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Newspaper
Democrat Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1920
Page
1
Miss Effie Ottman travels to St Louis to visit Miss Mabell Blair while Blair’s kin learn she is convalescing. Doings include Evangelical Sunday school, park event at Binder’s Park, and assorted visits by Mrs Frank Walker and families. The column lists many neighbors moving, visiting, teaching positions, and wedding attendants across Carrollton, Mexico, and nearby towns with multiple journeys to Columbia and Kansas City.
The Presbyterian church Missionary Society will hold an all day meeting on Wednesday in the church parlors with an interesting program. Ladies of the congregation are invited. the hour is 10 30. Also note a hair curling service and hair nets sold Saturdays for 1 19 a dozen, contact Mrs A V M McCormick at 3021 East High.
In Columbia Missouri on September 7 the University of Missouri received a congratulatory letter for R W Selvidge professor of industrial education who returns this fall after assisting U S Army authorities in evaluating vocational training in Army schools at Camp Grant Illinois His report soon to be published is regarded as an important contribution to educational practice
A quirky tale of domestic dining shifts to a note on opium production. The piece contrasts a couple's simple meals with a broader remark on opium farming, stating India as the leading producer within the British empire and outlining private grower allowances and government monopolies in various regions.
A late 19th century forecast urges that wooden furniture will vanish as steel furniture becomes perfected and timber becomes scarce, arguing that metal production will render wooden pieces obsolete in the near future.
The exchange notes dream meanings about prisons with hopeful implications. Dreaming of living in a prison supposedly promises consolation from a distant rich relative, while dreaming of visiting a prison indicates forthcoming happiness. Departing a prison foresees great good fortune, and entering one suggests safety in an accident.
A Springfield Republican line imagines a world richer in imagination if millionaires shared poet’s sensibility, while the Boston Transcript notes Japan traffic rule advising motorists to horn and shout warnings to slow pedestrians.
An old method describes making a pewter cleaning paste by mixing one ounce of soft soap one ounce of rotten stone one ounce of ammonia and half a pint of boiling water. Store in a covered jar. Apply gently and polish with a cloth dipped in whiting.
A classroom joke turns to health basics as a student answers the foods required to keep the body healthy with breakfast, dinner, and supper. Quotations from Socrates and a playful exchange about a head of lettuce versus a cabbage punctuate the scene.
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