A Queer Thing Told by a Stringer
A fragment recounts a stringer report about best friends and a vague queer topic, presenting as a brief overheard note with unclear details and no verifiable names or places.
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1924
Page
7
A fragment recounts a stringer report about best friends and a vague queer topic, presenting as a brief overheard note with unclear details and no verifiable names or places.
The article reviews L. A. Vaughts phrenology chart linking brain regions to cities Salt Lake City Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh Boston and others. It describes faculties like alimentiveness destructiveness and constructiveness and notes intellectual vigor guides judgment and action.
The passage contrasts square headed and round headed individuals, linking skull shape to bone strength and calcium intake. It attributes to square headed people careful thinking, invention, and interest in engineering and science, while noting round headed people have different reasoning faculties and traits as part of a broader typology.
A 1924 Western Newspaper Union excerpt describes a “vital experiment” where flesh prevails over bones and muscles. It portrays the vital man as a consumer rather than a producer, noting preferences for foods with carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen and roles as hotel keeper, butcher, and dealer in food and drink. It characterizes vital types as god natured, merry, pleasure loving, and effective salesmen due to warm hands and cheerful dispositions.
The text discusses cooling hatching eyes and allowing hatchlings 36 to 48 hours without feed. It notes that a bird with worn toeballs is a poorer layer than one with long nails. It defines a pullet as a female under a year old and a cockerel as a male under a year old.
A Circuit Rider statue honoring an early West minister stands on the Oregon State House lawn in Salem. The marble base is ready and the statue will be unveiled on April 19. Gift from Robert A. Booth of Eugene in memory of his father Robert Booth, pioneer.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.