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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
6
A tale describes Black Fox trading a spell to become a turkey but turning into a frog instead. He hops toward water and enduring fatigue, discovers the witch’s mischief and seeks the cave to demand reversal, pursued by fatigue and danger.
A speaker muses on buying a tailored suit with 42 size and English style caution, while a separate fairy tale scene unfolds where a witch tests a frog with a bargain. The frog must fetch stones from a forest pool daily to regain his human shape, while a talking cat and witch observe.
Edna Kent Forbes explains that sun and air drying maximize shampoo benefits, suggesting home shampoos beat costly pros. She notes soap quantity and hot rinses drive cleansing, recommending soap rubbed into the scalp and a second cleansing rinse for shine.
A column stresses that one washing is not enough for antiseptic cleanliness of the scalp to prevent dandruff and hair loss. It notes rinsing and drying hair carefully and applying tonic immediately after as advisable for women.
Miss Lucy M Fox, a charming young movie star, has just arrived in New York on the S S France. She completed her role in a startling film serial shot at Europe’s premier resorts including Nice and Monte Carlo.
Bangs arrived at the club in a foul mood and planned to scold his wife for something. He found she had company at home when he returned this evening, according to the Boston Transcript.
The narrator seeks a simple dining spot, describing the “little white place” where meals are affordable and untainted by overheads or interruptions. He contrasts it with fancier venues and notes the clean, plain room provides peaceful sustenance and value. He mocks pretentious language and ends with a critical line about clever talking as a hindrance to growth.
Hamburg shows contrast of postwar life with clean streets, luxury hotels, and high prices. About 160000 unemployed including 40000 seafarers strain relief as wages rise, food rationing and profiteering flourish, strikes erupt, and the Reichswehr prepares to quell bandit acts. American firms like American Express and International Mercantile Marine have begun operations.
Charles H. Spencer solved a long standing puzzle by tapping an underground flow from the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona. He drilled through dacite rims to reach reservoirs Crater Lake and seven extinct craters with a total capacity of about two billion gallons, enabling gravity fed water to arid lands without pumping costs.
Ottawa reports year ending May 31 shows total exports 1 259 208 294 down 19 717 349 with the United States buying 472 449 204 up 22 015 228 while the United Kingdom fell to 450 479 143 down 101 729 035. Net import totals rise with dutiable goods 752 077 597 up 236 770 565 and free goods 398 577 061 up 37 138 564 as UK US British West Indies and Cuba drive the surge.
Genoa reports the International Congress of Seamen urged nations to place seamen on the same legal level as ship owners by repealing laws and treaties forcing labor on ships in safety and punishing breaches of labor contracts. The eight hour day gained support from Japan, Spain, France, Holland and Germany, while England, Sweden, Norway and India opposed it. Dr J L Freeland in Bedford Indiana saved his cherry crop by a new method.
Cottage Grove Oregon farmer J W Eddy fed sunflowers to his hens and found it affected egg shells. One hen laid an egg without a perfect sunflower image, prompting him to rename his place the Sunflower chicken ranch.
U S rice exports to Japan exceed 300000 pounds in the first quarter, versus under a thousand pounds in all of 1919. California leads a growing industry with 12 mills and $21 million rice value last year. Experts predict further expansion and promote rice as a premier food. A separate note says a whale can stay underwater for an hour and a half.
A storm toppled the fabled bul mi outside Jerusalem’s walls, the tree once tied to the Ottoman empire’s fate. Iron hoops and reinforced branches failed to save the withered trunk, and Orthodox Turks claim the Caliphate era is doomed as the tree fell.
A brief note describes a man who remains feeble yet has a good appetite as an old rubber hose in trees attracts birds and a snake hides nearby, with the hose fooling the birds.
The United States Marine on duty at the American legation in Peking is private C W Childress born in China to American parents. He enlisted recently and acts as interpreter, fluent in Chinese and familiar with American traditions. He eagerly awaits the day he will set foot in the United States.
A grocer recalls testing an employee's honesty by ringing up a $2.75 sale and leaving no money in the till. The register and cash balance matched in the morning, convincing the owner the clerk was too honest, and the man was dismissed.
Baptist minister Rev. F. S. Burker reports followers in Blamenine worship two disciples of the late Liao. Ling Shuk and Lai Sam Shuk, now aged 71 and 63, heal diseases in his name and are exalted as immortals. Large temples, a birth anniversary ceremony, and rites on terraces describe the cult practices amid a 2,000 strong gathering near Changning.
Mile Wister Haines argues in the Christian Herald that borrowing books is wasteful and owning books is best. A book creates bonds of sympathy when shared with friends and conversations spring from it, especially if owners include a means to return books and note where they travel.
The puffin is a burrowing bird under a foot tall with a strong beak that digs four foot deep holes for homes. Capturing a puffin requires digging and risks bites and claws. Its burrowing habit helps it survive where other wild fowl vanish from cliffside rockeries.
Spiders as pets are odd yet have fascinated figures. Beethoven kept a spider of about 80 accustom to him that would crawl on his arm during violin practice. Paganini’s spider is said to listen intently as he played a certain air. Gaetry notes spiders perched motionless on the piano while he played.
The quotation shows Mrs. Hiram scolding the AY Self Starter for insulting remarks about a cook, with the exchange revealing tensions over loyalty to a former workplace and expectations of leaving a previous job.
A brief exchange questions Brown's marriage to his cook, asking if it was a love match.
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