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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1922
Page
6
The Bowbells High Tribune shares a jovial look at Latin passion, class notes, and the school calendar. It lists students by name for various grades, announces postures tests, chemistry and civics co operations, and previews upcoming Christmas assemblies and art projects at the junior and senior levels.
D. D. Riley who heads Boy Scout work in this region spoke to high school students last Thursday. After the assembly he met with the boys. He noted the Minot troop had ten first class scouts, announced upcoming contests for troop ranking and membership, and praised Riley for reviving Boy Scout spirit.
The Junior high lists students with perfect attendance for the period including Mildred Hmerson Villa Heath Ernest Lodmeil Wilbert Schulte Reuben Anderson Roman Beck Emus Dilsworth Ruth Hecke Mary Martin George Peterson Luellan Seimers Anna Uslum Abert Wiper Carl Briggs Carl Carlson Mr Syvertson names the basketball team: Fred Onsbey Lennie Watlen Cary Briggs Roman Beck Thorval Neve Reuben Anderson Willis Heath and others. The squad aims to defeat the Freakman team by a large margin. A domestic science banquet for the faculty is set for Thursday December 14 at six o clock. Basketbell game tonight invites attendance.
Flaxton comes Friday the 15th to play a double header. We are ready to showcase strong basketball and team spirit. Reports say Flaxton has had a rough spell selecting a cheerleader, and we wish them well for the game.
The girls elected Josephine Miller as captain for the coming year after a busi ness meeting held last Wednesday. A list of uniformed girls for Friday includes Helen Bogus Ellen Donovan Miriam Gunter Rose Lund Pernadeen Little Edna Miller Josephine Miller Lilien Norlin Mrs Simonson and Mrs Remington visited the first grade room last Wednesday. Various students earned perfect attendance for December and highest averages for the period were earned by Ethel Immertall Franke Devereaux Vern Drew Claire Simons on Dorothy Smith Edger Johnson and Alice Knuts on Hildegard Mertes and Neal McClure were sick. Minot visitors Oletad and Mark, Miss Cole in Keamare, and other names appear in the text.
A fragment on the disputed invention of the sandwich traces claims to Napoleon, Voltaire, Foote and Grossey. It notes John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, as the late 18th century custodian of the modern sandwich during a gaming session.
English horticulturists paid ten thousand dollars for an American raised orchid, the cattleya gigas alba, which flowered in 1910 and won a gold medal at a U S orchid show. Found among many cattleya gigas in 1909, it survived as a rare specimen saved from sale and later bloomed pure white, selling in London for possibly the highest price ever for an orchid.
The excerpt reflects on why The Innocent succeeded after the Civil War, praising its timing at the dawn of industrial progress. It argues the work served as a travel guide for Americans in Europe, elevating business-minded readers and devaluing art and historical pursuits as excessive emotional investments.
Chiropodists at a convention discuss the chance that women in coming generations will have only four toes due to tight footwear deforming and dwarfing the little toe. Pool instructors note many women show near disappearance of the little toe. Biologists explain nature adds when needed and removes unneeded parts as seen in cave fish and shrinking organs like the appendix.
Fragmented text suggests a discussion on eating habits at home and the importance of thorough chow. The readable portion mentions food quality and home living, but lacks clear events, dates, or named entities to anchor a full news item.
An item from Thrift Magazine highlights that people chew food poorly, not fully extracting nutrients. It argues chewing three to four times as often would reduce meat intake and cut the meat bill in half, promising better health and savings.
The World’s largest book in the British Museum weighs several tons and features leather binding with eight skins and diamond shapes in rose, thistle, and harp motifs. A Garfield memorial site near Toltec Gorge in New Mexico marks the 1891 death with a granite monument created from a rock pile by a National Association train excursion.
Excerpt describes the concept of supreme bliss as the Abode of the mighty angels and God, outlining Jewish mystic cosmology with successive heavenly realms from earth up to the throne of God. Mention cites Milton and Paradise Lost in relation to the cosmic hierarchy.
A clergyman escorted an elderly parishioner through Réal church at dusk to view its font carvings. The gentleness of the guiding gesture impressed the visitor, who expressed appreciation for the personally conducted tour and the chance to see the church’s beauty.
An excerpt discusses woodpecker species including the downy and pale woodpeckers and their wood-boring behavior. It shifts to a dental care note from the British Dental Association, outlining child teeth care rules such as sleeping with mouth closed, grinding foods from age two, avoiding excess sweets, and finishing meals with fruit or crisp vegetables.
The passage recalls Blackpool once famed for its propriety bathing, with a bell at 2 Ore hour summoning bathers in cloaks while men stayed indoors. Any man spotted outdoors faced a wine bottle fine. After another bell, women left first, followed by men under the town’s strict dress code.
Mountain peoples rely on cows and goats for most food while securing winter feed through extreme mowing methods. Swiss peasants harvest from ledges and rooftops, while Norwegians use hay bundles slid down cliffs. A legal limit allows one wildherer per family. The rainy climate slows hay drying, extending stall-feeding for seven months.
Fragmentary historic reflection traces the United States from Plymouth and Jamestown to a coming fourth centennial. The speaker calls for a national gathering to crown past miracles with a republican future.
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