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Newspaper
The New Vienna Reporter
Location
New Vienna, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
3
Scrogginsville residents discuss ongoing road improvements including tree removal and fencing adjustments. Local figures like B F Hodson of Kentucky supervise farm activities. Birth day surprise for Milard Storer. school transport via hack and auto noted. Several visitors from Ohio and Nebraska visit area families. Harvy Kellis and kin vacation with wife’s relatives. Walter Ridgway listed as owner of property.
Marjorie and Gladis Powell attend business college at Greenfield this season. Addison Hodson visited on business Thursday. More men arrived this week with machinery to work on the pike. R. A. McDaniel and family visited his son Lee near Bridges on Sunday.
A collage of short, punchy lines covers pacifist turned scrapper Henry Ford, Chicago crime insanity quip, a doctor patient gag on deep breathing, a Helen Brown jab, a sharp exchange about looks in white, a Barton Borrows joke about lawn mowers, a kiss for candy, and a mother’s three-pence castor oil gag.
Mrs. Joseph Wright stayed with sister in Wilmington. J W Marshall and family visited Ralph Actor's home. Dorothy and Vivian Larrick visited grandparents Wm Larrick. Archie Newbry from West Chester spent weekend with Ben Felheim’s family. Numerous households hosted guests from Cincinnati Wyoming Leesburg Detroit Blanchester Cleveland and more in a busy period of hospitality.
Season opening notes urge all members to attend along with a report that the Girls Base Ball team played Jefferson Township here last Thursday. Mr and Mrs Sanford King are visiting in Indiana.
The Bureau of American Ethnology states Mississippi valley mounds mostly foundations of superstructures like houses or temples, with rare burial tumuli. Some mounds are animal-shaped and used in worship, and a law forbids digging on public domain Indian mounds.
The six outstanding Italian art schools include the Florentine school with Fra Angelico, Carlo Dolci, Leonardo da Vinci, and Andrea del Sarto. Romani with Michelangelo and Raphael. Lombard led by Correggio. Venetian with Titian Veronese and Tintoretto. Bolognese with Guido. and Neapolitan led by Salvator Rosa.
The text explains Herod the Great ruled Judea at Jesus birth and Herod Antipas, his youngest son, ruled Judea as tetrarch. It notes this is the Herod before whom Christ stood trial.
Elmer Carter and Crist Savage have gone to Dakota on account of land interests. Jess Custis and family enjoy a new Star coupe. Eastern Star Inspection was held here last Friday night with many visitors. Harold Bashore is on the sick list. The Parent-Teachers Association will entertain on Friday evening Oct 2 in the school auditorium to honor the teachers. This will be the second meeting of the group.
The article notes enamel work dates to ancient Egypt and China and spread to England in Saxon times. It cites a jewel at Oxford once owned by King Alfred, inscribed as made by his order around 887.
An Amiel journal excerpt notes that true greatness lies in men in whom nature succeeds and that these men are not extraordinary while the others fail to be what they ought to be.
Adventure Magazine writer Mr Mills notes Samoan physical fitness from outdoor life and sports. In one group they are base runners and in another cricket enthusiasts who stop work for weeks of play. They practice wrestling, hut-dwellings are common, no minerals, pigs abundant, and exports include cocoa copra and rubber.
A man recounts how his family's move to the city and his daughter's recent purchase of a book on proper etiquette lead to awkward meals. He jokes that his manners suffer as he attempts to follow new table rules and fears punishment, while his friend asks to discipline the girl instead.
The cubit derives from forearm length with Egyptian rods yielding 20.64 inches and the Roman cubit at 17.4 inches. Bible mentions two cubits, the cubit of man and the cubit after the first measure. Hebrew cubits remain uncertain with temple cubit estimates from 19 to 26 inches.
Dairy farming grows as a share of livestock, with efficient stalls reducing bacteria and odor transfer to milk. Proper stall size, gutters, bedding, and regular hair removal keep cows clean, while brushing and wiping udders before milking improve milk cleanliness and safety.
The text extols industry and honesty, arguing laborers deserve fair pay. It links virtue to mental and physical strength and spiritual peace, claiming such cultivation elevates manhood above all else.
A described ritual involves a censer and a sprig of aloes placed on embers after coffee. The censer is passed among guests three times before a guest is allowed to depart.
The northern elder breeds on the Greenland and Ellesmere coasts. Four thousand eggs may be gathered from a single small island in hours. The king elder arrives at Etah in May with the northern elder and frequents the same coasts.
An indignant shoe salesman challenges a customer in a brief exchange over a previous call about a pair of shoes with a short vamp. The patron replies the caller was her sister, not her. The moment, reported by Oll Weekly, captures a tense domestic-shopping scene.
The text traces piano history from Pythagoras credited with the principle of the modern piano to Bartolommeo Cristofori, a Padua harpsichord maker, who named the instrument piano forte. It mentions a mono chord precursor dating to 500 B C and links stringed santir family to plano forte via dulcimer roots.
Right view of life riches and honor are what men desire. But if they attain to them by improper ways they should not continue to hold them. Poverty and low estate are what men dislike, but if they are brought to such condition by improper ways, they should not feel shame for it.
The text notes that in the northern hemisphere June 21 is the longest day and December 23 the shortest. In the southern hemisphere the situation reverses with June 21 as the shortest day and December 23 as the longest.
No clear event or person is described. The line cites a proverb from the Boston Herald about aging gracefully and avoiding mental decline.
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