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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1922
Page
4
Tile patterned linoleum in the kitchen dining area sets the color note for the room. The floor features blue and white or black and white combinations with white. White muslin curtains include a narrow color band matching that in the Muleum. White enamel furniture provides practical easy cleaning.
In Paris a group of surplus women form a marriage club with green ribbon insignia on their coats to signal they are serious about marriage. Men must wait to speak until a member signals approval after repeated daily encounters, with dances and excursions planned to foster matchmaking amid postwar bachelor surplus.
London discusses a proposed adult college at Oxford to admit older students alongside younger ones. Modeled after Ruskin College, it would serve as a refuge for extramural university activities and allow adults to resume studies begun under extension courses.
In Seattle Washington the college of forestry at the University of Washington is involved in growing drug herbs through its department.
Berlin tales show how the depreciating mark reshapes luck and loss. A Berlin orchestra leader, Selmar Meyrowitz, pays a 10 000 mark fine for attempting to carry cigarettes across the Czech border, later halved to 5 000. His new windfall translates to about 60 000 marks. Bochum miner Bagenski, once poor, inherits 30 000 dollars from a St Louis hotelier brother, now vast in marks as the exchange shifts. A Berlin dancing girl inherits 70 000 marks from an American visitor who dies in Germany, with jewels and $15 000 among the estate, now totaling 70 000 000 marks in equivalent value.
A Carter's Creek Tennessee farmer's wife recalls spending half her time in bed three years ago due to a female ailment. She credits Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and enabling her to resume farm work, gardening, and household duties. The ad urges other women to try the remedy for nervous, irritable symptoms and includes testimonial praise.
In Newfane Vermont a combined jail and hotel operate under one keeper. H. G. Osborne serves as both host and warden at the Wincham County hotel, a brick-and-wood building with a welcoming office and a steel door to the jail section. He views the dual roles as ordinary and practical in daily work. Bristing coal mines in the United States can produce from 700,000,000 to 900,000,000 tons a year.
Henry Singer arrived in Venice from New York with 280000 dollars in cash and purchased a church to have a place to cuss. His wife testified in Judge Hahn's court defending a suit by Ken Letter on a 1500 dollar note. Singer has been declared incompetent and his wife is his guardian.
In London a farmer named F Peel reportedly set a world record by weighing 324 pounds 6 ounces of potatoes grown from one pound of seed in front of a large crowd.
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