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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
2
An editorial letter invites readers to offer helpful ideas for improving living, business, and social conditions in the state. The paper seeks cooperative input to benefit the community and promises to highlight worthy proposals while dismissing petty axe grinding.
The milk snake fights rats that damage crops and stored cereals. It lives under barns and can pursue through rat holes where a ferret cannot go, feeding on young rats and also consuming meadow and field mice.
A man requests bids from six printers for a printing job. He spends twelve cents on postage and three cents on envelopes plus four cents on writing paper. He pays eighteen dollars weekly to a clerk who prepares letters and stamps, then sends the job to the lowest bidder at a bid of one dollar sixty five cents.
Turkish empire bans the export of relics more than a hundred years old. Real works of art of sufficient age are seldom available for purchase.
Dr. Arthur William Myers of Stanford University uses boxes filled with mineral seal oil to store cadavers for anatomical study, the oil being nearly odorless and effective at preventing decay.
The key is placing fertilizer as close to the seed as possible without touching it. Use planter attachments that drill fertilizer in the hill and adjust to drop near the seed. If attachments are unavailable, broadcast with a spreader or grain drill. drilling part at planting and rest after emergence may yield better results. Manure value is high and should be invested in the corn crop rather than wasted.
The piece lauds Memorial Day as a sacred, unifying tribute to veterans from three wars and the Great War. It highlights American efforts at Suresnes near Paris, detailing graves marked by crosses and stars, the role of the Red Cross, and the shared respect of Allied nations. It notes plans for permanent memorials and the understated dignity of Quaker-like cemetery settings.
A solemn ode recounts the Civil War dead, praising four hundred thousand brave soldiers who died for the nation. It honors their sacrifice across battlefields, prisons, and camps, and vows that future generations remember their debt to them and you. The piece salutes the fallen as noble guardians of liberty.
The passage calls for proper ceremonial observances to honor those who paid the final debt in the world crisis. It stresses respect for the dead and recognition of their service, aiming to lift the living toward duty and humanity through dignified remembrance.
The Omaha Bee notes the three local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic will consolidate due to dwindling numbers. Veterans who fought with Grant and Sherman, now aged, face the fading of their great organization, whose deeds live in history even as the drum fades and the banners rest.
The document calls Memorial Day a time for national unity and silent tribute to the thousands who sacrificed in the great fratricidal war. It warns that the day should remain solemn and free from sporting events or distractions that could mar its sanctity.
The piece laments the losses of young men in war at Cold Harbor and the Wilderness and reflects on how those lives would have shaped a future with phones cars and flying machines. It frames patriotism as costly, noting unborn generations and the deep pathos of war’s toll.
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