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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1925
Page
3
Bart Rogers leads a tense night as Bellaine clashes with the vigilante mob, arrest, and court. Bull Franniston is nearly burned, Bart smothers the flames while a shadowy figure slips toward a safe, unresolved to be continued.
Florence Ward writes in The Flames of Happiness that happiness is a flame, an enduring light fed by love friendship learning religion and work. She notes happiness survives as embers and can be rekindled with what one has, even as ambitions and dreams flame higher.
A historical note from Family Herald cites Sir Henry Bessemer on counting a billion. He imagines 20 cent pieces stacked to twenty feet high, then walls of coins extending for miles to show the scale, illustrating the vast quantity beyond imagination. The passage explores the difficulty of grasping such a large number.
Bart Rogers faces mortgage confusion as lawyer Leon Barrows reveals an unknown benefactor and oil intrigue surrounds his land. Tom Jordan wins the mayoral race and offers Bart the marshal job amid Franniston’s control, gang unrest, and a mysterious past involving Jim and a lawyer Bartholomew.
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and the smallest in size. Its mean distance from the sun is about 36 million miles, with Earth at about 94 million. A year on Mercury lasts 188 days, and its diameter is roughly 3,000 miles with a mass about one eighteenth of Earth.
Cats without tails are common in Manx varieties and are often seen in Russian populations. Many observers believe this trait originated in Japan. The source notes uncertainty about whether the Jungle cat could claim the ancestry of these tailless Manx Malay types.
In S. Baring Gould’s Further Reminiscences a humorous episode unfolds as he recalls convincing a bedridden neighbor to sing a bawdy song about John Barleycorn. The neighbor’s wife erupts, burning his trousers and berating the minister for unduly encouraging wicked entertainment.
Golden altar vessels dating from the tenth century were found in an underground passage near Antwerp Street, Atlanta. The tunnel likely served a religious order avoiding surface streets. Skeletons lay near the relics as experts ponder their origin, with theories ranging from English raids to Inconoclas t outrages.
A woman writer compares men to chairs in a foreign exchange piece, noting variation in form and usefulness. She observes some men resemble mahogany chairs, losing their polish after time, with further reflections truncated by fragmentary text.
A playful simile filled joke compares men to chairs. It ponders delicacy and practicality in romance and domestic life, noting chairs that need care on hot days and others that are won in elections. The humor lands on wives and mothers in law as the ultimate seating requirement.
The Jewish historian Josephus places Eden between the Ganges and Nile while later scholars locate it in southern Babylonia or Armenia. New discoveries suggest Eden was a Sumerian name for the Babylonia plain near Eridu by the Persian Gulf, with a garden of the gods and the Tree of Life. This aligns with Biblical clues and places Eden north of the Persian Gulf.
From ancient times salt has stood for life’s essentials and flavor, and a gift of salt signals a hope that life will not lack zest or joy.
A quotation by Sidney Smith proclaims that worthwhile deeds require jumping in rather than hesitating at danger. It urges proactive effort, embodying courage and resolve to tackle challenges head on.
A note on fabric etymology explains that serge traces to China through Selicum, the Latin name for China. The term entered English around 1660 as trade and cloth terms evolved, linking the fabric to its distant origin. The explanation emphasizes linguistic shifts from Selicum to serge.
The mining industry in South Africa costs about 150 million annually and directly or indirectly provides 40 percent of union and provincial revenues.
A historical note recalls Louis XTV drinking the first French coffee about 280 years ago. The article states the price then was about 25 dollars per pound.
Athanta Constitution quotes Brother Williams urging practical housekeeping before addressing larger universal problems, framing the message as a life motto about keeping order prior to tackling big issues.
The Siamese honor their country as Muang Thai meaning the Land of the Free noting Siam has never been under foreign rule.
Improved Spring Sandals for boys and girls strap on like skates with two steel coils between the sole and leather pad. Available in five sizes with flexible springs to reduce ankle risk. Walking and jumping strengthen feet and legs while encouraging playground games.
Visitors to Windsor Great Park recall the equestrian statue of George II at the Broad Walk end. Erected in 1823 the horse body was set first then the head and finally the king. From a London Tit-Bits anecdote a castle official and six friends dined inside the statue, and a short ladder left behind remains sealed inside.
A New York World writer notes the high price of sport on private Scottish waters. The River Spey salmon stock was about 800 this year, far below the usual 2000. A sportsman paid 3.50 weekly for one rod and after five weeks yielded a single fish costing 17.50.
In William Shakespeare the other William recounts a funny tale from Plain Words on Singing about Lablache the renowned basso. At dinner Lablache sang a long breathless note from piano to forte and back, then sent a chromatic scale up the octave, blew out a candle with his mouth wide, and drank wine without breathing. Giants indeed.
The United States army has developed a 75 mm gun that shoots nearly three miles farther than the famous World War I French 75 mm gun while weighing the same. Source: Science Service.
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