If the next war is fought in the air
Practical Polly predicts aerial warfare will endanger the battle field guide trade. The remark frames concerns about how air battles could reduce demand for ground navigation expertise and battlefield guidance.
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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1930
Page
2
Practical Polly predicts aerial warfare will endanger the battle field guide trade. The remark frames concerns about how air battles could reduce demand for ground navigation expertise and battlefield guidance.
Nellie Maxwell presents grapefruit based dishes including Golden West Cake Corn Bread With Coconut Corn Fritters and Frozen Mt Vernon Salad. The piece includes detailed steps and ingredients for each recipe and notes grapefruit as a breakfast favorite.
The article explains sneezing as a reflex, the simplest action in a nervous system, protecting the nasal passages from irritants. It notes individual differences in sneezing triggers and counts, suggesting habit and anticipation influence the response. The piece frames reflexes as an emergency toolkit of the body.
A large male majority at a newly coed college leads to a ban on female students speaking to male students. The dean cites, humorously, that girls talk to eight boys at once, prompting expulsions for even brief conversations. The piece argues for more girls and normal social mixing to reduce self consciousness and foster shared campus life.
The Los Angeles County Free Library asserts the largest system in the area serving about 488000 people. It delivers books and materials to 158 active branch libraries, with several branches located as far as nearly one hundred miles away.
The article notes that the weight and fineness of the United States gold dollar have remained continuous since the legal establishment on January 18, 1837. It highlights the enduring standard governing the U S gold dollar.
Danish Pickleghaser by Hugh Hotton offers a witty concise sketch of a scientist with a playful obsession. The author delivers quirky observations and light satire in a compact humorous style.
A metropolitan spoof describes a comical beast trudging from Skaw to Cattegat in winter. The hungry picklechaser devours itself when food runs short, leaving only a shadow as skags and cats chase dill fragments. Propaganda is doctored information.
The piece recounts the 1885 disappearance of Samuel Stillman Conant editor of Harper's Weekly after a New York leave for Albany. Despite searches and sightings, no conclusive trace has emerged, placing his name among famed missing persons alongside Dorothy Arnold and others.
Instructional card lists eight birds with colors and slits at their bases for insertion. Names include Rose Breasted Grosbenk Bluejay Baltimore Oriole Bluebird Brown Thrasher Cardinal Bird Scarlet Vanager Mocking Bird. Signed Margaret Wheeler Ross.
A DIY project describes cutting a florist box to form a car model with parts labeled A B and C. It details assembling the radiator, windows, bumper and radiator cap, adding wheels from cereal boxes, and using a grocery carton as a garage. The piece ends with a poem about a free bird and a cage.
A crossword puzzle with horizontal and vertical clues. Horizontal hints include weapons used by Indians, a watering place, a place for drinking water, part of entangle, a kind of automobile and a boy's nickname, and more. Vertical clues cover replied, rail abbreviation, opposite of closed, to act, flag color, low voice, and feelings for mother, among others. The list also references Abe Lincoln and related terms.
Letters from readers discuss varied horse talk terms used in the United States Canada and North Wales. Reports describe bids like Gee Haw Mothar hait toosh worst wheesh egopear coopery as regional steering cues. London’s Morning Post notes these differences on borders of Norfolk and Suffolk.
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