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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1922
Page
6
A young man named Arthur recently finished high school and agreed to lunch with his employer. His mother warned him with humor about evading advances, but Arthur was confident and reported the lunch went well without embarrassment. The story ends with the mother’s knowing smile.
A farmer on the Vaal river shoots a hawk that attacked poultry and finds an embedded two and a half foot arrow. The weapon, likely from the Akombes of Kenya, suggests long travel. A native Akamba spear transfixes the hawk. The tale links to early New York brokers with 1782 stock exchange pledges to limit commissions and guide exchanges from a Wall Street coffee house.
The tale recalls Dame Partington of Sidmouth Devonshire who battled a 1824 sea surge with mops and pails as floodwaters rose to her cottage. Sidney Smith later likened the conservative opposition to Dame Partington and her mop sweeping at Atlantic waves.
Petty Officer J J Nyland announced plans to open a Navy recruiting office in Salem to examine applicants and maintain a station until Navy needs ease, likely until mid January. Salem site will use the armory with Chief Petty Officer Brown set to replace Nyland later. Postmaster Homer S Wood can provide details.
Disabled veterans in the Pacific Northwest training for farming on own or leased land will receive up to $800 for farm equipment from the government. L. C. Joseph of Seattle cited 230 veterans currently in training, receiving about $80 monthly while preparing to manage their land projects without aid. The report notes additional vocations and references the Kyutsoy bill as a potential measure.
A Asia Magazine writer notes the Imam Shahzada Husain mosque in Kazvin reflects a long tradition dating back to Sassanid Persia and even earlier Mesopotamian times. He cites brick construction, cupola and ogive forms, minarets, tilework, and classical influences as across the Moslem world.
A British Medical Journal correspondent reports an 1841 method from Ireland in which a rat barrack built into a wall allows rats to escape into a yard where they are captured by the tail and destroyed in a barrel. The device keeps bacon safe by funneling rats away from the store.
Yonkers links to early American days surface in a tale of Washington courting Mary Philipse. Philipse Manor lay three miles above Tarrytown near Sleepy Hollow, with the original innhouse still standing and later owned by Elsie Janis who restored it with colonial furnishings.
The time ball served medieval and modern cities to signal hour changes. From European palaces to Montreal and Quebec civic centers, balls dropped at noon and other times. Uruguay's Montevideo adopted a modern system to dim lights at eight o clock, prompting residents to set their clocks.
In a light exchange the speaker notes bashfulness mirrors his father. A joking line claims the father’s shyness would have made the speaker two years older, had the father not been bashful.
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