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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1921
Page
2
The Lexington Intelligencer announces weekly Friday publication with subscription price of 1.50 per year. It notes second class mail matter status and post office placement in Lexington Mississippi.
A report notes a man found slain after beating his wife. The piece mentions self determination by Dr. C. F. Brooks predicting a very cold next winter. It cites early awakenings to constitutional supremacy over the Anti-Saloon League, river navigation, thirst deaths among sailors, and a Paris doctors’ claim linking cigarette smoking and alcohol to beards on women. Travel items, visits, and an 1888 cholera tale by W H Ireland conclude.
County Teachers' meeting will be held in Lexington on Thursday and Friday September 1 and 2 1921. Dr C A Phillips Dean of Central Missouri State Teachers College Warrensburg among out of county speakers. New features planned. about two hundred teachers expected. Full program to appear next week's papers.
The excerpt includes endorsements for Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy from F. H. Dear of Dupuyer Montana and Mildred Bridges of Red Fork Ohio. It also notes Miss Elizabeth Morrison returning from Cleveland and Tulsa resident Cornelia Ludwigs visiting, plus a business trip by E. B. Campbell and Albert Chamblin to Kansas City. The Chillicothe Business College advertises job guarantees and tuition terms. An ad urges laundering shirts and collars properly, promoting garments cleaned to shed dignity.
Office advertises typewriter paper grades available order now. Boxes contain five hundred sheets cut and boxed for compact bulk shipment.
French researchers propose a small 60 foot submersible with a circular hull and two keels to study depths up to 300 feet in shallow waters of the North Sea. The mission aims to collect fish and benthic organisms, assess water clarity and light at various depths, and yield practical data for seafood sources.
Manchester Guardian notes varied pampered pets among figures from Princess Mary to Wordworth and Cowper. It recalls Queen Victoria with a collie, Louis Napoleon with a tame eagle, and Sir Walter Scott’s sentimental pet pig, highlighting lighthearted royal and literary pet anecdotes.
Monaco lies on a coastal strip between Nice and Mentone with a scenic hilly landscape and a hairpin road to La Turbie. Augustus marked the Gaul Italy boundary here. Monaco imports coal and wine, exports olive oil and perfume, and earns about 10,000 pounds per square mile annually, rising in 1927 by one eighth.
London Opinion notes a bored wife wishes for a friend to set them, while the husband agrees or even an enemy could do, illustrating domestic restlessness and social critique in a compact urban opinion column.
A hiking party of boy scouts on Millerak near Moab Utah discovered a cedar bark bag containing jet black beans in a prehistoric cliff dwelling. The beans were well preserved and some will be planted with the rest sent to the State University Museum. Indigenous tradition speaks of cliff dwellers as "little men."
Morris Gestanid in the smoking room of the Chicago Athletic Club jokes about ministers from Philadelphia who dictate how women should dress. He recounts telling Aphrodite’s girls of the decree and notes their horror and despair at the notion. The fragment ends with a garbled quote describing a girl’s limited gaze.
The article reports a Congo paper development with a nanome analysis showing 47.3 percent cellulose. After research a bleaching process for plants found after 50 years, and plans by the American consul general at Brussels to build a near river pulp plant costing 2,600,000 francs. Initial production set at 20,000 tons.
Col. Robert M. Culler of the United States Army Medical Corps cites 16 cases of major operations on elderly patients, from strangulated hernias to pyloric cancers, and argues in JAMA that age may not prevent surgical intervention. He notes old men show calmness and fortitude and are docile postoperatively.
A New York Evening Post report recounts a Broadway screen production of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse where a woman asks her companion if he knows anything else Ibanez has written. The exchange highlights curiosity about the author’s works on the stage and screen.
Sei ster Sonsham quips about learning golf with his left hand as his right arm shakes and tires. The remark hints at fatigue or injury affecting his playing ability.
A sharp guest bursts into the Golconda hotel amid a sandstorm and complains his neck ears and pockets are full of real estate. The landlord retorts that the sand in the atmosphere softens the glare as cited by the Kansas City Star.
A sensational exchange centers on a high school daughter choosing simple attire. Vanity is cited as the motive while the father jokes about nationwide newspaper exposure from her photo. The incident reflects media attention on student dress and public image.
An article in an issue titled How to Avoid War examines strategies for peace. It argues for diplomacy, dialogue, and restraint to prevent conflict and highlights roles of leaders and citizens in fostering nonviolent resolutions.
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