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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1909
Page
7
A collage of scattered snippets recounts historic curiosities, from cider and apples in France to a Wells College suffrage vote and a clown’s craft. It touches on farm lore, education abroad, and the craft of performance with anecdotes about laughter, theater, and daily life.
A startled traveler with a yellow trunk clashes with a baggage clerk over a sixty six franc charge at a French station. The scene, described with humor, shows the weigh station, labels, and a brigandlike attendant as onlookers react to the dispute over extra costs.
The article surveys the shift toward more women in higher education, noting Oberlin as a benchmark and comparing graduation and marriage patterns. It cites Bryn Mawr, Smith, and Tufts, discusses post graduation careers for women, and highlights the rise of women in teaching and other professions while marriage ages drift higher.
A wide array of scientific and industrial notes covers air volume calculations, railway power use in Great Britain, ship trials, US pig iron output, French army equipment, germination research, blade safety tools, new inventions in New York, earthquake figures for Plessina and San Francisco, radiothorium and radium discussions, and Hawaii meeting prospects for the American and Huitah science associations.
The fragmentary notice notes Leaz Precarloce Ala and Scott-So Rawson turning to preaching after doubt about a law career. A quoted line from the Hoston Transcript hints at a saying about ease of preaching versus practice as onlookers recall a shift among friends and local figures.
A collage of banter and quotes from a 1920s newspaper page features jesting exchanges about marriage wage disputes infidelity and socialites. Snippets include remarks on a husband’s easygoing nature a suitor’s social expectations and breezy conversations from various columns and readers notes.
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