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Newspaper
Yerington Times
Location
Yerington, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1919
Page
6
Advertisement asserts Freezone quickly lifts corns and hard skin from feet with a few drops. It promises pink healthy skin afterward and no soreness. Includes unrelated quip about a photographer's jealous wife from a Boston Transcript snippet.
A fragment discusses modesty in a public display with a Palm Resort scene and a conversation about clothing. It contrasts old and new modesty and notes a girl in a white bathing dress. It also includes a brief quip about taxes funding ice cream and government revenue.
The piece argues home ownership boosts responsible citizenship and community stability. It links proprietor habits to taxes, voting for capable stewards, and stronger neighborhood life, claiming ownership raises self respect and moral civic partnership.
The article notes the value of crops produced by American school pupils in 1918 near 18 million dollars and details New York City’s year long garden program. It describes allotting 25 by 50 foot plots per pupil, 30 boys per acre, weekly work, board supervision, seed provision, and teacher guidance with crops turned over to students. The emphasis is on food value and educational experience for pupils.
A thrifty fence idea from Thrift Magazine praises low woven-wire borders with roses and clematis or a hedge using Japanese barberry. It promotes Japanese barberry as hardy and fast growing, warns against confusing it with native barberry, and notes a federal quarantine on the latter.
The appearance of a city is its chief asset and the tone of a city is shown by parks and well treed streets. Private initiative alone won’t ensure proper care and protection of street trees. municipal control through a dedicated department is urged.
A historical notice urges planting hardwood trees along Chicago highways and near residences with no shade. It promotes elm maple walnut oak hackberry sycamore and locust as long lived varieties to honor sailors and servicemen. The plan frames trees as a living memorial for those who served.
Official reports show the Signal Corps produced 26 000 miles of special telephone wire monthly at nearly 6 million dollars and built 96 000 miles of semi permanent French installations. Front line circuits required two outposts to deny enemy listening. France hosted 188 telegraph stations handling about 43 515 messages daily at war end.
Lady Muriel Paget arrives in Paris and outlines plans to train social workers to aid 7 million Czecho-Slovaks facing famine. She will establish relief headquarters at Pressburg to coordinate 16 Slovak committees providing food, clothing, and medical aid amid Hungarian tensions.
Vikins West Virginia Georg P Moore has served as postmaster at Edray Pocahontas county continuously for 68 years and plans to work ten to twenty more. He was appointed during Franklin Pierce’s presidency and continues despite other duties as merchant farmer and president of First National Bank Makinton. He also serves as pastor of the Southern Methodist church, delivering two sermons weekly.
In New York a session of the sale from the collection of the late Captain Beinkley and others realized 22,107 dollars in total, including 11,500 for a Lane Yao vase and 100 for a Lang Yao genre vase. The wholesale sale brought in 271,016 dollars overall.
Col Napier recounts a chaotic scene at the imperial headquarters where Rasputin confronted Grand Duke Nicholas. The grand duke threatened flogging or hanging Rasputin, claiming the only one bold enough to punish him.
A boy slips in a hay chute while retrieving cedar and becomes trapped with a horse nibbling nearby. After minutes of effort a farmer frees him by guiding the horse away and lifting the boy from the chute to safety.
A fragmentary reminiscence references Little Nell from a novel about a fourteen year old girl raised by a miserly grandfather. It notes her bleak days and solitary evenings ending with their ruin and burial near a country churchyard. The imprecise passage blends characters and outcomes in a nostalgic, damaged description.
A garbled passage discusses keeping cider sweet and preserving fruit in cans. It mentions the Unyard, racking from dregs, and avoiding premature fermentation. It then shifts to a literary aside about Vincent Barnard, Tisylvania, and John Burroughs Wake Robin describing a bird related scene.
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