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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
5
A family tale about Topsy Kitten and her brothers who quarrel over a quiz prize offered by Mrs. Puss. The scene centers on a barnyard incident where the prize turns into a learning moment about behavior and family dynamics.
The text presents a fragmented piece focusing on a central question about action and duty. It hints at a weekly routine and a looming end of business, with phrases about hands and prayer and a broad inquiry into responsibility. Named individuals are unclear due to garbled OCR.
A reader describes an elderly woman who writes for beauty guidance. She follows a routine using a flesh-building cream, hair washing with alcohol and plain water, and careful hand care. Her style shifts to soft pastels at home and dark tones outside, topped by a lace cap.
Peking reports an escalation as Japanese troops assist Semenoff forces in Manchuria. Russians are beaten and shot on sight. 100 Semenoff troops help terrorize residents while Japanese gain control of Khailar and reinforce Harbin. A railway security push raises tensions along the Chinese Eastern line with calls for allied protest.
Dr. G Dallas Hanna of the California Academy of Science heads to Alaska to census fur seals on the Pribilofs under the U S Bureau of Fisheries. The effort aims to estimate annual removals while preserving herd growth, with projections of about 600000 seals and a $3 million fur value if females are protected and surplus males culled.
Grace McDougal aged 16 and George Male 19 eloped and outran bloodhounds in a chase through several Fairmont coal mines. The couple was eventually captured after a circuitous pursuit by the dogs.
Francis O'Brien, a young singer famed on Ellis Island as a stowaway and tenor, is deported to Ireland after officials could not confirm his Philadelphia birth. His hospital concerts on Ellis Island, praised by nurses and inmates, helped his early fame before return.
New York appellate division rules a captive park bear may claw anyone entering its range. The court denied 13 year old Blanche Guzzi damages against the New York Zoological Society, saying she risked approaching a rolling ball near the cage and the zoo not liable.
A Mobile Bay incident features a trucker dumping beans from the Magnolia steamer after dealers refused to pay market price. Beans floated ashore as local boats recovered them and sold at a premium to waiting buyers.
A Copenhagen correspondent reports Maxim Litvinoff seeks to push pro Bolshevist commentaries in German papers. He claims Germany’s resistance is stronger than Russia’s and Denmark’s quiet, well nourished society would follow if Germany falls. Local notes mention a separate whiskey-smuggling raid near Franklin Ohio. Revenue officers found a still made from raisins and mash three miles from town. They left without arrests, but added kerosene and soap to the leftovers to curb any potential use.
In Woodland California stock men report a pig born in the county with eight fully developed legs two tails four ears and two sets of teeth though it has only one head and body. The animal has been placed in a local store window for exhibition and is donated for display by C. B. E. Binning, a large local rancher.
A fragmentary verse line invokes rest by placid lakes and streams, praising nature as a land of dreams where a smile is worn by the land.
A collage of practical advice covers using nitrate for plant growth and cold coffee or tea for ferns. It also suggests making temporary cement from white of egg and ashes, moistening cakes with warm icing, soaking fabrics for shrinkage, mending leaks in hot water bottles, and keeping cakes fresh with a water-filled box. It ends with foot care tips and a playful poem about tea and kitchen aromas.
A vintage cook list presents dishes like Escalloped Cabbage Curry of Vegetables and Baked Banana Pudding. It details layering creamed cabbage with crumb topping and a curry seasoned vegetable mix, plus a fruit gelatin dessert with custard and a Squaw Dish of potatoes onions carrots and peas with salt pork and milk.
Prof Edward V Huntington of Harvard University argues with a mass of figures in Science that a man on a train moving along the equator would weigh nothing. Westward at 18700 miles an hour or eastward at 16700 miles an hour changes weight for an observer on the train.
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