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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
2
A satirical column from Pekin Advance reflects on the push to return to farm life. The narrator mocks farm life contrasts with urban ease, recounts travel anecdotes and preacher encounters, and notes absurdities about religion and modern society. A short note adds a practical tip: sterilizing cistern water with hypochlorite.
A fragmented classroom exercise describes a junior school composition about cats. The draft references terms like Mab tere and Calith Feline, noting varied cat traits and temperaments in a garbled passage. The text shows unclear student names and disjointed phrases from an OCR error.
The text explains how tax money is allocated after collection, detailing roles of County Commissioners and County Court in proposing public needs, estimating costs, and requesting appropriations from the County Council. It notes restrictions on fund sources, authority of the County Attorney, and the Auditor's record keeping, with scattered satirical lines amid historical notes.
The article explains steps for funding county bridges including surveys design bids and council approval. It then nostalgically recalls old time spelling bees and contrasts them with modern ciphering matches and declining public interest.
A dialog fragment attributes high diamond value to carbon content, with Mr. Groucher suggesting diamonds resemble ice due to their carbon structure and coal-like origins. The text presents a curious explanation of gem value and composition through a fictional exchange.
The excerpt rails at careless math work and dicey spellings, urging precise calculation and strong spelling records. It contrasts spelling contests with ciphering, notes trust issues in pupils, and calls for revival of old spelling challenges amid scattered quotes from journals.
A tiny watch made of wide and pearl as large as four peas has been built by Gallopin and Co of Geneva after fifteen months of work. The pearl weighs forty five grains and measures under an inch in diameter. It can be worn on a ring or pendant and costs six thousand dollars.
A wife asks what happened to her husband after he left three days ago for a department store match. She reports sighting him yesterday at the third counter of the fourteenth aisle and about to begin the fourteenth counter of the third atlas.
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