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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1926
Page
7
A line from Oliver Wendell Holmes notes that a good hat reflects appearance while virtue endures beyond fashion. The verse contrasts man and nature scorning a shocking hat with a playful nod to Canadian brooks and beavers.
A collection of breakfast and lunch ideas featuring eggs in various forms from poached to curried eggs and spinach nests. It recommends corn rich dishes, sugared sweet potatoes, prunes, and prune relishes, plus simple sandwich fillings and betrothal heart shaped spreads.
The Kansas City Star excerpt recalls a talk about being eighteen and bored. Cap'n Hitchins contrasts a bored youth with a live wire who has purpose, noting energy must be directed rather than wasted, and questions a famous novel’s portrayal of boredom.
Swedes show strong interest in silver and blue fox breeding after 70 pairs arrived in Stockholm for transfer to Norrland. Main fox farm cost is fencing to nine feet underground to deter digging. island sites could avoid fencing. Silver foxes are hard to handle while blue foxes breed easily but yield lower value pelts.
In Kansas City, Lou E. Holland president of the Advertising Clubs of the World, gives a talk on humorous ads. He relays an Oriental tale where a sultan’s auction of an old harem leads to a punchline about a beleaguered ad writer and the ad campaign.
The exchange depicts Elinor Glyn’s remark on youth and idealism at a Hollywood tea. A young couple in a conservatory share a moment as powder leaves mark on the coat, the man reassuring and the girl crying in distress about imperfection.
Cozad Nebraska with 2000 residents ranks among the largest alfalfa markets in the United States. Carload shipments from Cozad average 1100 to 1300 yearly, with Darr and Willow Island stations dispatching 300 to 500 cars annually. Dawson County leads Nebraska in hay production and 1925 figures show Nebraska top in hay acreage nationwide.
A man calling himself Earl Jack son appealed for prayers at an 8 member Wichita church confessing sin and repentance. After tears from the congregation and a collected $25 for him, his outside partner looted motor cars parked along the street.
Washington reports that Congress authorized seven three year commissioners to take testimony and issue findings for the Court of Claims. The move aims to reduce delays from backlogged war era claims, cut government interest costs, and speed decisions on taxes and compensations.
The Baltimore waterfronted Cheyenne, formerly the Wyoming and last of the Civil War era monitors, is moved to a junk pile at Hampton Roads. Once a training ship and pioneer of oil engines, she ends her days obsolete with crew transferred and engines cold.
New motto I shall not knock my neighbor promotes neighborly love as the Na tional Order of Loyalty self declares its purpose. The article offers no further clues about activities or members.
Degink Institute incorporated at Albany to provide rooms for tramps and assist them, welcoming hoboes to Buffalo.
The owner chooses when to undertake home repairs and improvements such as painting roofing plumbing and remodeling. Scheduling during quieter periods boosts efficiency and lowers costs, affecting the broader cost of living for the community.
The article notes a shift from rural to urban America with many cities adopting playgrounds and recreation as a standard city function. It cites 711 cities offering playgrounds and nearly 16,000 recreation directors as evidence of growing municipal emphasis on public leisure facilities.
The article argues home ownership should appeal to every family and notes one third of life is spent in the home. It explains rent is wealth transfer to the owner and that purchase plans let the average person own a home with similar monthly costs to renting. It warns buyers to avoid overextending finances.
The San Luis Obispo County Board passes an ordinance to prohibit erecting signs and billboards along county highways except for legal notices and tourist direction signs. Signs on fences trees or county buildings are barred. Penalties range from 25 to 200 dollars or up to 50 days in jail, or both.
A historical note details that sheep arrived from Mexico to Texas early, with 1872 marking a start for Mexican flocks. A 1892 Agriculture Department report records rapid growth in 24 years, with wool yield per head rising from 2.68 to 68 pounds, indicating the industry was established before 1872.
The Mayflower passengers carried bacon hard tack salt beef herring cheese and beer or ale. For luxuries they brought butter vinegar mustard and perhaps lemons and prunes. By about 1630 colonists ate fish and game oysters clams mussels beans pumpkins peas and various fruits and berries.
The United States Patent Office logs over 80 000 annual patent applications with about half granted. Applications have doubled in 28 years and more than 1 500 000 patents have been granted overall, a record unmatched by any other country.
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