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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
7
The piece argues Christmas does not stand alone but marks a year and a civilization’s progress. It emphasizes gentleness over force as Christmas’s enduring message, powered by tenderness and charitable acts amid global cheer and gifts.
Dialogue shows Mrs. Bacon dismissing a gift idea that uses a modified wireless instrument to detect distant storms. Mr. Bacon notes a French scientist’s device can hear storms over 800 miles away, prompting the humorous response about Christmas gifts.
Instructions describe chopping celery and binding with mayonnaise. Line ice cream cone with cottage cheese, fill with celery mixture, and pack. serve on crisp lettuce leaves as individual portions.
A fragmentary note invokes Christmas for infants and the joy of Saint Nicholas. The text references Santa Claus and tinseled wishes, but parts are garbled, leaving only a festive, though incomplete, seasonal sentiment.
A reader described festive seasonal gift hiding ideas for children. Eight year old Jack won a candy prize for the most clever wrapping using sausages, handkerchiefs, and a candle gag. Other tricks include a watch in a bouquet and an umbrella dressed as a dachshund.
A tale explains how children shifted from leaving baskets of gifts to hanging stockings on Christmas Eve. Santa, weary from year round labor, hears a snow fairy’s plea to restore the spirit of giving, prompting a nation of unselfish stocking traditions.
President Harding activates the Jefferson station linking with 27 global stations. He notes the tuning lesson to understand one another and broadcasts a world message praising wireless achievement. The system will form a giant wheel with 12 units and 72 towers, 410 feet high, with 12 towers already erected.
The HMORIAL CONTINENTAL hall, gifted and dedicated by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, stands west of President's Park on Seventeenth Street. Designed by Edward Pearce Casey, it cost 700000 dollars, features Vermont marble, and houses an auditorium for 2000, galleries with Washington portraits, a museum, and offices for national writers. Marble columns and state gifts adorn the portico, recalling Revolutionary-era architecture.
Navy engineers expect improved submerged performance from V class submarines at Portsmouth. The 2,025 ton boats will feature a 6,500 horsepower electric and gas propulsion system, 21 knot surface speed, nine to ten knot submerged speed, and a 10,000 mile cruising radius.
Agricultural experts warn of a half billion bushels of surplus corn. Exports in nine months ending September reach 105 million bushels, versus 11 million in 1920. The 1921 crop totals 8.168 billion with a 218 million carryover, leaving 621 million to be disposed of and a looming white elephant.
English novelist W L George told a Chicago women's club lecture that women novelists are inferior to men. He claimed men have a larger outlook and write about all sorts of things while women only write about love. A responding woman novelist quipped that this is as it should be to stir readers with a spoon.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Talcum Powder as antiseptic and fragrant for face skin baby and dusting use. It claims economical convenience and that it makes other perfumes superfluous as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum.
A quip by Senator Borah on disarmament mocks a poor excuse as a tale about Aunt Dinah misplacing four pairs of white flannel pants. Dinah explains in dialect that the four shirts shrank to three after washing.
The death of the famed English financier Sir Ernest Cassell recalls an interview he gave after his daughter’s death. He stated that nothing in vast financial success rivals the love of a devoted wife and a happy family of children.
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