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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
9
An article by William A. Radford details a colonial style home prioritizing security, comfort, and durability. It notes brick or wood construction, sun parlor, sleeping porch, extra lavatory, and large upstairs bedrooms with ample ventilation, closets, and a modern bathroom.
The feature filled description covers a sun parlor 11 by 17 feet on the lower floor and a sleeping porch above. It details a 38 by 40 foot house with a full width terrace, a bright living room with brick fireplace, a dining room, sun parlor access, and a compact kitchen. Heating and laundry systems are noted as essential for comfort.
The Christian Science Monitor notes Anatolians misinterpret the term mandate, confusing it with the Turkish word for buffalo. The article suggests widespread confusion stems from linguistic similarity and unfamiliarity with the League of Nations framework.
A warden delivers a reading to convicts about disciplinary policy. The statement grants three months freedom from punishment to any inmate who commits a disciplinary offense while in the institution.
Report from Pirot describes a summer hotel keeper facing questions over evidence that his goods originate locally. The resorter asks how he arranges it and alleges he has yet to reveal the true source.
Gertrude Emerson describes Dyak women weaving dyeing and child care in large communal houses in Borneo. Homes are piled on stilts with connecting verandas used as public passageways. families sleep in separate rooms while un married girls lodge in lofts. The community enforces strict conduct with harsh penalties for both spouses. Children are cherished and elders receive kindness, contrasting with other tribes that practiced killing or burning elders when no longer useful.
The king of Siam performs the cremation of his mother after a long Buddhist ceremony. A royal aide lights the torch, and the king applies it to the pyre foot. The royal family later gathers ashes into a golden urn for burial in the palace tower, a custom since the present palace was built a decade ago.
An Indianapolis boy, shy and new to dating, took a girl to a dance at her invitation. He learned the evening wasn’t as bad as expected and found some peers supportive, while noting there were reasons beyond kindness for others to share dances.
In Bournemouth England a pilot was fined 250 for flying at dangerous low altitude and performing Immelmann turns over the sea. He claimed the turns were not tricks but quick turns and that he stayed above 1500 feet during the flight. The case marks a rare English prosecution of this kind.
Eight year old Charles attended devotional services with his parents and gave a personal testimony. A friend suggested he might become a minister and at a recent meeting he unexpectedly rose twice to declare he must start preaching, joking that three weeks of sermons would be enough.
A mother recalls her son asking how much the doctor was paid. After a pause she replies with “Enough.” The boy immediately says, “Oh, well, I do not think you got stung.”
Mrs Lane bets on an automobile and fails. Mr Lane mocks her venture. He taunts her with a box of soap and a hoped for china set. She concedes that her first venture was to win a living by marriage which also failed.
A Minnesota farmer compares costs of corn and oats showing $81.49 per acre for corn and $18.13 for oats, a $13 savings per acre with oats. Western Canada offers land around £20 an acre with 50 to 60 bushels per acre typical and imports of oats weighing 42 to 45 pounds per bushel. top prizes at international shows corroborate quality.
A fragment from Lavelle Couriers Journal mentions a woman reacting to compliments about her looks and a man's hopes tied to campaign speaking. The terse lines hint at social tensions and flirtations within public life.
Five swallows ringed as nestlings in England have been traced to temporary homes in South Africa. Birds ringed in Lancashire Ayrshire Yorkshire Staffordshire and Stirling were found across Cape Province Orange Free State Natal East Griqualand and Lake Chrissie over 19 to 120 months later.
At the first tee two cronies discuss Harry’s retirement from golf. One asks if the Scotch man who has played for decades has quit, and the other confirms the change, noting he did not become crippled but lost his golf game.
The excerpt extols facts as nourishment for the mind, comparing mental vigor to bodily strength through digestion and assimilation. It notes the rattlesnake faces danger with recall as a key instinct, implying practical wisdom comes from retained facts.
A teacher tries to explain monarchies to pupils but asks who rules if the king dies. A girl says the queen, and the teacher confirms under certain conditions. When asked who follows the queen if she dies, a boy quips The jack, provoking a quiet moment in a Ladies' Home Journal item.
Fragmentary text shows an ad or label urging safe dyeing with Diamond Dyes. It warns not to streak or ruin fabric and mentions instructions inside the package. The readable bits are incomplete and do not reveal full guidance or context.
An advertisement touts Freezone for hard and soft corns with quick painless results and warning that the drugstore bottle costs only a few cents. A historian, John Von Muller, claims 1920 world age estimates would be off by 7.42 years, based on biblical references and facts.
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