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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
8
The piece blends patient testimony and social debate on women’s skirts and modesty, detailing arguments about health, fashion, and propriety. It references a Progressive Farmer column and echoes debates on gender roles, policing dress, and public morality from the era.
A late 19th century account describes Lake Lahontan in northwestern Nevada, its extinct shoreline, dunes north of Winnemucca rising up to 75 feet, and how drifting sands altered roads and buried telegraph poles. It notes the lake’s depth, the evaporative outlet, and the region’s paleogeography.
A bulletin from the Building Managers and Owners’ Association warns upkeep costs for rats have increased while per person feeding costs in the United States rise to about 7 dollars annually. The note links this to fire losses from vermin and urges extermination as an economic measure. A separate anecdote recalls a passenger misidentifying snow on Greek hills as Greece.
For baby's croup Willie's daily cuts and bruises mother's sore throat grandma's lameness Dr Thomas Electric Oil the household remedy 30 and 60 cents.
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