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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
10
Thanks for Flower Display in Kingsport Town Beautification
Recognition goes to Kingsport residents cultivating flower gardens this season. The write up praises how bloom displays brighten the community, echoing that simple home beauty often creates a stronger, lasting impression than grand buildings. It argues such gardening fosters contentment, independence, and a cheerful outlook among neighbors.
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Kingsport
Evening Newspaper Ad Message for Family Purchases
An historical note explains how the fireside hour favors sales. It argues ads in the evening paper reach the whole family, guiding choices for furniture, cars, clothing, and kitchen goods as households discuss next day purchases.
Sleepless Study Questions Sleep Value and Energy Use
A report on a George Washington University sleep test notes volunteers stayed awake sixty hours, waking to beefsteak as nourishment. It contrasts with Edison and James on wakefulness, suggesting insomnia may reflect releasing unused mental energy and questioning the ritual of nightly sleep.
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George Washington University
Washington
William James
Sleep as Health Remedy Amid Modern Distractions
The New York Herald-Tribune notes that anxiety over insomnia harms the anxious sleeper more than the lack of rest itself. It recalls the old fashioned family physician’s advice that eight hours of sleep remains a healthy goal despite modern devices disrupting rest in urban life.
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New York
New York Herald-Tribune
Damsel Hopes For Safe Ground In Fair Weather
A brief weather note excerpt cites Friday generally fair with a prediction of calm conditions into Saturday. Activated by Boston Transcript, the line references New Hampshire and a hopeful forecast for safe ground.
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New Hampshire
Boston Transcript
Postage Rise Sparks Witty Postcard Remark
The local postmistress quips that private postcards cost more to send as postage increases, remarking in Colier's style that readers pay two pennies for thoughts. Tom Mason notes the line in Collier's.
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Tom Mason
Collier's
Enjoyed The View Officer in parked car fined
A driver and officer clash over a parking sign. The driver acknowledges the sign and agreement with the fine. The short scene appears from Stevens Stone Mill.
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Stevens Stone Mill
Urbanite Boarder and Farmer Exchange on Hens
A brief parable-like exchange on poultry keeping cites Wallaces' Farmer. The urban boarder questions if hens are hatched by the farmer and the farmer replies that they are kept for that purpose. The line suggests practical rural knowledge in a humorous context.
Where do little boys go who fish on Sunday
A quip from the New Orleans Times-Picayune referencing boys who fish on Sunday. It cites an answer about a deep hole on Perkins' farm as a humorous line. The item captures a rural humor moment from the era.
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S. S
Johnny
Perkins’ Farm
New Orleans Times- Picayune
A Happy Choice Mistress Hat Exchange
A humorous 19th century vignette from Pearson's Weekly features a maid and mistress discussing a hat the maid wishes to wear for her young man. A separate joke notes a college exam where a professor asks if the question embarrasses the student and the student answers that the answer bothers him.
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Reynolds
Pearson’s Weekly
Up-To-Date Pharmacy Watcha Doing
Learning the drug business and assembling compound stews and sand witches in a highly technical field as described in a Louisville Courier-Journal clipping. The quirky dialogue highlights evolving pharmaceutical topics and modern training.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Gravity Law Question From Classroom Riddle
A London Tattler joke depicts a teacher lecturing on gravity as a law that keeps us earthbound. A child asks how people stuck to the ground before the law was passed, playing on legal language and scientific concept for humorous effect.
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the Tattler
London
Vicar Says Bazaar May Boost Fund Drive
In a Sunday morning announcement the vicar admitted money was slow to come in but expressed optimism. He said the parish had tried the usual honest methods and would now test what a bazaar can achieve to raise funds.
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Savannah News
Flashes on language and life from early papers
The snippet cites playful quips from New York Evening Telegram Cleveland Times and Buffalo Post about words from war era, education proofs, married life, and a bellows remark by Longfellow. It notes a critic of American music and references kerosene fire and chin music with light satire.
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New York Evening Telegram
America
Zebras and Zebrulas Do Tricks at Will of Christy's Trainers
Zebras and Zebrulas perform tricks under Christy Bros trainers in Kingsport on September 14. The show features trained zebras waltzing to music, eating at the table, feigning death, and a street parade demonstration, plus hybrid zebralas created by crossing zebras with Kentucky thoroughbreds.
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Zebras
Zebrulas
Christy
Christy Bros
Kingsport
Asia
Kentucky
French orphan Maurice Packer joins American Army at 10
In Salem Oregon on August 20 the American Legion Capitol post No 9 notes Maurice Packer, a French orphan, as an active member who joined the American army in France in December 1917 at age ten. The 162nd Infantry adopted Packer.
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Salem
Ore
Capitol Post No. 9
The
American Legion
Maurice Packer
France
Soldier Discharged in 1919 Joins Legion Drum Corps
Not Yet But Soon er, and to avoid technicalities his name was placed formally on the muster roll. Wearing three service stripes indicating 18 months overseas, the boy was discharged at Camp Lewis, Washington, April 16, 1919, entitling him to Legion membership. An experienced bugler he has joined the post drum and bugle corps. Mau Rice spoke little English when adopted by the soldiers, and in six years in this country has completed grammar school and the first three years of high school.
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Camp Lewis
Wash
Legion
Maurice
Expedition study sun rays from Gornergrat station
From Geneva Aug 20 the Associated Press reports the Royal Academy of Science at Amsterdam plans a scientific examination of the sun's rays from a high altitude station on the Gornegrat mountain. The project aims to study solar radiation and its effects using specialized instruments and observations.
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The
Associated Press
Geneva
Zermatt
Royal Academy of Science At
Amsterdam
Gornegrat
Expedition Underway From Dutch Academy of Science
A 9,600 foot expedition is dispatched by a team led by J. Van der Bilt from the Netherlands. The Dutch Academy of Science oversees the journey as it awaits the return of its members.
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J. van der Bilt
Dutch Academy of Science
Slavery In Arabia Report Urges Universal Abolition
Geneva reports the slavery commission of the League of Nations finds slavery openly practiced in Asiatic Mahometan states, especially the Hedjaz kingdom. It notes many female slaves brought from the Far East as pilgrims to Mecca and proposes full abolition of legal slavery and freedom without compensation, plus a centralized point for freed slaves.
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Geneva
Arabian Peninsula
Kingdom
The
Hedjaz
Far East
Mecca
Slavery Commission
League of Nations
Antioch College Students Vote Tution Hike by Secret Ballot
Antioch College students in Yellow Springs Ohio voted secretly to raise their tuition by 50 dollars yearly. The measure passed by a nine tenths majority as the student body faces the college’s financial crisis. Students generally earn about two thirds of their college expenses.
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Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Antioch
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