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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1926
Page
6
Annie Alligator decides to tell zoo visitors more than differences between alligators and crocodiles. She vows to explain tails and to present a rhyming poem about fat rounded tails, hoping visitors remember her as a poet and gain trust in her truth.
A professor dismisses class amid unusually poor student attentiveness. He urges calm as students file out, noting the morning’s low intelligence level.
The hint line shows a youth asking about giving “Fido” a “vundy” while a parent responds with cautious permission and admission of not reading the full context. The fragment hints at a domestic or humorous dialogue in progress.
New York's Hudson River acts as a global trade artery with cargo ships, freighters, and ocean liners at uptown docks. The lower river hosts railways and yards, while Riverside Drive houses grand homes near Schwab’s mansion and park spaces along a two-tier riverfront with monuments and statues attracting sightseers.
Lexington Kentucky. An eccentric mountaineer 68 year old Wilton Creek Floyd County plans to lie in a cliff tomb he built twelve years ago on a hill crest behind his home. He envisions no coffin a white shroud and a homespun coverlet as his body slowly petrifies in limestone.
Washington aviation officials track German Zeppelins' use of carbureted hydrogen gas as fuel for the upcoming LZ-127 super Zeppelin. The fuel, 700 times lighter than benzine, promises greater efficiency, less lifting-gas loss, and longer cruising radius, with Maybach motors adapted to the fuel. project completion slated for late 1927.
Nevada officials announce the American antelope has been saved from extinction after long protection efforts. Small herds survive in isolated areas and distribute animals to parks in eastern and western states and to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
A British Sun fay Sunday school in York England is slipping due to reduced parental control, home influence, and population shifts. Rev A J G Seaton notes Sunday schools have lost a significant portion of membership over 20 years as the day gains many options.
Fifteen unusually hungry chorus girls were present in Atlantic City as their show closed. The theater was locked and no one was available to provide food or assistance.
Fashion notes reveal Paris styles push even shorter hems with embroidered beaded and laced knee taps as the trend du jour. Designers forecast continued rise in risqué hemlines and bold detailing next season.
Multiple towns report highway paving bids and contracts. Carthage to Bowen road nearing completion. Mounds secures a $19,254 contract for state highway work. Aledo and Alton announce street and civic upgrades including a new city hall. Cairo and Birds Point ferry lines expand service. Chartering and plant prospects noted for several firms.
Pie supper planned at Hatch school on Friday night October 8 with a short program. Located 12 miles east of Vernon. Everyone invited to attend.
Elmer Albert and family visited relatives near Alma on Sunday. Several local families, including the Fetgarters and Wooters, spent Sunday with kin. A Fox Meet at Ramsey drew attendees including the Caldwells and Chandler. A pie supper is planned for Round Top and Chance. Threshing slows due to rain. Herschel Campbell survived an oil stove explosion with burned hands and is recovering.
Mr. Orrel and wife, with sister Mrs. Susie Snyder and family, visited Sunday. Mrs. Bertha Determann is on the sick list. Lela and Lila Bopp visited with Rose and Myr Snyder. John Terry and family called on Irvin Bowen and Hazel and Floyd Britt. Jack Stewart of Decatur visited with Lola Belcher.
Corn in the lowlands was ruined by high water. Cecil Alexander returned home Friday from Ventralia after a six week hospital stay. John Shepard bought two good milk cows at the Baxter sale Saturday. Perry Belcher and family attended the sale as guests of A. Belcher and family. Elmer Clement and wife visited Bill Alexander and family Sunday. Wall visited Mary Step and Shep went to Wer.
Sunday to visit her uncle Theodore Stone. John Shepard and wife visited Owen Belcher and wife Sunday.
White Haven notes show farmers seek clear weather to finish sowing wheat. Miss Loretta Outhouse underwent appendicitis surgery in Centralia on Friday. Leo Landreth and family visited with G. C. Johnson and Miss Dail Payne, who were taken to St. Marys hospital in Centralia Sunday for appendicitis. Mrs. Oral Brown teaches Bear Creek little room while Dail Payne is hospitalized. Charlie Halbrook and Albert Halbrook families visited Sunday with Noah Belcher. Asher Brummitt and family called on Willie Lawrence and family. Jasper Benefield and family with grandson Merle spent Sunday in Vernon. Sunday School and preaching services were well attended.
Urbana Sept. 27 A McLean county farmer C H Wilke shared a poultry sanitation trial with 437 March chicks raised on clean ground in a corn field using movable brooders. No disease appeared all season, while 1 332 April chicks in old yards suffered 25 percent mortality from cocci diosis and roup. Wilke plans a formal sanitation program per the agricultural college.
The United States government plans a new dollar bill two thirds the size of the current note to reduce paper ink and engraving costs. Savings include about a million and a half dollars yearly from lighter production and quicker distribution.
A sensational pitch claims salesmen earn profits of one dollar per dealer called on with a pattern of buy and resell figures. It promises guidance to new sellers on how to reach earnings like seven hundred dollars, mentioning dealers, cost, and markup in a terse sales pitch.
A pie supper is planned for Saturday night October 2 1926 with a single invitation extended to guests for a community event at a local venue.
A pie supper will be held at the Round Top school house on Wednesday night October 6. Everyone is invited.
Sealed bids for Parker Bridge repair and wing wall construction near Fairman Illinois will be opened October 14, 1925 at 11 00 A M in the office of the County Superintendent of Highways Salem Illinois. Bidders may obtain field plats for a limited time. The committee reserves right to accept or reject all proposals.
Fully fermented Kraut should be packed in mason jars and covered with brine. If brine cannot be used, make a fresh brine with one ounce of salt per quart of water. Heat in a water bath to 160 degrees F and seal. Stored cool, it will keep a year or more.
The Sunday Lesson Sermon across Christ, Scientist churches focused on reality as the theme. The Golden Text cited Luke 6 45 about a good heart yielding good. Philippians 4 8 9 urged virtuous thoughts and behaviors while Eddy’s Science and Health advised holding to enduring good and true to bring them into experience.
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