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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
2
Experts advise keeping grounds compact and well cared for, using two acres for the farmstead. Plant a near home fruit and veg garden, screen utilitarian yards with bushes, and draw a prior plan for trees and shrubs. Choose a few reliable varieties like dogwood honeysuckle hydrangea and forsythia to ensure year round color.
A playful critique of teachers routines and demands. It describes a schoolteacher arriving at 8 30 teaching diverse subjects, lecturing, reform work with misbehaving students, and returning home to sew a new dress and attend lectures. It notes salaries around thirty dollars monthly and the strain of expenses and institutes. The piece ends by joking that teachers save for retirement at fifty to live happily on income.
Learned astronomers warn the sun may explode as it ages. A Popular Astronomy writer notes the sun has contracted 93,000,000 miles from each side, leaving 186,000,000 miles less room for its hot center and brightness.
The speaker mirrors Stevenson urging relentless struggle and purpose found in effort. It frames happiness as a roadside stop, while the soul’s aim is ongoing conflict, declaring life’s meaning lies in continuing the fight until death.
The article urges poultry keepers to supply shade for hens during hot summers to ensure comfort and health. It notes moving stock to shaded areas, using temporary 6 by 10 foot structures covered with burlap or canvas, and placing young fowls near corn fields for shade, scratching, and insect access.
A simple device idea uses a sandpaper label with skull and crossbones wrapped around a bottle. The rough texture alerts a sleeper to hold and inspect the bottle, revealing the poison type and preventing accidental ingestion.
A string of short sketches and vignettes satirize relationships and status. Jokes touch on doms and dowries, entente cordiale service, parlor bolsheviks, and a banker fearing separation from his coin. The quips portray everyday tensions with wit and irony.
A scene shows a young lover pleading his case at midnight about a beloved woman allegedly older by years than him. The father dismisses the romance, implying the woman may be nearby in her dressing room.
Three Indianapolis youths led by Mike Cain, twelve, form the Angle Worm Company after supplying fishermen with worms for years. The back yard operation grows as they dig, feed, and market fine worms, advertising choice stock at a premium while reporting no taxes or rent. The president notes some worms may have wandered off.
The Amazon discharges more water than any river on Earth. It runs about 3,300 to 3,600 miles long, and its width ranges from a few thousand feet in places to over 100 miles wide at its mouth.
A brief personal anecdote recalls a shocked reply after an attempted kiss in the parlor and a confession of bungled emotions. The piece shifts to a domestic quip about a husband’s hidden rainy day umbrella as a recurring joke.
Fox farming started as a hobby years ago and has become a real industry. It thrives in Canada across many provinces and in northern states, with Japan and Norway also developing fox raising for the fur market due to suitable climates.
Records from the U S patent office describe a new liquid fuel for aircraft and engines. The blend uses alcohol as a base with 25 percent gasoline and heavy petroleum hydrocarbons. Two companies control about 95 percent of U S alcohol capacity and use black-strap molasses as the alcohol source. The invention claims quadrupling available gasoline and delivering high power with smokeless, odorless output. Market price remains unknown.
The Legion for Jobs for Mustered-Out Soldiers aims to secure employment for returned service members. Marvin G. Sperry, 45, former railroad engineer from Ironton Ohio, chairs the national group. Membership costs 2 dollars with 25 cents monthly dues. commissions disqualify applicants. The plan sets up town legions to elect delegates for state and national conventions, with a Washington meeting planned to formalize a permanent organization. The group denounces government inaction since demobilization and pressures Congress in its upcoming session.
National Geographic reports the sixth expedition led by Prof. Robert F. Griggs has arrived at Kodigksland near Mount Katmai to study the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The team, including chemists and a petrographer, will search for helium and document the volcanic area surrounding Katmai National Monument, formed after the 1912 eruption.
Maj. Gen. George O. Squier announces discovery that growing trees can serve as natural antennae for radio and telegraph. A metallic contact lets dispatches be sent worldwide and voice be transmitted over tree to tree lines. Tests have reached three miles near Washington. Floragrams and floraphone floragraph terms introduced.
The government plans a large roundup of craft deserters to be tried and punished swiftly. The Provost Marshal General will complete final separation of deserters within three weeks, reporting to the Adjutant General. Delinquents are split into 15 classes. in 14 cases the charge may be canceled if justified. The 15th is the true list of those without any excuse or reason found.
Green's August Flower has been a popular household remedy for constipation indigestion liver troubles and low spirits for decades. The ad proclaims it eases nervous dyspepsia headaches heart palpitations and related symptoms with a few doses as a gentle laxative sold worldwide by druggists.
Animal diseases including hog cholera and foot and mouth disease cost farmers and the public enormous sums each year. Agricultural leaders say the fight is effective and farmers will eventually recover about 200 million dollars lost annually.
An advertisement extols Cuticura for sore hands advising soaking in hot suds with Cuticura Soap, drying, rubbing in Cuticura Ointment, and removing excess with tissue. It claims Soap Ointment and Talcum serve all toilet needs.
In Dublin Pat dines in a top hotel choosing the best and most costly menu items. When asked for the bill he jokes he will pay with a pearl found in oysters, then exits moodily after failing to find one.
In Coblenz observers recount American soldiers of occupation offering seats in crowded cars and yielding shop entrances to women. The chronicler notes this courtesy contrasts with wartime roughness and calls their conduct a surprising memory of gentler times.
A sailor named Pat asks for leave to visit his wife as the ship anchors in Dublin bay. The officer angrily questions the request, recalling a prior burial of Pat’s wife and suggesting the time gap relates to a previous voyage.
The statement notes that a trusted companion often treats their own needs as higher priority than that of others, implying strain on personal loyalty and reciprocity in friendship. It suggests self focus can erode reliability and care in close relationships.
Mary Ellen, three, enjoys Easter gifts including a new hat. She adores Aunt Grace and, after a playful threat from Aunt Ruth about returning a dress for Virginia, Mary Ellen calmly reassures everyone with a shout of affection and insists nothing will be returned.
Elizabeth questions cooperation while getting her hair curled and notices the effort it takes. She blurts that people should cooperate in everything they do including making curls, and both she and her mother strive to cooperate as she blinks away tears.
A remark notes that some girls view every bachelor they know as a potential spouse, reflecting social attitudes toward marriage and dating among young women.
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