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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1922
Page
4
The text extols paying by check as a careful, systematic business practice. It argues checks cost no more than cash, offer safety, and strengthen credit by placing funds in a bank. It invites opening a checking account and promises to make it a real convenience for customers.
A tale notes how hobbies shape skill. A doctor and lawyer prove talent enhances work. Peter the Great found passion after seeing a derelict boat in a storehouse. He learned in Holland under ship carpenters, worked as Master Peter, earning respect and authoring shipbuilding books.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes that Austrian and Czechoslovak ponds produce regular eel crops without artificial hatching. Young eels are imported from France and Italy and planted in ponds where they are fed until marketable. The piece suggests local streams bring young eels in spring and advocates pond farming to boost food supply.
A humorous student essay jokes about cows and their care, noting oxygen supply and milk production. It mocks ox usage and cow terminology, references songs from Beef Flat, and ends with a wry aside about calves dying young.
Dialogue snippets show Algy confessing a blunder and Alice encouraging growth as she praises his continued effort and potential for improvement.
On a crowded Madison streetcar a seated woman observes two youths trying to impress. Two girls with bold fashion push through the crowd and confront the youths about offering a seat to a lady. The blonde responds with a casual retort, reflecting social cues of the era in the Chicago Journal.
Loton Horton of New York critiques milk drivers strike as a bungalow policy. He recalls a joke about a four man framing a frame house and a worker puzzled by calling a shack a bungalow, ending with the jab that the job was a bungle and debt remains.
A pawnbroker sleeping wakes to a pounding at his door. The intruder asks for the time, insisting, You’ve got my watch. The exchange ends with the visitor claiming possession of the watch. Reported in Lon don Tit-Bits as a brief anecdote.
A fragment notes a humorous take on records in sport and measurement. A New York lawnmower meter tracks footage instead of mileage, while a suburban resident claims to exceed a rival by 10 000 feet, illustrating playful record chasing and measurement shifts in daily life.
Richard visits his aunt who bakes cookies and keeps urging him to take more. He replies that he will tell her when he has had enough, noting she need not keep asking him.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph report says a Black veteran entered the Pittsburgh Red Cross chapter asking aid for his wife and child. Workers asked if he was disabled, noting policy limits, and the man left disappointed after the conversation about eligibility.
A newspaper snippet notes a member of the American delegation at an arms conference quoted poetry. Mr Grampson comments that quoting poetry is better for delicate international relations than using prose. The Birmingham Age-Herald is cited.
A farmer asserts public welfare largely depends on farmers. Countessel affirms farmers not only raise crops but influence voting, highlighting rural influence in political matters.
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