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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1920
Page
2
The text critiques envy and domestic dynamics, noting a husband wife balance and the impact of a baby on households. It highlights concerns about undernourished children, urging frequent weighing, weight improvement classes, and parent involvement despite objections over health anxiety.
Unions complain strikes pushed up production costs while towns respond by expanding schools. They install a teacher in larger classes and expect about half an hour per pupil, highlighting strained resources and efforts to manage growing enrollments.
The article estimates 800000 boys and 400000 girls aged 14 have left school to work, about half the children that age. It argues their education is minimal, with no business training or civic knowledge, and urges longer compulsory schooling or continuation schools to fill obvious gaps.
The piece argues that cities face diminishing returns as they expand past a certain size. Growth preserves services but can erode country life, slow travel, invite political corruption, and flatten identity. It notes suburban towns shift perception from mere size to quality and activity.
The article recalls the enduring lure of the circus with its thrills, animals, and daring feats drawing crowds across generations. It contrasts young and old audiences and laments stale jokes while praising the circus’s perpetual fascination and affordable spectacle. It also reflects on congressional acts and government policy affecting infrastructure, water power, and transportation.
The essay notes a shift from rural living to urban life, with 28 cities over 100000 gaining 24 percent in a decade. It argues urban crowds seek activity and civically detached lifestyles, predicting a future return to country life by wiser, previously mobile residents.
Fragmented text reflects confusion over congressional accomplishments and motives. It mentions possible praise for progress plus doubts about performance and future actions. The source text is garbled and hard to parse into a clear summary.
A lengthy essay asserts confidence underpins social, religious, industrial, commercial, and daily life. It argues faith in workers, managers, police, and customers sustains safety, credit, and daily tasks, noting most trust others while a few go wrong. The piece compares the vast business structure to a machine dependent on confidence.
In south China an association promotes the silk industry and disease control. Missionary Rev. E C Wowe toured with 120000 silkworm eggs microscopically inspected to prove the method. Buyers eager for more eggs followed. the society aims to gain trust where businessmen fail.
A naturalist explains whale respiration. The windpipe never opens to the mouth, and a blowhole valve prevents water from entering the lungs. The whale stays submerged longer than seals, aided by a venous reservoir behind the lungs that supplies air.
The New York College of Forestry exhibits articles made from sawdust and shingle waste to reduce living costs. Items include Sik socks sausage casings phonograph records paper milk bottles and tanbark shingles. Wood treated with chemicals forms viscose used for sausage casings and silklike films.
A West Indies spider species builds a ground dwelling with a door that can be opened from inside. The spider leaves the door open when unseen and closes it quickly when pursued or disturbed, using ingenuity to guard its dwelling.
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