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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
6
An architect notes a recurring visual link between hats and primitive buildings across cultures. He cites Hawaiian grass houses and the Hawai ian hat, Eastern church turbans and domes on mosques, and Gothic spires with horned headgear as parallel developments reflecting period styles.
Jerome K. Jerome entertained at the O P celeb dinner with quips about a young playwright and an eminent producer. The jokes touch on edits to ideas, a grandmother’s baseball ignorance, a Daughters of the Revolution scheme, and humorous exchanges on politics, sports, and daily life.
In an essay by William Lyon Phelps the habit of convention colors reactions to books paintings and music. He notes that reality often shocks us and conventions prompt resistance leading to misjudgment of color speech and character.
An amateur observer notes high speeds on British railways to ease long journeys. The fastest recorded is 78 mph between Chesterfield and Stockport on the Midland system, a five mile down-grade run. A 70 mph run occurs often on the London and Northwestern line between Penrith and Carlisle.
A. Stuart MM Chisholm, M. D., in Creations of a Physician, extols medicine as an entrancing field requiring gentleness in violence, equanimity against ingratitude, fortitude toward insults, and silence toward slander. The physician’s life embodies the Golden Rule, using sensitivity to pains as a weapon against ignorance while enduring wounds without complaint.
University of Illinois experimenters develop a method to locate auditorium echoes using beams from an arc light directed to walls and pillars. Deflected light and the hiss of traveling sound are observed in the same path to correct acoustics, advancing toward an exact science.
A compact verse-like note contrasts a yearly circus experience with a quiet forest scene. It reads as a humorous meditation on attention spans and domestic life, mentioning Mrs. Bacon and Mrs. Hubert in a light, observational tone.
Nostalgic reflection on sunbeam cloud air frost and rain as the quiet agents eroding mountains and turning granite continents into soil. The text imagines clouds and sunshine slowly wearing away Alps and Andes, with snow as light as down and gravity driving the rest.
A fragment describes a London scene where a woman boasts of a fortune for her uncle near death and another claims she has never offered encouragement. The dialogue touches on tact and economy as well as a humorous look at social dynamics and nervous strain in a cheerful patter typical of the period.
In Pocahontas County Iowa the court appoints Christina Manguson as Administratrix of the estate of Charles A Manguson deceased. All persons indebted to the estate or having claims must present them as required by law. Dated the 7th day of December A D 1914.
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