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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1925
Page
1
Air age promises a high flying era with planes moving faster by flying at great altitudes. Turbocompressor engines and variable blade propellers push speeds up by over thirty miles per hour as tests yield high altitude efficiency. Researchers forecast regular super express airways miles above ground with flights of 250 to 300 mph.
A London Tit-Bits report describes a rooftop sports ground atop St. Pauls choir house near the cathedral dome where cricket and football have been played for 50 years. A wire-netted cage serves daily as a practice space for local youngsters in football shorts.
An anecdote from Forbes Magazine recalls riding the Broadway Limited westbound. A porter explains, with a grin, that the train is not faster than locals but arrives quickly because it keeps on keeping on. The observer notes the scenery passing by and chairs left by a group of young folks.
Rubber latex coating preserves flavor of fully ripened tropical fruits shipped long distances. Strawberries, hard to handle when ripe, have been sent half a world away in this protective coating. The air is sealed out to prevent decomposition, and the brittle latex can be peeled away when cold.
The world's Invest granite stone was quarried at Rockville Minnesota. The stone was broken out by jackhammers and measures 150 feet long 75 feet thick and 29 feet wide weighing 8 500 000 pounds.
The sketch recounts Persia known as Iran in the Old Testament, noting mythical origins, Medes rule to the north, and Cyrus leading a revolt in 569 B C to overthrow the Medo Babylonian rule, conquer Asia Minor, and master the East, with Cyrus killed in battle around 520 B C.
A writer in the Family Herald ranks the two earth pigs or yardvarks at the London Zoological Gardens as nightmares and the worst four legged ugliness, comparing them to a wart hog and noting their repellent smell. It surveys horrid reptiles like the Thorny Devil and frilled lizard, the octopus, stingray, and many venomous fish, asserting ugliness often accompanies danger in tropic seas and beyond.
Fred Kelly reports in The Nation's Business that airplane postage stamps were unavailable at a Cleveland hotel and a leading hotel, and businessmen showed little knowledge of air mail costs from Cleveland to New York. The piece argues air mail service remains a novelty and not yet popular.
Frank Harris, guest of honor at a New York literary banquet, quips that American literature was prudish in the past and recalls a boarding school anecdote. He notes the shift away from strict modesty, linking it to changing attitudes in literature.
Ole Svenson who had lived alone and cooked his own meals married a wife identified as Mrs Sven Son. The couple lived together for about two months before she left for the city. The note hints at a domestic disruption or departure.
A friend asks Ole if he is sorry she left. He replies no, explaining she was always getting in the way when he was cooking.
A lighthearted exchange about sleeping habits and a child who wears out pajamas. Mrs Jones teases her husband Clarence about the boy’s late nights and the family’s pajama usage.
A Wall Street Journal tale recalls a clerk who found himself a $3 million windfall after signing for 75,000 shares of Leading Industrial overnight. Brokers once held huge paper wealth in many employees names, including a sick clerk who later signed away his potential fortune.
A collection of peculiar ad snippets from London Birmingham and New Zealand papers mocks unusual solicitations. Highlights include a second hand terrestrial globe wish and humor about golf score boosting, while a New Zealand laundry advert plays on biblical language.
Tea is categorized as green or black by color flavor and preparation. Green tea leaves are heated roasted in shallow pans over a wood fire then rolled by hand to reduce moisture and twisted. They are roasted and dried quickly. Black tea leaves are spread in open air then tossed by hand until flaccid roasted for hours in a soft moist state and finally dried over a charcoal fire. Rolling and roasting may be repeated to achieve the desired color.
A Greek father Sophronius forbids his daughter Eulalia from visiting Lucinda. She protests, the father burns coal to test her resolve, and Bulalla witnesses the transformation as the white hand darkens. The tale ends with caution about evil companions and communications.
Four men stranded on the northern Kenat peninsula in north Alaska survived for about a month by living entirely on porcupines. The diet kept them in good condition when finally rescued. Porcupines are easy to kill though slow runners, making them a common last resort for exhausted prospectors in remote wilds.
A brief note indicates a youth named Tim supplied a school days account from Youth's Companion. The item preserves a dated, period-tone reference to early 20th century youth periodical culture with no further details or outcomes.
A fragment notes an unwritten North law that a porcupine must not be killed except for food, implying a cultural rule governing wildlife use and survival amid famine. The text reflects traditional constraints on hunting and resource ethics in difficult conditions.
Report notes Troy’s historic location is debated with some doubting its existence. It recounts Teucer and Troas as founders, Troja as a name, and legends of Apollo’s lyre building walls. The conventional fall of Troy is dated to 1184 B C after a ten year siege.
A witty line from the Wall Street Journal notes a new teller being corrected by a customer over a deposit. The jab hinges on a missed balance and a taxi ride, highlighting humorous misreads in routine banking.
A new process from Popular Science monthly coats fruit gathered before ripening with rubber latex to form a protective skin. After coagulation the ripening is slowed, keeping the fruit in good condition for long-distance transport.
A necklace believed to be seventy five thousand years old, once worn by a cave woman in southern France, is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beads are ivory, deer antler, and polished stone, some bearing tiny crude carvings. A French archaeologist uncovered the necklace in a cave.
The Nature Magazine cautions against photographing nestlings until they are sturdy enough to be removed without harm. It recommends juvenile portraits in catbird country just before fledging when youngsters are fully feathered.
Rangeley Maine resident Mia Walter Anderson credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending two years of pain and enabling her to perform household and farm duties. She urges others to try the remedy as over 200000 women report benefit and 98 of every 100 say yes. Sold by druggists nationwide.
The Iron Age discusses life extension by substituting rustable material with rustless iron. It cites two advance steps in rust fight through direct and indirect chromium supply. Patent complications hinder commercial development of rustless iron processes.
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