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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
7
In a discussion with Glimmerby, Mr. Goslington argues poverty and worry may extend life through work and stress. He cites personal experience of weight loss and recovery, noting ailments can be blessings in disguise and labor brings purpose and joy despite hardship.
A visitor observes Australia and New Zealand as well fed and well supplied, with low poverty and slums rare. The bustling, self reliant populations are keen on sports, football, tennis, surf bathing, and horse racing with state sanctioned gambling through pool rooms.
Le Figaro cites Sainte-Beuve citing Pliny to claim a world’s first paper shortage under Tiberius with a senate board of control. The reviewer notes Sainte-Beuve’s cynicism and jokes that such a shortage would be welcome today, while implying oversimplified praise of ancient scarcity.
A prose note discusses a new English political social book The Island of Sheep about English affairs and Great Britain. Cadmus and Harmonia are linked to authors, including a prominent British statesman, in a call for review copies aimed at public readers.
An English river football revival gathers interest among athletic enthusiasts in Derbyshire. Described as a mix of polo soccer basketball wrestling swimming and pursuit, the game is noted as not being a ladys pursuit.
A Chinese province reports school attendance rising eight thousand percent over five years signaling a dramatic surge in access to education. The growth reflects rapid expansion of schooling and policy emphasis on literacy.
The U S Department of Agriculture dust explosion studies extend beyond grain to aluminum dust starch and fish meal. Firemen join the effort with the National Firemen's Association at Peoria to push preventive methods.
Selig Hecht of Creighton University studied dark adaptation in the eye. He finds sensitivity increases from daylight levels to as much as five thousand to ten thousand times higher after extended darkness. The gain is due to a reversible photochemical reaction in the retina involving a photosensitive substance and its decomposition products.
A Philadelphia reader recounts a story in which a commuter ignores a telegram announcing a struck 8000-barrel gusher to finish his 25 cent pinochle hand. The financier laments the loss more than the fortune.
Frederick R. Bartlett, sugar dealer and engineer of Eaton Maryland, arrived in New York from Venezuela with a power boat and gasoline. Believing a railroad strike left the country without transport, he planned to travel by water to Easton with his wife and daughter after discovering railroads were operating.
The old Billop house at Tottenville, once General Howe’s Staten Island headquarters in 1776, will be fitted with factory apparatus for insecticide production. Announcement of the sale was made yesterday, with plans to convert the historic site, including its dungeon and secret passage, into a factory. The bid to have the state purchase and preserve the relics failed.
At a tea gathering in Haete the ladies debated proper marriage age. Some favored thirty, others twenty-eight or twenty-seven, until Miss Elsie De Wolfe quipped that the best age to marry is when you are too young to know better.
The Wall Street Journal recounts 1820 when William Worts drove the first ton of anthracite on a pine log raft to Philadelphia. It notes early slow production, high freight costs, and the dramatic rise to 86.2 million tons annually, with potential to surpass 100 million. Names like Reading and Wilkes-Barre anchor the industrial rise.
The Greenwich Observatory notes a widening gap between calculated moon positions and observed data. Over twenty years the error has increased, last year exceeding twelvefold the earlier level, with an annual rise of about half a second of arc in longitude. Possible unknown forces or Earth's true shape may influence the mismatch.
A French wireless engineer M. Dunoyer claims an electric safety lock could revolutionize naval warfare. The mechanism would steer torpedoes and detonate only upon a correct Morse sequence. Each torpedo would carry a unique key, preventing enemy tampering, with wireless or Morse signals directing its course.
The late Samuel Biker's library sale concluded with Dr A. & Rosenbach paying 34,000 for George Washington's three volume copy of A Collection of All the Treaties of Peace Between Great Britain and Other Powers from 1684 to 1783. Washington's autograph graces each title page and his book plate appears inside each cover. The item was part of the Library of Lawrence Washington, Washington's great grandson, auctioned in Philadelphia in 1876.
Air Commodore Edward Maitland of R34 fame spoke at the Royal Society of Arts about tying the Atlantic. He retired around nine, slept until nine the next day, and noted the air induced sleep and sharpened appetite. He quipped about crinolines as possible parachutes for night flights.
Citizens in Atlantic City call on authorities to halt strong winds affecting Chelsea area, arguing public safety concerns. The issue prompts wider demand for action against persistent weather problems and governance responses.
Washington reports sharks, long famed among seafaring folk for food, now finding a place in major markets and hotels. The article notes their wide distribution, edible meat with mild odor removable by salting, and uses from leather to oil, with preparation methods including smoking, drying, and chopper-ready meat for chowders and fish balls.
An albino opossum or similar white creature with pink eyes was found in a Omaha yard. Dr Solon Towne, president of the Nebraska Audubon Society, notes such albino sightings are about one in a million.
A former Leviathan officer explains a wartime mystery aboard the liner used as a transport. Crew members hid in a lower hold to smoke, but a ship fire detection system drew smoke samples to the wheelhouse, revealing them and earning extra duty. The incident underscores onboard vigilance during the voyage to France.
An Arab correspondent describes a March banquet hosted by King Hussein of the Hedjaz for Lord Allenby the British high commissioner. Bedouin cavalry, a long 18 by 30 foot table, barefoot waiters in Araby dress, vast courses, and music marked the feast. Remnants were shared with Jeddah residents and ship crews in harbor.
Morris Aillquit voices alarm at rent profiteering by New York landlords while noting high demand for housing in Albany. He cites daily intrusive inquiries from strangers as tenants face pressures. A humorous newspaper office exchange on advertising rates highlights the era’s housing tensions.
A Swedish inventor overcomes irregular air currents by using a geared hoist on the mill wheel to lift a two ton weight up a 53 foot tower. When released the weight drives a dynamo at the tower apex, with a storage battery and switchboard housed below.
Life Marjorie a three year old tells her mother in witty simplicity that when questioned about the time she went to see her father in his office she used the phrase the core of the afternoon meaning the middle of the afternoon in a humorous exchange reported by the Indianapolis News
In a Youth's Companion anecdote Dr Wilfred Grenfell recounts a fisherman with a swollen jaw who refused forceps. The doctor pretends to cast charms and charges two cents as if performing a tooth extraction, the sailor paying after believing the spell worked. The tale ends with the doctor puzzled.
The corset appears in 1265 household records for Eleanor of Leices ter and Richard king of the Normans, with a pair for Edward. Some trace the term to corps or corse material, while in England around 18 the garment is called stays. Bodice was often spelled bodies by old writers.
A state game warden found a single beaver colony on Taylor's Creek in Bayfield County Wisconsin. The dam stood 12 feet high and a quarter mile long with a central beaver lodge 16 feet high and 40 feet broad at the base. The interior sleeping area was spacious enough for a tall man, the floor clean and dry, and ample food stored for winter. Nine beavers, including parents and offspring, were found in the house.
A discussion explains why engagement rings are placed on the left hand fourth finger. It notes a common belief of a nerve from that finger to the heart, citing Macrobius in Saturnalia and an Egyptian priest as sources. The piece questions the practice beyond social custom.
Melville E Stove argues in Collier's Weekly that preachers' sons face harsh scrutiny from church members, with minor faults magnified and little forgiveness. He notes many such sons are honorable, and few black sheep appear in nine cases out of ten.
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