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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
7
A fragmentary, stream of consciousness piece explores nocturnal thought. It describes writerly insomnia and the brain’s hidden processes waking at night, noting a blindsided insight that arrives in a flash between midnight and 4 am, leaving mental cobwebs swept and the body rested.
A fragmentary tale from a party recalls Miss Terry known for wit who joked about a dressmaker bill and appeals. The aged judge remark prompts her to answer about the judge’s age with a quick reply. The anecdote highlights sharp humor in legal banter and social slang of the time.
Poppies are described as the memorial flower of the American Legion with scarlet blooms noted for their simplicity and resilience in waste plots. The piece recalls poppies as one of the oldest sowers in world literature, praised across cultures, alongside orange crimson oriental varieties, yellow California types, and double forms.
A Philadelphia Ledger item describes a street advertisement in Los Angeles showing a huge wheel advertised as a perpetual motion machine. It purportedly ran forever via gravity and metal spokes, claiming no external energy source was needed. When the electric plant shut for repairs the wheel stopped turning.
The Department of Agriculture promotes spreading prickly pear varieties to farmers across the Southwest. It advises starting plantations, adapting to local growth, and using tillage and cultivation practices. Harvest yields are higher under intensive cultivation, with eight times the tonnage possible compared to uncultivated ground.
The navy reports ten battleships under construction to mount large guns. Four ships Colorado Maryland Washington and West Virginia will carry eight inch or 1inch? The text notes eight 1 ncgons and twelve 16-inch guns on Indiana Town Mansichusetts Montana North Carolina South Dakota.
A Chinese author Chi Che Wang questions if the Chime diet is adequate and compares dietary patterns with American habits. The text notes pork as a chief meat, diverse seafood, chickens, ducks, eggs, vegetables beyond typical Western fare, and the prominence of rice in the south while wheat and millet appear in the north. It describes fruit, various animal parts eaten, and the role of peddlers and markets in supplying fish and shellfish.
The article notes how elephants sleep standing in herds, sats sleep head downward, birds rest with heads turned tailward, long-legged birds stand on one leg, ducks paddle in circles to stay afloat, and predators like foxes wolves lions cats show varied rest patterns. It also mentions a New York telephone system with direct dialing and automatic line status, plus an ad for Dean's Ointment.
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