Vernon School News Beats Typing Test At 24 WPM
Ethel Hoggan led with the best record in shorthand and typing, while students from Vernon High partook in a round of classroom events. Several 2nd and 3rd graders were congratulated for achievements, and plans for a spring program titled Cheerful Liar were announced with a long list of named participants.
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Ethel Hoggan
Mino Slyrtle
William and
Dod Burtlay
Taal Riday
Gladya Wind
Louise French
Ruth, Rumming
Wilmi Bluasner
Iechiel Heft
Vernon News and Community Notes from Vernon Iowa
Miss Mary Kernan spent the weekend at home. Mr and Mrs M C Munson spent Easter day with the latter's parents at Belmond. Vernon people enjoyed a Cantata at the Evangelical Church Sunday night. Families entertained at the Mir and Mrs Marsh Chiney home last Sunday: John Hefti Sam Klassie Sr and Jr John Ziminermin and Sim Maurer. A surprise party was held for Alice Rice at her arbor Roy's home last Wednesday evening. Games followed by a dainty lunch. A good time was reported by all present.
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Mir
Marsh
One Is Aplenty Two Trishmen Meet At Street Corner
A quirky exchange between three men and a wife on a street corner is noted. T. A. Nixon, a business visitor, spent Monday in Musug City. A baby boy was born last Sunday to Mr and Mrs Philip Dangelian. Easter weather was warm, but the last two days were cloudy and chilly. A Greek lawyer petitions Athens supreme court to reconsider Socrates death sentence, questioning its age and propriety.
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T. A. Nixon
Musug City
Philip Dangelian
Supreme Court of Athens
Socrates
Fragmented Reflections on Fame and Time in London
A reflective piece recalls Gladstone, Asquith, Campbell-Bannerman and other leaders at the Commons table, noting their passing and the enduring worn box on the treasury bench. The author muses on aging, human fate, and a peculiar anecdote about a worn glass display and a distant aunt tied to Catholic memory.
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House’ of Commons
Gladstone
Marcell
Asquith
Campbell-Balineroan
Treaury Bench
Hiril Higat
Gome
T. P's
Casella
London
Much Play in His Big Joints and Good-Natured Spirit
A readable fragment describes a loose jointed chap filled with humor and playfulness. The text ponders why he should have fun with himself and notes his cheerful, easygoing nature, suggesting a lively personality likely to bring amusement to others.
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Ile
Cat's Fear Averted Train Wreck by Missouri Cat Dick
Dick the cat, living with a bedin and firemen in Missouri, averted a collision between a freight and a passenger train. The cat rode in the engine cab and crouched on the floor as a freight train approached. It heard the noise before the engineer could see it, prompting an emergency stop and siding pullout just in time.
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Bedin
Astro
Missouri
Dick Waa
Capper
German chemists claim newsprint cheaper via decolorizing ink
German researchers Dr K Stephan and Dr K W Albrecht report a method to reuse newsprint by removing ink with dilute sulphurous acid, enabling decolorization of carbon ink. Once scaled, decolorized paper could cut newsprint costs by about 14 to 20 percent, Hertin newspapers indicate.
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K. Stephen
K. W. Albrecht
Hertin
Nacar Stephan
Silent critique of cautious English navy in interview
In a Washington interview Never Representative Written of Winars argues for bold naval strategy. He cites Nelson Faragut and Schley, claims audacity wins battles while cautious admirals fail, condemning overcareful planning and urging swift decisive action at sea.
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Winars
Washington
Nelson
Farraget
Schley
Noise Compared to Music in London Noise Tests
A London test recorded sound vibrations from city traffic on a wax disk. Banjos and bells were likened to music, while horse drawn carts produced constant muffled tremor as heavy wheels rolled by. Researchers noted distinct vibrations from pavement and adjacent structures, with some sounds resembling a phono record.
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London
Wisconsin to Start Nine-Week Summer College Course
The University of Wisconsin will start a nine week graduate student only summer course this year. This adds to the regular six week summer school open to both graduate and undergraduate students. A graduate student can earn half a semester’s residence credit by attending all nine weeks.
