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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1926
Page
2
A collection of aphoristic lines on gender, behavior, and society. The piece muses that virtue, bias, and ambition shape perceptions of men and women, noting contradictions in attitudes toward romance, intelligence, and authority with a wry, ironic tone.
A miscellany of aphorisms and quotes on health, truth, effort, finance, and life. Notable lines note beliefs about health laws, deception, diligence, economy, and human fate. The fragmentary collection compiles celebrated authorial witticisms and reflections on human nature.
Eastern artist Mrs. R. N. Macleod, sister of Admiral Sir Arthur Yeveson, and wife of a Shanghai barrister, maintains the only European studio in Shanghai. She specializes in Chinese sketches and portraits and has persuaded many prominent Chinese to pose. Old-fashioned Chinese subjects prefer full-front portraits with no light shadows, making Western methods challenging.
A maid speaks of losing her position with a sigh and a plea about supporting her family. She notes she has an engagement to be broken, reflecting hardship and present uncertainty after dismissal.
The Persian government will spend up to 400000 dollars to buy and construct a paper making plant to operate alongside the government printing plant established last year.
Incorporated enterprises in the United States reporting a net income of 9.26 billion dollars paid 2.572 billion dollars in taxes to federal, state and local governments in 1928, exceeding 27.7 percent of earnings.
The fragment describes a two year struggle with dyspepsia and a garbled exchange about a bard, with the speaker noting the ordeal as gruelling.
The Rockefeller Foundation spent over 9 million dollars in 1925 fighting hookworm yellow fever and malaria worldwide. The International Health Board partnered with governments, promoting sanitation, vaccination, and new methods to achieve self-sustaining results. Efforts extended to Europe and the Americas, including the use of paris green to curb malaria vectors and joint work with Italy in Calabria and Sardinia.
A Johannesburg dispatch to the Daily xpress describes a traveler in Katanga Bel gian Congo who reports a northern tribe with ape like features. One man stood six feet tall with a long arm a projecting jaw receding forehead and powerful build.
Charles Benjamin of 3243 Sixteenth Street San Francisco asserts possession of the world’s smallest New Testament. The miniature volume measures five eighths of an inch by half an inch by a quarter inch and contains the full text printed in 1895 in Glasgow Scotland. It was presented to Benjamin by the wife of a sea captain after a Samoan beachcomber traded it to her.
Capetown reports shark steak entering the market as a side effect of cheap shark leather sourcing. The tail is favored for steaks while fins are already eaten in several regions. An oil reduction method is claimed to make the meat less oily and economical to process.
The eighth annual American Legion national convention will be in Philadelphia October 11 to 15, hosted by Department Commander L. McK. Crumrine of Washington Pennsylvania. Visitors will tour Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, Betsy Ross House, Carpenters Hall and Congress Hall, with nearby sites like Valley Forge Memorial Park and Gettysburg battlefield also on the agenda.
Doctor C H Marvin of Tucson Arizona filled in as street sweeper for one afternoon after Tucson failed to beat Phoenix in an American Legion membership contest. He volunteered saying he would sweep Tucson’s main thoroughfare if Phoenix won, and he carried out the task successfully.
National Adjutant James F. Barton says the radio is making the American Legion a household word nationwide. This year 27 Legion departments have run highly successful radio programs with more planned under the national program.
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