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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1924
Page
2
In northern California sparse districts lack government projects and rely on local efforts. Immense wooden irrigation wheels with paddles rotate in streams, dipping metal buckets to lift water into ditches running miles along steep banks. The system powers and sustains crops on both sides of the valley, financed by ranchers building wheels and dredging canals.
Hoyse 40 Hiram Jones enters a Palma town store with a sign offering shoes for three dollars per pair. He attempts to buy two pairs using a misread poker rule, swapping three silver dollars for two pairs of shoes, but the clerk denies taking three of a kind and four nines. The judge notes the sale did not follow proper terms.
Samuel G Blythe in Mo Naught's Monthly compares the United States to a body of fleas, claiming it is infested with a vast array of social and political faults. The quip lists censorious, propagandist, revolutionary, reformist, puritanical, cult, quack, political, economic, salvationist, empiric, intelligentia, visionary, literary, artistic, financial and theological fleas.
A six year old boy returns from church service with undue interest in Eve’s origin and vows at dinner not to alarm his mother. He is later found whispering in a corner with hands over his ribs, saying he fears he is going to be a wife.
Fragmentary literary verse fragment contemplates thoughts on wit and nature with repeated ornate imagery. The text invokes a waxing and waxing philosophical mood and references a tree and gold and crimson tones in a lyrical, stream of consciousness style.
Fragmentary archaeology style note reports that East African elephants show tusk sizes smaller than previously known. It mentions an example of 265 pounds and compares with modern average tusk weights, suggesting a decline in tusk mass over time.
Dr. Lewis Friedman, a noted radiologist, claims his new X ray apparatus delivering 250000 volts offers a powerful approach against cancer. He reports favorable results with the device and radium on several patients, including an advanced internal abdominal cancer, and hopes for improved success in his experiments.
Iaa dal Lewis of the United States naval observatory notes uncertainty in Orion star distances. The distance is known to exceed that of the Pleiades, with Betelgeuse not a star of Orion but a different type. Light years suggest about 100 years is only a quarter of Orion’s reach.
Official report from Forest Park Illinois outlines the March 10 1924 council meeting with attendance and motions. It records approvals, advisement actions on business licenses for Sam Uavolk and Joseph Amell anovich, proposed open air entertainment at Harrison Beloit, and a playground recreation bylaw petition with a special election. It ends with adjournment and signature of Village Clerk Harry Huxhold.
An early electric flashlight design activates a wet battery when the electrolyte contacts the plates, allowing current to flow and the light illuminate during use.
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