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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1926
Page
3
In Vienna a five year old elephant named Maidy delighted a royal party by blowing water from her tank into a lady in waiting. After the emperor ordered a bath ban for life, officials later restored the tank on the eve of Maidy’s ninth birthday. Maidy then splashed the park inspector and observers, yet the mischief was overlooked this time.
A terse exchange recalls a figure who once bore knighthood yet no longer wears the insignia. The line suggests fading status and a nod to traditional titles within a Western or frontier context. No additional specifics are provided in the fragment.
A downtown business boss with a charge account sent his young son for medicine. A new clerk asked the boy who it was for, and the reply was for all of us, illustrating a small act tied to household hardship reported by the Indianapolis News.
Mrs J W Meserve of Bar Mills Maine receives a tablecloth once used by renowned author Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs for entertaining guests. It bears autographs of 115 figures including Mark Twain Henry Irving Richard Harding Davis Carl Schurz and Annie Louise Carey.
A new alloying method produces aluminum surfaces resembling glazed porcelain. Described in Popular Science Monthly by B M Jhotka a German electrical engineer. The alloys are valued for auto body painting as they resist scratches endure heavy use and maintain color with finish reducing painting costs.
An English tourist party encounters a 15 year old boy in Mosul who serves as the Nestorian church head, claiming the title metropolitan of India and patriarch of the East. Though young, he has held the chair of Prester John since 1920, while many Nestorians follow Antioch, some still recognize him as metropolitain of India living as a refugee in Mosul.
A brief real estate exchange centers on friendship and the need for a house. The note captures personal warmth as two people discuss moving toward home ownership, highlighting emotional stakes and practical housing hopes.
A stray terrier tracked by Newcastle quayside crowds surfaced again barking, guiding police to Frederick Potts a young shipping clerk from Dunston on Tyne who had been missing since December 28, his body found under quay piles. Relatives say Potts owned no dog.
A brief vignette recalls the heir wandering in after a lengthy day, checking mail and ash trays, then leaving at 3:30. The silver-haired bookkeeper asks the cashier if he recalls how the father once schemed to slip away annually to attend the opening baseball game.
Stark is busy as Lucille visits Catalina with her parents. A new house started beside their Wilshire home and, during her absence, was pretty well put up. Lucille returns to see the building and cries out for her mother to witness the new house that was born.
Calgary opens a silver raccoon ranch as foundation stock imports fifteen animals from the United States. The project intends to breed silver raccoons for experimental purposes and not for immediate fur market sale.
The text describes knitting mill machines that start at the stocking top, knit the rib, switch to the body, then the foot, and reinforce heel and toe before finishing the product. Each machine comprises 200 needles all operating simultaneously.
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