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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1920
Page
16
Ice cream manufacturers adopted a University of Illinois proposal to invert sugar by heating cane or beet sugar with tartaric acid. The method yields 140 pounds of invert syrup from 100 pounds sugar, matching sweetness with far less sugar and enabling about 30 percent savings without reducing output or quality.
A Hartford Times piece explains that coins often contain more silver than their face value. A trade dollar marked 420 grains has market value near 1.20 dollars in silver, while a 480 grain ounce yields about 1.86 dollars in melt value. Rising silver prices threaten currency disappearance.
A lyric meditation on earthly joy fading into sorrow. The poem traces the garden of Gethsemane as an inevitable trial all souls endure, urging acceptance of divine purpose and restraint from wishful pleas to avoid fate. Ella Wheeler Wilcox anchors the message in faith, struggle, and humility.
A conservative estimate based on rough population figures suggests current world population is about the same number as those who have died in the last 140 years.
The last election results show President Wilson with a popular vote of 9,129,606 and Hughes with 8,538,221. Electoral votes were 277 for Wilson and 254 for Hughes.
A booklet style page offers home cooking guidance with steps for making flutes shaped bread dough brushed with egg and sugar, baked bananas with sultan sauce, baked apples with a corn starch cream, a chicken cream sauce, and a simple home made breakfast cereal. It stresses patience, self control, and learning from sorrow while presenting practical measurements and methods.
National headquarters in Indianapolis announced the American Legion now lists 6561 posts across the United States and foreign countries. France England Canada Alaska Hawaii Cuba Panama Mexico and the Philippine Islands each host posts. New York leads with 777, Pennsylvania 497, Illinois 869.
In early card decks the suit of swords stands in for spades and coin symbols serve as diamonds, reflecting historical naming and symbol usage in card design.
The article notes Liberia grants land and voting rights to Black citizens yet details extreme hardships faced there. Emory Ross in the Geographical Review is cited on irritations from climate, disease, pests, and discomforts. It warns against staying on the west coast of Africa longer than 18 months due to oppressive conditions.
The article notes that about 50 percent of precipitation evaporates 33 1 3 percent runs to the sea and 16 2 3 percent is absorbed by plants. It explains how runoff becomes available for domestic irrigation manufacturing and power generation and cites U S precipitation ranges from 150 inches in mountains to 9 inches in low areas with Idaho valleys at 20 inches and eastern mountains at 40 to 60 inches.
John Bills age eighty nine serves as passenger conductor on the Monon between Orleans and French Lick Indiana. He has worked about forty years in Monon service and earlier as a railroad man in the West. Bills often switches to brake man duties and rides atop a box car during the run.
Poem emphasizing solidarity in hardship and the link between health and poverty. It reflects on how unjust judgments arise from conscience and how good deeds toward a comrade echo back. The piece ties moral returns to personal welfare and social sunshine.
Government Weather Bureau notes four eclipses in 1920 two solar and two lunar. A total lunar eclipse occurs May 2 followed by a partial solar eclipse May 17. A total lunar eclipse returns October 27 and a final partial solar eclipse on November 10.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger discusses how people’s appearance changes with angle of view and lighting, noting that silhouettes can reveal or distort traits. Some faces look weak or greedy in profile, while others remain impressive, depending on approach and light.
Coleridge praises Ben Jonson as a burning artist and notes the Alchemist as a prime example. He argues Jonson would be a great dramatist with Beaumont and Fletcher, yet would still not surpass Shakespeare.
A city pamphlet states Sheffield supplied 70 percent of Britain’s war materials through private firms. In Vienna theaters, unoccupied seats are lit to show numbers. In Denmark, tavern owners pay doctors’ fees when a drunk patron requires medical care. France is the largest Swiss wooden sole importer with wooden sole fashion in Paris.
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