Athena Press Paragraphs Reach Pendleton Neighborhood
Jackson Nelson visited Pon diston yesterday. Numerous local residents and visitors are listed with social and business movements including James Bell, Dr. Sharp, and Mrs. A. Meldrum. A significant crime report mentions Arnold's parole, and a rural school project highlights a new heating system for the Lamar district.
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Are
Jackson Nelson
Pondiston
Misa Ethel Johnson
Charles Stanton
Helix Liveryman
E. E. Koontz
M. L. Watta
Bingham Springs
Mise Linzio Shoard
Sheriff Till Taylor
W. P. Littlejohn
George
New Land Scrip Offered by Collins Land Company
Special act of Congress authorizes about 2000 votes of land scrip for Oregon. Described as best and cheapest scrip in years, with quick patent potential. Covers land subject to homestead entry from forty acres up, guaranteed validity, prompt action urged. Contact Collins Land Company, Helena Montana.
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Congress
Ose
Oregon
Collins Land Company
Helena
Montana
The Zero Mark Origin of the symbol for nothing
A compact history of the zero symbol from Hindu numerals through abacus use to its adoption as the digit for nothing. It traces the evolution from dot to circle, the translations by Fibonacci, Plaoudes, and Italian writers, and the term cipher in English and other languages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. R. Turner
Leonardo Fibonacci
Maximus Plaoudes
Cenero
Cenro
Custard Leaps and Civic Feasts in Old England
A fragmented note discusses custard or custad at English civic feasts of the past. It mentions a large central custard and a clown leaping into it during proceedings. Ben Jonson is cited for the phrase custard leap, linked to a sheriffs dinner and a humorous performance amid the attendees.
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Grace Johnson
Mia
Lamp Booker
Weat Weston
Scott & Walter
England
Ben Jonson
Indy
Revolutionary Cartoon Highlights Colonial Unity Amid Boston Troubles
The piece notes how the Boston unrest sparked by England tax measures drew sympathy across the colonies. It emphasizes a rattlesnake in sections symbolizing unity and the broader colonial mood during the pre Revolutionary period.
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England
Boston
Join or Die Used in Colonial Stamp Act Era Cartoons
Mass meetings and sermons denounced the mother country’s action. Newspapers printed crude cuts showing a rattlesnake with "Join or Die" or "Waite or Die." Some cartoons were by Paul Revere, a Boston jeweler and engraver. The rattlesnake symbol influenced earlier colonial troop flags during the stamp act excitement.
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Paul Revere
Boxton
Great Richmond Fourth Celebrations of 1700s Virginia
Southern notes describe 18th century Virginia Independence Day revels in Richmond with wealthy planters guests and lively diversions. A Pittsburgh source quotes a Richmond letter from July 6 1700 detailing massed dames and gentlemen, flower garden balconies, sparkling eyes, diamonds, chariots, rifles, and Virginia racehorses. The piece recalls a horse race won by a colorfully themed horse as citizens celebrated the new nation.
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Richmond
New England
Old Dominion
Virginia
Frank A. Wade
Pittsburgh
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Henry Keen
Stella Smith
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Harold Holt
Walla Walls
W. W. Jacobs
Round All Way
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Xi Wening
Athena
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Mrs. Furnish
Umatilla River
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Wm. Wagner
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Ruby Barnhart
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Matt Johnson
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A. H. Mclntyre
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Lexington
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