On the Wrong Track in Plesiosaur Debate
The article questions Buenos Aires scientists plans to hunt or capture Plesiosaurus specimens in a distant lake, arguing for preservation over destruction. It compares conservation to past buffalo recovery and urges live capture or containment for study, suggesting speculative baby monsters may exist nearby. It also touches on political removals and efficiency in government bureaus.
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Buenos Aires
Andes
Iowa
National Zoo
Papa
Mamme
Chicago
Washington bureau shakeup amid 28 dismissals
A Washington correspondent notes the recent shakeup in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing that dismissed 28 chiefs. The piece argues the removals were not politically motivated by the Harding administration and cites Republican concerns over neglecting wartime victors. The author suggests details will clarify the situation.
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Wilmeth
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Njanos Hag
Washington
Harding
Bread Cast On the Waters Returns in Iowa
A kansas-like column praises progress among Iowa Indian (Tama) in Tama Reservation under home missionary efforts. It credits Presbyterian and United Presbyterian agencies for teaching language, industry, and female skills, signaling moral regeneration and development. References to Miss Robertson and Ruth hint at political life and baseball box scores, ending with anticipation of school maams leaving.
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Lowa
Iowa
America
Saca
Foxes
Tama
Tama Reservation
Home Missionary Societies
Presbyterian
United Presbyterian Churches
Home Missionary" Department of Religious Endeavor
Feminine hobbies urged for elderly women in health talk
Health Talk by Dr Hober encourages elderly women to pursue hobbies beyond knitting and visiting relatives. He shares a humorous example of a mother-in-law who visits four sons-in-law yearly, noting how hobbies can influence family life and social roles. He advises choosing a hobby that leaves a constructive, neighborly impact and promises a future example.
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George
Mary
Ona
Toamorrow
Friend Wife
Imogene refuses to invite a woman she dislikes to a picnic and clashes with Andrew about envy and superiority. He argues envy signals inferiority while she vows to prove she can attract attention and drive the car herself, defying his judgment.
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Imogene
Andrew
Pam
Tance
Tam
Tansy
Burroughs Nature Club Notes
Short column invites questions on nature topics from readers. It directs inquiries to the Nature Notes Center of this paper and promises answers in the column, explaining the publication's focus on natural history and local club notes.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Witflin CO
Nature Notes
Unrivalled Shama thrush questions and notes
A reader asks if the Shama thrush is unrivalled as a songbird and whether all are bobtailed, followed by scattered Q A on botany and wildlife including wilted flowers, walnut worm prevention, a webbed pest, and a late summer finding. The piece references nocturnal behavior, crocodiles as reptiles, crow lifespan, and a Des Moines News note on Britain's war debt interest.
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John Bule
Des Moines
Great Britain
America
Brain Tests by Sam Loyd
Puzzle column presents a Loyd brain teaser with incomplete sentences and numeric sequences. Readers are asked to fill blanks using added words and to solve cryptic phrases such as decapitated items and largest possible piles.
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Sam Loyd
Abe Martin acquitted in Swallow court drama
Abe Martin Hoottegger Ike Mopps was acquitted in Squire Marsh Swallow's court today as the evidence was deemed unreliable. The audience in the vaudeville theater was left with an unusually cold hush after the scene.
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Ike Mopps
Squire Marsh Swallow
The Daffodil Murder Chapter Clues Unfold in London
Detective Tarling probes the daffodil murder linking Thornton Lyne to Odette Rider. In hospital, Odette learns she is a suspect yet seeks truth as revelations pin clues to a flat and a revolver. Dr Saunders confirms alibi timing, aiding Odette’s claim of innocence.
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Taeling
Joe Tarling
Scotland Yard
Whiteside
Mr. King
Tarling Quick
Ojetts Rider
Lyne
Thornton Lyne
Jayne
Allis Hider
Miss Rider
London
Mather
Odette Rider
Misa Stevens
Arling
Tarlings
Mr. Tarling
Nis Valet
Hyde Park
Lato
Mies Rider
Srime
Yarling
II Land
Thornton
Odette
Someboady
Thorn
Ton Lyne
Muuriter
Girip
Donrtort
Mias Stevens
Morning Globe
Parling
Ghetté Rider
Miss Stevens
Dr. Saunders
Cariing
Nol
Saunders
Farling
Dr. Saunbers
Charing Cross
AT EVENSONG By Frank L. Stanton Poem Fragment
A fragmentary poem by Frank L. Stanton contemplates love, mortality, and spiritual longing as verses drift between earthly tenderness and eternal realms. The text also includes a humorous remark attributed to Brother Williams about people making trouble for themselves.
Tow a Editors Jet s Have It Over With
Knoxville Express urges dissatisfied voters to nominate wet candidates for Iowa legislature. It argues prohibition reflected legislative action against popular will and warns of disappointment. Marshalltown Times-Republican notes unions back a candidate who pledges lower railroad rates to farmers, predicting disillusionment.
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Knoxville Express
Iowa
Marshalltown
Pinkham's Compound Tops Women's Remedies Sales
The Druggist does not stock Pinkham's Compound but sells it. In 1920 about 3,000,000 bottles were shipped from the Lynn Massachusetts factory with branches in Canada and Mexico. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claims the largest sale for women's ailments as women increasingly trust its herbal mix.
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Pinkham
Lynn
Massachusetts
Canada
Mexico
Lydia E. Pinkham
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