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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
4
In a low wet landscape the red osier dogwood fits the scene without overpowering the open country. Planting should follow the native vegetation guide, avoiding stiffness and overdoing an overdosed amount, with options like rose covered slopes, junipers, harebells, yuccas, and native cliffside plantings to enhance the barren cliff and clay banks.
The article advises cautious home buying for moderate incomes, recommending saving, paying one fifth cash, then borrowing for building. It notes building and loan plans help many, and stresses choosing a central, improved location for value and resale potential as cities grow.
The Birmingham Age-Herald argues that if Alabama cities with all resources were fully owned by residents, progress would accelerate. It notes residents often lack knowledge of local industrial achievements and potential, citing Birmingham as an example and comparing to Miami and California cities.
An Albany Alabama Herald editorial argues belief in a town's potential matters as much as natural advantages. It states that every citizen's effort impacts collective progress and warns that those who "lay down on the job" diminish shared outcomes. It asserts towns that believe in growth cannot be kept down, likening belief to sunshine warming the earth.
A Berlin city measure requires monthly scrubbing of building exteriors to beautify the city and promote health. Proponents say cleaner walls will improve health conditions and reduce grime from smoke.
The piece argues that about 38 percent of Americans own their homes while 62 percent rent. It claims rent payments will eventually cover the cost of the home, but the landlord will own it.
Nearly 700 American communities now maintain public play centers and more than 12,000 men and women are employed as recreation directors, reflecting growth in local leisure services and municipal programming.
A London Humorist quips during a playfully admonishing moment as an old shoe is thrown from a window. The line suggests good humor about mischief and a playful jab at the recipient to keep singing.
A fragment from The Progressive Grocer quotes five year old Marjorie saying a hungry line about asking for pie and prompting fear in the listener. The odd exchange captures a brief, informal streetwise humor.
An Anglo Saxon and Old Saxon glossary preserved at Fotnal France is said to have been written toward the end of the seventh century. It was originally kept at the Moyen Moutier abbey Lenones.
The Heart of Midlothian, the city jail torn down in 1817, stood at Edinburgh’s center in Scotland’s Midlothian county, shaping local history and memory of the capital.
The text enumerates nineteen national parks including Hot Springs Arkansas Yellowstone Wyoming Sequoia California General Grant California Mount Rainier Washington Crater Lake Oregon Wind Cave South Dakota Platt Oklahoma Sully Hill North Dakota Mesa Verde Colorado Glacier Montana Rocky Mountain Colorado Hawaii Mauna Loa Lassen Mount McKinley Alaska Grand Canyon Arizona Lafayette Desert Island Maine Zion Utah and other smaller national monuments with caves bridges battlefields and historic sites.
An authority on heredity asserts age of parents affects potential achievement. First and lastborns more likely to reach eminence. More children extend the mother’s life, influencing offspring longevity. Children of professionals have better fame prospects than those of wealth or limited education. Fathers under thirty-one yield more soldiers. thirty-one to forty favor artists. forty-one to fifty lean toward statesmen. over fifty-one produce philosophers. Ninety percent of criminal cases involve offspring of younger parents. If your father is over sixty and you are the youngest in a large family you should become famous.
A Boston doctor sent a $10 bill to Mr. Bangs listing two visits, with Bangs calling the charge robbery. The doctor offered to rewrite the bill and later detailed a long list of midnight duties totaling $10, then waived the second visit and insisted only on earned charges.
A Rural Free Delivery carrier recalls a joke about a foreign woman who received a letter from the old country marked 20 cents due. He asked for payment, she refused. After realizing the charge should be 15 cents, he explained. She grinned and paid 15 cents, believing she had outsmarted a bargain.
A Victorian-era note in the Youth's Companion mocks a house painter who boasted low rates because he was single. He reveals he will soon marry, promising that his “old rate” will be withdrawn. The piece satirizes short sighted marketing in the pre wedding era.
A short comic anecdote shows a plumber teaching a novice on his first day. The helper asks to be paid for his time, but the master insists he has not earned anything. To fill the hour, the plumber uses a lit candle and asks the helper to blow out the small remaining wick.
Sinclair Lewis argues Americans miss true fun by conforming to mass standards. He urges individuals to act from inner selves, not external expectations, and to pursue creative, reflective living rather than chasing status symbols or competitive success.
A Springfield Republican summary reports USDA observations on cattle drinking frequency in range country. Most cattle drink after days rather than hours, with wetter weather reducing trips. In dry hot periods some drink daily, others every two to three days. Researchers advise watering points no more than five miles apart in New Mexico level country.
The Trafalgar naval clash off Cape Trafalgar in Spain on October 21, 1805 saw 27 English ships under Admiral Nelson facing 33 French and Spanish ships led by Villeneuve. The allied fleet was decisively defeated. three admirals were captured, 19 ships were destroyed, and Nelson was mortally wounded. Collingwood assumed command as Britain secured a decisive victory that ended Napoleon’s invasion plans.
Electrically operated dredges reach 60 feet below water along Alaska's Seward peninsula. Each dredge can recover up to 200000 cubic yards of gold bearing sand monthly, with placer gold output expected to rise. Power is supplied by shore side electric generating stations via a 00 horsepower cable link to the dredge.
Engineers near Latrobe Pennsylvania completed the deepest well, striking natural gas at 7,428 feet after start in 1922 and 80 months of drilling. The Gug now flows at 500000 cubic feet per day, with total sinking cost around 200000 dollars.
In a humorous American Legion Weekly item George Washington Jones dresses for a street scene and explains his third wife is at a jubilee wedding. He says his wife went to work as usual while the man who employs them chides him for not coming in. The tale hinges on a playful misreading of a wedding celebration and a punchline about loyalty and family roles.
A column notes how twelve men from varied backgrounds rank a woman's hands as highly expressive of character. Observations range from hands signaling love at first sight to judgments of care, skill, and refinement, urging women to maintain well kept hands as a mark of grace and virtue.
Earl Akers, mayor of Topeka, recalls Sir Ellis Barker's jab at preserved foods. Barker claims preserved foods lack vitamins. The anecdote shifts to Si Hoskins the miser, who jokes about pork chops and a hog’s natural death as a friend watches him fry chops.
New York painter George Luks browses a Greenwich Village jass novel and comments on its brisk, sharp dialogue. He cites a pasted mock exchange between mother, father, and daughter as proof of the book’s lively style.
Shifting sands with the features of a great American desert have been found in Alaska posing a danger to inexperienced travelers and hikers.
The senior class elected President Richie Eyres and Secretary Treasurer Fern Coatsworth. Members for the year include Richie Eyres Agnes Laddusaw Fern Coatsworth Mary Eyres and Verna Plendl. The town ship board re elected Superintendent C J Smith and teachers who might stay were asked to respond later. A new scale funded partly by Red Cross Christmas gear sales will be used in health work. Esther Eyres visited the schools last Friday. The high school beat former players of the same school 16 to 9 in a Tuesday game. The township team played well given limited practice. players included Chandos Smith.
James Hoyt Rolden Schroten William Hoyt Walter Harvey R G Eyres and Archie McKay are named. The farm bureau ladies hosted a lunch after the game and sold refreshments to raise funds for the plano fund. Hill and Twogood worked last Friday and Saturday to repair the spouting on the house and finish the tin work on the gymnasium.
Mrs Martha Salaw of Marshalltown describes her recovery from severe nerves indigestion and back pains after using Karnak. She says the treatment restored health and energy, letting her sleep eat and perform housework again. Karnak is marketed exclusively in LeMars by George W Koenig and local druggists.
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