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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
4
An old testimonial from Lake Wisconsin promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women with backache nervousness and weakness. The narrator claims years of trouble improved and urges others with similar issues to try the remedy.
Hunters near Salzburg report muskrats, with others seen around Vienna. A North American species released near Prague in 1906 spread along the Moldau and Eger, reaching Bohemia and Austria by 1914. Despite rapid proliferation, Europe did not develop a viable fur industry from them.
The article notes about 800 000 foreign-born white farmers versus 5 000 000 native white farmers in the United States. Colored farmers outnumber foreign-born farmers two to one. California hosts the largest foreign-born farmers, with 75 000 to 95 000. New York has 000 foreign-born and 165 000 native farmers. Nationwide there are 7 000 Japanese and 600 Chinese farmers.
A short story from Short Story Pub. Co. follows Jack Smith in Cleveland as a church social leads to a comic misadventure with a small ticket reading MONTHLY SOCIAL OF THE LADIES AID SOCIETY Admit One. Dorothy Tyler’s readings captivate him and a laughable moment with Molly and Jimmy Baker ends with romance.
The piece explains that scoters crush mollusks with powerful mandibles and a gizzard lined with gravel, enabling them to swallow shells whole. It contrasts this with a hypothetical diet of just oysters or butter clams and notes the birds’ fearless efficiency in breaking shells and extracting flesh.
In person voting at Oxford there was a humorous incident around a graduate ballot. The debate centered on a vote reading "Glad-I mean Ardy" and whether it showed support for Gladstone or Hardy, prompting quips about never finishing Gladstone or beginning Hardy.
Mrs. Florence Merriman of Portland Maine is likely the only woman stevedore in the country. She says she can handle as much freight as any man and serves as mate and cook on a vessel, plus performs other duties aboard.
A Wyoming ranch foreman recounts four weeks in the East delivering polo ponies and returns with relief at home. He dislikes travel and New York, saying it’s alright but too far from everywhere. The group notes his uncomplicated preference for familiar ground.
As auto registrations surge to 17 700 179 by 1924, experts argue for expanded pavement. Wider two track and three track road surfaces aim to relieve congestion without immediate new routes, prioritizing safe passing space and improved flow over time.
A London weekly column by George Bernard Shaw draws attention from Oscar Wilde. Wilde notes Shaw’s forceful, cutting style and predicts early enemies, though Shaw is not yet prominent. The anecdote underscores Shaw’s blunt wit and growing reputation in literary circles.
In spring 1919 after the eighteenth amendment a Texan dies leaving no estate. Mourners on his porch lament his lack of forethought and saving, noting a wife and many children. They recall he died young with nothing to leave.
A retold anecdote from the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago describes a nationwide heat wave. A California delegate, nearly delirious, jokes about the West’s heat as a Chicago friend and etiology of desert travels contrast the blistering conditions with a vivid image of a coyote chasing a jackrabbit while both walk.
Engineers report calcium chloride added to cement enables street sections to be opened within eight hours. Three year tests show increased pavement strength with little extra cost, reducing need for lengthy road closures and patch work near factories and shops.
A writer in Astaire Motor predicts Chinese unification within a decade due to new motor roads. Red Cross engineers have built famine roads and 4000 miles of highways now in use or under construction. Hundreds of buses already operate, fostering friendly rivalry and reducing tribal animosities.
The article notes highway payments from 1017 to 1925 were 4744 per cent of total federal excise taxes paid by the automotive industry. It highlights major coast to coast routes for tourists and urges highway commissions to lead road construction. It also mentions New York traffic crossing proposals and Bavaria's planned automobile road between Munich and Starnberg.
A Moscow report notes East Indian origin wanderers formed an association seeking legal status from the Soviets and vowing to abandon nomadic life and fortune telling for settled work. The Budapest paper cites a failed parallel with Hungary's system in industrial areas.
The article states 54 percent of the family Negro population is employed, 17.1 percent of the native white ornate parentage, and 16 percent of the Irolin-Seeney Service.
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