11 Jan 1924
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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1924
Page
1
In a Portland classroom a teacher asked where Longfellow was born. A boy answered Patsy Magee's bedroom, provoking astonishment as the life of the poet was discussed. The piece notes the long-ago tenement setting and Irish- dominated neighborhood.
Bananas stems from fruit waste can be turned into paper using high crushing rolls to make a mash with moisture reduced to 55 75 percent. A pulping machine creates pulp which is boiled beaten and fibers removed without any chemical use.
The mythic tale details Augeas king of Ets with 3000 oxen kept in stables not cleaned for thirty years. Hercules cleans them by diverting rivers Aspleus and Feneus through the stable in a single effort. The story is cited as a symbol of vast corruption hard to remove.
A new memorial campanile rises at Baton Rouge at the entrance to the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. It honors the university’s sons who went to World War I and returned. The tower, designed by Mite Theo. CG. Link, stands as his final work.
A Japanese embassy staffer is shown attempting to operate a remarkable typewriting device. The giant machine holds 2,450 Chinese characters in small square compartments and requires two men to lift it.
Fragmented text describes a lamprey or hog fish with a third eye atop its head and compares it to other creatures such as lizards and extinct animals. It notes insects possess simple and compound eyes, with the fly's eye having about 4,000 facets and larger eyes like the dragonfly_about 25,000 facets.
A university professor known for speaking seven languages encounters home life tension as his wife restricts his language use. The debate over language on and off campus highlights cultural and domestic expectations within the family.
Dialogue highlights a kitchen scene in Rousehole where Maggie remarks on clean hands while an unnamed speaker expresses pride in dough preparation for a coke. The exchange centers on labor in a small local setting and the crafts of cleaning and dough work.
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