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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
4
A long readerable school column reports class notes from 1B through 4B including teaching shortages, room sizes, and teacher changes. It highlights honor pupils, promotions, numbers of pupils, tardiness, and upcoming readers with student names and teacher references.
Fragmentary note shows officials at Otte te-883 St Franks by Jewel and Saunders-84 noting efforts to reduce the number of patients staying in the hospital each afternoon.
Residents report coal for the area and a bright outlook for the school year despite a late start. Will James returns from McKee Oklahoma, joined by cousin Omer Jones visiting. Chesley Brock recovers from a broken shoulder. Families Laws and Peeks join from Vinson and Wheeler. Mrs Osborn relocates near Vinson. Leonard Reeves buys land over the state line to move his house for better school access. A box supper on February 13 at the schoolhouse aims to fund state aid and future improvements. all welcome.
Mrs. Wilson Upton, 70, drove a Ford runabout from San Francisco to New York visiting key sites from Petrified Forest to Gettysburg. She met Ford officials at the main office, displayed a Ford check in the millions, plans to buy a new car on returning to Bakerfield California, and will dispose of her current car in Springfield Illinois.
The Wellington youths with bicycles form a club named the Texas Range Fisk Bicycle Club. They plan to boost good roads, meet Thursdays at president Price's home, discuss camping season, and seek to rent a clubhouse.
The writer travels with Xen Scott and others in a Ford machine from Randall to Cleveland. They praise its speed and endurance, noting it crossed low water with ease while a man in a boatless car struggled to crank through two feet of water, reciting the Lord's Prayer.
A quirky recipe feature discusses onions as flavoring vegetables in dishes such as onions with cheese and cream of onion soup. It notes onion salads and sandwiches and offers tips like parsley to absorb odor. The piece also mentions onion poultices and cough syrups, ending with a pitch for a life insurance contract from Mrs. J Strong Agency.
The article cites Scientific American claiming the average American walks about four miles in 24 hours. It estimates monthly and yearly totals, noting steady movement higher than forefathers and calculating 120 miles a month or 1 440 miles a year as the typical pace. It adds a playful note on a journey from New York to San Francisco in a bit over two years.
A fragmented poem fragment quotes Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting on youth love and fate. It speaks of leaving home for uncharted travel and a life on the road with danger and desire, invoking pilgrimage, battle, and the open road as destiny.
Recent experiments show a white rose bush can yield roses in various colors by watering the soil with dilute chemicals. Potash makes green blooms, alum yields lilac, and morlatic acid turns roses red. The blue rose has been achieved though the chemical is kept secret.
The article explains the shipboard time division with five four hour watches and two two hour watches. Starting at noon the sequence runs after noon watch 12 m to 4 p m dog watch 4 p m to 6 p m second dog watch 6 p m to 8 p m night watch 8 p m to 12 midnight middle watch 12 midnight to 4 a m forender watch 4 a m to 8 a m forendon watch 6 a m to noon.
Serbian women contribute a considerable share of labor and fame, weaving the homespun fabrics for their clothing. They are highly valued for their services, with some parents reluctant to see their daughters depart to other work or places.
The text blends odd observations about the thumb joint and independence with vague notes on hand anatomy and personality traits. It shifts to a garbled discussion of deep sea fishes described as black and ferocious, with references to darkness and phosphorescence.
Fragmentary text indicates a historical note or caption about hurried action and a referenced apography. No clear persons, places, dates, or events are legible to establish a factual item.
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