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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1922
Page
6
Jones notes a stout man in the corner who is praised as an acrobat and identified as a stock broker. Smith confirms the man’s dual role and shares his quip about “hanging on from day to day, keeping my nose above water by the skin of my teeth.”
A judge quotes a bargain exchange about selling a $70 dining room set for $500 down and $3 weekly payments. The dialog questions the plan, suggesting it would wear out yet could be resold as a genuine antique.
A brief humorous fragment depicts a girl and a speaker trading a pun about a typewriter and a "cooing" attachment. The odd dialogue suggests a light, whimsical moment in a newspaper column.
A Chicago Journal vignette shows a woman crossing the street dodging traffic. A boy on a bicycle nearly swerves into her and retorts that she cannot blow a horn if she has none. The street scene captures city humor and impatience.
Advertisement touts Cuticura products for baby skin relief from rashes. Hot baths with Cuticura Soap followed by Cuticura Ointment and a finishing dusting of Cuticura Talcum, priced 25 cents each, urged as best and pure.
Miss Cayenne argues for a middle ground between the extreme shortness of flapper skirts and overly long styles. She favors a modest compromise that avoids both ends of the spectrum.
A farm investigation found pigs in poor welfare as sows were improperly fed. Officials stress enhanced feeding standards and monitoring to prevent hunger and health issues among livestock. The case highlights animal welfare obligations for pig farms.
An Iowa State College Information Service report highlights sanitation as the key to pig survival, noting many litters will be below normal due to cheap corn and lack of protein. It urges movable hog houses, pasture rotations, and clean conditions to prevent disease and improve pig growth. Separate note: USDA guidance urges thinning garden crops to achieve even stands, detailing specific thinning steps for peas, beans, corn, radishes, lettuce, beets, carrots, and parsnips.
In 1920 about 1700 acres of a poor strain of Alaska peas were sown in Maryland and Delaware. The seed produced dark canned peas of little market value, causing losses to canners. LeRoy Cady of the University Farm St Paul warns that cheap seed is often the most costly.
Windbreak planting began in Minnesota as a state forest department co operation project. Forestry experts conducted 72 demonstrations in 14 counties with trees from the forest experiment station at Croquet. The program, active through 1920 and 1921, plans for 1922 and 1923 plantings with a year of soil preparation before establishing windbreaks, using conifers and deciduous trees.
Many farm tools rot from exposure rather than wear. Painting wooden parts prevents warping and rotting, oil on wearing surfaces of cultivators and binders slows depreciation, and axle grease on bright plow parts halves winter losses.
Wm. A. McGraw of Tampa Florida tests Tanlac and reports four years of improved health. He says occasional doses restore his energy and prevent old ailments, noting prior laxative use harmed him. He emphasizes keeping Tanlac on hand and taking it when feeling under the weather. Tanlac sold by druggists.
August Lutteken of Denver, a leading philatelist, holds an envelope mailed in 185% with no stamps but postmasters stamps for overseas postage and delivery fees. The piece, lacking a street address and collectible since the Civil War era, is said to be one of a kind and valued at 12500 dollars.
For years druggists note the strong record of Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root the kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician s prescription and strengthening remedy aiding the organs to do nature s work. It has stood the test of years and is sold by all druggists on its merit. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton N Y and mention this paper.
Grace, a Columbus High School pupil, plans to turn over her father’s dull gray guineas to Silas Harner after meeting the “Weaver of Barreloe” in English class. She reads his tale of golden guineas and writes of a miser’s joy as Silas hatches a brood of golden birds in Indiana.
A housewife smiles at a basket of clear white clothes and thanks Red Cross Ball Blue in an advertisement likely promoting this laundry product sold at all grocers.
An immigrant facing the usual form writes the first question born as yes, a simple yet striking moment. The anecdote underscores the tension of identity and belonging in bureaucratic processes.
A line notes that several men loudly demand fairness and could be surprised if justice arrives unexpectedly.
A concert anecdote recalls a spectator commenting on a famed tenor as misjudged, only to discover the subject is his companion's father. The storyteller moves to a new seat during the interval.
A reminiscence notes it is a bad time for young men to impose on old folks by sitting up with their daughter as coal oil costs 15 cents a gallon and rising.
Archie and Reggie banter about stages and chorus girls during a backstage moment. The dialogue hints at theatrical life with stagecraft and performance magic.
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