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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
3
William A. Radford describes a one story bungalow plan ideal for small families, highlighting six rooms on the first floor, a front living room with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, a bath, and a rear porch. The design emphasizes labor saving, airy flow, and potential attic expansion, with guidance to consult an architect and local builders, note rising rents and easing costs.
The text links Ishmael with the Arabs and Ishmaelites, notes their desert lineage and long history among brethren, and describes perpetual incursions and hardship. It claims Arab tribes plunder neighbors, find refuge in sand, and asserts that only a railroad into desert wastes enabled pursuit and subjugation, with British action rising after Gordon’s death.
In Kokengola Solomon Islanders, once head hunters, donated to a missionary collection. A Solomon Islander in clean robes placed $50 on the plate to aid spreading the gospel, while others gave coconuts and shells. Across three circuits, natives contributed over $1,000.
Popular Mechanics Magazine reports a surgical triumph of the war era in using an artificial salt solution with ocagum to substitute blood loss. The solution carries in the circulation for a time before being absorbed, overcoming vein wall leakage that doomed earlier transfusions.
A fragment notes sailors refusing to bathe at quarantine to avoid being washed ashore. The terse remark suggests sailors resisted landing procedures and public hygiene mandates, provoking questions about pride and obedience during a maritime health check.
The Bible Crusade plans a grand handwritten Bible to be the largest and finest ever made. It will use six hemp ropes as spine, be bound with leather, and include signatures of kings, paupers, and workmen. About twelve thousand people must contribute to complete the text. The volume, now at Oxford University Press, awaits funding and a motorized, portable exhibit car.
In Derbyshire and other British wells Experimentally bored oil yielded about three thousand barrels. Balmwell near Edinburgh produced much more anciently. Crude oil was not refined for lighting but valued as a skin remedy. The purified substance, Balm of Sinai, fetched high prices. Now vaseline costs only a few cents per ounce.
A Popular Selene Monthly note introduces a transparent celluloid window shade that attaches to a regular spring shade roller. It seals draughts while preserving view, with end sticks fitted in frame grooves to prevent curling. The piece envisions a shade that blocks light but not air, ideal for summer.
A recent publication sent to the Department of Agriculture by A. M. Daniels outlines water power potential from small streams. The booklet explains the method to measure usable water power and how to estimate output for rural electrification programs.
Pimples on the face and body are warned signs that blood is sluggish and poor. They may foretell eczema boils blisters and other skin disorders. The ad promotes S. S. S. as the great vegetable blood purifier with no minerals or demon to injure skin. Free medical advice offered by the Medical Director at 105 Swift Laboratory Atlanta Ga.
A fragment from a 19th century piece recounts darkles in a negro regiment boasting of a bugler with a deep hypnotic note likened to a Boston Symphony performance. The tale includes a warning to a boastful boy and a political anecdote about a maid and a dirty plate provoking a reaction.
Miss Gerty Gad criticizes new maid Maria for poor service and a string of misunderstandings. Maria insists she does her best while recalling a previous incident when Mr Gumson alleged she slammed the door on him as he called for her after mistaking his golf club for an umbrella mender.
Farmer Corntessel jokes about the big financial folks and gasoline prices. He notes that no authority has boosted gasoline prices in some time, implying a market rise or speculation in the interim.
In the New York Central Magazine excerpt a father questions a suitor about drinking tobacco gambling and swearing. The visitor declares abstinence from alcohol tobacco and cards and refuses to use profane oaths. The exchange ends with an invitation for candy.
A Birmingham Age-Herald fragment shows a harassed plateman telling suffragist delegates to wait for his return, then jesting he will slip out the back and go to Europe. The vivid, period voice captures political pressure and evasive response amid suffrage activity.
Browne Mrs Smith is noted as an adept at making over old clothes. Towne confirms she even ruffles her husband s old temper.
An ex soldier wearing an American Legion button dismisses the Louvre as a mere department store while a nearby youth, possibly disinterested in art, threads a casual Paris visit into their conversation about the gallery.
During the war did Mr. Wadleigh endure until it hurt I understand he was never free from pain The fragment cites a dialogue about Mr Wadleigh's prolonged suffering and enduring pain during wartime.
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