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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1922
Page
6
A newspaper discussion notes the rise of English as a global lingua franca. It cites Esperanto decline, Volapuk failure, and English growth across continents, with 150 million current speakers and projections to 1.1 billion by century's end. It highlights the U S public schools role in spreading English and a potential diplomatic language shift.
The article surveys how different nationalities carry wealth from English coin to American currency, German silk purses to Italian handkerchief pouches, and Russian boot hides. It notes time lock history starting with 1881 Englishman William Rutherford and later U S inventors Holbrook, Fish, Sergeant, and Yale locks in 1876.
Mrs Clarver insists that necessity for eating outranks table manners when Violet Robinson, a Black teacher in Mobile, joins the family for dinner. The scene grows tense as Clarver reprimands and swallows her pride, signaling class and respect clashes in a charged domestic moment.
But He Dial Otto Kahn, the New York financier, objects to the modern girl's bathing attire a maillot or one piece suit no skirt no stockings Look there he said one morning at Coronado as a very pretty girl in a black silk maillot ran down the beach You could never say that girl had a rapt look now could you She Made Good She makes a good showing as a swimmer Yes but not when she leaves the water
The snippet records Mrs. Dingle alarmed by speed on a southern railway car and Mr. Dingle’s attempts to reassure her. It drifts through witty asides about taxes, atomic energy, space travel, Mark Twain, and a French translation joke, mingling stray lines from diverse topics and sources.
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