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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1919
Page
10
The text urges home ownership as key to happiness and stability and urges saving now. It promotes War Savings stamps Thrift stamps and Treasury Savings certificates as tools, noting prices and maturities for 1924, including $5 stamps for $4.20 and $100 $84 costs with growth. It targets working women and professionals to save for a home.
The notice outlines War Savings stamps as safe, convenient investments for families. Two hundred stamps bought this year become $1,000 in 1924 for office equipment, education, or a rainy day. One hundred stamps grow to $500, and fifty reach $25, with a push to use the W S S route for payment and growth.
Four rules advsie savings discipline and prudent spending. Rule one directs setting aside regular income weekly or monthly. Rule two recommends investing savings in government securities and war savings stamps. Rule three stresses getting full value for every expenditure. Rule four emphasizes careful purchases.
A New York colored soldier recalls a woods encounter with a stray German. With a boot razor he fights fair and square, slashing twice as the German surrenders to a brutal, tigerlike onslaught until the third strike severs the head from the trunk.
Cantonese merchants protest the plan to remove ancient city walls, calling it sacrilege and foreign driven. The Canton Times notes push for removal to ease congestion, improve health, widen roads, and speed communications, amid fears demolishing homes along the walls.
A mangled OCR fragment cites the Times claiming the gentry should be dumped into the river if they disagree, illustrating an extreme and abusive sentiment toward the gentry and reflecting period hostility toward elites.
Mrs Richard Mansfield’s wardrobe collection traveled to the National Museum in Washington. Eight display cases showcase the actor’s stage costumes from Brutus in Julius Caesar to roles in Richard II Shylock Cyrano and Napoleon. The exhibit emphasizes historical accuracy and fabric quality, adding value through theatre heritage.
The text traces France's path through three republic attempts. It notes Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise from first consul to emperor, the 1838 revolution leading to Napoleon III as hereditary emperor in 1852, and the Franco Prussian War aftermath with the German emperor crowned at Versailles in 1872. It credits Louis Adolphe Thiers and compares him to Cavour for guiding France through crisis.
The piece notes how dying minds reveal odd impulses through peculiar bequests. It cites William Greenwood, a retired English spinning spinner, who left his fancy stockings to George William Steel and his set of false teeth for walting upon him to Mary Hannah Wiggin, on a half-sheet of notepaper.
The excerpt recalls Daniel Webster as an eight year old discovering a talismanic picture, tied to a growing sense of American constitutional memory. It cites Webster’s later reflections on the Constitution under Washington and contrasts art that depicts the nation’s founding with other grand images. Thomas Starr King’s quote frames the enduring pull of national memory in visual form.
Timothy Alden, born in Barnstable Massachusetts about 1800, grew up a printer apprentice and invented several printing aids. After years of study he built a 1846 model of a typesetting machine with a rotating wheel of type cells, but it failed to surpass hand composition. He died in Boston in 1858, leaving his brother Henry.
The Timothy 4 tden'a machine is noted for triggering broader thinking on the issue and accelerating the decline of hand composition as a common practice.
Peter Schmidt reports that earth worms and other creatures can survive extreme drying by entering a dormant state. When reduced to about 40 percent of normal weight and a fraction of their length, they can be revived to active life after 39 hours of warmth or 48 hours or more in cold conditions.
A compact reflection on admiration and its limits noting that affection for Ward La Rochefaucauld varies and is not always mutual, highlighting the complexity of praise and personal affinity.
The article explains different electrical distribution methods to keep a steady supply despite changing demands. It notes systems where conductors alternate positive and negative roles rapidly, causing current to be alternating, while in other setups the alternations do not occur and voltages vary.
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