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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
3
In a lonely lake cottage, inventor Elliman lures Hawtrey and Nancy Elliman aboard his finished submarine. Hawtrey pressures Nancy for a divorce while Elliman tests a deadly duel by oxygen masks. Hawtrey panics as the craft never moves and exits, leaving Elliman and Nancy to reconcile.
A Philadelphia church fights declining attendance by using cars to transport parishioners to services and by offering motion picture shows under church auspices. The approach treats the automobile as a reality to be met rather than resisted, with positive effects reported.
A detailed historic panorama of Lemberg and Brody, tracing their founding, medieval charters, fortifications turned promenades, and later Austrian control. It notes notable landmarks, parks, and cathedrals, plus Brody’s strategic rail links and past fires and battles with Polish, Tartar, and Swedish figures.
Alexander Aaronsohn recalls failed campaign against desert locusts in a region where Djemal Pasha deployed Arab soldiers to dig trenches for locust containment. Despite two months of toil by farmers, especially Jewish villages, the campaign collapsed as locusts overran crops, trees, and vineyards. The piece laments lack of broad farmer cooperation and warns of widespread devastation.
A popular sportsman wore corsets to flaunt his chest. He was thrown from his horse and lay on the road. A farm laborer checked him for injuries and cried for a doctor declaring a rib injury ran north and south rather than east and west.
In Hungchow 600 years ago visitors saw silk gentry and grand barges on Westlake, while today a sewing machine firm sits on the old Great Street. Western dress and cars replace carriages as foreign influence grows, with opium burned and Mazda oils contested.
Mrs West on a streetcar avoided court by giving a fictitious name while Miranda the cook admits overhearing the accident and hearing Mrs Hawkins mentioned. The tale ends with Miranda insisting her real name will not be found. The piece showcases social class and wit in a humorous domestic scene.
Frederick Palmer tells a New York dinner that girls across England including Lady Mary Hamilton Miss Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Manners are manufacturing ammunition. He recounts a girl boasting that making a high explosive shell is as easy as following a cookbook with nitroglycerin guncotton and lyddite.
A clipped fragment shows a character declaring practicality over sentiment while proposing and then asking to see a map or location labeled Anata Mt, hinting at a historical or adventure context with a terse, direct tone.
An Atlantic Monthly excerpt describes German improvements to barbed wire fortifications. They substitute soft iron corkscrew rods for wooden posts, twisting into the ground to form six to seven eyelets for wire. The design keeps wire supported after bombardment, preventing collapse even when wooden posts are shattered.
A visitor remarking on a man as perfectly normal is challenged by an attendant who calls him one of the worst cases. The dialogue hints at overestimating a car’s mileage by the seller and the suspect’s deluded beliefs about fuel efficiency.
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