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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
3
A collage of quips and humorous lines from a newspaper page includes hazing remarks at a college, a sophomore salute joke, street chatter about Christmas gifts, a spendthrift financier Jigge Brown, a gag about an ouija board, a tramp seeking food, a winter golf piece, and a nature quip on leaves and spring.
Bolivia builds an Andes road at 17 000 feet. a matchbox clamp appears on steering wheels. Czecho-Slovakia hosts its first international aeronautic exposition. An artificial Christmas tree serves as lint rack and umbrella stand year round. A California inventor's tractor turns almost in its length. Hoops for casks fastened hydraulically with magnetized rings aid alignment. Sea of Galilee fisheries decline. A Frenchman designs a pistol that shoots a mine instead of bullets. Miss Alice Balfour serves as a Scottish JP. German yields a wheat husk stripper turning grain into bread without flour. French plant aims for 5000 hp from tidal power at multiple basins. Uruguay opens South America’s largest wool scouring plant in Montevideo to export cleaned wool.
Folk tale about waves and ocean children who roam then realize happiness at home. Mother Acean counsels them on staying rooted, while Mr Wind helps bring them back. Later, crowds swim in the warm southern coast as fairies ride foam boats and sing. all celebrate the ocean.
A lyrical passage describes waves and ocean life, celebrating returning home to Mother Ocean. It portrays waves longing for adventure but choosing happiness at home, with songs and stories about staying and cherishing ocean life. The tale emphasizes contentment, community, and a timeless refrain of never roaming again.
A collage of short anecdotes and quotations from Boys' Life and Girls' Companion, reflecting on energy and enterprise, generous giving, misused words, and memories of notable chairs. It recalls tenderfoot scouts, lessons on kindness, a spelling error turned joke, and famous chairs at Bunyan Meeting house in Bedford and Nelson exhibit in Norwich.
The article traces Bessarabia’s geography and history from its rivers the Dniester and Pruth to its borders with Moldavia and kherson. It notes its size about the combined states of Vermont and New Hampshire and its population of 2.5 million including Moldavians Poles Roumanians and Jews. The piece outlines its capital Kishinet and its long history of conquest by Byzantium Romans Goths Huns Avars and Bulgarians before joining Russia after the Napoleonic wars and remaining until after the Russian Revolution.
President Obregon governs a nation of diverse dialects spread from Sonora to Yucatan. The piece notes language divisions fueling revolts, highlighting Yaqui tribes, their roles with federal troops as Manzos, and the wild hillside Bronchos who raid ranches while surviving on burros and beef.
The article surveys remote indigenous groups including Mays Indians near the Yaqui region and the Seris of Tiburon Island. It notes their hunter traditions, peaceful labor on ranches, and rumors of cannibalism, portraying them as mysterious yet historically significant coastal inhabitants.
Congress faces post war immigration as a major issue. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell urges an ethnical survey of the United States to classify foreign elements as beneficial or harmful. He argues that improvement comes from within and the new blood can be guided by immigration law to raise national standards.
A National Geographic communicated illustrated account explains open hearth steelmaking after World War II. It details charging dolomite and scrap into furnaces, melting and refining with carbon and alloys, tapping with a ladle, and removing slag as molten steel pours into molds.
Philosophical piece stressing that life loses vitality when people refuse to help others. It argues the national and individual greatness rests on the spirit of helpfulness and that service is an inherent law governing all commerce. The excerpt hints at civic duty and communal burden as foundations of society.
A sermon urges cultivating humility faith charity and cheerfulness in youth referencing a return to childlike virtue. It extols serving others through labor and unity, condemning idleness and praising purposeful work as building character and community. It quotes Ruskin on learning words and notes Milton and Flaubert as examples of masterful prose.
The passage explains handling molten steel and dangers from moisture, the heating of ingots, and the pouring process. It describes two main furnaces crucible and electric, detailing how foundries keep out gases, control alloying, and remove impurities. It notes the electrical arc furnace for pure heat and the production of refined steel ready for use.
Melville Chater reports to the National Geographic on Erivan, center of a provisional Armenian republic, housing 200,000 to 800,000 refugees after the 1915 massacre. The city’s famine, typhus, and mortality strain its 40,000 population, while Igdir region reveals plague-like despair with orphanages and medicine shortages among 30,000 Armenians, 20,000 Tatars, and 15,000 Yazidis.
Rev. M. Angelo Daugherty discusses removing tattoo marks with a calylic acid and glycerine paste. A compress is applied and secured for about eight days, then the paste is removed along with dead skin. The note references word power and study of words, citing De Quincey and Lincoln.
Mrs. Lilly Keith of 6278 Fellows St recounts a decade ago a life saved at fifteen after being bedfast for more than two months. She credits Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with restoring her health and urges other girls to use it for healthy development.
An advertisement fragment warns to look for the Bayer name on genuine Aspirin and lists uses such as colds headache and rheumatism. It notes small twelve tablet boxes cost a few cents and mentions larger packages sold by druggists. The copy includes stray slogans and sample request prompt from Garfield Tea Co. Brooklyn NY.
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