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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
4
The Washburn Times lists Washburn Printing Co as publishers with W. A. Robinson as editor. Yearly subscription $2.00. Advertising rates available. Paper entered at the Washburn Wisconsin post office as second class mail matter.
Nomination papers circulate for Congressman A. P. Nelson of Grantsburg as he seeks re election. The incumbent emphasizes deep waterway canal as a vital national issue with broad regional support.
Dr. Arthur William Myers of Stanford University uses boxes filled with mineral seal oil to store cadavers for anatomical study. The odorless oil preserves bodies and prevents decay during preservation and dissection.
A bid for moving pictures suggests using a film of an ant colony to encourage industry by example. The Boston Transcript notes the plan as a public instruction piece aiming to inspire workers through natural efficiency and organized labor behavior.
The article lists six shell kinds with commercial value in the Philippines: the gold lip pearl or mother of pearl, the window shell, the trochus, the greer snail, the black lip pearl, and the tortoise shell.
In Tibet one son from each family must join the church to secure spiritual aims and the monasteries provide the strongest temporal protection in the country.
Snails are now ordered from provinces and abroad for Parisian high end dining. They are collected in June and July by women and children, kept tender like eggs, and fed lettuce and cabbage. Large runners move year round and careful packing and temperature control preserve flavor until served after September.
The text notes practices of covering heads in worship spaces Jewish synagogues and Anglican churches. It references historical instances such as the custom in the Church of England and cites Bishop Richard Cox of Ely who died in 1581 with congregants seated and head coverings during sermons.
The pelican is not attractive yet regular in habits. Parent birds catch fish and carry extra fish to feed their young in elastic pouches that hold three to eight pounds. When distended they nearly touch the ground.
Thorneycroft, a 22 year old British trooper, stranded in Turkey after Townshend’s offensive, governs a district of 60 villages and 60,000 people under martial law until relief arrives from Allenby. Bristol hotel keeper’s son proves imperial fiber as wartime spectacle and humor amid emergency.
Mike asks what to drown sorrows in Pat answers perspiration. Pat says hard work will trill them.
A whimsical exchange between clock hands about changing hours ends with proposing a forty minute hour shift in a clock shop scene. The dialogue underlines a playful take on time and work pace within a storefront setting.
A fragment discusses courtship and marriage preferences, notes the Eternal Feminine, and contrasts past and 1919 dress styles. It cites a June 8 1812 newspaper tale of a high born lady warning her dancing partner about her muslin gown, plus Lady Brownlow on decollete gowns and shawls in earlier fashion.
The State of Wisconsin in Bayfield County court summons defendants A M Kerr and Gust Zanto to appear within twenty days to defend a civil action filed by T A Loveland. If they fail, judgment will be entered as demanded in the complaint. Attorney A W MacLeod, Washburn Wisconsin.
Melvin A. Hall explains in National Geographic that the Boekit Barisan mountain ranges run along Sumatra's western coast forming parallel lines that enclose the Karo Batak plateau and the vast Tuba lake region. He notes 90 volcanoes have been discovered with 12 currently active.
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