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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
3
Disjointed clippings describe a man’s odd claims about Garfield Tea and health, a young woman blocking traffic on Susy Street, a city officer recounting a sidewalk mirror smashing for luck, and a joke about winning a wife at a bridge tournament plus a note on money talking to the favored.
An assorted, fragmented column mocks public notices and sensational headlines. It notes a minister admonishing youth, a rumor about a local band, and quips about workers and unions in a satirical news voice.
The U S education commissioner urges observing Joby Amos Comenius birthday in American schools on March 28 as part of a push tied to a Prague Czecho Slovakia commemoration The National Geographic Society bulletin praises Comenius as a Moravian educator and author of Orbis Pictus noting his pioneering use of pictures in School teaching and visual instruction Allies of Rousseau Froebel Pestalozzi and Montessori are cited as contemporaries in educational reform The piece contrasts ancient rote Latin based learning with Comenius era methods emphasizing environment daily life science and early childhood education
The piece surveys various theories on April Fools Day origins from ancient plays and saturnalia to medieval France and then England and Germany. It notes links to Easter pageants, Roman Feast of Fools, and Hindu festivals, then explains the French shift to January 1 and the April fish taunt, with the slang “gun poor fish” as translation.
An excerpt cites Orison Swett Marden on excuses by weak men and the need for self effort and sacrifice to gain any personal grace or power. It notes the stronger value of purposeful effort over excuses and reflects on the cost of attainment. The piece comments on an imaginative magazine writer speculating about regicd contexts.
In Scotland April First is marked as hunting the gowk or cuckoo day, a tradition tied to the nickname April Cuckoo. Some readers recall going snipe hunting in youth and understand the slight pejorative implied by the term, as the gowk is a byword for contempt in local lore.
Secretary Colby visits Rio de Janeiro as part of a South American tour. A National Geographic description paints the city rising from Guanabara Bay, framed by mountains and a tapestry of stairways, villas, and dense vegetation. The piece highlights hillside dwellings, views from elevated streets, and vivid natural scenery including scarlet birds among tree ferns.
A vivid travelogue describes Sugar Loaf, orchids, and the amphitheater bay of Rio de Janeiro. It praises Avenida Rio Branco and its two boulevards, the wide mosaicked sidewalks imported from Portugal, and cinema comforts with music awaiting reels. The piece ends by lauding Rio as unmatched in beauty among human habitats.
Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, was a stop on Colby’s recent South American tour. The city is famed for its healthy climate, calm atmosphere, and Atlantic coast resort status with casinos and carnivals attracting wealthy South Americans year round.
Montevideo sits on a narrow peninsula with a low rise of buildings and a principal thoroughfare the Avenue of the Eighteenth of July. It serves as a major packing center, rivaling Chicago or Kansas City, with a 400000 population and a historic role in South America.
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, calls attention for its world standing as South America’s megacity. It blends New York and Paris qualities, hosts vast port docks built in 25 years, and features broad avenues and luxury districts that echo Parisian life amid a thriving, bustling metropolis.
The passage contemplates planets that are lit and heated by more than one sun. It suggests many such planets may exist, with billions of inhabited worlds in the universe, each possessing unique conditions and possibly hosting life forms unlike those on Earth.
A quirky tale follows three camels as they tour a theater, debating brains and acting, recognizing they play a key part in a play rather than mere scenery, and pondering what truly makes them happy in their circus to stage journey.
The piece traces the name John from ancient Hebrew roots to Latin Johannes and the modern forms Hans Hancock Hanson Hankinson. It notes this name’s widespread adoption across countries from the Middle Ages and explains variations leading to surnames like Hancock Hankinson and Hanson.
The piece urges avoiding bunglers in business and organizations, noting they have no place on rolls or in progress. It counsels careful present action to correct past mistakes, then highlights grit and support from friends to celebrate victory. It closes with a note on Chinese pioneers in fisheries and long dedication to artificial propagation.
A collage of 1900s period ads and notes tout Swamp-Root as a kidney and liver remedy, Cuticura for pimples, and a piece on good manners in New York schools. It also recounts early speed record history from 1882 with high wheelers and motorcycles, plus brief quips on language and a weed being a plant out of place.
Aspirin is only genuine when Bayer name appears on package or tablets. Cost of Bayer Tablets of Aspirin is small in twelve count tins. Bayer is the trade mark for acetyl salicylic acid. A detachable wheel and motor bar for railroad velocipedes is claimed as cork substitute. A Prague Times report notes cork substitute insulation and building use. A canned worms joke closes with a wag’s quip about fishing and toll’s nobility.
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