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Newspaper
Keota News
Location
Keota, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1922
Page
5
Dick McConnell, a U S customs river guard, battled smugglers on the Rio Grande near Hidalgo Texas. He killed one attacker after knife wounds and gunfire, while his wife and two daughters witnessed the ambush and fleeing assailants.
Gothenburg Sweden proposes an aerial harbor linking its marine facilities to a new air station. A corporation will build and run the airport in conjunction with city authorities. After ten years the city could buy the company shares to gain full control of the facility.
In Texas a U S Department of Agriculture survey uses high altitude flights and a spore trap to detect rust spores on wheat and oats. Lieut T R Booker pilots and Wallace Butler scientist collect plates showing numerous yellow pustules with rust spores. Dew moisture enables spores to invade leaf tissue, repeating roughly every two weeks under suitable weather.
A speaker reflects on failed investments and lessons learned from owning mostly worthless stock. He describes locking away a box of “evidences of wealth” and recounts buying 60 thousand shares at 10 cents per hundred dollars, then discovering the stock’s futility and resolving to hold on as a defense against future hasty bets. The essay, attributed to Strickland Gilenen in Farm Life, argues even poor investments can provide valuable caution.
The article recalls Puritan practices in early meeting houses when offerings were collected using a brass warming pan or a long-handed wire corn pepper. It notes that coins jingled too cheerfully, leading to the warmer pan and pepper being replaced for efficiency. Parson salaries were once paid in food and occasional donation parties.
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