Old St George Church in London Linked to Dickens Tales
The old parish church of St George the Martyr in London attracts many visitors due to its Dickens connections. Historically the bell rang for fires and apprentices home, and its crypt is tied to hangings at King’s Bend prison including Richard Banks who briefly revived after a first execution. The current church dates to 1784 on the site of the original.
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St. George the Martyr
London
Charles Dickens
King's Bend Prison
St. George's Crypt
Richard Banks
Lawyer Fails to Grasp Witness Name in Court
In a courtroom exchange a lawyer asks a witness for his name. The witness spells it aloud as O d o u b l e d w e l l o w 4, provoking laughter before the attorney learns the name is Ottiwell Woodd.
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Ottiwell Woodd
The Fixed Simper: A Smiling Face of Constant Cheer
A Fayette Journal and Courier note observes a girl who paints a perpetual cheerful smile each morning. Her sunlit expression remains intact all day, and the piece muses on what might happen if that smile ever slips, preferring a fixed grin to a scowl despite its rigidity.
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Fayette
Cultivating Gracefulness as Royal Court Duty
The article recalls how European princesses learned social tact to hold influential roles. Empress Augusta of Germany, grandmother to the last German emperor, trained in gracious rounds through Weimar palace gardens. Under a governess, she greeted each court figure with a smile and polite remark during garden strolls.
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Augusta
Germany
Weimar
Mazers and Measles Draw Collectors of Fine Wooden Bowls
Wealthy collectors show rising interest in Mazers or Measles old wooden drinking bowls. Some bowls fetch up to 50 000 dollars, with rare good condition and pedigree commanding high prices. The term derives from a German word meaning goat, reflecting the bowls’ maplewood spotted patterns.
Classified: High Bids Sought for Jack Rabbit and Raw Furs
Wanted millions of jack rabbit domestic rabbit and other raw furs. Valanda Fur Co. offers highest prices at 2131 Western Ave Seattle. For sale five dozen White Wyandotte hens. Milied cows for sale or trade. Phone 182 Ralph McEwen Athena.
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Valanda Fur Co
Western Ave
Seattle
Ralph McEwen
Athena
Coal arrives in Athena easing fuel famine in 1906
The first carload of coal to reach Athena in weeks arrived via the O R N bound for C A Barrett & Co. Barrett bought it in Portland to relieve the fuel shortage. Other notes include local social events, business ventures, and upcoming harvest machinery developments.
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Athena
C. A. Barrett & Co
Barrett
Portland
Col. Wood
Weston
Boyd
Austin Foss
Maud Gholson
Musgrove Mercantile Company
Benjamin Dupuis
Weston Grocer
Lillian O’harra
Walla Walla
Wilson
E. P. Dodd
Pendleton Tribune
J. H. Mitchell
Dave
Stone
Della Maloney
Roy Tompkins
Worthington
Preston
Kidder
Hermiston
Fred Pinkerton
Charles Gay
Will M. Peterson
Referee FitzGerald
Pendleton
William Smith
Baker County
Freewater
Supreme Court
Farmers Line No
A. L. Swaggart
J. M. Hays
J M. Swagegart
Joseph Key
Amiel Shubert
Alex Johnson
Thorp Bros
Pirates and a bell from a wrecked ship tied to Dead Man’s Chest
A Caribbean pirate song claim links the refrain "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest" to buccaneers who haunted the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. A Chilean church bell bears the same inscription from a 1722 wreck, placing pirates in a broader Pacific chase during that era.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Caribbean Sea
Dead Man's Chest
Virgin Group
Dead Chest Island
West Indies
Pacific
Odd Forms of Prayer for Parching Fields
Countries enact varied drought remedies. The Chinese parade a dragon god and beat him for rain neglect. Bantus at Delagoa Bay sing at dry wells and carry twin mothers’ children around fields. In Greece children march wells led by a flowered girl. In Yugoslavia a girl Dodora, garlanded, leads villagers as houses pour water on her while singing of rain arriving though distant.
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Delagoa Bay
Greece
Yugo Slavia
Dodora
Traveling Stones of Nevada Travel in Groups
Pebble to six inch stones found in a flat Nevada region roll toward a central point when placed within a few feet of each other. A stone moved 344 feet instantly joins the group upon release. Basins in the barren landscape cradle the rolling stones whose behavior likely stems from lodestone or magnetic iron ore.
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Nevada
When the old lady is gone Junior will get quite a sum
A six year old receives a quarter from his grandmother who visits him then departs before nightfall. The boy, hearing talk of money after the old lady’s death, asks in awe if she dies. The scene captures a cautious moment amid looming loss and family finances.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Volta Prize Funds Bell for Deaf Knowledge Bureau
Volta mission from the Volta Bureau awarded Bell 50,000 francs for the telephone achievement. Bell added other funds to establish the Volta Bureau to increase and diffuse knowledge about the deaf. The bureau annually prints and distributes leaflets aiding the hard of hearing and parents of deaf children.
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Volta
Napoleon
France
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
Global Earth Tide Causes Vast Crustal Bulge
The earth’s crust rises and falls with lunar and solar gravity like ocean tides. Measurements prove difficult but the tide exerts pressure on crust, producing observable bulges. Atlantic tides are linked to a bulge about SW miles from shore, suggesting a global influence.
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Old London
Mazers
C. M. Jones
Athena Leather Shop
Chippewa and Trade Builder
Perry Hall
Oregon
Foley
Cleve Myers
Rovers of
Steve’s Grocery
W. G. Cowan
W. Boyd Whyte
Stangier Building
Attorneys-At-Law
Main Street
The
Athena Hotel
Laura Froome
J. L. Geyer
Post Building
Volta Bureau
Bell & Venable
Earth’s
Jensens
Blacksmith
Conoco Gasoline
Bryce Baker
the Kilgore Cafe
Gerald Kilgore
A. W. Logsdon
Main
the Lumber
Turn-A-Lum Lumber Co
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