19 Jul 1923
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 24 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1923
Page
1
Unusually heavy snows this winter in New England impose severe hardships on a country doctor. Use of snowshoes is common as the doctor works through blizzard conditions to reach patients. The piece casts the rural physician as a local hero during severe winter weather.
In a brutal Berkshire winter, Dr. John H. Riley, North Adams oldest physician, braved blizzard winds and deep drifts to reach a sick child on Florida mountain. After reaching a lantern lit farmhouse, he treated the girl, swapped for dry clothing at a schoolhouse, then answered another distress call to Clarksburg before midnight.
The Department of Agriculture reports U S meat consumption at about 16.333 billion pounds for last year, averaging 149.7 pounds per person or roughly four pounds daily. Per capita usage rises six pounds from 1921 and six and a half from 1920.
English scientist T. A. Barnes reports finding a complete jungle in the crater of an extinct volcano in Tanganyika Africa. He says at least 75,000 animals reside there including elephants tigers leopards and rhinos. The crater is about 2000 feet deep with a three mile long lake described as a Garden of Eden.
The piece argues women are drawn to unconventional appeal over Adonis type looks. It highlights voice, gesture, gentleness, whimsy, and a blend described as tenderness and absurdity. The passage notes the enduring lure of masculine illusion and the persistent Adonis fallacy.
A housewife benefits from a steady supply of clean newspapers for housework. Folding a full paper lengthwise and placing it on stair treads before carpet laying acts as a wear saver and sound deadener, an idea also usable under carpets though large papers cannot be folded.
A breakfast coffee test using leaf sugar tells readers how bubbles behave to predict rain. Central to side rush signals heavy rain, center stay indicates a fine day, with center to side movement suggesting showers.
The article discusses competing beliefs about the Bowie knife's inventor. Some sources credit Col James Bowie born 1790 and killed at the Alamo in 1836, while others attribute the knife to a man named R P Bowie with little known about him.
Grootfontein School of Agriculture in South Africa tested whether sheep could survive long drought periods on prickly pear leaves alone. Sheep maintained by this diet endured 280 days with no water and could then survive an additional 90 days when lucerne was added, the moisture from prickly pear sustaining them.
The text explains how twilight continues after sunset as light reflects in the upper air until the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. It notes twilight duration depends on latitude and atmospheric transparency, being brief near the equator and extending toward high latitudes, sometimes from sunset to sunrise above 43 degrees latitude.
The article classifies human races by size, stating Eskimos Mongols Burmese Japanese Bengalese Malays Javanese and Hottentots average 120 to 130 pounds when fully grown. It contrasts larger groups English Scottish Scandinavians Bulgarians Northern Chinese averaging about 150 pounds. It also notes French Italians Spaniards Arabs Turks and southern Chinese at about 138 to 140 pounds.
A Northeast matron who once won a prize at a card party, recalling it at a ladies aid meeting, heard her name called out of order during a Bible verse response. She said I pass, leaving others surprised by the abrupt moment.
A compact reflection on discipline as both order and the tangible form of virtue. The text argues that discipline is not mere repression but the visible image of virtue guiding the regular gestures of holy order, making divine harmony audible to mortal ears.
The Swedes form a largely uniform people apart from the Lapps. Isolation by geography and language kept them from foreign domination and influence. They inhabit the Scandinavian peninsula for over 5,000 years, sharing a Norse-root language with Norwegian and Danish.
The phrase united we stand divided we fall traces from John Dickinson in The Patriots Appeal before the American Revolution. George P. Morris later used it in The Flag of Our Union. The saying was adopted as Kentucky's state motto.
A remark on Matthew Arnold reports he gave 100 lectures in the U S without any audience hearing them. General Grant is said to have attended a Tribune lecture and later joked that he could not hear the British lion roar.
The term ball comes from French bal and ballet meaning to dance, derived from Latin and Greek roots. A Greek word meaning to throw influenced early senses of dancing as jumping or throwing limbs. Today ball denotes formal social dancing events.
Dr Henry Coward states choral singing aids health and helps ward off influenza by exposure to night air. He notes many soloists from northern choral societies prove singing strengthens voices and challenges parental beliefs that singing harms vocal cords.
The passage argues that true criticism should reveal all aspects of a writer, not merely flaws or praise, and that learned minds tend to study authors with many beauties to highlight the light of reason rather than partial judgments. Samuel Johnson emphasizes balanced evaluation over bias.
A London Daily Mail correspondent from Elgin Scotland writes July days prove enduring twilight where sunset and sunrise blur into one. Official daylight lasts about six hours yet a crimson glow along the horizon links the long summer days in an unbroken chain.
The passage distinguishes internal growth from external accretion in rocks such as sandstone and granite. It notes that crystal formation from cooled saturated solutions resembles growth but does not add weight, thus not true growth.
The article notes that no two animal eyes are exactly alike and that flesh eating creatures have eyes set closer together than vegetarians. It adds humans have eyes closer together than fish eaters and claims grass eaters tend to have large eyes.
Mil to n residents share visits illness and travel notes A Kentucky trip by Mrs Nellie Smith Mrs Knipp and son E g ar J ones and family visit plans list of guests includes Bertch Wolfgang and Bertsch Several marriages and travel returns I nc l ud ing John McDowell wedding to Mary Spillman and Lisle Null returning from Jersey City Residents discuss landscape work at the Christian church and local hospitality arrangements
Relief from rheumatic pains reported by J. W. Hunter of Leslie California credits Foley Kidney Pills. The ad notes backache tired feeling and doll headaches as kidney and bladder trouble symptoms and urges prompt treatment with Foley Kidney Pills at Carpenter's Drug Store.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.