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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
4
Mrs. Geo Ricklefs of Lake township suffered bruises when an automobile driven by Stanton Watson struck her near the Miller home crossing in Rolfe last Friday evening. She was dragged about thirty feet, taken to the Miller home, examined by Dr. Campbell, and later returned home with no serious injuries detected beyond bruises.
In Paris a camel steak dish draws attention for its taste akin to hox'se meat and easier digestion. The piece notes rising activity of prize fighters and suggests no immediate danger of war. A “booze nose” is viewed as a badge of honor indicating sharper wit.
For sale a partly modern two story corner lot home in good condition with living dining and kitchen on ground floor and two bedrooms plus bath upstairs. Features include cistern well cement walks garage 14 by 22 air tank electric lights porch and prompt sale terms before Feb 1. Contact N A Lind Rolfe Iowa.
Dr James J Walsh notes Epidaurus on the eastern Peloponnesian coast as historys first complete health resort. The city featured open-air sleeping abators a 10000 seat theater a 12000 stadium and a hippodrome plus bathing houses shaded walks gardens pools and waterfalls reflecting early use of natural cure and leisure facilities.
The text describes fresh cut grass sold daily in Philippine towns at a fixed cargo price. It notes native horses feed on grass, while American horses require imported hay from the Pacific coast. Bermuda and Guinea grasses prevail. oats suffer rust due to heavy rains, and corn thrives. Filipino farmers harvest three crops yearly. storage uses husks to deter weevils, with corn mills emerging in Visayan islands for cornmeal.
R I Pocock curator of mammals for the London Zoological Society says a claimed American badger is not a badger. He notes the animal slept by day while British badgers were active, and the skull and teeth do not match a badger, lacking a scent gland and resembling a different tribe.
A small steamer named Louise passed through the Panama canal from Atlantic to Pacific on November 17 1918 marking a 1914 event when the first steamer crossed from Atlantic to Pacific and back the next day since then the canal has been opened to commerce and is used by about steamers per month
The report estimates Prussia has at least 3,705,000 acres of barren land. Between 1850 and 1918 about 1,970,000 acres were cultivated, and a further 8,705,000 acres of rich soil remain to be obtained through drainage efforts.
In Joplin Missouri girls find that cleaned and dyed white sugar sacks yield attractive waists and smocks, milk strainers, and shoe polishers. A stenographer even embroidered a sugar-sack waist in wool.
Legless veterans of England receive dancing lessons to master use of artificial legs and gain proficiency in movement.
The Outlook laments modern hurry and scurry in cities, praising the old habit of strolling and slow travel. It argues speed wears nerves, weekend noise harms peace, and a return to large leisure would restore calm to American life.
A Washington Post correspondent argues the US should emulate Japan and Germany in business methods. He says the government should back a school to train young Americans for overseas positions and deepen knowledge of foreign people and customs to promote "made in America" worldwide.
Sager Wheeler known as the wheat wizard has been awarded a doctor of laws by Queen's University Kingston Ontario. He is praised for agricultural innovations that boosted Canadian farming and wealth with thousands visiting his Saskatchewan farm each year.
A bank of machines at the Detroit street railways processes about 200000 coins daily using one third horsepower motors. Coins from fare boxes are fed into hoppers, worn pieces are discarded, the rest are sorted by denomination and counted, then wrapped in bags of chosen amounts.
An interchurch survey reports Colombia suffers from severe poverty and leprosy among its people. The nation is rich in platinum gold silver coffee copper and other mineral and vegetable resources.
A French physician reports a cure for pulsating ear noises caused by poor blood circulation using alternating electric currents. The method aims to suppress the audible heartbeat in the ear through controlled electrical stimulation.
Ed Strangler Lewis of Louisville Ky won the world heavyweight wrestling title after defeating Joe Stecher of Nebraska in New York. In his fifth bid he wore Stecher down with a headlock to claim the crown in forty one minutes of grueling action.
A reflection on a blind, considered beautiful woman and a commentary on near perfection. It notes that when a person approaches perfection they often feel continually misunderstood.
It is believed President elect Harding will seek Congress to create a Department of Education and appoint Harriet T. Upton of Warren Ohio to head it. If named she would become the first woman in U.S. history to hold a cabinet post.
A collage of notes describes buffalo mail routes in Russia, Kentucky mountain women learning thrift and health, Landes shepherds walking on stilts, wool trade moves via Louisville stores to Austria, and global shipbuilding outputs. It ends with a skeptical take on beauty and Europe’s growing flames of hate.
The Plover school week wraps up exams in Civics and Commercial Arithmetic for next semester. Students test milk in the agriculture lab and invite farmers to send samples Wednesday or Friday. An operetta Pebbles is planned for the high school auditorium with practice underway. The gym seen lively with games against a married men’s team, a recent loss to Pocahontas, and an injury to star forward Howand Pollock. Serbia farmers make plum liquor from local fruit, distilled after a month aging.
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