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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1926
Page
7
A reflective piece on circuses as enduring entertainment, tracing the spectacle from vibrant street parades to indoor arenas. It contrasts ancient Rome’s Nero era with modern venues, notes changing acts and fashion, and argues the circus endures despite cinema and urbanization. It highlights parade importance, star acts, and the timeless appeal across audiences.
A Milwaukee Journal note tells of a man who fears cottonmouth venom after a lecturer warns of its danger. While fishing he is pricked by nettles and, imagining cottonmouth bites, feels terror until he discovers the wounds are harmless. The tale urges turning imagination to empower facing troubles.
An English Thames valley resident collapsed on the road near Chertsey and Staines. Motorists rushed him to a bungalow and called an ambulance, only to find him awake and eating after the owner served frying ham and eggs. The man said the odors revived him, elevating the dish to a life restoring tonic.
The excerpt explores why leaders seek higher offices. Pride motivates a captain to be called captain, a clerk to be bishop to hear “my lord,” and a prince to be king to be addressed as “your majesty.” It argues the drive is prestige and status as much as capability.
Judge Charles C. Simons faced an eight month drought after the silver US crest pitcher and a matching glass vanished from his courtroom. Francis Norris bought a replacement at a downtown five and ten store while the judge waited on a new pitcher approved through cumbersome federal procedures.
Francis D. Marston, once the barefoot helper of poet John Greenleaf Whittier at Oak Knoll in Danvers Massachusetts, still walks the Whittier estate barefoot. He recalls the poet's inspiration drawn from his tan cheek turned up trousers and merry whistle as a youth gathering leaves and blueberries. Now aged with a full beard, Marston continues to live openly, his enduring tan preserved as a link to Whittier's muse.
An Illinois doctor reintroduces a 1777 technique used by Philadelphia physician Vance to treat a scalped patient. Holes bored with a bone drill penetrated the outer skull table. after bleeding and healing, granulation and skin regeneration allegedly followed though the process progressed slowly.
H B Cheney of Penacotk New Hampshire owns a coin silver watch claimed to be 411 years old and still accurate. The device, bought in Liverpool by Cheney’s great grandfather, was passed down through the family. The present owner, eighty one, learned its age when a visitor had it cleaned and revealed the manufacture date engraved on the works.
Mary K Edwards has spent fifty seven years in missionary work among the Zulus in South Africa. She is now ninety five, crippled, and almost totally blind.
Dr W B Caldwell of Mon ticello Indiana a physician for 47 years believed constant purges harmed aging patients. His Syrup Pepsin provides a gentle bowel movement while helping to regulate and strengthen the bowels of older folks without aggressive cathartics.
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