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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1923
Page
18
Christian Science notices announce Sunday school at 9 45 a m Sunday services at 11 a m with the subject Christ Jesus Wednesday evening testimonial meeting at 7 00 o clock all services held at the Pythian temple.
Evangelical pastor J E McCoy announces prayer meetings at Big Creek Tuesday and Grand Turn Wednesday. E L C EB hosts a Friday business and social meeting with Rose and Verna Finkbiner. Sunday school is at 9 30. Preaching at Marshall 9 00 Grand Turn 10 30 and Big Creek 7 30.
The church reports a fine year in Sunday school and promotes on the last Sunday in September. Services at 10 45 am with a sermon on The Real Christian and social problems. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 pm. Friday features an illustrated Korea lecture by Wo Yong Park with free will offering. County Sunday School Convention Thursday at the church. Harvey to preach next Sunday at Asbury and Olive. Evening service resumes Sundays at 7 30 pm. Ole Olsen story about oil and waste ends with a joke from Everybody's Magazine.
Air mail departs New York just before noon heading via Cleveland and Bryan to Chicago by sunset. A second pilot travels 1000 miles to Cheyenne via Iowa City Omaha and North Platte in the dead of night. A third leg ends in San Francisco as street lamps glow, completing the relay from Rawlings to Rock Springs and Salt Lake City to Reno. Total flight time about 28 hours.
A Czechoslovak report to the New York consulate general describes plans to educate soldiers during service. By September 1922 there were 354 libraries with 223943 volumes, reading rooms in 218 units, 7061 daily readers, and 2500 newspapers and magazines. Committees in each unit oversee education and entertainment with strong early finances.
Harvard physicist analyzes lecture and concert hall acoustics noting reverberation depends on form and materials. Sanders theater cushions cut reverberation from 5.62 to 4.14 seconds while open windows serve as absorbers. audience and attire also affect absorption with measured ratios.
A new sealant called sealite, a mix of glycerine glucose and glue, is poured into storage tanks through vents to cover the oil surface and prevent evaporation. Tests over a year show about 75 percent reduction in waste, with low initial cost and seemingly indefinite life.
A scientific debate questions fixed earth age methods. Ussher and Kelvin are dismissed as outdated. Professor Eddington cites Earth’s slowing rotation implying an age far exceeding earlier estimates, with the day’s length changing from three to four hours at the Moon’s birth.
The soy bean grows successfully with corn and is a popular crop in the corn belt. It can be hogged down to balance the rotation of corn. It adapts to many soils with careful cultivation, and hay from the crop is rich in protein. It adds value to silage when grown with silage corn.
The piece notes Theodore Praesnet’s career shift from clerk to music teacher to editor of a popular music journal. It also recounts E. H. Harriman’s late entry into railway leadership after a brokerage start, showing age as no barrier to learning and rising to top.
The Coeur d Alene national forest Idaho can annually yield 50 million feet of sawlogs in perpetuity under the approved management plan. The forest spans about 660000 acres with 550000 acres productive. timber is mainly in mature and very young age classes. The plan aims to accelerate mature timber growth to allow younger classes to mature, averaging 80 years for a total removal of 4 billion feet.
The Yaggan Indians of Tierra del Fuego are shown to be moral, religious, and eloquent, contradicting years of cannibalism stigma. Researchers Father Kopper and Father Gusinde expose the tribe as cultured, noting their language and religion. Once about 2,000 strong, today fewer than 70 remain as extinction looms.
Yale University Professor L L Woodruff identifies a new single celled protozoan named Paramecium polyncaryum. The microbe measures about one two hundredth of an inch, moves by cilia, feeds on bacteria and smaller protozoa, and is visible only under a microscope.
The National Forest Reservation Commission authorized acquiring 11 457 acres across eight eastern states at about 3 05 per acre. The largest block totals 5 300 acres in McKean Forest and Warren counties Pennsylvania within the Allegheny National Forest. The Allegheny river headwaters tract brings the total near 110 000 acres of new federal land.
Canned North Pacific whale steaks emerge as a new delicacy in England France and Italy with the entire season’s pack disposed of reports from Tacoma packers. The product is praised when canned and cooked to tenderness and traders expect a strong whale crop this season as they anticipate higher demand.
Writers envision a perfectly transparent rubber that scientists are refining for unbreakable windows and windshields a cheap liquid distorting lens a transparent bathing cap or rubber overshoe and other practical novelties from the feature.
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt explains mirage as atmospheric refraction causing inverted ships to appear in the sky and distant cities to float in air. It notes temperature and pressure differences can create surprising, illusionary visions across deserts and seas.
Meteorologists explain hail and snow formation. Hailstones form when updrafts lift water droplets into cold air, freezing them into ice balls. Snow forms from water vapor cooling directly into ice crystals that join as snowflakes.
A speaker explains newfound appreciation for shoe trees this spring, noting how they protect footwear and maintain shape. The remark highlights practical care routines and evolving sneaker maintenance habits as seasons turn.
A reader recalls buying wooden shoe trees to prevent wrinkling and discovers they kept low cut shoes in good shape. Surprised by the trees' effectiveness, they now plan to reuse existing pairs and avoid buying new shoes this season.
The piece notes silhouettes grew popular before photography and have seen revivals. Named after Etienne de Silhouette, 18th century French minister of finance famed for frugality, these paper cut profiles emerged from candlelight tracing shadows, earning the minister’s name for their affordable charm.
The wolf adapts to expanding human land and remains abundant even after hunting declines. The text argues guns must blaze regularly to reduce this undesirable population and to curb the influx of the Siberian wolf into the country.
A 19th or early 20th century note explains acids are increasingly used in homes for cleaning. It suggests diluting hydrochloric acid to clean bathroom tiles and remove rust stains with a medicine dropper, followed by rinsing with weak ammonia. It cautions labeling bottles poison due to danger even from mild acids.
A total loss Gad's Hill Place Dickens home near the Dover road is for sale with the Sir John Falstaff inn nearby. An admirer visiting after Dickens death entered the inn and joked about the loss, noting he had all his ale sent from that house.
A New York broker, whose wife wintered at Palm Beach, received two wires saying the landlord was pressing for payment. He replied with humor about a short note and a thousand kisses, and then a follow up about sending a check, the landlord responding with demand for funds.
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