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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
12
A detailed description of a Middle American style frame story and a half house built for comfort and practicality. The plan features a two car rear garage, large living and dining rooms with a brick fireplace, three second floor bedrooms with double exposure, and optional pipeless or warm air heating. Colonial style porch columns and dormers give a distinctly period appearance.
A third grade class discusses future careers with Marian choosing preacher, Ruth aiming doctor, Alice seeking teaching, and Grace confessing she will guide others, leaving the teacher amused by the twist in ambitions.
The Albee procedure for tuberculous spine, little known in England until a medical convention where Dr. A Rendle Short heard American surgeons laud it. He used it in four cases with striking success in three and comparatively in one. The operation splits the five vertebrae and inserts a long graft from the shin bone, forming a rigid mass once healed.
A Birmingham Age Herald witty quote contrasts a studious individual seeking a rarely requested book with a humorous line about asking for a life of William II. The exchange highlights the irony of pursuing uncommon literary interests.
The fragment shows a playful exchange with a boy asking about a father’s view on presidential timber. The line hints at comparing a child’s expectations with political heavyweights, illustrating a witty, satirical tone.
In a playful animal tale, Daddy and Nancy and Nick hear of the Tegus lizards from South America. The quarrel story shows their strength and speed as they argue to create a lively afternoon dispute.
A club scene features a boast about language mastery followed by a humorous misread dictation. A long haired man and friends listen as a paragraph begins with Hugh Hughes and a mysterious visitor asking about eyes while dealing with a garbled tale of hewing a yew log.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece argues sleep should aid work, not rule life. It cites Henry Vaughan, Mark Twain, and Robert Louis Stevenson, noting writers slept to write while strong doers train to work first, letting rest wait until tasks end.
A Swiss inventor Jules Argand created the air chamber lamp chimney after a careless moment with his younger brother. A bottomless oil flask over a lamp wick caused a brighter flame, inspiring the long circular neck design that led to the modern lamp chimney.
A Chicago Tribune item recalls buying a small dog for five dollars from a Black boy who believed it a Boston bull pup. The mixed breed proves affectionate and clever, charming young Elizabeth, despite doubts about its lineage.
A June and July bulletin from the American Meteorological Society notes Death Valley California saw 23 days in June with temperatures 100 F or higher and every day in July above 102 F. The extreme maximum reached 125 F at month end. An error lists July 10 2018 as 184 F, but official records consider such a value implausible.
A food specialist condemns bottled imitation orange juice as mere flavored soda with artificial color and peel oil. Officials warn labels mislead under the food and drugs act and promise action against misbranding while urging real fruit juice for children's health.
The Office of Home Economics notes a teaspoon holds about five cubic centimeters but varies by spoon and brand. Experiments show one pound of baking powder yields 126 to 150 teaspoonfuls, with individual measuring errors from 10 to 40 percent.
Practical kitchen notes advise using more milk when cooking rice and cereals and describe cauliflower as delicious with mayonnaise dressing. It suggests that a roast basted many times will be juicier and more tender.
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