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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
5
Miss Helen Willsie visits Parker for holidays while many locals return home from Yankton College and other towns. A dozen readers are listed visiting family or teaching away, with notes on a Ford Truck for sale and Christmas candy specials at Corner Inn.
Church notes announce worship times for 1920 with cantata The Traveler and scripture prompts. A long column lists community events, travel, sick lists, social gatherings, and New Year greetings from soldiers and local clubs, with multiple names and addresses.
War cut off Germany’s port trade and emptied amber from markets once supplied by Koenigsberg based networks. Baltic shores near Koenigsberg to Memel yielded prized amber long used since ancient Greece and Rome, traded widely, even as currency. Amber’s electrical properties were noted in Thales experiments.
A Terre Haute physician told a friend on Main Street how busy he was and bragged he made 25 dollars from a ball player who broke his leg and had it set. The remark was cited from the Indianapolis News.
An older Youth's Companion piece recalls a wartime scene at an English airfield where a captain pilot, after a gala day with many ladies in attendance, performed aerobatics then misjudged his final landing. He bounced across the field and narrowly avoided a fence before sheepishly rejoining the crowd while fellow pilots stifled laughter. A stout woman praised his “bird-hop” landing to the captain.
Miss Waitoner argues that the Serbian family centers on the child and home as the nation’s foundation. She notes Serbia’s long preached and practiced value of child life, with the child as more than an heir and symbol, but the heart of family welfare and progress.
A Hoosier, former county auditor, recounts a Chicago barber claiming his Indiana haircut differed from an Indiana one. He says the remark offended him as an Indiana loyalist, after a Richmond shop shave and haircut. The event followed a business trip to Chicago.
American scientific agriculturists complete a soil possibilities survey of Crete following the thorough Greek mainland study. Major C. G. Hopkins of the Illinois agricultural department and Lieut. G J Bouyoucos lead the Red Cross agricultural survey in Greece and Crete to educate farmers and improve crop yields with up-to-date machinery and methods.
Austen Chamberlain, as chancellor, presented a British budget amid fevered debate. The document cites a 1,412,000,000 pound figure and flags a rising floating debt that demands grave attention. The text questions how the fund stands amid the numbers and humor.
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