great people. It notes the playful idea of America bearing Indefatigable or England bearing Sweetest Shakespeare on a prow.
Howard Dean of Parks College predicts a future where potatoes taste like cantaloupes and grapes grow on trees. He says plant feeding with formaldehyde could make crops develop sugar and starch, while chemists study leaf chemistry to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into novel plant products. He believes a breakthrough could enable growing any fruit to taste as desired, even expanding Sahara desert planting.
New York lawyer Paul D Cravath tours a Verdun trench tunnel running 800 yards from German lines in the Argonne forest. An American command crew, including a former chef to the French ambassador, runs the underground highway supplying front lines amid ongoing mine explosions and artillery.
Surgeon Major Professor Ingiann leads a field hospital in Italy using a portable rubber bath and warm antiseptic solutions to treat tetanus. The method reduces the need for amputation, speeds wound healing, and lowers fever as suppuration subsides and recovery begins.
In Des Moines, the town supreme court ruled that a husband’s conversion of a crime does not justify divorce proceedings. The court noted that a wife who would press charges against her husband should accept the marriage vows and endure.
A damaged OCR fragment describes Kyusal telling Jud Thomson that the powders ruined his stone. He was given the yorce he apked.
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