The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-06-19
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America is outdone! An Austrian girl won
the Galveston beauty contest prize.
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If education teaches the student how little
he really knows it will have accomplished it's
first purpose
Fate was against tobacco companies when
it had George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
born so early that their names can't be used
on cigarette ads.
Some one with a nasty disposition said that
the advantages are all with the fat lady because
when a shortsighted driver sees her coming he
may think she is truck.
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Students of the University of Miami go to
the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to study their
zoology lessons Many things have gone to the
bottom in Miami during the past few years.
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The trouble with lot of girls here and
there is that they look as though they had ap-
piled barn paint to their faces with one of these
new patent things that blows the paint on good
and thick.
A newspaper told about woman who had
Cleaned up fortune on get-rich- quck-scheme
by playing "dirty tricks upon her trusting
friends In the fact of that we get, a bit fused
when foreigners tell us that English is difficult
to learn because its words have so many mean
ings!
Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick's comment
that the cities are the real hick towns can in all
probability be verified by statistics. But what
it means is that they are more hick than the
smaller places mostly because they have more
room for hicks. Hickness never was matter
of geography; hick is hick, wherever he hap
pens to live.-Portland Oregonan
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st. Paul raised the salaries of its teachers
without taking care of the increase in it's budget
and now thirty Or more instructors must be
sacrificed to pay increased salaries of the Others
Unless st. Paul has unduly lavish in the matter
of extra teachers, it's public schools are going to
be seriously handicapped by the taking away
of thirty instructors. Some one has been guilty
of poor judgment Tor bad politics) and as is
usual in such cases, the innocent are the ones to
suffer.
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Redwood Falls has real menace in it's dust
problem. AS matter of health to its citizens,
especially to the children who are contantly out
of doors, matter of decrease of work for
its housewives, as matter of maintaining that
beauty of homes and ground which has long
been the aim of the city-all these things demand
that somebody grab hold of this monstrous "Dust
Beast" by both horns and Crack his neck for
EN-" We talk about this every year and moth
ing is done about it. It really is a bit distress
ing.
The recent school board election in Mime
apolis was disgusting exhibition of partisan
politics cracking the whip. While the results
of the election were satisfactory so far as the
people elected are concerned, it is impossible
that that sort of work could go on long without
disaster. If there is ever place in the whole
scheme of government where there should be no
democrat nor republican, no Catholic nor Pro-
testant, that place is in the election of members
of the board of education whether it be in Red
wood Falls or in Minneapolis.
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Recent figures must convince us despite the
size of the monthly bills that the cost of living
has gone down. We buy more luxuries than ever
before but the cost of food and the actual neces-
stiles does not hit the average family so hard
as it did in the disastrously high price period
shortly after the war. And the increase in
wages has more than kept pace with the cost of
living. 1t is true that for 81 in 1914 we now
pay $1.64, but it is also true that for every 81
in wages received in 1914 the wage Garner now
gets 1921. Frequently we bark back to the old
days when square meal at fair restaurant
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are restaurants today furnishing meal for IS
cents If we are broke" today, it is largely
because we overbuy on Injuries Duluth Herald.