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Newspaper
Filer Record
Location
Filer, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1923
Page
3
A woman heads to the suburbs for dinner, rides a public car with a market basket containing a turkey. After two passengers stumble over the basket and knock the bundle, the turkey spills twice. The embittered woman warns the next rider with a sharp, to-the-point quip about the basket and a divine blessing.
Amusing notations from the Indianapolis News mix a child Milburn misreading Washington as "father of the horse" with a comic burglar ad. A later spoof shows a masked intruder boasting he entered through a dining room window and pitches a burglar alarm product, ending with a holiday cordial pitch.
A timber shortage spur projects to plant trees and grant honorary American Tree Association membership. The message urges donations to boost reforestation as lumber shortages bite. It notes national lumber output under 27 billion board feet annually. A veterinarian reports a German police dog sighting and a wolf is held in a heavy wire cage in Detriot News.
A fragment recalls a Louisville Courier-Journal quip about naming a lakeside deck. A man who bought property asked about timber and was told there was plenty of hickory in the area. He directed, Build it of that and name it Hickory Dickory Deck.
A fragment quotes a judge advising not to mock or pursue vain pride over a marriage. The message warns against seeking regret by making a fool of oneself for a woman, noting consequences of jealousy and social scorn.
Across a sidetrack in Vera Cruz a historic private car built for Emperor Maximilian of Mexico rests on a remote siding. Used by army officers during the revolution, it later served Juarez whose death warrant he signed. Teakwood from India and French construction mark its early 1865 arrival to this country.
A Philadelphia stenographer who served in France during the war sees a government refusal to refund a $54 804 payment, arguing she was with the military not in it. The case heads to a jury, amid broader notes on how a single word shapes outcomes. The piece cites historic disputes over grammar and meaning from the Civil War era to religious language.
London Tit-Hits asks if a normal telephone receiver can be used to play music. By pressing buttons the electric current is altered to move a disk in the receiver, producing notes. Experiments show hints of playing tunes and even assembling an arc lamp to play God Save the King.
A compact reflection cites Ecclesiastes 9 as a reminder that nothing is truly novel. The saying emphasizes recurring human patterns and age old themes rather than fresh invention or novelty.
Reported sighting during blessing of Our Lady of Guadalupe promises a prosperous year for the park. A Mexican visitor says the spray-formed cliff face resembles Nuestra Señora with a robe clad figure and crossed arms, extending along Yosemite Falls first drop near 1,480 feet high.
A man with a worn look jokes about cooking multiple items at once while his wife is away. He boasts of surviving on minimal meals and imagines frying bacon and eggs in hot grease, warning he could be burned if help doesn’t return soon.
An eventful theater night features a whispering young couple disturbing others. A man digs on the floor and mentions a muster, while another warns about unknown dangers. A sharp line about a powder joke closes the moment.
A Belgian debate over language education fuels tension as Parliament rejected a Flemish university plan at Antwerp while a Ghent proposal would offer Flemish and French in engineering, arts, and manufacturing programs. The split reflects deeper linguistic and cultural rifts cited by critics as Latin culture eroding.
A Farm Journal piece critiques suspender use as a symbol of national balance and resilience. It argues suspenders, not belts, better reflect American practicality and reliability, contrasting cultural trust in belts with the steadiness of suspenders across cities and towns.
In a brief office exchange Timmy the office boy jokes about being offered high pay, questioningly asking what a college graduate would think. The item promotes THE RECORD printing services for ads.
A narrator recalls a walk past a graveyard with marble slabs and brown sandstone tablets. A young girl comments that the graveyard is nice and speculates that the brown stones are for colored people, revealing social attitudes in a quiet rural setting.
A historical note argues that a lack of vision and selfishness act as a Chinese wall of ignorance between people, impeding progress and the well being of others. The piece frames selfish attitudes as obstacles to collective advancement and harmony.
The article explains that the familiar chamois leather comes from sheepskins processed to be soft and pliable. It notes that the mountain jar chamois has no relation to the leather supply, and only a small portion of leather is actually derived from the chamois.
A fragment notes travel by rail as a mere sending to a place with little change from a parcel and compares motion to static dispatch.
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