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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1920
Page
7
A vivid preview of spring headwear highlights gay colored hats, trim accessories, French model shoes, and colored umbrellas. The piece notes straw and taffeta hats, jet or jade accents, and the popular brown hat with tailored ensembles, emphasizing bold color and decorative brims.
The piece discusses abundant pleating in fashion from skirts to hats with transparent fabrics and colorful touches. It blends fashion notes with thrift advice, urging careful household management and smart spending as essential to national strength and personal goals like home ownership.
Indiana extension official CooL Burkholder urges selecting hardwoods such as elm sugar maple and white ash for fast growth around homes. Keep a six foot weed free circle, apply barnyard manure each fall, and spade it in, to promote strong growth next summer.
Annette McCrae of De Pere urged citizens to organize and tear down unsightly billboards on New Orleans streets. Speaking at Tulane University before the Garden Society, she argued billboards are a public nuisance and useless for advertising, praising practical land use instead of empty promotion.
A mid century quotation depicts casual racial language about combat with Germans. The fragment emphasizes a stark dialogue voice and domestic wartime tone without broader context. The text centers on a character named Rastus and a soldier’s memory of battle.
The appearance of the first bale of cotton is celebrated in many markets and sold at auction. Buyers compete for the privilege to purchase the first bale, driven by advertising prestige and often pushing prices high.
The fragment notes Ben Jonson declaring that love for pictures is fundamental to truth and poetry. It calls picture an invention of reason, ancient and natural, quietly active and constant in its role within wisdom and art.
The Geneva observatory held its annual chronometer competition. In the 1918 report, one watch achieved a daily accuracy of six one-hundredths of a second.
A report notes a scientist's creation of synthetic milk made from peanuts soybeans sugar water and mineral salts. The mention hints at a condensed or dried form but provides no details on timing or location of any funeral or related events.
A patent has been issued for apparatus that lets a person play both piano and violin simultaneously. A lighthearted note discusses theory versus practice and a quoted quip about crossing a rubicon after an argument with a cook.
A salmon is documented to produce up to ten million eggs, illustrating extraordinary fecundity in its reproductive cycle.
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