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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
13
Puzzle appears as a garbled list of clues and partial answers. It mentions horizontal and vertical sections with scattered terms, numbers, and lettered hints. Solution promised at the end indicates a past week’s puzzle answer.
Unusual plan to form a community settlement program by sending trained British settlers to colonies and dominions. A London committee seeks retired officers and civil servants to join, plan to create groups of 60 to 70 families on two acre plots, with five years of English farming training before relocation to South Africa, Canada or Australia and self funding from garden produce.
An early 20th century report describes pilots training along the Mexican border near Monclovó and Viedres Nega as bands attempt to cross the Mo Grande. Blner Leighton, tasked with border patrol aviation, leads efforts to spot bandits in the desert scrub. He recently began a honeymoon trip with his bride, Mizz Clémencia Conteros, as he continues piloting duties.
Fragmentary report discusses language variations among Indigenous groups in Uruall focusing on how different communities use a shared set of signs. The piece notes attempts at a common tongue and the role of age and region in language variation.
A compact note discusses higher criticism as a method to distinguish ancient readings from later corruptions. It contrasts higher with lower textual criticism and notes its use in evaluating the history of printing and textual transmission.
A war service note honors a carrier pigeon named Carrive, awarded the equivalent of the Victoria Cross for bravery during Verdun battles. Cited for delivering vital messages under heavy fire, the bird aided Major Isqual’s frontline communications near Port Vaux on June 9, 1916, and has been kept as an honored dovecote ever since.
A fragmented obituary notes the death of a 116 year old man named Raton Gomex who wed in Spain and endured limited dental and medical care while working on a farmland. The passage references his lack of teeth at death and mentions he was not bald and never left his home or used common transport.
Notes describe numerous stream stage reports from MAI to Te OOO and various national weather observing stations. Mentions about cooperative weather networks with an estimated 400 to 3 000 stations, widely distributed across the United States.
The article notes the piers at Waterlow bridge show daily rise and fall with the tide. The movement ranges from two to three sixteenths of an inch, extending along a distance of the riverbank. It questions if coral or other deposits might alter the structure of nearby St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Muriel loses three upper teeth and a new tooth appears while an odd tale unfolds. A playful bogey figure, Pete Gnome, links mischief to the missing teeth as Muriel sleeps, then a fresh tooth emerges revealing a strange, humorous event with the bogey lore.
Time for Argument Now recounts a classroom exchange where a teacher asks Chari about a journey to a workplace. Charles answers by proposing that both would waste three hours arguing, counting the time spent.
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