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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1920
Page
8
Vernon post master J W Townsend warns rural mail routes BR. FLD. No A and Route B are deteriorating and risk suspension of service. He cites lack of road maintenance for a year, notes carriers lose pay when roads hinder motor vehicles, and urges farmers and county to fund repairs for reliable rural delivery.
A maid reflects on a late night kitchen visit with a young man. She denies understanding the encounter, suggesting the mistress may have looked through the keyhole. The exchange appears in Harper's magazine, portraying domestic intrigue with a joking confession.
At a social gathering the hostess coaxes Mr. Jenkins into singing. After the performance she smiles and teases him, declaring that he cannot claim he cannot sing anymore.
In Peeky, Bohemia, sugar factory experiments yield saltpetre from mill waste. Under normal conditions Czech sugar factories could produce 6,000 to 7,000 tons annually for explosives. A Prague backed corporation of 15 million crowns will build a Pardubice factory with offices in Prague to manufacture explosives under government permit.
A method described for removing paint spatter from windows using steel wool as a faster and easier option than coins putty knives or other common tools.
The pigeon branch of the navy numbers 2,500 birds and many more are available for forest patrols. Ongoing experiments aim to raise the birds’ efficiency in firefighting roles. FOR SALE Second hand cotton flour bags Seeach Kell Milling Co S841
Alan Cowan presents The Luck of the Drish a distinct novelty with over fifty onstage performers. The plot follows a basement plumbing show owner William Grogan who only sees feet from his window. He dreams of a woman as he spies feet passing for years until a fortune alters his voyage around the world where he discovers the feet aboard his boat amid mystery and adventure.
An electric ground thawing tool used in Alaska railway construction resembles a hollow steel rod with a sharpened point and a driving head. A resistance coil sits inside the hollow body and is heated by a high current from a portable transformer on a sledge, warming the frost to allow pilings to be driven.
A class joke features a professor of natural history asked where a snake's tail begins. The professor's quiet reply defines tail as starting at the end of the smoke. Separate notes report Dr. Arthur D. Holmes's digestibility studies on soy, corn, and peanuts, noting human-food value when cooked under pressure. A Japanese cypress, after a decade, reaches golf‑ball size.
An advertisement for Martinus Wonderful Bug Willer from Ash Baker Bros promotes a feed additive to chickens claimed to wipe out insects with a money back guarantee.
A Manchester Guardian note explains how a leap year can erase a birthday for a baby born at the end of February during a voyage from Yokohama to San Francisco in 104. It describes the need for calendar adjustments at the 100 meridian and the near impossibility of a future same-date birth, highlighting the oddity of timekeeping at sea.
The passage riffs on a comic duo Ward and Vokes dreaming of regular work, joking about stealing blossoms from a century plant and tearing out February 29 leaves from a desk calendar, reflecting playful theatrical whimsy from The Home Sector.
The passage promotes the Paige Glenbrook as a five passenger car offering economy. It asserts that once experienced the vehicle reveals the truth of its value for buyers needing a compact yet roomy automobile. It emphasizes the model as the economical choice for this size category.
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