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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
3
A concise comparison of the same message presented in two distinct styles. The first adopts formal direct narration, while the second uses informal, lyrical tone to convey the core idea. Both emphasize clarity, audience awareness, and purpose.
Europe shifts to pen and ink to typewriters as courts debate legality of deeds on a typewriter. The Golden Age notes rising exports of American machines now at 50 percent, with loans expected to boost credits and demand. Prices lag other products, facilitating growth in typing equipment and office practices.
In an era of specialists, youths must pursue training beyond school to avoid dead end jobs. The article argues that early education, guided by parents, sharpens for future opportunities and higher earnings, as emphasized by Emma Gary Wallace in the Christian Herald.
Peiking government outlines a four sectional coastal defense scheme with a commissioner per section to maintain order and oversee entry of ships. The plan preserves current naval squadrons under the navy department. Admirals Li Ting-hsing Lon Chien-shu and Liu Kuan-hsing named for Gulf of Chibill Klang-sa Che-klang and Fukien. Kwantung commissioner pending reunification.
A grocery store clerk recalls a well known speaker who failed to appear for an address at the town theater. Crowds waited the previous night, and the following evening a stranger seeking the speaker caused surprise when identified by a local woman. The clerk finds later work in the store.
Two Munese factory workers wives discuss how prohibition altered husbands finances. One recalls giving fifty cents for weekend spending now, while in old saloon days he returned with beer for both, a change across “terrible days” noted by Indianapolis News.
In Cincinnati, a gag about hotel staff information boards at the Gibson prompts guests to notice badges on diners. A waiter misreads the board and, after checking, identifies the badge wearers as dentists, as the room buzzes with stories from Cincinnati and Chicago about wartime restrictions.
At Glasgow, T L MacDonald led experiments where six students copied Mars, a moon photo, and another image without guidance. Results showed each student fixed on a distinct feature. Canals, lakes, or shading dominated individual drawings, and the canal observer used the fewest shades. Concluding three classes of planetary astronomers emerge.
The highest office in the Church of England rests with the archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England. The archbishop of York is primate of England for the York province, spanning ten dioceses from the Humber to the Dee and including the Isle of Man. Canterbury's primacy covers the rest of England, taking precedence at public occasions and crowning the king while the queen is crowned by York.
The Columbus Dispatch notes two extraordinary checker boards. One built in 1891 at St. Leonards Sussex England features a concrete 25 by 25 foot board with three foot thick blocks and hooked iron rods for play. The other famed board given to Bismarck has gold and silver inlaid squares on ebony, twenty four pieces with rubies and diamonds, valued about 150000 dollars.
A navy recruiting officer likens King Solomon to modern intake process as fingerprints settle twin confusion. The piece extols Navy identity checks and care, noting fingerprints distinguish twins Tom and Harry and praising comprehensive diet, exercise, medical and dental plans for servicemen.
A wartime tale from Warsaw describes a city where cats vanished until a Red Cross warehouse faced a rodent problem. Citizens offered their cats to guard the warehouse, and many cats were brought in to protect stored food and clothing, after which the cats again disappeared from Warsaw.
In the Philadelphia Press Girard notes that 4,000,000 horsepower from sunlight per square mile goes to waste, equating to about 200,000,000,000 horsepower for the state. He imagines a future where professors capture this power, ending coal strikes and altering fuels, ships, trains, and homes, with Sunlight Consolidated stock possible.
A man with a pronounced Swedish accent appeared at the St Louis Income tax office with two new leather cases containing 9000 in travelers checks. He said he earned his first pay in fifteen years while working on a Washington ranch under a wage and board agreement. He claimed he seldom visited town and that his employer bought all his needs. Last month the employer accompanied him to town and bought the checks for him. He was told that no tax was due.
Immigrants must read thirty to forty words from the Psalms in any language. Inspectors carry cards with verses in many scripts including German Arabic Hebrew Japanese and Russian. Chinese is not permitted to immigrate. Each language has at least forty verses per card to prevent rote memorization.
A discussion notes that nearly every business or profession maintains its own specialist journal from placard posters and hatters guides to postmen gazette and undertakers’ journals. It cites laundry workers and bargees with multiple titles and mentions niche titles for ringers beetkeepers and race enthusiasts, closing with a tease about future titles for burglars and marble players.
Eight ships in the Pacific sail with 8000 pound Maxim silencers developed by Hiram Percy Maxim. He envisions broader use to favor Diesel engine ships over steamers, noting the motor ship as the future while refusing to disclose detailed construction until patents issue.
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer note discusses Spelling by Ear, a simplified London society proposal using one sound one symbol letters and digraphs. It presents examples showing phonetic spelling and argues current English spelling is imperfect while many spell by ear already and would welcome reform.
Wang Tsing wei of the Societe Pranco-Chinoise urges Chinese progressives to study in France during reconstruction. He argues China must mobilize many to introduce new civilization and modernize, proposing a target of about 100000 students with the motto Let us have more.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones were neighbors with a garden and chickens. In a dry year the garden failed. Jones’s daughter visited to sympathize and, being widowed and well fixed, helped lead Mr. Smith to marry her.
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