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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1922
Page
6
An English vignette recalls two American children who mocked a quiet Sussex family. After they returned home, the vicar jokingly asked the youngest daughter her name and she retorted with a sharp rebuke about christening dope, highlighting cultural clash.
An advertisement promotes Diamond Dyes as easy to use for dyeing sweaters skirts coats and even children's garments. It claims no color fading or running, and advises shoppers to inform the druggist about fabric type whether wool linen cotton or blends.
Reports from Knossos describe a vast palace unearthed with an advanced drainage system. The discovery confirms a sophisticated early civilization on Crete influencing Europe, with remarks noting the English tone of some descriptions.
The article explains why water appears colorless in small amounts but shows a blue tint when viewed in bulk. It cites Loch Katrine water as nearly pure yet brown-tinged by trace carboniferous matter. Light reflections, bubbles, rainbows, and surface life can produce colors in water, while dissolved salts and atmospheric gases add taste and composition.
A fragment quoted from the Salem News defines a "flap per" as a young girl lacking education and a distinct aversion to work who seems to attach or annex men in some way. The excerpt reflects period language and social attitudes without broader context.
United States Department of Agriculture prepared figures showing federal aid highways total 28 741 68 miles and cost about 500 million as of January 1. Texas leads completed mileage 1116 4 with 1881 9 miles under construction. Minnesota second in completed miles 1008 6 and 7012 miles under construction. Costs vary by state with Pennsylvania Ohio New Jersey and others listed for completed sections. Several states show project completion percentages including California 55 Georgia 65 Iowa 86 Kansas 6 Louisiana 87 Minnesota 85 Mississippi 64 Missouri 70 Montana 77 Nebraska 4 New Mexico 64 New York 44 North Carolina 88 North Dakota 80 Ohio 1 Oklahoma 64 Pennsylvania 64 South Carolina 59 South Dakota 70 Tennessee 40 Texas 69 Wisconsin 55
Pennsylvania has 01,556 miles of highway with 800 miles or 8.6 percent forming the state highway system. This report details the distribution between state and local routes and highlights the proportion managed by the commonwealth.
Women increasingly supervise highway construction and maintenance across the United States, marking a notable shift in gender roles within public works. Their growing presence reflects broader social change and improved access to professional opportunities in the field.
A Kansas article urges adoption of better roads to aid farmers and schools, highlighting the need for improved telephony and infrastructure to support rural communities and commerce. The piece underscores roads as essential to education and agricultural efficiency.
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A Virginian judge on horseback notices smoke on a hillside and suspects a moonshine operation. He orders a youth to hold the horse and climbs the fence toward the source, only to hear the boy warn that the judge must return or else the horse will be left behind. An advertisement for Cuticura Toilet Trio closes the piece.
A Chicago Tribune anecdote recalls a dinner with old schoolmates where Jack insults the biscuits by claiming his mother could bake better. Vera reveals the biscuits were sent by his mother, causing offended silence as the guests hurry to leave for other plans.
Cartoon dialogue features an assesman praising a second hand bus as beautiful. The buyer contemplates the small repairs needed and offers to purchase the minor item the seller mentions, recalling past experiences with used machines.
A man was stung on the arm by a hornet while in a tree. He told his uncle he heard buzzing and was bitten by the hornet, prompting the uncle to ask what happened as the man returned home crying. Source from the Chicago American.
A New York artist visiting a Southern family in Alabama admires a solitary tree in a meadow and, after praising it as Corot, is corrected by their elderly Black coachman who reveals the tree is merely a local sugarberry. The exchange underscores class and racial dynamics of the era.
A terse, surreal line describes command to seize a wheelbarrow and shovel and haul a pillar of salt, supposedly created by a wife turned into a frozen life inside an ice cream freezer, evoking a bizarre domestic image.
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