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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
4
The Times invites correspondence from readers and requires full signatures for printed letters. Names may be withheld upon request, but anonymous communications will not be printed.
The piece praises local flower gardens in Kingsport, noting they add charm and refinement to the community. It argues beautification can be driven by residents, not costly projects, and that cultivated blooms boost happiness, contentment, and pride in home places.
The piece highlights how the home fireside becomes the prime setting for sales. It argues that the evening newspaper reaches every family member, enabling foresighted merchants to influence purchases of furniture, cars, dresses, and household goods next day.
The article reviews a George Washington University wakefulness experiment and broader ideas on sleep, sleep deprivation, and energy. It cites William James, Humboldt, Napoleon, and Edison, noting that some figure awake time and reserve energy, while questioning modern insomnia as a sign of rejecting mental torpor. It suggests cultural changes in sleep habits and cautions against excess wakefulness.
The piece notes the anxiety of sleepless people during tough times and warns that fear of not sleeping harms health. It cites the aged medical view that eight hours of sleep remains a health rule, and mentions sleep’s stubborn hold even amid modern devices in New York.
ROAMUSE notes a Friday New Hampshire paper on safe grounds with a likely Saturday follow up. The Boston Transcript cites a high cost of thinking and explains the private postcard postage rise, quoting Tom Mason in Collier's about two pennies for your thoughts.
A dialogue between a driver and police officer over a parking sign in Stevens Stone Mill area. The exchange notes agreement with fines, with a humorous aside about urban life and keeping hens, reflecting rural urban encounter tones.
A compilation of brief quips and light verse from historic newspapers. Includes a Sunday fishing query, a hats dispute, a maid’s compliment, a college joke about precision, a pharmacy pun, and a gravity misstep from a London paper. Contains multiple small items with unnamed authors.
In a Sunday morning announcement the vicar expressed regret that funds were not arriving quickly enough but remained optimistic. He urged continued effort, saying they would try the usual rounder and see what a bazaar could raise. Savannah News
A fragmented wartime column notes fresh terms and shifting language during conflict. It cites quotes from New York Evening Telegram and Cleveland Times while mentioning a thinker’s take on genius and music, ending with a garbled line about "Telegy."
Zebras and zebralas trained to perform tricks by Christy Bros. The act features zebra demonstrations with music, as the animals obey commands, march in a street parade, feign death, and perform numerous feats. The Kingsport exhibition is scheduled for Monday September 14.
In Salam Oregon on August 2 The Associated Press reports Maurice Pack an orphan from France joined the American Army in France in December 1917 at age ten. He became a member of the 162nd Infantry after being adopted by the unit.
The text notes an expedition to be sent with a muster roll led by J. Van der Bilt. A Dutch academy action left a French family behind. A bugler discharged at Camp Lewis on April 16, 1919 earned Legion membership and joined the post drum corps. The subject spoke little English after six years in the country, finishing three years of high school.
Geneva August 17 The slavery commission of the League of Nations reports slavery is openly practiced in Asiatic Mahometan states including the Arabian peninsula and Hejaz where many girls from the Far East come as pilgrims to Mecca. The commission urges universal abolition of legal slavery and freedom for all slaves with a designated concentration point for freed slaves.
Students at Antioch College in Yeslow Springs Ohio approved a tuition increase of fifty dollars per year by secret ballot. The measure passed by a nine tenths majority amid the college facing a financial crisis. Student earnings cover about two thirds of college expenses.
Geneva August 20 The Associated Press reports that the Royal Academy of Science in Amsterdam has planned a scientific examination of the sun's rays from a station on the Gornergrat at an altitude of.
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