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Newspaper
Hayti Herald
Location
Hayti, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
22
The Highland power plant at Caruthersville faced a series of mishaps this week causing delays and losses for consumers relying on the utility for power. Officials warned residents of continued outages as repairs were underway and urged conservation measures.
The Herald reports a local print shop reliant on electric power faced long outages after a Thursday storm. A generator burned out and a boiler failed, leaving the editor and Linotype operator working 48 hours without sleep to publish news and ads. Officials expect service to resume fully by next Wednesday, with three weeks of fragile reliability before steady operation returns.
Vienna’s imperial theaters and palaces on the Ringstrasse showcase the Imperial Opera House with music statues by Fritz Zenitsach, frescoes from The Magic Flute, and a central royal Imperial box. The Imperial Theater features a grand 100-step staircase, busts, and a lively foyer with Charlemont paintings. The Hofburg Ex-Emperor’s City Palace offers the Place of Heroes, Heldenplatz monuments to Prince Eugene and Archduke Charles, and visitor access with slippers to protect floors.
The Interchurch World Movement announces a nationwide plan to hold about 2,000 county level meetings in April, with one day sessions in county seats. Attendees will include Protestant church members, aiming to promote cooperation in missionary work and church life.
Three hundred Lake Mendota fish wear gill tags under Prof. A S Pearse of the University of Wisconsin zoology department as part of a U S Bureau of Fisheries project. About 800 fish including pickerel perch carp gar and bass were tagged and released after filing scales with each record. Fishers who return tagged fish aid investigations into why growth varies by water, how many fish a body of water can support, and other fisheries questions.
A neighbor recounts meeting a child from a family with three children including twin boys. The observer asks which twin he is and the child replies in a quirky way that he is “the left over one,” revealing a playful, informal moment amid neighborhood chatter.
A survey by the American Education Department of the Inter church World Movement finds farms produce the most men entering Christian ministry. Clergy come mainly from farmers and ministers’ homes, with other occupations contributing negligibly. The aim is to broaden ministry recruitment to include sons of bankers merchants lawyers physicians and other professionals.
A Boston Transcript item notes the New York Evening Post headline claiming Greece produced the first Homer and links ancient sport to modern baseball tracing roots to Greek culture. The piece cites statistics about elephants in India and courage tests used in tiger hunting as context.
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