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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1921
Page
6
Report describes a bright three wheeled car at McCook Field Dayton controlled by radio impulses from a distant station. The vehicle performs precise operations from a distance with a selector decoding dot and dash signals to activate twelve possible controls.
A nostalgic piece honors the old fashioned mother with toil worn hands guiding childhood and a loving memory that lingers, contrasted with a vintage sales pitch for ladies summer wear offered at half price for ten days featuring a large assortment and popular styles.
The text discusses using radio control to operate any movable apparatus including tanks boats submarines aircraft or surface vessels for precise explosive firing along enemy lines. It notes applications to manufacturing plants enabling long distance moves within factories.
Austin August 18 Public school music has been taught in the University of Texas summer programs under Miss Elfreda Littlejohn state supervisor of music and fifty three diplomas will be awarded to students who studied these courses. Professor Frank L Reed urges public music education as essential for all citizens noting home study cannot replace widespread musical literacy and that public funding should support such education for children’s foundational musical training.
Rev Charles Stzzle argues divorces rise not from immorality but from women's economic freedom. He notes women now can support themselves, reducing dependence on husbands and enabling independence. As civilization advances, individuals seek personal rights and autonomous lives.
Commissioner's Court sets a five year audit contract with Munn & Gulley for 625 dollars covering all county officers funds and district accounts. Audit backdated five years to January 1 1922 with work to start about December 1921. Burnet Bulletin.
In Kimble and Mason counties the pecan crop shines with trees up to four feet in diameter. One tree yielded $800 in a season, while vast tracts of land remain capable of pecan growth. The piece urges top-working and adoption of pecan farming to replace cattle as a more profitable use of the land. Noted growers like Mr. Willmann demonstrate the gains from budding and top-working to premium varieties.
A collage of quotes on endurance fortitude and pursuit of virtue from Reveral Costigan Bharavi Ruakin Kevok Costik yan W H Wilson and others. The piece ends with an advertisement noting a half price sale on a ladies summer hat at Popular.
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