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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1922
Page
6
The Industrial association of San Francisco announces a school of apprentices with three classes and alternating school and shop work. Two weeks classroom, four weeks work, then back to school for forty hours a week. Expected to shorten training to two and a half to three years while paying apprentices only for work time.
A fragmented 19th century style letter promotes Edgeworth tobacco products sold by Larus & Brother Company. It discusses trading a gold mine for Edgeworth and urges readers, tobacco merchants, to request free samples and price formats for Edgeworth Plug White and Ready Rubbed varieties.
Navy researchers report a new airborne telegraph called the telotype that uses a keyboard to transmit letters by radio from planes to ground stations, enabling in-flight command directives and reducing transmission errors. The device may extend both military and commercial navigation and communications capabilities.
The National Park to Park Highway association in Denver aims to educate motorists and schoolchildren about the western United States. Plans include publications on scenic attractions forests and streams geology and botany with maps and signed routes to aid travelers.
The U S Department of Agriculture promotes pieric acid as a free surplus explosive for farming. About 8,000,000 pounds have been distributed since fall to state colleges and farmers. Minnesota received 774,000 pounds for 9,511 farmers averaging 292 pounds each. The agent notes pieric acid remains stable, safe outdoors, and requires drying and carting costs paid by farmers.
Navy hydrographic records show multiple sightings of oil bubbling on the sea surface over the years. Reports range from 800 to 900 fathoms deep in the gulf southeast of the Texas coast with several instances near Cape May and as far as 200 miles offshore.
Thousands testify to Tanlac’s power as it invigorates the constitution and aids weight gain. Oregon man George G. Owen says nerves improved and he gained twelve pounds after taking Tanlac. The ad claims Tanlac helps digestion, purifies the system, and restores normal weight.
The text describes Nauru with sunrise and sunset at six year round and no daylight saving. It notes westerlies bringing a rainy season with violent tropical downpours. After a three year drought, a following year saw 150 inches of rainfall, including a single 10 inch night of rain.
Geneva aged three visits her aunt across the street and then resists return home. The aunt plans to punish but Geneva postpones departure. As the aunt carries her toward the door Geneva spots her father leaving and cries I must hurry back.
The Cuticura Toilet Trio offers Soap to cleanse, Ointment to soothe, and Talcum to powder. A daily toilet regimen promoted for skin clarity and purity, claiming complete toilet care with these products.
The passage notes Voltaire, the French philosopher born in 1694 and died in 1778, nicknamed the Patriarch of Ferney for retiring to Ferney near Geneva where he produced much of his work. Carlyle called Voltaire the Eighteenth century for his influence.
The article presents two colorfully written anecdotes from a police station. A man threatening self harm seeks guidance, while a colored woman jokes about her husband’s flying ambitions and the risk of widowhood. A French inventor’s ship scale using water and draft is noted.
A chaotic boarding house scene unfolds with a young man asking for a daughter's hand and hinting at pressure from a neighbor. The father reacts with surprise and a policeman is suggested, culminating in a terse, cryptic royal blue note from London Tit-Bite.
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