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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1920
Page
5
This earliest Maytag powered washer offers a self-contained gasoline engine to run without electric power. At 35 pounds it drives a reversible power wringer and can operate churn, cream separator, and feed grinder while noisily vented outdoors. See a live demonstration and learn how this versatile unit can wash and power other small tasks.
The government’s motion to appeal the federal anti trust suit against Quaker Oats Co. has been denied by the Supreme Court. In Bristol Rhode Island a riot outside the National India Rubber plant left two strike sympathizers wounded by pistol fire and three factory guards injured by stones.
The Joe Welsh post of the American Legion in Greensburg Indiana has announced a $500 reward for the capture of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, a wealthy draft dodger, highlighting the pursuit by local veterans.
A brief verse commentary by Walt Mason on the cost of discontent and chronic grousing. It laments a lifetime of griping that blinds people to happiness and even to heavenly welcome, satirically noting how even salvation could be approached through protest and self critical habit.
Interstate Commerce Commission orders west of Mississippi to send empty coal cars to Eastern lines within twenty days from May 25. About 38 000 open top cars, 12 000 by lines serving Missouri Kansas Arkansas Oklahoma, must be returned empty to owning line. Cars now limited to 50 percent of mine needs. delays and congestion worsen empty car supply. Receivers urged to release loads within 24 hours to avoid further losses. Request cooperation for next winter’s supply.
A reflective verse fragment contrasts workers and bosses amid wage disputes and public discontent. It notes the widespread gloom, the erosion of cheerful labor, and the difficulty of maintaining ordinary happiness.
The Springfield Republican quotes Harry W. Bughee praising immortal beauty and love as the victorious force over fear and fate. It extols a return to sanities beyond despair, where zeal and faith revive and freedom dissolves dread.
Mrs Larry Flintrx returned home Monday after an extended visit in Missouri. Mrs A Brandenbure spent the week visiting relatives at Lara mie Wyoming.
Chautauqua reduces church activities with a single Sunday service. Sunday School at 10 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. Topic is Broken Cisterns and Springing Fountains. Pastor Chas Q O Troy delivers the message.
English Lutheran Church of Potter invites Lutherans to Sunday School at 10 and preaching at 11 with a monthly picnic. Families bring lunch and cream, city folks supply ice, then a large family dinner at Point of Rocks. Bronson charge and Danish Lutherans invited. next Bronson service July 4 at 2:30.
A butcher mutters about a ten cent meat order and mocks a customer as a boy bursts in with news of mama’s cat meat order. The exchange ends with the butcher promising to unwrap the suspected cat meat while the boy shouts about catching a sparrow.
A frazzle of quick wits and price jabs appears in snippets from newspapers. A bald man asks to keep his collar on for a haircut, the barber jokes about seven hats. A price quip compares last year’s fare to today’s for a Portland ticket. A tailor suggests a watch-fob instead of a suit. A ship passenger muses on missing clothes and the steward’s sly reply references a cupboard and a pinhead cupboard image.
A frugal woman sends her son to fetch the neighbor’s paper. Chaos erupts: a fence is damaged, a cow kills herself over corn, milk spills into kittens, teeth break, carpet ruined, animals run wild, and a hired man elopes, all to save fifty cents. The tale ends with the moral to subscribe to the paper.
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