Monsters Lost to Screens Decline in Modern Horror
An essay argues that modern cinema and television dull our fear by showing monsters, replacing imagination with visuals. It contrasts old unseen, shadowy threats with today’s explicit creatures, noting nightmares arise from unseen presence rather than on screen display.
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Outer Space
Planet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Henry James
Television
The Two Temples Poem of Builder and Teacher
A builder crafts a grand temple with grace and skill and praise for lasting fame. A teacher builds a temple unseen by ages, planning arches with patience and laying stones with prayer, yet few acknowledge her enduring work.
Wisdom and wit from a century of quips and quotes
A collage of humorous lines and aphorisms touching budgeting, marriage, progress, and ordinary life. It juxtaposes playful riffs about limes, temples, and lighthouses with reflections on aging, success, and media, capturing a zany, period voice. The piece closes with a critique of television as a controversial commercial matter.
Local neighbors share Sunday visit and family gatherings
BM Stephens and Arvel Davis hosted a visit for C D Gentry of Stratford with spouses and extended family at their home. The item lists multiple weekend activities, casual greetings, a boatload of small town anecdotes, and notes on family get togethers including visits from Mrs Bessie Gentry of Ada and other local residents across Stonewall and Ada.
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John Coventon
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Jim Roundjee
Barbara Jane
Dub Guest
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Norman
Paul Morrison
Dew Higdon
Stonewall
Billy R. Rushing
Naval Air Station
San Diego
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Rushings
Bessie Gentry
Ada Visit
Willie
Florence Isaacs
Doyle Duncan
Atwood
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Alfred Pennington and Sons
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Curt Rosson
Leaders Across Ages: Moses Joshua and Modern Roles
The piece argues leaders are needed in any group from nations to clubs and uses Moses and Joshua as examples. It notes that great leaders pass on work without replicating themselves, calls for a balance between continuity and change, and highlights three core traits: resolved action, courage, and unwavering faith.
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Canaan
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Moses
Joshua
Israel
David
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Lincoln
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Parish Chapel News and Community Notes
Parish Chapel News highlights visits among Tucker, Dryden, Carson and Law families. Local social events include birthday dinners, slumber parties, church attendance at Oil Center, and revival by Bro. Eastep. Glenda Hofmann from Ada returns, plans summer study, and many locals attend picnics, dinners, and church services across Ada, Stratford, Vanoss, and Gaar Corner.
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Oil Center
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Eastep
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Ada
W. N. Isaacs
Clore Wood
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East Central State Teachers College
Chicago
Hidden Things and the Price of Perception
The excerpt contrasts sympathy for secondary figures with the unsolved puzzle of Things. It argues that truly valuable things are invisible and not free, suggesting a critique of superficial heroism and the costs of exposure or access. The tone remains reflective and critical, highlighting a paradox between desire and invisibility.
Understanding Divorce Annulment and Separate Decree Concepts
The article explains divorce ends a valid marriage due to grounds like desertion or cruelty. An annulment declares no valid marriage ever existed due to fraud or impediments. It also notes divorce from bed and board as a legal separation with possible property division and support.
Marriages in 1951 Wichita and Ada Notables
Gene Harley Phillips 18 Roft weds Linda Ann Williams 16 Cement. James David Lille 71 Ada weds Loretta Jean Webster 19 Ada. Dwane Crawford of Arapaho weds Eula Rayburn in Ada. Wichita endures record hailstorm of 1951 causing about 14 million dollars in property damage.
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Cement
James David Lille
Ada
Loretta Jean Webster
Dwane Crawford
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Fourth Thursday feasts mark winter meetings for members
During the winter months they meet and have their feast at night on the fourth Thursday night in each month. At these gatherings all members are welcome to bring their basket lunch and join them.
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