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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1925
Page
2
A feature discusses how strong feelings influence beliefs and the danger of bias. It argues for exercising the senses, testing ideas, and weighing evidence to avoid intellectual distortion. Historic minds achieved distinction through clear reasoning and listening to counsel.
Wayne D. Mc Murray writes on Euripides the celebrated Greek tragedian famed for foresight in his quote about posterity. He faced charges of impiety and fled Greece, later receiving high honors from Archelaus of Macedonia.
The black Tasmanian magpie is described as a weather prophet. A day or two before a storm, flocks of these birds cry and flap their wings almost continually.
A fragment on English family names. Lamborn lineage from 1659 England to Pennsylvania settler Robert Lamborn and his son Thomas. Notes on Wakeman meaning watchman and Lavender origin from lavandier meaning washerman with laundry connections.
A poem urging wives to guide husbands through daily temptations and dangers of city life. It portrays the husband as defender of the home amid lures of riches and vice. It calls the wife to keep the lamp of love burning and lead him back to virtue and God.
A reader suggests sprinkling whole cloves where ants appear to drive them away. The method is said to be quick and effective, though objectionable to the insects. The note claims cloves repel other creeping pests as they retreat.
A fragmentary verse lines describe a hummingbird in harmless lightning and rainbow dyes. The speaker notes a mist of color as the sunbeam brightens and a flower wakes too late, with Up touching its bosom and draining its nectary.
A crisp cucumber pickle is favored and alum is discouraged. Directions cover sweet mustard pickles with cucumbers and tomatoes, brining, boiling vinegar with sugar and mustard, and making a tomato catsup with tomatoes, brown sugar, cayenne, allspice, mace, celery seed, cinnamon, and vinegar.
A whale caught off Greenland carried the head of an ancient harpoon lodged in its body for what experts estimate could be half a century. The find suggests long years pursuing by whalers and the lingering traces of Arctic hunts.
A chaotic Washington Park scene centers on a dusty caravan wagon hosting Mademoiselle Topaz and a troupe of trained cats. Neighborhood crowds, a wary Moorish princess rumor, and colorful street life frame a surreal tableau as the performer and felines unleash a glittering show threatening to captivate the block tonight.
Ancient northern European weddings featured mead drinking for 30 days after marriage, giving rise to the term honey moon. The groom served at his bride’s table, the wed ding cake evolved from serving many small cakes into one mass, and rice casting symbolized productivity. Six hundred years ago in France the bride’s garter was prized as a lucky token.
A Montreal Family Herald note explores how the term Beak originated as slang for a magistrate. It traces the path from a nosey police figure to the broader use for judges and officials, noting an old Saxon word once worn as a gold authority collar.
A historic note on Bank of England paper shows it is produced by hand at Layerstoke in Hampshire for two centuries. The ink formula is known to only a few, with charcoal from smoked wood as a chief ingredient. Notes cost about a penny each to print and circulate roughly two and a half months. Daily production around 60,000 notes and yearly destruction of about 20,000,600 old notes.
The royal Windsor castle spring cleaning centers on beating a massive two ton carpet in the Waterloo chamber during Ascot week. Sixty men lift the eighty by forty foot rug and move it downstairs to the lawns. The carpet was woven by Agra prisoners over seven years.
Manson Grant argues the dog is the oldest domestic animal, with evidence from the Maglemose period in Denmark and Neolithic lake dwellings in Switzerland. He notes early domestication of cow, sheep, goat, hog, chicken later, cat in Egypt, horse spread from Asia, and Swiss crops like barley and wheat, highlighting long human-dog intimacy and limited later additions to domestic species.
The crowd gathered for Fame Lady Grusher to view a new lion on display, while castoit lions from Chelsea and performers with various features lingered near the crowd. A central figure, Henry Higgs the champion cross word puzzler of Lower Tooting, stood beside the Lady Crusher as others jostled for a view.
A first year pupil in a North side school earns the nickname Rough and Ready for frequent fighting. His teacher warns the mother about sending him to the principal, but the mother prefers reasoning. The teacher claims fifteen minutes of persuasion failed as the boy struck a smiling peer before returning to his seat.
A 26 000 acre tract in Louisiana is transferred to the National Association of Audubon Societies with a large endowment to plant cereals for food. Dr T G Pearson, president, calls it the most important step for preserving wild ducks due to ongoing cultivation and vast crops exclusively for the birds.
Over nine teen years pennies from fines for keeping books plus interest funded East Cleveland Ohio library to acquire a 10 by 120 foot adjoining lot for 3000 dollars.
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