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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1920
Page
5
Fragmentary dialogue shows trees personified as they discuss dress and appearance under a chestnut, oak, and beech. The scene hints at a wardens gaze and a wish for new attire as the summer night unfolds.
A whimsical tale where fairies request colors from goblins to clothe the trees after autumn flowers sleep. The goblins summon Jack Frost to wake him and the trees gain new gowns while defending green as essential to beauty.
Edna Kent Forbes explains dandruff as a germ-like condition and urges cautious grooming. Regular coconut oil shampoo after drying, avoiding alcohol tonics, and monthly ends trimming help prevent and cure dandruff while maintaining hair health.
A fragmented magazine piece blends humor and reflection about ambition and gratitude. It features a quip about a hunch or two reasons for striving and then pivots to a long jokey essay on red hair, stereotypes, and social observations ending with a playful jab at the reader.
A fragment describes Mary McLaren shaking off gay leaves as pride prevents calm, leaving winter days exposed without any covering leaf. The archaic tone evokes a seasonal or symbolic moral about folly and self-destruction.
A 1919 report shows Dutch ports booming with Amsterdam 1918 267000 tons to 1919 2117000 while Rotterdam rises from 1261000 to 2117000. It warns Antwerp may challenge Rotterdam amid Belgium’s recovering industry and cites higher operating costs and adjusted profits shaping freight rates.
Mercer cave near Murphys California draws more travelers en route to the Calaveras Big Trees. The cave features seven chambers with crystal and limestone formations. The first chamber measures 201 feet long 60 feet wide and walls rise 68 feet with crystal figures that emit musical tones when struck.
In Chicago at Harrison Street Pat Sullivan and Frank Sullivan clash over Ireland home rule despite a thunderstorm. Patrolman Sidney Sullivan and other officers book them for disorderly conduct. Judge D W Sullivan discharges them after a brief jail stay and a playful exchange about their non relation.
Hickman Ky Paul Eldridge died after a baptism performed in a coffin due to his illness. His family improvised a baptismal chapel by lining a coffin with oil cloth and Elder E L Miley of the Christian church conducted the rite. A wife and several children survive.
Glenville West Virginia farmer Frank Johnson reclaimed his lost spectacles from a barrel of seed potatoes. He had sold his crop last fall at $20 a bushel, bought seed potatoes at $5 a bushel, and discovered the spectacles in the potato tubers upon emptying the barrel from a mail order house.
A handsome black Minoren hen rode an open freight car for six days across northern New York from Clinton to Nevtrville. The bird survived the voyage sealed inside the car with sparse food, then laid an egg after the car was opened. Authorities hold the hen in a garage awaiting news from Nevtrville officials amid reports of a perplexing mystery.
Russian girls in Vladivostok failed to gain American soldier husbands and hid in U S transports to Manila. They were detained to be deported. some remarried at the pier to gain citizenship. A third of the war brides, about three hundred, will be sent to the United States to join army posts where housing exists for married soldiers.
Fairmont West Virginia Miss Madge Knisely fourteen year old daughter of Benjamin Knisely near here lost a ring last spring while feeding pigs. Her father recently found a dead rat with the ring around its neck. The rat had died by strangulation as it grew, the ring slipping over its head.
A 1706 pound sunfish was hauled aboard the yacht Genesee owned by W Vanderbilt Jr at Key West. It was caught off Sand Key and is claimed to be the largest sunfish ever seen in the port after being hoisted with derricks.
Eugene van Buskirk of the Washington Bureau of Criminal Identification urged universal fingerprint registration at the International Police Chiefs association meeting in Detroit Michigan. He said it would identify immigrants on arrival and hinder criminals from reentering the country under false names.
Quote reflects on implacable estrangements born of temperament clashes, noting how inner differences can separate people despite closest ties. W. H. Malloch cited in Harpers.
A fly tells a snowberry bush and a showberry plant that it loves being mean and carrying illness. The Bush and Snowberry question the claim as the fly defends its cruel habit, while praising the beauty of nature and urging kindness.
A teacher asks pupils to define tame and which animals become after zoo stays. A blue reefer child volunteers, answering with a playful miscue that he thinks the animals become leanut eaters.
The riddle asks how much a father owes to three traders. It totals sixty five plus twenty plus forty equals one hundred. Tommy responds with a quip about needing to move.
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