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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
6
Julia Bottomley notes two rival negligee styles centered on two-piece designs in rayon and silk crepes. She highlights knitted outerwear, trouser suits borrowed from China, and airy dresses with draped chiffons, jabots, and colored borders.
A voice prints poems and a long row of recipes and kitchen tips. It includes a playful verse by Edgar A. Guest and a collection of salads, desserts, fruit preserves, and sauces with practical guidance on gelatin molds, mint sherbet, chocolate milk shakes, berry preservation, rice with bananas, and classic sauces such as drawn butter, béchamel, hollandaise, tartare, and Bearnaise. The piece blends light fiction with household science and culinary directions.
A robin builds a nest on a Washington limb but becomes tangled in a long string around a limb and wing. A fire department crew secures a ladder, cuts the string, and the bird retreats briefly before returning to resume nest building. An old advertisement promotes Cuticura for pimples and blackheads with routine daily use.
A patented device uses artificial heat to dry hay. Green hay is stacked in 25 ton piles and dried, enabling a safer harvest during damp foggy seasons. The invention aims to save many acres of crops regularly lost to rain at the critical period, as noted by Popular Science Monthly.
The United States government uses about 3000 dogs to carry mail in Alaska. Airplanes have recently cut the work from two months to one day. There are six dog mail routes run in relays. The airplane route from Fairbanks to McGrath takes three hours, replacing a 35 day dog journey.
Modern church buildings include office facilities. Los Angeles and Baltimore each have four. New York and Detroit follow with three in each city, while Chicago has two. Kansas City Mo Boston Cincinnati Syracuse Rochester N Y Des Moines and Paterson N J each list one building of this type.
The Department of Agriculture reports total meat consumption in 1924 at 18.484 billion pounds, including 1.776 billion pounds of lard. Per capita consumption was 1649 pounds, excluding 15.8 pounds of lard.
A proverb attributed to Exchange notes that knowledge makes young men temperate and old age comfortable, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. It adds that ignorance has shortened more lives than the sword.
William M. Jardine secretary of agriculture jokes at a Washington reception that a secretary who lacks understanding is useless and recalls a history class boy who misdefines the Order of the Bath as ancient and never bathes unless ordered.
A picture-story reading method tested in Detroit schools involved 10 000 children. The program seeks five months self teaching progress equivalent to a year of ordinary instruction.
A fragmented newspaper item describes a tale where moonshine cannot speak yet seemingly reveals a man’s misdeeds. The piece presents a rural anecdote about alcohol, suspicion, and social perception, with a local flavor and terse moral undertone.
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