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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
6
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell explains a home cooling method using a basement ice tank and attic refrigerator piping cooled air to rooms. He notes a test room reached about 65 degrees while outside heat reached 100. He contrasts this with White House claims of 80.
War changes a French cross road in the Champagne forest to Armistice from Port in line with hundreds of other renamings. The alteration reflects wartime shifts and memorial naming across the region.
A War Department summary by Col. Leonard Ayres details American losses 47 days of Meuse Argonne fighting. It reports 120,000 U.S. casualties, 60,000 battle deaths, and 236,000 disease deaths among Americans, with total war cost $21.85 billion through April 1919 and 4.8 million armed forces. It notes two of every three Americans who went to France fought in battle. A last line mentions a perfume in a hollow finger ring.
National event to demonstrate life saving skill in mines will be held in Pittsburgh on September 30 and October 1 under the interior department. Coal and metal miners nationwide compete in local meets with over a hundred thousand trained in emergency first aid. The bureau trains rescue teams and operates oxygen apparatus for use after explosions or disasters.
Henry Shiers of London England dangled head downward with both legs trapped between elevator edge and floor. Surgeons built a shaft staging and platform to reach him. One anesthetized while the other amputated both legs. The man died after the removal to a hospital.
Rescue teams from multiple mines are bringing protective measures and aid to the deadly atmosphere, aiming to demonstrate safer practices. They will join the national event to show preparedness and solidarity with miners facing hazardous conditions.
Randy, presumed dead after a long war, returns to find Elva ready to marry neighbor Tuck. He confesses a ruse to spare her, and she discovers his survival as they meet by the river and Randy explains his deception to her relieved, tearful joy.
A Massachusetts paper recounts a Longfellow reminiscence he shared about visitors who misconstrued his poetry and gardens. It also narrates Gerry's fear of dogs, ending with his father delivering a stubby tailed Boston bull and Gerry declaring he wants a dog that wags long.
An 1816 book reports a rumor that 86 000 gipsies lived in Great Britain and offers a vocabulary of their words. It lists sun ehum moon chun bread and butter kalmaro drink levin dag jukou beer simbar old day shil dewes silver dupe hot day tal dewes and night raut. It notes most Gypsies could not read.
Brown rats are increasing rapidly in rural England and the board of agriculture proposes a campaign against the rodent. Wheat loss is immense, with unthreshed stacks riddled by rat damage. a grown rat can eat two ounces of wheat daily and cause further spoilage.
A pithy cartoon-like remark critiques lawmakers as losing dignity while they figuratively chew at authority, implying erosion of formal conduct in legislative bodies.
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