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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1921
Page
6
A four year old Columbus boy named Bobby noticed a bald man with a shiny head during a cinema outing. He asked his mother to lend the man her powder, showing his kind heart and readiness to oblige despite his mother’s embarrassment.
Pilots at March field logged a distance equal to forty six global circumnavigations in the past year. This surpasses Jules Verne fiction as the feat would beat the fictional eighty days by a wide margin, with a proposed plan to reduce the world loop to seven days two hours and twenty six seconds.
A Trinidad planter developed a paper pulp from a sugar cane residue and bamboo fiber blend claiming it matches top wood pulp quality. The report notes the breakthrough as a new paper source with potential industry impact.
The twentieth century began on January 1, 1801. In common usage the first century spans A D 1 to 100, the second 101 to 200, and the nineteenth 1801 to 1900. A century starts with day one of its first year and ends on the last day of its hundredth year.
An experiment on a California state highway near Burlingame shows cars vastly outpacing horse drawn vehicles. From 6 am to 8 pm, 11 horse drawn vehicles and 19 581 motor vehicles passed the checkpoint, indicating rapid adoption of automobiles over horses.
A fragment warns that a favorite poison among Australian fighters is derived from parts of a腐尸 surreal text. It claims a wounded person struck by a shaft tipped with this venom dies almost instantly of lockjaw.
A farmer and a visitor discuss United States Department of Agriculture ideas on increasing farm value by restructuring land. They argue over paying high prices for tillable land and explore making wasted land productive by regrouping fields, hedges, and ditches to improve efficiency without sacrificing convenience.
The speaker argues productive land is wasted by poor farming choices. He notes tax on land through gates and hedges, urging removal of long lanes and highway encroachments. He cites a westward hedgerow Osage orange fence consuming valuable acreage and suggests moving fences to reclaim land.
United States Department of Agriculture guidance on poultry feed urges using farm grown grains and local supplies, with a light morning and night grain feeding plus a continuous dry mash. It warns against omitting animal foods, recommends milks or scraps when available, and stresses green or succulent feed in winter to boost production.
O. KR. Zensman of the University of Wisconsin urges farmers to protect farm machinery from rain and rust to save trouble. He argues rust can cause adjustments to fail, leading to greater losses and repairs.
A brief cartoon caption from Cartoons Magazine features a joke about misidentifying a nutshell. The dialogue plays on the phrase the whole thing is in a nutshell and contrasts two characters debating the contents.
An old advertisement promotes Diamond Dyes for wool silk cotton and linen with easy dyeing directions. It cautions against poor results like streaks fades or uneven color and urges buying only Diamond Dyes. The ad notes a Color Card from a druggist and mentions sample requests to Garfield Tea Co Brooklyn New York. It ends with a hopeful rural proverb about savings and wheels.
A compact fragment appears to be banter between speakers, noting “Very Seldom, Mr. McTavish” and a line about poverty as a stone upon which wits are whetted. It conveys a dialogic moment without a clear event or broader context. The snippet preserves named speakers and a thematic remark on poverty.
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