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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1930
Page
2
A San Francisco Chronicle column examines dating etiquette as a young man asks about sharing costs on dates. It argues women prefer paying themselves or letting the man pay, yet experiments in fair split deals fail. The piece notes women’s conservatism, the social norm of the man paying, and the sly suggestion of promising privacy to secure the bill.
The belief in bears giving a crushing embrace is likely a myth. Experts including Pope and Dr W Reid Blair note bears strike with paws and claws, not a loving hug. Observers misread the bear’s round swipe as a hug, with no bodily embrace intended or intended outcome.
Wilson Follett notes in Bookman that women's magazines exhibit a distinctive punctuation style. He observes instinctive use of quotation marks exclamation points dashes and underlines reflecting female editorial restraint and coded language.
The Iron Gate in the Danube is a gorge below Orsova Romania not a gate. Rapids and boulders blocked nearly two miles of channel until a Hungarian blasting program began in 1890 to clear obstructions. The passage was declared open for navigation in 1896 according to Exchange.
A wealthy but unlettered man is invited by a fiend to join a Scottish shooting party. He phones home to arrange cleaning his gun, prompting a mispronounced exchange over a gun’s cleaning and an alphabetic joke about the words gum and guu.
Looker-On in the London Baily Chronicle notes the Embankment may hold the world’s longest monument row in one street. It spans monarchic at ends with Victoria and Beatrice, then fills with statesmen scholars poets soldiers journalists musicians and composite memorials.
A three year old named Bill resents his bright red hair and demands a barber with a black razor, as his mother plans a barber show. The fragment hints at a child’s preference and a hopeful outing, with a humorous street scene tone.
French salt once imported from England shows how inland lakes like the Etang de Berre supply salt for markets from Marseilles to Bordeaux. Shallow evaporation pans harvest seawater fed by underground channels, then dried by sun.
A reflection on nature and memory. Every object leaves marks of its passage and all acts of man are recorded in others and in himself. The text cites Emerson on how the world and beings inscribe history in stone, soil, and air through signs and impressions.
Samuel D. Schmalhaugen argues Whitman is a superb humane figure and patriot whose poetry sparks poetic fire, yet he questions Whitman’s place among Shakespeare Milton and Shelley, concluding he remains a great human poet though not of the classic immortal company.
A sea eel darts like lightning and bites arms or ankles. It clamps on and waits for the victim to weaken. The trick used by South sea natives is to endure the pain until the eel opens its mouth and then push it away to surface for escape.
Tests at the Minois agricultural experiment station show large horses outpull small ones for heavy loads. Popular Mechanics notes 144 teams were tested with a dynamometer, revealing that a good disposition and skilled driving are as important as horse size for pulling success.
Ben Damph, a Lovelace family country mansion in Scotland, is among the most inaccessible houses. Rain falls almost continuously, with the nearest village eleven miles away. The house relies on self-supporting fish from rock, cattle from pasture, and game from the moor for sustenance for those staying there.
The bureau of stuntidids explains that a lazy man switch also called a three way switch is a single pole double throw device. Using two such switches allows a light to be controlled from two locations like upstairs and downstairs. A related four way switch is a double pole reversing device. Any number of four way switches may be used with two three way switches to control a light from multiple points.
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