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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
3
A 1919 20 report shows 429 one room rural schools in North Dakota with 731 teacher changes, 10 percent teaching without licenses, 62 percent with the lowest license and 21 percent with third grade certificates. Calls rise for trained teachers, better pay, and improved equipment to lift rural life and schooling.
Dean Knute Froysan traveled to Grand Forks Thursday to judge the state finals for high school music. Mrs Bess Lowry and Miss G attended a gathering of state librarians in Farzo. Miss Fanny Amidon spoke at the state high school conference on a music in public schools theme. Normalonians performed in Fingal and Litchville, traveling by train and returning by car. The Budget planned an article on the Norwegian Nightingale concert but the reporter was too busy.
A fragmentary wartime reminiscence in Antwerp portrays a mussel seller recalling German occupation. The piece captures street life, beer shortages, and anxious yet resilient townspeople, with vivid images of cobblestones, fishers, and a tavern facing shut shops and looming uncertainty.
Excerpt discusses postwar aims to preserve ruins while private owners resist, and a war damaged Belgian town's reconstruction. A narrator and Minna observe unsafe floorboards, a fall injures a woman, and Emile Cammaerts quotes reflect Belgian pride. The piece notes hope that cloth hall rebuilding and the clock tower endure amid ruins.
The article notes that thousands of Belgian families may never locate their prewar homes as bombardment erased landmarks. Boundaries are obliterated and old farm lines are pounded into the earth, making exact locations a lasting mystery despite forthcoming surveys and possible compensation in equivalent land.
The Belgian government enacted a law prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or storage of matches containing white phosphorus. The law provides for confiscation and destruction of the prohibited products and the apparatus used in their production.
Workmen across several nations refine sealskin treatment yielding a supple finish. The narrative credits American innovation and the Murrionn method for enhanced drape and pliability, enabling gloves and velvet surfaces, with St Louis linked to the machinery and process credited to Lovie and the Pibsten Sto Leia methods.
The article discusses zinc stencils, their durability and precision, and how their continuous use preserves shape. It notes the high quality of zinc stencils, long printing life, and the growing negotiations with Japanese producers to supply designs for silk printing, aiming to replace slower, more costly methods.
Ste Daniel Morris announced at the last merc of the British association that a new breed of wheat, grown extensively in Teng land, yields about 80 bushels per acre with high resistance to disease. The Musa wheats in India, by the Howards, will be planted over 1,040,000 hectares and could lift wheat sales to the United States by about 25 million dollars.
Aharon Sirlelow, a Cirueasiig Jew, completes a yearlong journey on foot to Jerusalem via Caucasia Persia and Baghdad. Zionist Organization records describe it as the longest foot journey by Jews seeking Palestine in recent years despite hardships and centuries of trials.
A resident explains an improvised heating plan after a coal shortage. He recalls three families sharing eight rooms and heating costs, with six adults and eleven children, noting the house stays warm without heavy coal use. The tale illustrates frugal responses to rising fuel prices.
Probanty, a Grn believer in mascots, has nearly 200 magenta charms once tied to predecessors. The chief relic is a pendant of amber said to have fallen from heaven in Mahomet's era, believed to ward off danger and worn by the shah around his neck.
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