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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
6
Mills County Tribune lists annual prepaid subscriptions at $2.00 with six months and three months options and single copy sales managed by owners F. Hill, Harle, A. Davis and editor J. Br. Graham.
The Times Picayune notes chromaesthesia is common in about one in eight people and recounts experiments where sunlight through a lens or prism creates audible notes. A spinning disk in the beam cuts light into flashes, allowing the ear to hear faint sounds from the illuminated vessel.
The text describes how colored light from a rainbow passes through a glass vessel containing silk and is alternately interrupted and transmitted. When red is used with green light, loud sounds are heard. red with blue yields faint sounds. other colors produce no sound.
In the South Seas the Paumotu Islands shrink from about 4 000 residents 15 years ago to 2 500 today with over half the atolls uninhabited. Frederick O'Brien in Century Magazine warns the last Paumotu may blame whites for diseases linked to contact. Captain Cook’s Tahitians once 70 000 healthy, now scarcely 2 000 remain, not killed but decimated by disease from civilization. Paumotuans are quiet and contemplative while Tahitians are lively and ritual.
A Siamese fishing method called ghost boat uses a long white painted board arranged to lure fish. Fishermen deploy the ghost boat as bait for catches, described as a traditional though unusual tactic in local waters.
A ghost boat method uses a white board placed near the water surface to frighten fish into leaping over it onto nets. The top must align with the water to lure the fish, and nets behind the board capture those that clear the surface. This technique yields large catches and prevents small fry from entering the nets.
The bush master is the largest venomous snake in the Amazon region of South America. It reaches 12 to 15 feet, has large fangs and venom apparatus like a rattlesnake, and bites can be fatal within about ten minutes. It dwells in ground dens near river banks and rarely climbs trees, with a yellowish pink body and brown patterns.
A brief scene near the Missouri river bank one mile west as I questioned a man about an unresolved matter.
A fragmented excerpt shows dialogue where a speaker denies drinking Missouri River water and others discuss breaking out of a location. The text includes garbled phrases and misspellings, making it hard to identify a clear event, individuals, or organizations.
A four-year-old girl Mary Ellen resists knee covering, arguing at home versus church and public places. Her mother enforces long stockings for play but Mary Ellen insists on wearing short fancy socks when not at home, noting parental inconsistency and voicing protest.
The Dickens Memorial at Number 49 Doughty Street, where Dickens settled after his marriage and wrote Pickwick Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, is up for sale. The Dickens Fellowship seeks to purchase to preserve a house central to the author’s greatest work before landmarks are swept away.
Alabama led U S peanut output in 1919 with 6 84 million bushels and several states produced up to 6 6 million each. U S total peanuts 88 868 million bushels worth about 80 million dollars. 1919 winter price 2 40 per bushel. Brazil spans 3 200405 sq miles, 268642 sq miles larger than U S incl Alaska, population over 26 million, 20 states one federal district and one territory, produces 76 percent of coffee and 28 percent of rubber worldwide.
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