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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1926
Page
8
The article argues that major powers are abandoning colonial imperialism as costly and risky. It notes Europe’s rethinking after World War I, the Austro Hungarian empire’s breakup, and U S attitudes toward overseas possessions including the Philippines, signaling a move away from permanent colonization.
Road safety calls for nationwide uniform traffic laws to reduce deaths and property loss. The piece urges standard rules across states, supported by the American Road Builders Association and the National Conference on Street and Railway Safety, to manage growing traffic and prevent collisions.
Forty-four million people form two-fifths of the U S population and earn over sixty billion dollars annually. The article argues mismanagement of this income is the nation’s central business problem with ten billion wasted and a billion lost to speculation. It calls for better personal finance education, saving, and bank responsibility.
The article asserts the first essential to success is self knowledge of innate capacities. It argues many fail to reveal latent abilities, and that work aligned with natural capacity comes easily and brings pleasure. Overwork may not fatigue a person when in the right role.
The author argues that moral values have shifted since Adam and Eve. The greatest sin is tied to knowing good and evil, yet today curiosity and seeking knowledge are framed as virtuous. It advocates learning from science, religion, and philosophy rather than a single dogma.
The article argues extended vacations waste study time and delay graduates. It notes current graduates finish at age twenty-one to twenty-two, about three years later than sixty four years ago, when the academic year had three terms and shorter vacations.
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Asia accelerates power development amid rising demand. Between 1921 and 1923 the continent expanded water power by about 72 percent as nations invest in hydroelectric capacity and irrigation, signaling a shift toward modern energy infrastructure.
An old Bayer package advertises tablets for lumbago rheumatism and general pain with proven directions. Handy twelve tablet boxes cost a few cents and druggists also offer 24 and 100 tablet bottles.
Capt L Baird found in Continental army records at Schuylkill arsenal that bobbing of hair was a military issue in 1776. West Point decrees limited hair length for first regiment to seven inches and kept hair close to the head for noncommissioned officers and privates.
Muted dialogue hints at a social exchange between two individuals. The text contrasts gas lighting with mushroom foraging in a wooded setting, suggesting a slice of daily life or a fragment of a larger scene. The wording implies a tense yet casual interaction.
Germans rejoice as Britain restores permission to catch elvers after World War I restrictions. In the year after regranting, German trawlers harvested about 3,000,000 eels in English waters for consumption and lake restocking, with shipments in containers of 5,000. Experts note eel migration to the Gulf of Mexico for spawning and return via the Gulf Stream.
The Kansas City Star quotes Festus Pester musing on conceit and memory. He notes that as men age toward fifty they recall things that never happened and sparingly admits he uses such observations for comic columns.
An editor notes Bernard Shaw’s work titled The Doctor’s Dilemma as a sharp critique of the medical field. A London dinner anecdote recalls a doctor challenging Shaw about physicians’ fortunes, to which Shaw retorts that most doctors are poor.
A terse exchange captures a hard world mood as Pat ends his day and Mike concurs. A tip of the hat to blunt speech appears in a brief, weathered quotation from Delaune about speaking and thinking.
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