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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1921
Page
2
A mother writes to explain Winnie was late this morning awaiting an excuse note. The writer apologizes and asks the teacher to excuse the tardiness.
The article presents a quirky note about a bee sting duration claimed as one thirty second of a tune, citing a scientific journal. It also includes a stray verse fragment and a line about imagination and rest attributed to a Boston Trane script.
Mrs Lucy Merrow, reported by the Boston Transcript, has been under doctors care all week following an incident involving an automobile in Ohio.
A height of practical advice notes that to prevent clothing from sticking to leather upholstery one should rub the surface lightly with a cloth dampened with gasoline. The tip emphasizes ease of movement and preservation of fabric by reducing friction.
A decree in Algeria allows married Algerian women to leave their homes once a week and only to visit the ceemeiers for approved errands, reflecting a controlled mobility rule.
The article recalls Eclipse the famed racehorse bred by the Duke of Cumberland and owned by Dennis O Kelly. Eclipse died February 28 1789 at age 25 after a celebrated career noted for extraordinary speed and a thirteen pound heart revealed by autopsy. The piece also touches on proverb humor and literary notes from Country Life.
A Popular Science Monthly writer notes the earth's rotation is weakening and days grow longer though the change is extremely slow. Eventually a day may match a year, causing permanent daylight on one hemisphere and darkness on the other, if the sun remains bright.
In Cuba a grass called cenchrus echinatus bears sharp spikelets that catch and kill many insects by day and night. Wings are pierced and tangled, trapping victims including a luminous beetle. Two insect species, a large bug cebalus and a earwig, can escape. minute insects are not trapped. The plant does not feed on its prey and is found in the West Indies and southern Florida.
A traveler recalls sunlit Hebrides and highland beauty. The coastline grasses, sea birds, and blue ocean set a vivid scene. Summer nights bring phosphorescent glow as fishermen head out with dazzling wakes and fiery anchors.
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