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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
5
A Chicago Daily News excerpt muses on the romantically named lovers lanes, noting crossroad lanes near gray cottages, arched trees, and moonlit scenes. It recalls Abe Lincoln and Ann Rutledge walking such lanes in Sangamon County during the 1820s as modern highways replace old routes.
Biographer Albert Bigelow Paine describes Theodore N Vail as absent minded yet attentive. When listening he doodles pencil curls and letters while when bored he folds a handkerchief into simple subdivisions, signaling discomfort until the moment passes.
Scottish gardeners are sought worldwide with a glance at private grounds in the United States paying salaries up to 51,000 a year. London park superintendents note several officials from across the border earning large private salaries on this side of the Atlantic. A South London park gardener recalls his rise from earning a few dollars a quarter to prominence, while many public parks in London and remote areas of South America employ Scots as chief groundskeepers.
Mrs. Jola J Rockefeller Jr delivers a tide speech at the Grace Dodge hotel inauguration in Washington. The women only hotel, founded with her help, features rooms for guests to land their own linen and claims comfort and luxury. She cites pride as a barrier to patronage and recalls a story defining a swell as a lazy loafer whose status rests on an ancestor's hard work.
The Los Angeles Times reports Cow Camp at the driest point on the Silver Peak range near Ponopah New where water sells for 30 cents a gallon. The sole water provider, monopoly pricing, and a long, arduous supply route raise prices compared with liquor. Nearest source is 11 miles away, routes include a buckboard and long trek by horse.
Farmers in Missouri report quails specialize in chinch bugs during winter, aiding pest control. Experts urge cooperative notices in county papers to ban hunting quails on farms, a method already used in several counties to safeguard this natural ally.
President John Quincy Adams and President Willard attend Justice Story’s lecture at Harvard law school. Story begins with the U S president awake then notices both leaders nodding off in a drowsy May afternoon, quipping on intemperate rising.
In a Washington Army Navy club incident a new aide to the Pacific fleet visits the mess and causes a playful scene. An orderly hides under a table during a table inquiry, then answers in comic fashion that he is the orderly for the day. The officer jokes about his absence from the table.
A Living Age summary notes humorous protest over Max Beerbohm in Perspective. It recalls critics who praised and mocked earlier works and cites Gardener Lynch as a persistent, patient advocate who unveils a witty yet serious portrait of the satirist and his critics.
An article reports that army, Thurstone, and Kinetic-Situon psychological tests correlated with college grades. Over two years freshmen with low psychology scores tended to have poorer scholarship and lower overall averages. Army test scores emerged as the strongest predictor of future academic performance among the three tests.
A historical note recounts the creation of US national parks. It mentions Hot Springs Arkansas as an early park under Interior control, Yellowstone as the first major addition, and a later wave of seventeen more parks, including Lafayette in Maine, with several added in recent decades.
Brazilian senators favor a proposal to establish two aviation routes between Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre to begin before September 1922. One coast route would use hydroplanes under the ministry of marine, the interior route by firplanes under the ministry of war.
In Brussels a woman seeks Waterloo battlefield tickets and drops 85 gold pieces into her dress. A nearby Frenchman helps by stepping on the garment, allowing her to reclaim the coins while witnesses stay silent.
Christina Merriman head of the disarmament division of the League of Women Voters told a Washington dinner that disarmament will end one country absorbing another. She compared absorbing nations to a bow constrictor and used a joke about an elderly man and spectacles to illustrate the point.
A humorous exchange features Mrs. Johnson reading aloud about a professor who prescribes an hour at the dinner table. The lively riff shifts to Ritepus Ridge Arkansas as a tongue in cheek debate erupts over feeding many children and chaotic meal times.
For sale one span of mules and years old one gray mare six years old and one bay horse will sell cheap. Theodore Fischer St. Meinrad Mind.
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