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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1922
Page
8
A Youth's Companion report recounts two incidents where gentle horses protected or remained still near toddlers. In one, a neighbor finds his baby in a furrow beside plowing horses after a failed attempt with a whip. In Denver, a lost girl is found safely in a stable as a horse calmly watches the child pat its leg.
A spirited recounting of historical tobacco use notes women and even children smoking in old times. It cites William Penn sharing a peace pipe with Native Americans and traces royal fashion, court usage, and punishment for smoking from England to France and beyond.
A retelling of Solomon seeking Hiram of Tyre to teach bronze craft. Hiram Abif is described as a skilled master metal worker whose murder ends his secret craft. Tradition says bronze work waned after his death, with existing bronze tools melted and repurposed for weapons.
The Danebrog, the oldest national flag, is a white cross on red. Legend credits a sky vision to King Vindemar the Victorious during the 1219 Estonian campaign near Reval. The banner is said to have fallen from heaven and was adopted soon after with medieval religious associations.
A Kansas City Star snippet portrays Jim, a slow janitor in a Walnut Street apartment, repeatedly delaying window washing with excuses. Neighbors find his procrastination both funny and frustrating as he wavers between tomorrow and next week.
A Judge story notes a boy named Bobby ignoring warnings and hammering nails with his sister Mary watching. The father questions the risk as Bobby insists Mary is holding the nail during play carpentering. The scene highlights parental caution and a child’s stubbornness.
Professor Trocello of Rome university reports success using tetra tartrate of boron and potassium to treat epilepsy. In eight cases eight patients in an asylum stopped seizures or showed marked behavioral improvement.
The prefixes pseudes and pseudos mean false or counterfeit. They form terms describing a false condition or a close resemblance to something. They also appear in medicine to describe diseases with similar symptoms but lacking defining features.
The author compares bank rolls to living beings, noting they thrive or fade based on start conditions and proper care. New York is praised as a health resort for bank rolls, with some arriving healthy and others frail yet improving with careful management.
London Answers notes stiff backlash to men in polished shoes and French styles. Ben Jonson mocked French fashion influence while hair powder gained popularity in England, drawing Puritan censure and a penny tax. The first yearly hair powder duty was £250,000, with an estimated 1,250,000 pounds raised in the first year.
The paper recounts two reader overheard quips. A Swiss waiter misstates breakfast orders with comical phonetic phrases. An enraged Portuguese speaker mocks English with a defiant jab at a foe.
The text notes that elephants and apes display strong memories surprising their keepers and that injuries remembered by elephants and tigers may trigger long delayed retaliation. It adds that sharks also remember, focusing on ships that provided them with food in the past.
Uncle Eben laments few people believe they are entitled to sympathy and few who would resent it if offered to Uberal, a remark reflecting attitudes in the scene with colorful regional speech.
The quotation asserts that humanity advances only when guided by higher ideals. It argues that what ought to be is forever above present reality, and progress requires a vision of something better to transcend current limitations.
The piece urges regular winter checks at the poultry house. It advises closing curtains or windows and preparing grain feed to scatter, keeping birds busy after roosts. It warns to listen for wheezing or heavy breathing as early signs of illness to prevent outbreaks.
Old style high roosts draw every fowl to the top causing injuries in heavy breeds and turkeys with limp feet. Low roosts avoid sprains splinters and tender feet while well designed perches keep toes secure and reduce sorelegs.
Improper feeding and close confinement cause many turkey-raising failures. On free range poults can forage. eight feeds daily as needed, three feeds when mother is confined, and five feeds if little outdoor feed is available. Start with bread soaked in milk or cottage cheese, then shift to grain as they grow. Green feed and grit should always be available.
The article explains a method to remove geese feathers for market. after killing the goose the body is dipped three times in nearly boiling water and wrapped in canvas to trap steam. In about a minute or two the feathers loosen and can be pulled out easily.
A farmer warns that a constant diet of corn meal hoe cake corn pone and Indian pudding for three months harms poultry. Farmers who feed poultry only winter corn morning noon and night risk poor health and reduced egg production.
A nurse in the room with a newborn hears Bobby enter quietly and watch the infant. He cheers the baby to cry louder saying it helps him get things, and the strong newborn waves with louder cries.
An Atchison doctor warns that more people are visited to death by slickness than die from neglect. The Atchison Globe reports the claim highlighting patient safety concerns and medical oversight.
The piece argues that advertising creates public recognition and trust in a merchant and his clerks, allowing salespeople to sell more in fewer hours. Over time this reduces selling costs per item as more goods are moved, with durable claims about fabric quality noted.
A Cleveland Park boy seeks better marks in geography at John Eaton School. He studies the book extensively and uses a witty definition of accessible as anything easily cut by axes, a quip his father recalls. The Washington Star cites the anecdote.
The piece explains practicing shuddering by tensing muscles and imagining horror. It stresses daily simple exercises to build proficiency and notes the awkwardness of failing to shudder while listening to a friend’s operation story.
A small midshipman son of Henniker Heaton complains that naval questions in the house of commons spoil careers. He quips that too many sailors have had their paths ruined by fathers asking questions in parliament.
The dialogue explains the term documental vessel as the efficient arm of the service used to attach official documents to a ship for identity and rights in trade. For vessels trading internationally and involved in whale fisheries the document is called a certificate of registry.
The Syrians viewed mourning for the dead as an effeminate act and expressed grief by wearing women’s clothes to signify weakness.
The U S Department of Agriculture releases a 280 page bulletin showing monthly price trends for crops and livestock over eleven years. It includes hogs, cattle, and sheep data with market comparisons across centers to guide timing and marketing decisions.
Experimental results show brood mares need 26 percent more annual feed than geldings or dry mares for equal work. Working mares nursing foals consume 47 percent more grain and 82 percent more hay during suckling. A winter ration for light work uses 15 pounds corn silage, eight pounds cut straw, and eight pounds grain.
The piece notes sheep turning weeds and waste into wool and meat. It observes scarce food and forage in neglected grass, barn lots, and fields, but highlights sheep as efficient converters of waste into usable produce.
A short satirical note argues that starting with the grand parent stock yields better sows and hogs. It warns that burning or exhausting sires leads to poor feeders and fat hogs, not top market hogs.
Sir Richard McBride once faced a biting opponent in BC politics. After 30 minutes of general remarks, McBride diverted at the end and said simply Hello Bilt You here addressing his rival. The moment highlights his cool reply on the platform.
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