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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1940
Page
2
A doctor hosts an annual dance at a deaf and dumb institution. Guests signal partners by circling a hand, choosing a pretty inmate who dances. The doctor later asks the partner if she would give him a chance, she agrees after noting the deaf patient. A separate joke about a dog, a boy named Jimmie, and a bite explains a makeshift teaching method.
The hind feet of bounding rabbits register ahead of the front feet. One forefoot lands before the other, while the two large hind prints appear side by side beyond the smaller foreprints.
A 1926 Georgetown football tale notes Babe Conaughton as likely the heaviest regular college player at 289 pounds. The piece also mentions Dr. Arthur H. Compton’s reconditioned cosmic ray meter at the University of Washington following a voyage on the Northland, and a claim about photographing the canals of Mars by B. C. Shpher of Flaystul, Arizona.
A collection of short notes including a claim that lightning did not cause a Revolutionary War era death, quotes on genius and names, a tidbit about Nurrogate Tenn postmaster Pack A Carr, a Los Angeles water supply cost figure, and a tire durability testing machine proposal.
Classified notice for completely furnished apartments in Temple area Salt Lake City. Includes printing and photo service offers from Rex Photo Ogden Utah with new and used desk and office equipment nearby.
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