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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1920
Page
4
Mills County Tribune lists advertising rates for display and local ads. It also shows owners and publishers F Hill Barle A Davis, editor J R Graham, and notes pricing for composition local readings and obituary poetry.
In a Seattle Coast Intelligencer piece, Glenn M. Farley argues money rarely dictates joy. A father figure, a long-time pipe smoker and heavy eater, endures a doctor’s diet plan that strips breakfast and nicotine, revealing how health, habit, and restraint shape mood more than wealth. The author suggests guardianship may be needed to reform such lifelong excesses.
A German chemistry professor once produced small gold quantities shown to peers. A devoted servant secretly fed gold leaf to his crucible, but when a trip and a mispurchase led his wife to buy drink with the funds, she replaced the leaf with Dutch metal. The reveal sparked amusement and raised questions about trust and intrigue in scientific circles.
The article explains the Archaeopteryx as the first seen bird on earth meaning ancient wing with a lizard tail armored eye and teeth. It notes such odd birds once existed and that nature changes all things including birds with species dying out due to humans and natural disasters.
The article traces historic Dalmatian tensions between Croats and Serbs over language and alphabet, noting Latin influence among elites and coastal economic ties to Venice. It shifts to a rural China scene where peach stones are dried for fuel art carvings or sold to chemists for cough remedies, highlighting cross-cultural contrasts.
In a Wheeler & Co. architectural firm, Peanut, a four foot ten clerk adored for her "gray matter," earns respect after a lunch-time accident. A mysterious rescuer, later revealed as Mr Wheeler's son Ted, helps and sparks a slow burn as Marjorie Pierce grows involved with the pair and the firm.
A few years ago Doctor Emmena, an American scientist, proposed a missing element called argentaurum between gold and silver. He melted Mexican dollars in a cru cible, dissolved the sliver with nitric acid, and showed a residue of undeniable gold. The explanation notes original gold in the silver used for coinage due to imperfect metallurgical processes.
A quoted discussion notes that no Chinese pocket dictionary exceeds 10,000 characters and a learner must recognize many words. It asserts 3,000 to 5,000 syllables suffice for average education, but mastering a thousand characters enables basic comprehension of simple texts.
A historic clock novelty dubbed the Coriester Clock features a checkerboard face with numbers formed by gaming routines. The hour hand ends in a club, with a diamond pointing hours and a spade as its butt, hands fixed by dice, and the top adorned with tenpins, billiard balls, and crossed billiard cues.
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