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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1925
Page
1
An essay argues beliefs are shaped by feelings and wishes and warns against letting imagination go unchecked. It urges exercising the senses, testing ideas, and weighing evidence to avoid prejudice and intellectual stagnation, citing past minds as models of clear reasoning.
Wayne D Mc Murray notes Euripides as a leading Greek tragedian who faced charges of impiety and fled Greece. He allegedly wrote 75 to 90 tragedies and was honored at the Macedonian court of Archelaus. The article cites debates over his foresight and a quote about truth to posterity.
The black magpie of the Tasmanian countryside is noted as a weather prophet. A day or two before a storm, large flocks cry and flap their wings almost continually, signaling nearby bad weather.
Lamborn of East Hempstead born in England 1659 had many children including Thomas Maria Robert John William Sarah. Robert moved to America 1713 near London Grove Pa and married Sarah in 1722. Thomas of Lamborn Pa a Quaker and peace advocate was once jailed by a sheriff. The Wageman watchman name and Lavender origin from lavandier washerman are noted.
A poem urging wives to shield husbands from temptations in a harsh world. It praises steadfast home life as a lighthouse that guides men back to virtue, urging wives to keep the lamp of love burning and treat home as sacred.
A reader claims dusting areas with whole cloves will drive ants away as if by magic. The note adds that the method is objectionable to ants but not to humans, and says cloves also repel other creeping creatures when they stray beyond bounds.
A fragmentary verse reflects a hummingbird flash of harmless lightning and rainbow dyes as a sunbeam moves from flower to flower. The speaker notes a bloom waking only too late to sense a kiss and nectar drained by a metaphorical Mo. The lines are attributed to John Tabb.
Crisp cucumber pickles are easy to make with vinegar water sugar and dry mustard. Mustard pickles use mixed vegetables brined in salt and a hot vinegar mixture seasoned with brown sugar flour mustard and spices. Tomato ketchup is made from tomatoes brown sugar salt and spices boiled to thickness then bottled.
A note quotes the young lady across the way claiming scientists say some coal on the turkey is a million years old though she trusts their dealer to provide fresh. Separately a Greenland whale found with the head of an old harpoon in its body is estimated to have carried it for at least fifty years.
John H. Neubert of Flint Michigan has regained his identity after five years of memory lapse. He suffered a stroke and epilepsy and was treated at University Hospital Ann Arbor before moving to New York. He lived at the Seamen's Christian Association home on West Street and, after asking police to locate his identity, was identified.
Mrs. Virginia Lee told a bizarre tale of abduction after vanishing from Los Angeles. She described being kidnapped and taken underground across the Mexican border, while authorities investigated possible murder.
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