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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
2
Charles Beyer announces his run for the Republican nomination for Bureau County sheriff subject to Republican primary voters decision.
T. W. Mercer files to run in the Republican primaries for County Treasurer of Bureau County subject to voter decision.
Clayton C. Pervier announces his candidacy for re nomination as senator for the 37th District comprising Bureau Henry and Stark counties subject to Republican voters decision in the September 11 1918 primary.
The undersigned will run as a Republican candidate for State Representative from the 37th District covering Bureau Henry and Stark Counties subject to the Republican primary on September 11.
A terse editorial quip from the Dallas News about stranger danger and reciprocal risk in social or civic dealings. It uses a sharp warning tone, implying caution when extending trust or resources to outsiders and the potential backlash.
The State Council of Defense urged local units to counter lawless treatment of suspected disloyal, calling on communities to support lawful action. Leaders including President Wilson and Governor Lowden endorsed restraint to avoid fueling sedition and undermining war effort. Local dealers should set a lawful example to keep public opinion aligned with government.
A Philadelphia inventor patented a dust filtering device that converts a player piano into a vacuum cleaner. By disconnecting the air pipe from the piano bellows to the air motor and inserting the attachment, a person can pedal to operate for parlor cleaning.
The text notes that distinct distant sounds such as a locomotive whistle signal rain approaching with near certainty. It emphasizes that waymakers especially heed these signs as a warning cue before rain arrives.
A sixteenth century Spanish voyage landed on Isla de Mujeres in the Yucatan where they smashed Mayan idols at a stone temple and placed a Virgin image on the altar. Archeologists lament the destruction of unique artifacts as Mayan worship was abandoned and a fishing village later formed nearby.
A Southwest American essay argues walking is the natural best exercise and that proper shoes with flat soles and low heels are essential. It notes vanity in fashion and shoemakers' influence, then credits war with teaching soldiers to walk long distances, encouraging global adoption of sensible shoes for healthier feet.
An English engineer proposes that ancient Egyptians built pyramids by an inclined roadway. As the structure rose the ramp grew steeper and longer, allowing slaves and pack animals to haul stone up to the growing apex supported by inscriptions on tombs and temples.
The whippoorwill’s cry is its song uttered only by the male who sings mainly from the treetops or ground. It favors dark hours until about 10 pm and does not sing after midnight. A larger South variety called chuck-will’s-widow is linked, while England’s similar “goat-sucker” name stems from a milk feeding myth.
A tale recalls young Simon Bolivar in Spain playing with Ferdinand the future king. A game of battledore and shuttlecock leads a stroke that knocks Ferdinand's cap off. An onlooker, a nurse said to be a soothsayer, foretold Bolivar would one day topple the crown, a feat he fulfilled in South America.
The New York Herald notes parchments were costly so scholars erased writings and reused them. Photographic methods on palimpsests show yellow faded ink and a later black script. A yellow screen negative and a bromide positive reveal earlier characters as intensely black when combined.
A critique of authoritarian parenting contrasts it with democratic guidance. The piece argues that bulldozing children stifles expression and insight, since parents who insist they know best ignore their kids opinions. It cites conflict from mandated conformity to the need for mutual understanding.
A Popular Science Monthly idea imagines traveling faster than light with a telescope to witness pivotal events across time. Viewers could watch Napoleon at Waterloo, the signing of the Declaration, Yorktown surrender, New Orleans, Santiago, Caesar’s death, and Antony with Cleopatra, then replay events for study.
A jokey critique of library indexing errors where Wilde’s play is filed as ology, Besant’s Golden Butterfly as entomology, and a book on American drinks as educational. The piece notes a Cornish town librarian and parallels to the Encyclopedia Britannica index mislabeling.
The Transvaal mines in South Africa produce about 190 million dollars in gold annually. The British government controls this supply to back government notes at home and bolster British credit abroad. Adding to national resources strengthens public policy and national strength in times of trouble.
In a small Southern town a community raised a home for a needy widow and her three children. Neighbors funded land, a three room house with porches, outbuildings, a garden, and a windlass well. Volunteers supplied all labor, a secure brick, concrete structure completed amid midsummer heat, with an insurance policy arranged.
Ten or twelve fox farms exist in Alaska led by one in the Tanana valley near Fairbanks. The 10 acre site features pens, steel wired walls, underground footing, and overhanging tops to deter escapes. Each pen houses a timid pair with a doglike kennel and a foot square wooden chute entrance. Fox farmers restrict access. Diet includes salmon, moose meat, horse meat, rabbits, carrots, turnips, and a stew of rice and rabbits.
A tale of two saints, the Dominican Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Franciscan Saint Bonaventure, at a royal banquet. The French king ponders Manichaean arguments while Bonaventura ponders heavenly beauty, prompting a remark on the Queen of Heaven’s splendor beyond earth.
The Congressional Globe became the Congressional Record in 1873 and is published daily during sessions. Members of Congress and subscribers pay $8 in long sessions and $4 in short sessions. The Superintendent of Documents at the Government Printing Office sells public documents at cost and provides price lists on request.
Lord Palmerston urged action over prayer when Scotch clergy asked for a day of fasting and prayer to avert a cholera threat. He advised cleaning streets and homes, improving sanitation, supplying food and clothing, and enforcing sanitary measures to prevent the need to fast or pray.
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