A Feminine Experiment and A Warning Needed
A column discusses Bishop Fallows critique of women in the workforce and the wartime shift of women into industry. It analyzes independence, marriage, and potential long term effects on family life, urging consideration of societal choices and future consequences. It follows with a aviation disaster commentary, stressing the need for reliable storm advisories and safer navigation to prevent future air tragedies.
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Bishop Fellows
Chicago
Bishop Fallows
Dr. Fallows
Lttle
Europe
England
Canada
America
Scotland
Falcons
Daid
Iowa
Sweden Pioneers Forest Stewardship and Timber Craft
The article praises Sweden for protecting and efficiently using forests with full replanting, minimal waste, and precise timbering practices. It contrasts Swedish methods with American logging, urges forest preservation, and notes skepticism about early airplane forecasts and public acceptance.
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Sweden
Sam
Mil
England
America
Health Talks by John Al Huber on bread and obesity
A health columns piece discusses bread as a fattening factor and its link to skin ailments, advising moderation and better baking. It includes Q and A on corns and calluses, treatment steps, obesity diet guidance, and a young man with a head twitch seeking advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John AL Huber
Federat
Digestive trouble and cure attempts in health Q&A notes
A health talk column answers reader questions on digestive troubles, causes of tongue impressions, and a request for the correct medical name for a condition. It also recounts previous notes on skunk spray range, minnows in pools after rain, and the bob-white life expectancy with mention of tracking via aluminum anklets for long-term study.
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Maryland
Nanine Ture
American Bird Banding Association
Nature Notes Dept Seeks Questions for Answers Column
Readers are invited to send questions of general interest to the Nature Notes Department of this paper for answers in the column. The notice encourages inquiries on nature subjects and promises responses in future issues.
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Nature Notes
MEMORY'S LAND Echoes and prayers in a mist-wreathed scene
A fragmented poem recalls bannered skies and morning melodies while a river and meadows welcome. The speaker muses on love, God, and distant echoes from mountains, ending with a humorous note about sermonizing hell being distant and perhaps unnecessary. The piece blends nostalgic imagery with rural life and a quirky regional voice.
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Sumer
Blues team fears and yellow peril rhetoric in press
A fragmentary note questions a ball team named the Blues and reflects on wartime fear of Japan. It comments that Japan would risk suicide to go to war with the United States, notes no desire for bari-kari, and condemns persistent yellow peril talk by the yellow press. It also mocks the League of Nations meddling in various local conflicts from Silesia to Mingo County and Tulsa.
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Japan
United States
Yellow
League of Nations
Mingo County
Tulsa
Okla
Afterthoughts and Opinions in a Fragmented Header
A jumble of aphorisms and quips notes wisdom after events and the difficulty of arousing interest in foreign films. It cites a Mexican radical on Bolshevism and mentions communists debating funds at entry ports, with stray lines about philosophy and laughter.
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Russia
Commonwealth
Execution of Estate Widows Widow Executor
The widow becomes executor of the estate. I visited the Longfellow home in Cambridge. That man is the person to whom I referred. He was afraid of the law. The Carnegie hero commission should remember Buster the shaggy dog of Oelwein who saved a boy from drowning. Kansas City base
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Longfellow
Cambridge
Race J Coe Eressman
Job
Carnegie Heroy Commission
Buster
Shaggy Dog
Oelwein
Kangaroo Work Shift Confusion Stuns Readers
A fragment from a 19th century style item notes a hiring swap as two are let go and one is hired. The quote mocks a tall tale about a kangaroo and eight horses in a parade, attributed to Jon Larkt'dax, suggesting satirical local commentary.
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Gireus Perade
Jon Larkt
Dax
Brain Tests by Sam Loud
The excerpt describes a baseball game between the Giants and the Dwarfs. After eight innings no runs were scored, and the final score at the end of the ninth inning was 4 to 2. The Giants won the game 4 to 2.
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Sam Loud
Giants
Dwarfs
Ambitious Fraud Thriller Seeks Yacht Cruise Heist
Silay Gyde is murdered by criminals posing as anarchists, leaving a vast 386 million estate to Jack Norman who pretends to be Gyde's heir with a plan to exact revenge. He hires a trusted actor, staging a defiant offshore cruise aboard the Columbian, while a nurse and a watchdog foil a scene with a former lover and a wary gang. The machinations unfold aboard the sleek vessel as Norman schemes to unmask the criminals.
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Silay Gyde
Jack Norman
Jack
Bobo
Gyde
Miriam Culbreth
Mr.b Dder
Bebo
Baldwin
Connolly
Beatrice Blackstone
Silas Gyde
Lot Yacht Brokers
Lea
Honaire
Robinson
John Farrow Norman
Norman
Bie
Charleston
Jacksonville
Nassau
Havana
Madagascar
Miriam
Cruise
Law
la Aressing Tedle
Lizzie Regan
Bac
Hugh
Brome
Hugh Brome
Tape measure thoughts stir gendered humor in Side Talks
A humorous ramble uses a tape measure as a metaphor for ideas and gendered reading habits. The narrator jokes about masculine and feminine readers, pondering why rape measures were not designed to be symmetrical, reflecting dated tones and provocative punchlines.
Courts Grind Fine as Iowa Executes Murderers
Iowa editors note a recent spike in death sentences, praising courts for a method they say will curb crime. The Mason City Globe-Gazette questions change in moral tone among mothers-in-law and editors. The Marshalltown Times-Republican predicts tax changes will force more revenue.
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Waukon Republican and Standard
Iowa
Mason City Globe-Gazette
Marshalltown Times-Republican
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