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University of Wisconsin
Seimester
Bavarian School Insurance Extends to Staff and Students
A ministerial decree in Bavaria provides insurance for teachers and pupils across all levels from elementary to advanced agricultural and technical schools. The policy, effective at the 1926-27 school year, covers injuries incurred on school premises or during excursions and commutes.
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Alt-Techmion
Bavaria
Paupers Bow to Fashion in Workhouse Haircut Debate
In England the trend of shaved heads reaches a workhouse in Riggleswade Hedfordshire where inmates request shingling their hair. Guardians agreed after a heated debate to let a local barber shave the water workhouse at a yearly cost of 817.50.
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England
Riggleswade
Hedfordshire
Enormous Pressure Locomotives Fail To Exceed Steam Limits
Enormous pressure locomotives are noted as powerful yet none operate above 306 pounds per square inch. Steam pressures around 1,200 pounds used for turbine driven electricity generation are mentioned in power Wants listings for Boston and Milwaukee.
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Boston
Milwaukee
Lime Purchase Records Jump in New Hampshire Coop Buy
Reports from the state agricultural agents show the cooperative lime purchase totaled 5 658 tons in New Hampshire last year, about 250 carloads, nearly double the amount of any prior year.
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New Hampshire
Co-Operative
Mocking Bird Attacks Boy in Hollywood Park
A mocking bird in Hollywood California attacked a six year old boy, scratching his foot and nearly blinding him. A park guard also saw the bird chasing cats and dogs. Ornithologists say the bird’s protective instinct peaks during nesting season.
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Hollywood Calif
Park
Dearborn
Headlights Stored in Signal Towers for locomotive use
A brief note explains an emergency headlight system for Eastern railroad trains. Each signal tower along the right of way holds a battery operated unit above the boiler head plate. In an emergency a train stops at the nearest tower to retrieve the light and then proceeds.
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Eastern
Gasoline Consumption Reaches 27 Million Gallons Daily
Progressive Grocer notes we now consume about 27 million gallons of gasoline per day, averaging roughly one gallon per family per day and costing between five and six million dollars daily.
Official carpet sewer among England's unusual female roles
A记录 notes an official carpet sewer in England, a rare job held by a woman in the house of car tons for 30 years, highlighting long tenure in an unconventional profession.
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England
House of Cartons
International treaty urged to save whales from poachers
In Tokyo at the Pan Pan Science congress Dr A Gravel a French zoologist warns greed threatens whale extinction. He notes fur and scale trade pressures and argues only an international treaty among Pacific and Western European powers can protect large cetaceans and coastal park regions like Crozet and Kerguelen from foreign poaching.
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Sciencs
Tokyo
A. Gravel
Grusel
Pacific
Europe
Kaneas City
Prison sermon sparks reform talk at Rabway luncheon
Dr Frank Moore of the American Prison association cites prison life as the strongest sermon. A millionaire bootlegger, now imprisoned, reflects on reform while a visitor finds him sewing burlap bags with a large needle and twine. The scene evokes irony and social critique.
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Frank Moore
American Prison Association
Telia
Sawfog
Emile
Detonators Used as Toys At Cambridge School
In a Cambridge public school near Auelland New Zealand a theft exposed boys playing with 18 detonators found by a pupil who shared them. One lad had chewed a detonator and another used one as a pencil cover. None knew the danger.
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Cambridge Public School
Auelland
N. Z
Rice Attracts Housewife As Economical Nutritious Food
Relative food prices show rice deserving attention for a thrifty table. Rice is wholesome and easily prepared with high nutritive value. It has risen in price by 33 percent since 1918, compared with 123 percent for potatoes, 67 percent for bread, and 68 percent for eggs.
Safer Travel Gains Shown By Interstate Commission
Statistics from the Interstate Commerce Commission indicate substantial safety improvements since 1913 with a 51 percent drop in passenger deaths on American highways and 60 percent fewer passengers injured. Employees killed declined 50 percent and train collision casualties fell by 81 percent.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Tennessee giant Miley Darden remembered in Tennessee tale
Miley Darden, a towering figure born in Harden County, Tennessee, reportedly died January 23, 1857. He stood seven feet six inches tall and weighed about 1,000 pounds, with a coat requiring thirteen and a half yards of cloth. The North Clareline Historical Review vouches for him.
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Miley Darden
Harden County
Tennessee
North Clareline
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