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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
6
A call argues for a year round public playground under trained supervision to shape character, leadership, and civic responsibility. It cites 1906 playground growth, quotes educational critic David Porter on knowing, doing, being, and stresses summer as peak learning for self control and fair play.
The Times-Record begins a multiweek series on the commission plan with reports from Galveston Houston Leavenworth Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. While opinions vary most agree results are possible and improvements could be scaled to smaller towns like Valley City.
A playful piece narrates Otto mishandling a car, starting the engine, racing with it out of control, and crashing into a lamp post. The crowd watches as Otto loses his auto test and the Ottos are left at rest after the incident.
Rev. Alex Karr of Valley City, in town briefly for the chantauqua, departed happy with the event’s progress and predictions of the greatest Valley City chantauqua yet. Chester Schrum, recently operated on for appendicitis at Riverside hospital, is reported to be recovering nicely.
An advertisement from the C. H. Rowan Drug Co. claims a harmless cure for a sexual health disease. They offer a 50 cent medicine prepaid to readers of the Times-Record, promising to cure frequent urination and incontinence in all ages. The firm presents itself as an old reliable house and urges readers to request the free medicine and spread the word.
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