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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
10
An article by A. Radford extols the dairy barn as the most important farm building. It argues modern, labor saving dairy facilities boost milk output, employee satisfaction, and seasonal resilience, urging farmers to adopt clean, efficient structures and water systems to protect future food supply.
The Brooklyn Eagle reports on artifacts from a lost people near Aztec New Mexico explored by Earl H Morris for the American Museum of Natural History. Exhibits include sandals beads shells shell ornaments bone points ceramic boars and coil and twisted basketry with two silos and a modern dairy barn unrelated to the exhibit.
The first living person portrait was a daguerreotype of Dorothy Draper, daughter of Professor Draper. Exposure about minutes in bright sun, powder on face. By 1857 a French duke popularized cartes de visite, a trend for presenting portraits on visiting cards.
A fragment notes more motor cars than washing machines and that people tell anecdotes but do not act, reflecting a local observation from the Arkansas Gasette.
Paris fashion notes highlight Madeleine et Madeleine showings with straight figures, oriental accents, and bold sashes. Black Chantilly lace gowns and white organza with silk remain key, while two jacket ensembles pair white organdie and black taffeta for versatile daytime to evening wear.
An essay traces the enduring appeal of the drunken man and mother-in-law jokes from ancient times through Plutarch and Isaial to modern audiences. It notes other classic lines like the curate’s egg and better ole, but argues these two joketypes endure beyond progress and culture.
A recent Yerkes Observatory observation photographed a sun eruption lifting material up to half a million miles. A detached cloud measured thousands of times Earth's volume, dwarfing terrestrial volcanic events in scale and power.
The official painter of the peace conference, Sir William Orpen, rejects a $5,000,000 American offer to paint 500 fires. He defies the popular bohemian stereotype with short smooth hair a plain collar and a businesslike demeanor.
The text states Brazil covers 3,200,431 nine miles and is 205,042 equine miles larger than the United States excluding Alaska. It notes a population over 25,000,000 and that Brazil comprises 20 states, one federal district and one territory. It also claims 7 percent of world coffee and 25 percent of world rubber production.
A wife chides her husband for preaching economy noting that when she cuts expenses he buys finer cigars and spends more on his pleasure. The husband retorts that his aim is not for others but his own. The exchange, reported in the Boston Transcript, showcases domestic humor.
A historical note records Jonah declaring a preference for a dark horse over a dark whale in a terse punning remark attributed to erbeil, highlighting a moment of figurative wit in a religious discourse.
From Lay Maryland Mr C B Loats writes that one box of eatonic relieved severe nervous spells and heart pressure after four doctors failed. He claims catonic removed poisons and gases, restoring health and offers a money back promise if not pleased.
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