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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1923
Page
7
At a political gathering Hay was invited to move a resolution but faced hostile reception. The audience, declaring him persona non grata, drowned his speech in tumult while the chairman failed to restore order. The crowd shouted no, citing awkward wordplay about hay and jackasses.
A tree grows atop a snokestack at an abandoned factory near Turners Falls Massachusetts. Moisture on bricks sustains its growth giving the scene a rugged, weathered appearance.
Charles L. Peters of 2219 McGee St Kansas City Missouri says pneumonia left him weak with indigestion and loss of appetite. After taking Tanlac he reports renewed strength appetite better sleep and improved health. Tanlac is advertised as available at druggists with over 37 million bottles sold.
Snowy linens are the pride of every housewife kept in condition by Red Cross Ball Blue. Available at all grocers in this advertisement style.
A playful quip notes that dieting by keeping foods warm in chafing dishes won’t cause weight gain. the line uses humor to imply practical limits of such a diet.
An amateur inventor describes a simple 500-volt 100 amp SPTD knife switch on a damp base with three electrode ball insulators. The modification uses new drilled holes and aligned components to prevent leakage and improve reliability in wet weather.
Instructions describe mounting insulators on a base to prevent screw heads from protruding. Drill and grind a blade support to fit a nut, use brass bolts, nuts, and washers. A small electrode ball insulator costs about 385 cents and the switch can be mounted in any convenient position regardless of weather.
The article notes that high erosion and losses are minimal even in very wet weather and suggests painting metal parts to further reduce corrosion while keeping contact surfaces bare.
A circular with each bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound reports 98 out of 100 women benefited. Over 50 000 replies affirm the claim, claiming the medicine targets women's ailments without being a general cure all. The description highlights natural root and herb ingredients and global sales.
An expert notes easy construction of spider web coils for amateur receiving sets. He outlines a brass panel mounting with two right angle strips, adjustable widths, and clasped cell terminals to simplify alignment and operation.
Practical instructions describe mounting honeycomb coils with machine screws nuts and brass contact strips for secure electrical contact. It covers coil orientation flexibility wire soldering to brass contacts and constructing stationary mounts from manila board with radial slots for adjustable inductance using No 24 DBD coaxial wire.
Reports tell of radio concerts reaching 2000 miles from stations as Northwest cities and Canadian towns join in a single community dance. High power stations allow two households 4000 miles apart to share the same music at once, with dancers on ships in both oceans possibly joining a broadcast from Ellsworth, Alaska.
The Radio Corporation of America's annual report shows about 15 million dollars in sales and 30 to 40 percent of trans oceanic communication handled. It notes 20 to 80 percent Atlantic traffic share, 40 to 50 percent Pacific, a cross sea radio delivery service, and first use of high power vacuum tubes in long distance wireless telegraphy. The year included three cable and telegraph line failure emergencies met by radio circuits.
Radio letter service established with ship-to-shore traffic more than doubled. News stations for Sweden Poland South America and China are under construction or planned.
A Nebraska man sues to break up an alleged monopoly of ether by radio broadcasting concerns. The case likens injunction against a crowd blocking a sidewalk to regulating crowded air and ground thoroughfares.
In New Jersey a group of youngsters used a kite with a single wire antenna and reported good reception on their radio set, turning a simple kite into an improvisedantenna experiment.
England begins a formal radio course in its public schools as part of the regular curriculum, aiming to integrate wireless technology education into standard schooling.
In Paris two competing papers, the Razor and the Scorpion, provoke weekly battles. A philanthropist invites editors to reconcile, but a single guest arrives—claiming to be editor of both papers.
Gup Johnson of Rumpus Ridge says he plans to quit swapping with neighbors. He explains that good trades lead to too much time hiding from those he swapped with, a remark reported by the Kansas City Star.
A brisk afternoon at the Homemakers' club includes roll call on favorite vegetables and listening to three rewrites from the cyclopedia on social conditions in eastern Mesopotamia. The item notes that men not seeking work receive many offers, as per Judge.
Richard G. Herndon, a play producer, recalls an encounter with a pass fiend who demanded free access to a show. He explained that the production was a success and could not grant courtesies. The exchange centered on language and a taunting reference to the slogan they shall not pass.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for shaving and daily care, claiming double razor efficiency with no mug, no slime, no germs, and minimal waste. The soap is marketed as suitable for shaving, bathing, and shampooing, usable twice daily.
Giant airplanes fitted as flying hospitals will serve French colonial territories with white walled operating theatres, surgeons, anaesthetists, pilots, and mechanics. Serial hospitals feature triple silenced engines to minimize vibration, enabling serious operations during flight.
A housewife smiles at a basket of clear white clothes and thanks Red Cross Ball Blue in a grocery advertisement.
A sixteen year old boy and a fifteen year old girl planned a meeting at a show at seven. She waited on time, but he never appeared. She realizes April Fools Day explained the delay. The next day in school he teased her about the botched date, ending her first romance.
Hint Was Enough. Helen is left handed. At table her father tries to train her to use the right hand. She replies with a line about needing a ring to remember it. She gets the ring.
A social tale from the Houston Post recalls a man who missed immense wealth when a woman he planned to marry refused him. The punchline rests on three words she spoke ten years earlier: No, you fool. Her father owned two coal mines and wealth, yet she rejected him, altering his fortune.
An old colored woman in Atlanta carried her mistress's clothes home for return in a few days but they were kept three weeks and fumigated by the health department. Liza faced her mistress with the claim that “her stephusband had done been had the smallpox” prompting the joke about what a step husband is.
A child borrows his grandmother's spectacles and asks what lies between his eyes and the lenses. The grandmother replies that seventy years separate them, noting the long passage of time.
A reflective line on desire contrasts everyday dullness with the lure of things people wish to own and cannot afford. It hints at consumer longing and the pursuit of wealth as a spur to life.
A Petrograd dispatch reports the Ruselam expedition led by Professor Bartsenko found pyramid tombs and traces of dwellings and temples on the Kolg peninsula in Lapland between the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea, dating before Fut-Ankh-Amen.
In Ohio during a drought a pastor is mid prayer when a plane crashes into the church roof. He continues with a wry remark about divine bounty as he ends the service. The Boston Evening Transcript captions the event as a rare moment of presence of mind.
A terse maxim proposes that a person without a future is defined by a difficult past. The saying emphasizes the impact of history on present potential and cautions against foreclosing opportunities. The phrase reflects a cautionary, moral tone common to aphoristic commentaries.
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