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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
5
In a forest tale Mr Fox invites Mr Badger Miss Rabbit and Mr Dog to a treehouse housewarming. He cooks soup from bones filling the den with a savory scent drawing Dog to investigate. Dog climbs the ladder and ends up as the unwitting guest at Fox's supper.
A friend recounts a quirky domestic saga about a goldfish kept with a cat. The fish endures stalking and near misses as tension grows over the pet and privacy within the house.
Carmel Myers reappears in films after an eighteen month break and her fans welcome the comeback as she resumes movie work. An ad notes a tip for cleaning spectacles recommending a solution of listering and water.
Edna Kent Forbes presents a slimming menu emphasizing nonfat bread and light meals. The plan excludes fats like butter and high fat staples while suggesting options such as stuffed olives and fruit salad for a woman seeking weight loss.
Fragmentary note discusses baths and exercise and a person feeling hungry between meals. Advises eating little and often, claiming the body benefits when food is demanded. Mentions apples as harmless between bites. Copyright mark appears in text.
A jagged poem riffs on hotel life legal limits and streetwise justice. It mocks self defense rules and travel routines while weaving a dubious narrator voice through scattered stanzas and characters like the Cheerful Idiot and Uncle Bill.
London shows steady economic improvement but strikes and higher costs persist. Rail fares up 50 percent, new stocks improve service though prices stay high. Hotels crowded with wartime migrants, Americans billed steeply. Women increasingly visible in public life and commerce, tobacco and cigars taxed, Defense of the Realm Act still enforced, and rationing continues.
Washington treasury explains limits on tax exemptions for Liberty bonds and Victory notes. The total exemption pool runs to 160000 dollars with caps across bond series and conditions based on original subscriptions and holding on tax return dates. Foreign holders enjoy full exemption. some bonds are exempt from state local and federal taxes with estate tax caveats.
Pat John Yudatis, mule driver at the Oneida mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co, demanded a new paycheck for 32 dollars 88 cents. He claimed the mule playfully bit him, seized the pocket and paycheck, and swallowed the money.
Secretary of War Baker announced that after July 20 illiterates and non English speaking citizens and aliens who declare intent to become citizens may enlist in the U S army for three years. Recruits will be sent to educational centers near their units with transfers after course completion. Centers will be organized at Camps Jackson Pike Grant Travis and Lewis modeled after Camp Upton New York.
A compact, opinionated note observes that many hypocrites exist yet a bold Jhusky figure often relaxes by whistling church tunes in public spaces.
Spica lies a few degrees right of Mars with a bluish tinge and is so far away that its light takes about 325 years to reach Earth. The light we observe today left Spica during the late reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Advice on making ironing easier by using old textiles as a mat and crafting a pad from carpet remnants. Suggests placing a pad at the bottom of cedar steps to wipe shoes, keeping steps clean and reducing labor.
Federal civil prisons are located at Fort Leavenworth Kansas Atlanta Georgia and McNeil Island Washington as designated sites for housing federal inmates and related civil confinement.
London. Viscount Rothermere endows the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth professorship of American history at the University of Oxford with £20,000. The holder must be a U S citizen, serve ten years with possible renewal, and be elected by a board including the American ambassador and Lord Rothermere.
Secretary Baker announced steps to minimize army and navy recruiting in rural areas and shift enlistments to cities and urban districts due to farm labor shortages. The move follows complaints from farm groups and officials including N. K E Shaw and Charles S Barrett.
In Pensauken New Jersey a two year old boy Robert Olt crawled under a passing train after a collision involving a car carrying his mother Eva Olt and brother Frederick 13. The mother suffered fractures of both arms and others fled to safety as the car struck. The baby survived and crawled to safety between the rails in front of the locomotive.
A small editorial fragment presents a reflective couplet on sorrow and joy. The lines invoke walking in sorrow and pressing a rose as a sign of grief or joy, ending with a belief that God’s way is best. The tone is earnest, with a spiritual note from Helen Manvile.
Seasonal mushrooms feature in this guide with Cream of Mushroom Soup and Eggs Waldorf Style. A Brown Mushroom Sauce is detailed with mushroom cups and beef extract. Also includes a Lemon Orange Fruit Punch and a Dickens quote.
Seasonal dishes include fruit juice refreshments and iced tea. Recipes cover vegetable soup with diced vegetables in butter, apple soup thickened with cornstarch and cider, ginger ale salad set in lemon-rind molds, creamed sweetbreads with cream sauce, a Hamburg sponge dessert with gelatin orange and egg, and serving ideas with fruit toppings.
The article notes Circassian walnut, prized for furniture, sold by the pound or ton. It mentions introduction to Italy from Persia as early as 115 B C. Logs are heavy and will not float. only the heartwood is used and the best figures come from crooked logs.
A brief quip from the Boston Transcript notes the irony of a wife scolding her husband while the house remains visibly dust free. The line illustrates playful domestic humor about standards and perception in a tidy home.
Peculiar companionships include a shark that spares pilot fish and an unusual pairing of a venomous rattler with a white oak snake. The article also notes a Norwegian rule requiring a cooking certificate for marriage.
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