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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
4
An Englishman and Doctor Marand of the Royal Academy of France conducted experiments showing people are taller in the morning and shorter by evening. The spine and spinal joints stretch differently when lying down versus standing, causing a net gain of about three eighths of an inch overnight.
Obscure local notices list obituaries, visits, and family news across Indiana towns. Mentions TivE TABLE DIA YA SERVICE CORPORATION in Ilcanoke and Huntington area travel notes, with references to visitors and residents heading to Fort Wayne and nearby locales.
E W Stump announces ongoing stock purchases and invites price offers before selling. He provides phone number 251 and location Roanoke Indiana for contact.
Ray White recalls a summer camping trip where rats arrived attracted by cooking odor. He and his wife used RAT-SNAP outside their tent and trapped large rats. The ad urges farmers storekeepers and housewives to use RAT-SNAP and lists three package sizes and local sellers N D Richards & Sons and Purvis Drug Store.
Dora Read Goodale recounts attempting to verify a Youth's Companion claim that toads have a strong homing instinct. She captured a toad, marked it with a thread, moved it three miles away, and watched it fail to reveal clear directional return.
St John Ervine writes in the Manchester Guardian that inglorious individuals imagine themselves as Miltons yet remain loud and articulate even when incapable of pen. He argues society struggles not to elevate genius but to restrain it and notes intelligence rises from poverty while true genius persists regardless of circumstance.
A father puts his son Ronald to bed and warns of his mood until he goes downstairs. The boy calls out for his father to tuck him in, and the father snaps I won’t to the child’s plea, ordering him to tuck himself in.
Declared in London that the postwar divorce crash continues to rise with 1325 undefended cases listed in January at the divorce court. A new list is prepared to handle surplus cases as upheaval in social conditions caused by the war drives the surge in divorces.
A brief Yale Record joke compares knots to miles, with a First Class Scout explaining knots measure sailing speed and distance. The quip plays on nautical terminology to amuse readers.
In World Outlook Willard Price recounts Colonel Vogelhuber of Buje during World War II unleashing harsh repressions on Italian residents. After confiscating goods and threatening executions, he hosted a dinner for local elites then boasted of planned mass shootings if Italy advanced, prompting a quick exit by the Austrian commander.
Historical discussion explains why mercury thermometers often read higher than spirit ones. Mercury tubes shrink as nearly sealed tubes hold little air, raising readings, while spirit bulbs sealed in freezing mixtures trap air and expand, pushing the liquid down and causing lower readings.
The New York Sun reports a heli copter that uses 51 foot diameter propellers acting as moving wings. It descends and rises slowly with a large load, is inherently stable, and could become the next step in aviation according to Robert G. Skerrett as cited by the Christian Science Monitor.
A second grade pupil Dwight writes a verse and brings his copy home for mothers. His mother praises the effort and notices a stray word dog in the corner. Dwight explains he forgot how to spell no and used dog to discover the mistake.
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