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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
7
A man on Sixteenth Street hid a star map on his roof and flashed a pocket lamp to study astronomy. Police misread the signal as Morse code possibly signaling an enemy bomber, leading to a tense encounter with detectives before the matter was resolved.
A whimsical account follows a rain soaked night at Capitol Hill where a wash lady shares her umbrella gesture with a rose georgette wearer. The umbrella is returned next morning with a note of thanks, prompting reflections on fate and adages in a peculiarly urban vignette.
A Georgia gentleman claims the state has abundant food with a million watermelons available. He says Georgia would host starving nations and contrasts high prices elsewhere with its own bumper crops of watermelons beans and corn.
Washington can boast some of the world’s priciest back yard gardens. At Dupont Circle near Connecticut and Massachusetts avenues a former Chinese legation site now hosts rows of corn tomatoes beans and garden truck. Members of the garden committee and several congressmen are often seen tending plots amid wealthy society life.
A Royal Flying Corps captain known as the Lark leads a five-plane patrol from a quiet dawn aerodrome. They scout over occupied territory, engage Huns amid heavy anti-aircraft fire, and return after a tense two-hour sortie, one aircraft missing on the homeward leg.
A 1808 dated note highlights a self-loading cart for corn shocks and a bathroom scale with a dial facing upward for easy weight reading. It mentions Africa three times land mass larger than Europe and war cutting singing bird supply with canary prices rising. A jewelry firm buys rejected cartridge shells to make flower vases and a single worker can move heavy freight cars using a new tool. Between May 1 and October 8, 1808.
A historical definition explains embezzlement as fraudulent appropriation of another's property by someone trusted or lawfully in possession. It contrasts with larceny where intent exists at the moment of taking and possession was unlawful from the start.
Benjamin Franklin advocates peace, arguing that wars waste resources that could fund public works. He imagines improvements in agriculture, navigation by rivers, canals, bridges, roads, aqueducts, and other utilities, lamenting misery caused by war and urging reasonable settlements among nations.
The speaker questions his claims to exemption and whether he has dependents. He says he is supporting many arguments about it.
Bernard Hughes a 70 year old traveler asked for a doctor at St Josephs hospital in Philadelphia. Surgeons removed a piece of iron about an inch long from his left leg that had lodged near his ankle for eleven years. He believes the fragment came from a stove during the 1906 San Francisco quake.
Hyrum A. Douglas of Payson failed the color vision test at the Marine Corps enlistment office in the Desert News report. Despite passing the general physical and eyesight tests, he mistook reds and yellows for greens, claiming he never sewed and leaving with the remark that he could not be accepted.
The American Museum of Natural History plans to add gorals serows and samburs to its collection. President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Roy G. Andrews, head of the Yunnan expedition, has secured splendid specimens on the frontier of Tibet and Burma. The stag family animals are exceedingly rare.
Boston Evening Transcript notes a Patriotic Girl remark about a man’s suit and a comment on khaki. The item mentions a new egg cup design with a space around the bowl that can be filled with hot water to keep the egg warm.
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