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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1922
Page
14
A China village street features a man selling gold tooth molds of various shapes. Shoppers try the molds on their teeth in a small merchant provided mirror, and when a fit or style is found the price is settled. Unsold molds are returned to the pile for the next customer.
The text praises Japanese skill in decorative metalwork and reveals alloy secrets. It notes sinchu as ten parts copper to five parts zinc, and shadko as a gold copper alloy with gold content from 1 to 10 percent, achieving rich hues through acid treatment.
A man remarks that a father's education investment seemed wasted until he received a letter from the bend coach, suggesting a turning point or new validation of funds spent on his son’s schooling.
Auntie, an elderly memory advocate, struggles to recall a New kindergartner’s name at a town dance. After three attempts she recalls the name Powers Miss Powers, noting the word fits both her calling and her person in a humorous Chicago Journal quip.
At Chichenitza Yucatan a sacred sinking well yielded jade necklaces gold plates small jade studded jars some containing human hearts. Maya sacrifices for rain or crop blessings included knife blades likely used to carve victims often young women. Prof A M Torger of Harvard notes linguistic ties to rujos builders.
A recent photograph of a lightning strike estimated the bolt’s thickness by the trace it left and the tower’s distance from the camera, finding the flash to be about one fifth of an inch.
On Tuesday June 28 1922 at Union Stock Yards South Omaha, 6,500 cattle on sale showed strength with higher bids. Beeves topped at $9.00, hogs about $9.65 to $10.15, sheep and lambs priced 25 to 50 cents higher. A notable entry, DeForest Philpot’s young feeder shipment, yielded 565 pounds gain per animal and $4.25 price gain.
A relaxed bedside stand with a shelf and small drawer supports a comfortable hour of reading. Arrange a compact stand beside the bed and place a selection of books and magazines for easy access at night.
The Missouri Synod plans a new seventy-one acre seminary site opposite Forest Park in St. Louis on track to open by fall 1924. Facing continued growth, preparatory schools and a large number of theological students drive expansion amid widespread overcrowding and new foreign and domestic enrollments.
The California spotted moray known as sewed is the most ferocious marine creature. It ranges from three to four feet commonly, up to six to eight feet in deep water and can weigh around 100 pounds. Its needle like teeth and powerful jaws resist decapitation, requiring the head to be crushed to release. Stories report fishermen driven from boats when large specimens escape. It can tie itself in a knot and uses its sinuosity to hold prey and coil around rocks.
In a Georgia town an old Negro man, supported by his wife, spends time fishing in a brickyard pond. Aunt Mary defends him, saying his laziness comes from scientific notions learned in college. A patron argues she should not enable idleness by supporting him.
Mrs. Jones calls Clarence to dinner from her cottage door as a small boy continues fishing with a bent pin and herring bone on the puddle brim, ignoring her summons amid a quiet scene of rural waiting.
A tense scene unfolds as Mrs. Jones threatens to deny dinner to her son until he responds. The boy explains he did not hear calls, then admits he had a bite, revealing a mild domestic discipline moment in a quarrelsome exchange.
Cave bears were massive European predators of the Paleolithic era weighing half a ton or more. They lived in caves with ancestors and their bones are commonly found in such sites. Though extinct, their relatives like the Siberian brown bear and the Alaskan Kodiak survive. Scientists linked them to Pleistocene affinities, and they were generally peaceful, preferring digging and occasional bee trees over hunting people or animals.
Popular Mechanics notes French musicians, father and son, developed intermediary instruments to bridge the gap between violins and cellos. After years of study and experimentation, these new designs have changed the nature of the violin family.
London Times notes the chamber moved to make the hermas or cottage at Serig nan in Provence national property where entomologist Henri Fabre lived and died. Provencaux push for similar honor for Mistral whose mas at Maillane remains with his widow and the poet’s dog Jougeor still wears a collar.
A short quip on Pennsylvania Dutch humor notes that when a P D says his off equals all, his vacation has ended, reflecting rural folk wisdom about work and rest.
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