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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1926
Page
8
The Greek word anemos meaning wind names the anemones or wind flowers, the state flower of South Dakota. The name came from their preference for breezy locations and the wood anemone features delicate white blossoms and is a favorite spring wildflower.
A hippo in the zoo boasts of a long ancient lineage and a love of rest, food, and swimming. A sparrow in his pool observes his fat, contented routine, noting how hippos speak a universal language and expressing disdain for exercise. The tale ends with the hippo napping, splashing, and dreaming of more meals.
Irvin S Cobb recalls a post election tale in a Tennessee town where a color line influenced rewards. A white foreman leads a two person street cleaning department and overworks an elderly Black man who believed office meant easy pay. The clash ends with the elder noting a day off.
A House Detective and a Hotel Stenographer argue over two well-dressed women sitting on a divan in Peacock Alley. He calls them hens, while she insists they are ladies who are chatting, not cackling, with quiet voices and sharp social banter about manners, divorce rumors, and trust in quotes. The exchange lampoons gossip, women’s chatter, and male pretensions in a clipped, period voice.
Kept alive in England and Europe, the old belief holds that death cannot come easily on feather beds. Folklore notes that feathers from fighting game fowls are said to impart tremulous struggle to the dying, a superstition that traveled with emigration and adapts to various feathers.
Max D Sterner, once a newsboy and match seller in New York tenements, rose to national distinction as a celebrated trial lawyer. A Columbia Law School graduate admitted to the bar at twenty-one, he later served as counsel in high profile cases and became known for his renowned cross examinations and courtroom presence.
A miniature tower of pearls forms part of Japan's display at the Philadelphia Exposition valued at about 860000 dollars. The pagoda shaped exhibit stands a little over three feet high and includes 207280 cultured pearls and 20270 natural pearls of various sizes.
A Houston Methodist pastor warns fathers should cultivate steady intimacy with their sons, but the Houston Post-Dispatch notes hesitation to approve without safeguards from the Society for the Protection of Fathers to prevent fathers from steering boys astray.
An Oklahoma oil company dispatched a geologist to the National Museum to study fossil finds in oil-bearing bands, aiming to understand subsurface geology and potential resource insights.
A fragment notes Gov Gifford Pinchot as designer of a new nine foot split bamboo fishing rod in three sections weighing six and a quarter ounces. The rod suits casting weighted lures like small plugs feathers minnows and frogs. The text closes with a Dryden quote and a remark on imagination.
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