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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1920
Page
7
Frances and Rita, twins, watched their mother finish a cake on their fourth birthday. Frances exclaimed that they should have today for her birthday and another for Rita tomorrow, a curious two day plan.
The excerpt compares a million days and hours to historical milestones, noting that a million days from 1920 predates Rome's founding and a million hours nearly reaches the Battle of Trafalgar. It emphasizes that a million is easier to grasp through time rather than counting.
A 1915 testimonial from Mrs. Edgar Nay of Marshall confirms Doan's Kidney Pills cured her back ache and kidney trouble. She repeats in 1919 that the remedy remained effective and urges others to use Dean's Kidney Pills, priced 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
Archeologists read birth records and tombstones to learn that Babylonian parents named newborns after notable figures or events around their birth. Names memorialized kings or men of achievement, turning tablets into historical clues requiring vast digging for context. postwar Britain even inspired babies named Tankie after tanks.
The article notes Japanese women use hair arrangements to signal their situation. Wedded prospects wear hair in a fan or butterfly shape with silver ornaments. Widows seeking new husbands pin hair at the back with tortoiseshell pins. widows who remain faithful cut their hair short with no ornaments.
The Iate Professor Garner, writing in Century Magazine, describes a method of vermin control by inviting ants into a home in Central Africa. The ants swarm walls and ceilings, kill pests, and provide temporary relief from house insects. Native servants are used to drive them away with torches when unwanted.
The article describes two icebergs forming on the northwest shore of Green Bay last spring due to strong winds that broke rotting ice and pushed it ashore. Ice piles along the upper bay reached 60 feet high in one mound, with perpendicular bayward faces and 45 degree sloped sides, composed of iridescent shattered chips from ground ice.
Codfish off Newfoundland were caught 12 hours before a severe gale and all had swallowed stones. Sea urchins bury themselves before storms while dolphins avoid rough seas. Stormy petrels flock in a vessel’s wake signaling a coming storm.
Doctors Givens and Toffmann experiment in the research laboratories of Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh show scurvy is not caused by bacteria, but solely by diet deficiencies.
Mexican women thread fireflies into gauze bags and place them in hair or clothing as jewels. The insects are kept in tiny wire cages and fed with scraps of sugar cane until needed again.
Katherine Miller Administratrix of Theodore Miller deceased Clark County Illinois informs creditors to appear at Clark County Court Marshall on first Monday in November 1920 for claim adjustments. Creditors urged to present claims and debtors to pay promptly. attorney Arthur Poorman listed.
Public notice from Clark County Illinois informs defendants non residents that the Department of Public Works petitions for condemnation of land for road purposes. Defendants must appear October 11, 1920, or the petition may be confessed and a judgment entered. Dated August 31, 1920, at Marshall Illinois. First publication September 1920.
Non-resident defendants including Mrs H H White Mrs Wm Shumard and others must appear in the Circuit Court at Marshall Illinois on November 8 1920 to plead answer or demur to the bill in equity filed September 1 1920 by Everett Connelly executor of St Janney deceased seeking to construe a will and appoint a trustee to sell. Clerk Jay Swern confirms.
The New York Tribune suggests treating household tasks as a rhythmic art like a Greek dance. It weighs how washing clothes and other chores could become timed, musical activities using varied tempos to fit each task. The piece urges careful testing to tailor music for kitchen and laundry duties.
In a Brooklyn Eagle snippet, readers are asked if people should sleep at the theater but the answer suggests they should not expect boredom and lodging, implying theatergoing without sleeping arrangements.
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