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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1927
Page
1
Billie Brownie visits Mr and Mrs Ostrich and learns their playful yet practical approach to parenting and self image. The ostrichs describe their brain use and protective routines while noting gossip about hiding their heads in the sand. The tale ends with mutual respect and gratitude for the talk.
A McClure Syndicate piece explores the pin superstition in English speaking lands. It notes that picking up dropped pins signals alertness and thrift and may influence a productive day, linking behavior to perceived luck and mental sharpness.
In Victoria more than 700 positions are unfilled while 30 county schools face forced vacations. The Education Department employs about 100 married women and former instructors to cope. The teachers union says low pay below 15 dollars a week and strict restrictions are prompting resignations.
The term broadcloth refers to a fine textured woolen fabric whose name traced to double width in early English weaving. Originally tied to width rather than texture, the cloth required two weavers to shuttle across the loom to cover the full breadth.
The passage notes a contrast in Shakespeare plays with Hamlet boasting about 8,930 lines, making it one of the longest works, while The Comedy of Errors is cited as the shortest with 1,777 lines. The comparison highlights the range in line counts between the two classics.
Leonard A. Barrett argues fatigue drives crime and wrecks morals. Fatigue signals danger, harming nerves, brain function, and self-control. Rest and inner balance are essential, while drugs worsen fatigue. improvement must come from within.
Phonograph needles of metal style can be repurposed for framing pictures without damaging backs or mats. They can hold pictures in place when driven into wood frames. Used as decorative placeholders in bowls they substitute for quill pens. A handful of needles clean sour milk bottles, and shaking needles in a test tube helps loosen stubborn carbon on a spark plug.
A compact nitrogen reading lamp may ease local pain such as rheumatic ache or itchiness when held 10 to 12 inches from the area and covered with cloth. Therapists often use twenty minutes of light alternating with ice to stimulate blood flow and reduce pain, abscess, or inflammation.
Invented Pendulum Guygens, a Dutchman born 1629, first practical pendulum clock exponent. He used it in clockwork but did not originate its properties. Leonardo da Vinci left notes on his period studies from 1452 to 1520.
Discussion notes the simile naked as a needle from William Langland with nedile spelling and cites Paul Wilstach’s similes collection as authority. It comments on the rarity of adornment in articles and mentions the needle as an opportunity to coin a simile.
A Toronto Star quip notes that those who lie in glass houses should draw them blind, reflecting sharp editorial wit on hypocrisy.
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