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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1923
Page
4
Sunday school meets at 9 45 with Sunday services at 11 am on the subject Christ Jesus. A Wednesday testimonial meeting is held in the Pythian temple at the listed time.
Prayer meetings set at Big Creek Tuesday and Grand Turn Wednesday. E L C BE business social gathering Friday with Rose and Verna Finkbiner. Sunday school at 9 30. Preaching at Marshall 9 00 Grand Turn 10 30 and Big Creek 7 30.
Sunday school reports an unusually fine year and promotion day planned for last Sunday in September. Sermon topic focuses on The Real Christian and his relations with social problems. Korea lecture by Wo Yong Park at the church with free will offering. Northwestern University support by A Tarbox. County Sunday School Convention to meet at Pettit church. Regular services scheduled, with Sunday night services starting next week. Ole Olsen story ends with a punch line about jumping for oil and waste.
Air mail will depart New York soon before noon and reach Chicago at sunset via Cleveland and Bryan Ohio. A second pilot will fly 1000 miles to Cheyenne via Iowa City Omaha and North Platte. A third leg will finish through Rawlings Rock Wyoming Salt Lake City Elko and Reno landing in San Francisco as night falls. The relay plans mail delivery across the United States in 28 hours.
A garbled OCR fragment references dB levels and replication context with symbols and numbers. No clear event, people, or organization to identify.
A report to the New York consulate describes Czechoslovakia using soldiers’ service time for education and practical skills. By Sept 1922, 354 libraries with 223943 volumes, including many Czech works, German, and Magyar titles, spread across regiments and units. Reading rooms, newspapers, and education committees underlined strong, well funded literacy efforts.
Harvard physicist analyzes hall acoustics noting form and material properties govern sound absorption and reflection. Fogg Art Museum hall modeled after Sanders theater failed to match its acoustics. reverberation reached 5.62 seconds and dropped to mid seconds with Sanders cushions. Window absorption and audience effects quantified with isolated individuals and hair felt walls cited.
Oil storage faces evaporation losses, but a new sealant named sealite may cut waste by about 75 percent. Sealite, a glycerine glucose glue mixture, is poured into tanks and forms a surface seal over the oil. Tests over a year suggest long life and low initial cost for this method.
A Geology Society address by Professor Eddington challenges Lord Kelvin and Ussher. He argues that Earth's age cannot be fixed by these estimates and suggests the planet’s history exceeds 10,000 million years based on the slowing rotation of the Earth.
Soy beans can be grown with corn and are rising in popularity in the corn belt. They can be hogged down to balance corn rotation and suit a wide range of soils with proper inoculation for first-time growers. The hay is high in protein and palatable, boosting silage value when grown with silage corn.
The article profiles Theodore Praesnet who moved from a music store clerk to a music teacher then started a successful music journal. It also recounts E H Harriman’s late leap into railroad leadership after a stock brokerage career, showing that age did not bar ambition.
The Coeur d Alene national forest in Idaho can supply 50 million feet of sawlogs annually in perpetuity under the approved management plan. The forest spans about 660000 acres with 550000 productive forest land, dominated by mature and overmature trees and a young 0 to 20 year class. The plan aims to accelerate mature timber growth so young and intermediate stands reach maturity, requiring about 80 years to remove 4,000,000,000 feet overall, averaging 50,000,000 feet per year.
Researchers Father William Kopper and Father P M Gusinde challenge the stereotype that the Yaggan Zealots were cannibals and pagan. They document a developed religion and language, noting the tribe’s drastic decline from about 2000 fifty years ago to under 70 today as Darwin’s label persists.
Yale professor L L Woodruff identifies a new single celled protozoan named Paramecium polycaryum. Measuring about two hundredths of an inch long, it moves via hairlike cilia beating rapidly to propel it through a water drop and feeds mainly on bacteria and smaller protozoa.
The National Forest Reservation Commission approves the purchase of 11 457 acres across eight eastern states for national forest use at an average price of 3 05 per acre. The largest block totals 5 300 acres in McKean Forest and Warren counties in Pennsylvania within Allegheny National Forest on the Allegheny river headwaters, part of a near 110 000 acre acquisition.
Canned North Pacific whale steaks become a new delicacy in England France and Italy. Word from Tacoma via packers reports the season’s supply nearly sold out and consumers praise the tender product cooked in can. Packers expect a strong whale crop and a heavy season ahead.
Several writers describe a perfectly transparent rubber being perfected by scientists. They envision its use as an unbreakable window or windshield, a cheap liquid-filled lens, a transparent bathing cap, or a rubber overshoe.
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt explains mirage as refraction driven by temperature and pressure differences. It notes ships appearing upside down, lakes and cities seeming to float, and aerial animals and processions seen in the sky as extraordinary optical effects observed in deserts and oceans.
Meteorology basics explain why hailstones form from frozen raindrops lifted into cold air, while snowflakes arise from water vapor directly turning into ice crystals below freezing. The article contrasts hail as frozen rain with snow as ice crystals that clump into snowflakes.
A quoted line from a spring feature highlights newfound appreciation for shoe trees and their practical benefits. The piece emphasizes practical footwear care and seasonal insights for readers.
A reader recalls buying wooden shoe trees to keep shoes from wrinkling. They dismissed the idea but later found the trees restored low cut shoes, making them resemble new. The note ends with a playful line about "barking up shoe trees" this season.
The piece traces silhouettes from early popularity to revival. It notes Etienne de Silhouette, the 18th century French minister of finance, as the namesake due to his stinginess. The method used cut paper profiles lit by candlelight, and the practice earned the minister’s name for its cheapness and simplicity.
The text argues wolves resist habitat loss and that hunting will be necessary to reduce their numbers. It notes increased human activity and cultivated land push wolves from forests yet the species thrives. it warns of Siberian wolves migrating and calls for frequent shooting to curb the population.
An article notes acids like hydrochloric muriatic acid are used for cleaning floors and removing rust stains. It warns to label bottles poison even for mild acids and stresses rinsing with weak ammonia after use to avoid damage.
A TOTAL Loss Gad's Hill Place on the Dover road is for sale. The nearby Sir John Falstaff inn provided Dickens with ale sent from this house, and a posthumous admirer visited the inn after Dickens' death, calling it a great loss to us.
A New York broker, his wife in Palm Beach, receives two wires saying “Broke, landlord duns daily. Send check.” He replies with a joke about economy and “Thousand kisses.” Soon another message arrives. Rent demand continues.
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