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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1926
Page
2
An opinion piece argues that the nation cannot endure if marriages are dissolved easily. It contrasts the sanctity of mortgages and contracts with marriages and warns that courts often dissolve marriages without just cause, threatening national stability.
The international boy scout movement is praised as a prime influence for world peace and goodwill. It argues that true league must come from the right spirit, urging greater nations to set an example of unselfishness and extend fellowship to smaller nations to reduce war.
The article argues birth control cannot cure crime citing a 30 percent drop in the U.S. birth rate over thirty years without clinics. It dismisses birth controllers claims as baseless and notes crime has risen despite falling birth rates. It criticizes eugenics and calls claims extravagant and unproven.
The foundation highlights a century of gains in productivity driven by machinery. Electric power rose from 13 billion to 50 billion horsepower, manufacturing employment up 65 percent, farm output up 37 percent with 20 percent more farmers, rail traffic up 70 percent with 61 percent more workers, weekly hours fall about 3 percent, and real wages up 40 to 50 percent.
The piece urges using idle land to grow forests as the U.S. population nears 120 million. It warns that future generations depend on a steady supply of forest products near manufacturing centers, noting the forest area's center approaches the Pacific coast and calls for east of the Mississippi idle lands to be planted.
The article argues future generations will be taller and heavier due to correct nutrition. It notes improvements in bones, muscles, skin, and eyes in children and warns that current small builds come from generations of inadequate feeding, with full reversal taking generations.
The New Hampshire Historical Society announces the recovery of an orderly book from George Washington’s headquarters dated September 26 to November 1, 1780. It first records Benedict Arnold’s treason and Major Andre’s trial, notes Washington’s order for Andre’s execution, and praises Continental soldiers as the war’s first treason case.
In praise of the sacrifices made and heritage passed down, today is a Glorious Fourth marked by courage faith in the people devotion to country and a sacrificial spirit unequaled in history.
A seagull perches atop the American flag on a boat in San Francisco Bay. The image evokes pride in the starry flag, praising its purity and enduring defense of liberty amid global struggles.
The Declaration of Independence is described as three parts: a philosophy arguing the right of a people to overthrow despotic government, a long list of grievances against British rule, and a declaration of becoming free and independent states.
Relics from the Continental Army camp at West Point reveal life at the garrison. Buttons identify regiments, while bone buttons show button making tools and methods. lead pencils fashioned from bullets exist, some worn as neck pendants, many still write.
The article lists the 48 states represented by stars on the United States flag arranged in six rows of eight. It names Delaware through South Carolina in the first row and proceeds in order through New Mexico in the sixth row, noting the flag’s National Republic designation.
Zaccheus the tax gatherer in Jericho rose from wealth and public favor to curiosity driven sighting of Jesus. His climb up a tree to see Him sparked a personal change shifting value from public opinion to the ideal he found in Jesus, ending in hospitality and lasting inner reform.
A 1776 to 1926 verse reflects on fathers who fought tyranny and secured liberty. The piece recalls pioneers moving west as ships from Baltimore and Gloucester appear, urging readers to heed the founding vision and light new fires.
In Boston harbor at the time of the tea party the Dartmouth capt. James Hall the Eleanor capt. James Bruce and the brig Beaver capt. Hezekiah Coffin were present. The tea belonged to the East India Company.
The article notes a rise in Australian born singers over the last fifty years led by Melba and Amy Sherwin and Ada Crossley. It highlights recent influx with names like Rosina Buckman Florence Austral Gertrude Johnson Elsie Treweek Clara Serena and Fred Collier Browning Mummery as evidence the British Opera Company sees Australian talent and ponders rivaling Italy as a voice powerhouse.
While Herbert Spencer visited the country a grand dinner in New York featured speeches led by Henry Ward Beecher. After Beecher spoke a boastful doctor told him he was the greatest man in the world, and Beecher answered that he had forgotten himself for the moment.
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