Poet Wonders What Apple Tree Sighs About
A postal notice from Coatesville Indiana echoes a playful newspaper poet musing on what an apple tree moans about in wind and moonlight. The jest suggests the tree might sigh if laden with green fruit.
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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1920
Page
2
A postal notice from Coatesville Indiana echoes a playful newspaper poet musing on what an apple tree moans about in wind and moonlight. The jest suggests the tree might sigh if laden with green fruit.
Railroad managers and operators pressed ahead despite doubts and have delivered, pleasing the nation’s shippers with a completed operation and realized promises.
A child in Oregon was electrocuted after touching an electric crow on a metal heat register, likely due to a lack of warning about electrical hazards. The incident underscores the need for basic home safety education to prevent such tragedies.
Pat McKinney jokes lightning never strikes twice at the same spot. Sim Potters reports a missing engine after riding Lizzie. Mick Cody says he does not believe in woman suffrage and argues against gender equality.
In Portland at a convention Oregon physicians warned that the current craze for operations is passing and many past cases of appendicitis were merely stomach aches. They note a general shift toward health and vigor, with women’s ideals moving away from fragility. A tongue in cheek remark suggests sending Leninists to Russia for a vacation to curb Bolshevism, while Mrs. Snowden criticizes Soviet Russia as tyrannical despite Lenin and Trotzky’s welcome.
The group of workers who mocked government wage rules has resumed labor after misjudging their stance. With winter coal needs in view, an Interstate Commerce Commission order to ship 1,250,000 tons monthly to New England via tidewater ports has eased. Rail freight shows no business decline and tonnage rose in August, while private railway management increases efficiency beyond the Depression era.
A sale notice advertises 500 good breeding ewes offered at the Joe Vaughn farm. Judge Tribbett is listed, along with the lot likely location and reference number 42-5. The notice reads as a straightforward property sale item from a local agrarian listing.
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