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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1920
Page
3
A Polish sized, 5 foot 11 inch Dutch visitor named Van Albert arrived in New York as a tele ship docked at the harbor. The report notes a dramatic likeness to a Germanic legend and describes the giant as unusually tall for his era.
Miss Irene R Diner, a New York school girl, made a sensation in industrial chemistry with a discovery of a new process in the manufacture of rubber. The report highlights her achievement and the potential impact on the rubber industry.
Six elephants form a circus band and discuss playing memories that guide their tunes. Jim Jamile Norton and Jamle note they know they play the same tune but cannot recall the exact piece. They fear misaligned melodies without memory, yet clowns and audience enjoy their peculiar concert.
Fragmented dialogue shows elephants joking they lack trunks and legs for showy tricks yet are praised as musicians with memories guiding their performances. They compare to circus seals and wonder about audience perceptions. Other items recall a girl asking how to cut an egg without spilling and one about a dentist’s work.
The text surveys varied topics from tax on bricks in St Ives and World production standards to population notes in Cleveland and Andaman natives, touching on historical shoe industry in New Hampshire and a high village peak in Kashmir, with scattered references to railway repairs and early plant cultivation across India and Egypt.
The article notes an ancient custom where a squire piece of cloth was used to conceal the bridal couple during marriage. It claims the veil was not used at the marriage of a widow and remarks on deceptive appearances and blurred edges in shells and imagery.
A fragment describes treating grease stains on car parts using Fuller’s earth and magnesia in equal parts, mixing into a paste, applying with water and cloth, and repeating if needed. It also mentions a music attachment for big clocks and an inventor’s perforated paper roll device to play two tunes.
East Liverpool barriers strike for wage rise. Universal Steel to erect a $1 million plant at Huron. Wooster water bond issue passes. Cincinnati approves day saving ordinance. Infant skeleton found in Kenton cellar. Federal agents seize $20,000 in Toledo. Toledo fire causes $200,000 loss at Immaculate Conception church. Electric railway ties Piqua and Richmond. Galion debt cut from $319,368 to $209,643. Piqua man Joseph V. Seibert found dead with a bullet wound. Clyde H Hooley sues for divorce at Urbana. Jesse Harris, longtime editor, dies in Salem. Elyria rep Comings to move to Honolulu. Search for Charlotte Harris corpse in Ohio River. Belden worker killed at Lisbon plant. Wyandot secretary Dillon McQuade named. Bowling Green population 5,783 in 1920. Lake Shore interurban workers gain wage increase May 1. Martins Ferry theater owners abandon Sunday plans. Universal Clay Products plant burns, $50,000 loss. Ten tenants overcome by gas in Cleveland. First bond delivery by airplane to Piqua bank. Mrs Bowdle ends life in Cincinnati cistern. Yeazell estate worth $400,000. Harriman killed by train in Port Jervis. Rep Hooley files for divorce. Salem editor dies. W R Comings to move to Honolulu. Charred details of other local cases and cross-state events.
Ohio items report puddlers at Youngstown getting a $1500 ton raise, a East Liverpool fire destroying four houses, a $250000 Kenton school bond passing, a 20 dividend by Brier Hill Steel, union wage strikes, and municipal pay raises. Other notes cover a Sandusky river alligator, a Warren shooting of a boy, Mothers Day proclamation, Dr Hunt’s death, electrocution case arrests, bank robbery, and diverse county and city measures including hospital closures, population shifts, and highway funding questions.
In a Sunday school lesson from 1920, Rev P B Fitzwater outlines Eli and his sons in I Samuel chapters 2 and 4. It contrasts priestly corruption with Samuel the boy, detailing graft and gross lust among Eli’s sons, Eli’s failure to discipline, and the subsequent divine judgment including the ark’s capture and Eli’s death.
The piece highlights John the Baptist's single focused message urging repentance to straighten the crooked path for the Lord to walk. It also notes that knowledge of danger can be strength and cites quotes on safety, compassion, and religious embroidery from sources like K P Roe and Doctor Blatr.
Jones discovers clocks labeled 53 in a shop and questions the price. The jeweler says the profit comes from repairing them. A quip follows: The poorer the lawyer the fewer his trials. The wise man and the fool's money are soon united.
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