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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1919
Page
5
The Omahan World-Herald describes an owl eating method where the bird swallows a meal with the whole dinner setup and later regurgitates indigestible parts as a hard round pellet. The piece uses a humorous dinner-table analogy to illustrate the owl’s digestion.
The essay underscores Korean civilization as observed through religion, noting that Koreans adapt as Confucianists in society, Buddhists in philosophy, and spirit worshipers in trouble. It paints a vivid picture of dragons, devils, and goblins haunting hills, trees, and rivers where ancestral spirits linger and diseases bear terrors.
A dispensary official returns from a month’s break to find an Irish patient in good humor, complimenting the doctor on his improved look. The patient teases the holiday glow, praising the doctor’s brown skin and robust health, while the doctor jokes about the patient’s own improvements.
The Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society gifted a circular half inch brooch from Edward III or Richard II era to the Lincoln City and County Museum. It originally bore six emeralds, one missing, with an inscription on the back identifying it as a fourteenth century love token.
In Algiers Algerian women managed their husbands estates while men fought or worked in France. The shift shows women taking charge of property and public duties during wartime. They embraced independence and subscribed heavily to government loans, signaling notable social change.
The text argues that a book earns its highest purpose when it increases cheerfulness amiability appreciation of beauty and resolve to pursue good and noble deeds. It frames usefulness as the ultimate standard for judging a book's value through practical impact on character and mood.
Large peat area in northern Jutland, claimed at 23 000 acres, could be drained by gravity and hold about 23 900 000 tons of coal equivalent. Report discusses potential energy and industrial interest surrounding the resource.
A humorous exchange features a doctor remarking that meat causes bad temper, to which Mrs. Broggs retorts that it happens when meat is burned. The brief joke captures a light moment in period speech.
Kansas City cattle receipts 7,500 with calves. cattle market up to 25. Hogs receipts 11,000 with values to 21.90 for heaviest. Butter unchanged. eggs steady. Cash wheat irregular with No 1 hard 1.50–2.54. corn mixed with quotes from 1.71 to 1.86 for various grades. Oats up 1 to 1 1-2. rye at 1.36. Hay market irregular with timothy 29–30, prairie 27–28, alfalfa 28–30.
On Trinidad island a lizard farm operates with equipment for successful breeding of lizards, deemed indispensable to sugar planters. A wider search for toads accompanies this effort to increase the world’s sugar production.
A London magistrate proclaims no man has a right to self death, noting the oddity of a law that punishes a failed suicide attempt. The Vancouver Sun finds the drctum morally sound yet questions the legal paradox.
Instructions describe removing dirt from white enamel by rubbing with a flannel dampened with methylated spirit, washing with warm soapy water, then rubbing with flannel and whiting, followed by polishing with a dry duster. Repeated treatment keeps brightness longer.
A mother warns her son Donald to act well when guests visit. Asked if he is always good, he replies that he is not, but he behaves to avoid trouble with company. The teenager explains he would get into trouble if he misbehaved during gatherings.
A compact thought notes that a man embodies the entire encyclopedia of facts in his mind, reflecting Emerson's claim on human knowledge being comprehensive and self-contained.
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