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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
6
A Los Angeles attorney recounts a joke at a grammar school graduation. His son asked if he was a good mathematician and posed a riddle about three frogs. The child reveals that the bullfrog only decided to jump off, proving action matters for success.
Travelers report natives use a simple water clock to measure time, a 5,000 year old method. A coconut shell in a bowl of water marks intervals aboard Malay junks, as Egyptians once did. The sand glass and water glass now time eggs and parliamentary divisions in Britain.
The article traces horseshoes to quoits with roots near Scotland and England. It notes scarce evidence on the European mainland and cites fifteenth century Midlands references. It mentions Toxophilus of 1545 describing the game as popular among the working classes using horseshoes when quoits were unavailable.
Notice cites 1921 Wyoming session laws requiring hides of neat cattle to be inspected by county officers before carcass sale. It explains larceny presumption for possession, sale, or display of carcasses without hides and penalties for butchers and dealers lacking proof of hide inspection. Local officials and residents mentioned attending rodeo and visits to Jackson and Kemmerer.
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