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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1921
Page
7
Car owners learn the value of a full sized stock of U S Tires over job lots and surplus lines. Dealers who focus on fresh, live tires provide dependable value every time, not just in big cities but in hometown shops.
The piece recounts a Dutch painter Penteman escaping a terrifying anatom y museum scene after an earthquake caused moving skeletons to frighten him. It also mentions Boston scientists praising hot dogs, a lion’s dread in Africa, and Cape Town cactus visiting cards used as a social registry, with leaves scratched to record names.
District burial grounds in New York City report only two plots remaining as capacity nears. Advertisers push a mild opening medicine Dean Regulats 30c per box, claiming relief from constipation headaches indigestion dizziness and drowsiness at local stores.
A garbled regional tale recalls the Colorado potato giants and seed exchanges. It notes growers, researchers, and routes from Colorado to markets, describing the creation of notable potato varieties and the influence on industry, with mentions of growers, laboratories, and transport networks shaping postwar seed distribution.
The stage comedy centers on Simon Pare a Quaker friend Simon Mure and Colonel Pelgnwell as letters of introduction and a fortune scandal. Miss Lovely fortune 690000 attracts the mens attention while a accidental letter discovery exposes deceit. the play ends with virtue triumphing and the name Simon Pare becoming a byword for genuineness.
Twilight is described as the diffused illumination before sunrise and after sunset. An intermediate period of partial darkness called dawn marks the transition from twilight to day. The duration of twilight varies with latitude and the sun's angle, longer near the poles and shorter near the tropics, with extreme cases in Scotland in midsummer.
A historic note describes plywood glue made from animal blood and milk serum used to bond thin wood sheets. The compressed layers heated under pressure yield a strong composite, touted for airplane manufacture. Tests in boiling water for eight hours showed no separation of layers.
In Australia shearers earn by the number of sheep they shear while ranch helpers are paid by the day. A skilled man can shear about 100 sheep daily, with a Queensland shearer reportedly shedding 327 in nine hours. Tall tales recount past blade records when fleeces weighed lighter than today.
Fragmentary OCR text cites De Fahn vine and sha as traders of rare tax over ten vente and mentions chronic linmages and health weaknesses. It references a case below heat and notes a transit or deformity affecting a person’s condition.
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