Alpine Avalanche urges balance between faith and progress
The Alpine Avalanche prints a broad advocacy piece arguing religion is enduring and should not be suppressed by dictatorial trends while noting the impracticality of war financing. It discusses Native American tribal medicine men in Wisconsin and the challenge for white doctors to gain trust amid superstition, urging gradual education to replace superstition with science.
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Alpine Avalanche
Brewster County
Davis Mountain
Big Bend
Elmarls
Sabane
Caet
Goa
Mela
Wiscons
Mason-Dixon Line in Colonial Boundary History
Fragmentary note discusses the Mason-Dixon Line as the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It covers the 17th century dispute between William Penn and Lord Baltimore, the long conflict, and the 1763 assignment of surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to establish the line with milestones marking the boundary.
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Mason and Dixon
Pennsylvania
Mary
Land
Walliam Penn
Lord Baltimore
Charles Mason
Jeremiah Dixon
Oun
de Dinos
Taowon Mors
Su Crete
What a War Costs and the 400 Billion Figure
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University frames World War expenses as 400 billion dollars. He argues this sum could have funded a 2400 dollar house for every family across major nations, with furnishings and land, illustrating the war’s vast price and global reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
United States
Canada
Australia
Endiard
Walon
Ueland
Scotland
Prence
Belgium
Germany
Russia
Holding Crimnals and Prisons Seek Tougher Cells
Describes escape risks from prisons due to weak equipment and staffing. Notes federal move to steel tool proof cells at Lewisburg Penitentiary to prevent smuggling and tampering. Urges best available equipment and heightened vigilance to reduce escapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewisburg
Toca
A Bishop's Story of Faith Across Seas
Bishop Bartlett of the Episcopal church recounts two Chinese students in America. A girl converts in her homeland, faces race prejudice in a local school, renounces Christianity, and returns to China. A boy is befriended by an American family in Charleston, becomes Christian, and returns home.
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Bishop Bartlett
Episcopal Church
America
United States
China
Charleston
Chiang Kai Shek
Kung Hsiang Hsi
Soong Ts Vung
Quick Witted Jokes and Oddities in a Town Riddle
A string of brief, humorous vignettes and witticisms spans jobs, family, schooling, and daily life. From a fast worker applicant to a cheeky bishop ending his radio sermon with a punchline, the piece sketches quirky exchanges, light satire, and abrupt moral quips in a nostalgic local paper tone.
Valuable quilt pattern collection given to museum
A donor from Austin has gifted the West Texas Museum on the Sul Ross Campus a hundred historic quilt patterns selected to reflect Southwestern Pioneer life. The set will be displayed on compact vertical racks, with another hundred sent to the State Museum in Austin.
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Austin
West Texas Museum
Sul Ross
Morgan T. Smith
Buick Sales Rise In Flint April Two Weeks
Domestic retail deliveries of Buick cars in the second ten days of April reached 7214, up from 7400 in the first ten days and higher than last year's period. W. F. Hufstader cited strong physical delivery, rising unfilled orders totaling 21,487 on April 20, with shipments in transit expected to trim orders and boost late-month totals. Buick and GM plants maintained about 1200 cars daily, with schedules aiming higher. Used car stocks did not increase, indicating stronger turnover.
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Flint
Mich
Buick
W. F. Hufstader
Hufstader
General Motors
Los Angeles
Stranger demands rats in awkward Alpine scene
A fragment describes a tense encounter where a stranger commands hammer and block of wood and Silas presents objects while declaring Now. An Alpine girl is depicted as so proper she would not accompany a young man to the piano without a chaperone.
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Silas Brown
Silas
Finner
Plano
Home Folks Trade At Home Advertise In Tiv Home Paper
An ad style notice urges readers to place trade notices in the local home paper. The fragment emphasizes at home advertising to reach nearby readers and sellers.
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Tiv
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