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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1926
Page
7
A Kansas City Star fashion note outlines the evolving fall wardrobe for women of different ages. It highlights the Jumper frock as a key trend for youth and recommends tailored coats, tweed and homespun fabrics, long blouses, and two-piece jumper suits for school wardrobes to balance style and practicality.
A fashion note emphasizes the need for harmony between hat and frock or coat. It argues that outfits must match in color, line, and fabric to suit the occasion and achieve chic results.
Langtry, a colorful old West town once ruled by Justice Roy Bean, faces abandonment as Southern Pacific plans a 14 mile cutoff diverting the transcontinental line away from the town on the Texas border. A new Langtry will rise on the route, while the original becomes a park proposal. The tale recalls Bean’s lawless court and eccentric justice, including marriages and divorces improvised on the spot.
Edwin Rey, a farmer from Constantine near Falmouth, Cornwall, reports his seventy year old tree on his land yielded 14,000 apples this year. The tree stands about 80 feet high and the apples are small and ideal for cooking.
Two prospectors Edward Annette and Edward Annette Jr probe the old Burna property in Cripple Creek era， uncover high grade free gold ore and artifacts from a saloon that burned. Samples show rich values and a 110 pound shipment yielded 46.48 ounces per ton. preparations begin to sink anew at the old stand.
Charles J Taft son of Chief Justice William Howard Taft elected president of the International YMCA uniting the United States Canada and Mexico at age twenty four in Cincinnati
A wild-eyed American business man rushed into a Parisian language school and offered 100 francs to learn a phrase to control a taxicab driver. He demanded the strongest word to avoid July traffic and learned the French line lentement after the Parisienne suggested it. he paid and left, claiming perfect pronunciation.
A Berlin professor of philology, Doctor Porkory, lectured at University College proposing that Eskimo descendants reached Ireland and influenced local types. He cited isolated Trelnod and Beatland groups with Molmol features and oblique eyes, arguing anthropological links to Eskimos. The speaker dated the arrival of Aret thhab tanta of Ireland to about 4000 B.C., when the land was believed to be covered with ice.
The text surveys legendary giant birds such as the roc and rukh in Arabic Indian and Persian lore. It cites Sinbad tales and Marco Polo notes about enormous eggs and a colossal bird fragment found in 1841 on Madagascar, later debunked as misinterpretation of real animal remains.
A Yale zoology professor notes the Latrodectus martens spider is deadly to humans. Ancient Indian tribes used venom for arrows. the spider ranges from the southern United States to the West Indies, with rare northern sightings in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
A veteran police and fire reporter, beloved by colleagues, died in a large city. A funeral tribute featured a vast white rose floral piece shaped as a fireman's badge with a vivid red inscription warning Admit within fire lines only, drawing notable attention.
The text explains how whales stay buoyed by water and how their digestive limits cap meat production. It then notes insect respiration faults in ancient air creatures, lacking forced draft breathing, relying on drifting air into their body tubes. Result: even massive prehistoric insects could not exceed pencil thick bodies due to breathing and digestion constraints.
The Cahomen bureau notes the fen fauna off the New England coast as one of the richest American fishing regions with about 180 species recorded. Major catches include cod, haddock, hake, pollock, herring, mackerel, swordfish, halibut, and salmon. The northeast fishing bank extends to the Americas and American vessels catch about 200 million pounds of seafood from this area.
The text argues about how building is defined under common law. It notes the difficulty distinguishing a building from a structure and mentions the Mecca mosque as an enclosure that would be a building under strict rules. It ends with a note on common parlance implying roofs are assumed.
A garbled critique surveys Captain Erwuk Hurley and Captain Frank Hurley works, praising The Wonders of the South and The Wind as vivid polar explorations. It contrasts Hurley’s dramatic photography with Wendys fiction, noting fiery adventures, peril on ice, and heroic persistence amid drought and wind.
The text recounts Homer as a legendary figure born between 1000 and 700 B.C. with uncertain origins in Greece. It notes his poverty during life, posthumous fame across seven Greek cities, and highlights his epic works the Iliad and the Odyssey detailing Troy, Paris, Odysseus, Penelope, and the quest to return home.
Scientists at Western Electric have developed a heat treatment and tiny alloy addition to lead. The new process yields highly successful results, aligning with centuries of research aims.
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