Greene County Couple Build a $10,000 Church Building Alone
Woodville Georgia March 21 The new Baptist church at Woodville costing about ten thousand dollars is completed and will be dedicated on the fifth Sunday in March Dr D W Key of Monroe Georgia will preach the sermon The former pastor has been invited to preside over the exercises Mr and Mrs W P McWhorter are honored for financing the church in a noble deed of a noble couple Ithaca New York March 21 A group of star wrestlers from leading eastern colleges gathered at Cornell to contest the Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships over two days Princeton Pennsylvania Cornell Columbia and Lehigh are represented Cornell holds the current title Regular Boarders Wanted Service and price right Hotel Sangest
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Woodville
New Baptist Church
D. W. Key
Monroe
Cornell University
Intercollegiate Wrestling Association
Princeton
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Columbia
Lehigh
PROFILE ROCKS AND BAD LANDS SHAPE MODERN VIEW
In the southwestern United States travelers note rock faces resembling human faces suggesting ancient sculpture. Pleasant Park in southern Colorado features a large likeness with defined facial features while the Bad Lands of South Dakota showcase wind sculpted rock formations from a once flat sea floor. The area spans hundreds of square miles as remnants of the ancient plateau and offers striking natural architecture.
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Unite States
Mexico
Peru
Pleasant Park
Colorado
South Dakota
United States
Nebraska
North Dakota
Greenwich Meridian Stone Hidden In Plain Sight
Thousands tread a groove in a stone slab on the Greenwich observatory grounds unknowingly crossing the Greenwich meridian line that marks the prime longitude. The line crosses a public footpath and the inscribed words have faded, leaving many visitors unaware of the historic marker.
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Greenwich Observatory
England
RUSSIAN NEW YEAR GAMES AND SUPERSTITIONS
The piece notes curious New Year customs in Russia. Single people ask passersby for names they will marry. A dish game reveals fates through drawn trinkets and verses. In some provinces people visit in masks.
Powder in the Deep Sea
The article notes a sea bed layer beneath 6000 meters holds a fine powder of shell and micro-organism remains. It cites Harper's Weekly estimating each cubic centimeter of ocean mud contains ten billion organisms, each as individual as a human body.
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Harper's Weekly
Evolution of plus and minus signs in early writing
Harper's Weekly explains how the plus sign originated from the Latin plus abbreviated to P, later degenerating into a cross. The minus sign began as a small horizontal stroke beneath letters in pre eighteenth century books and gradually evolved to the standalone symbol we use today.
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Harper's Weekly
Roman Bones Unearthed In Chester Infirmary Expansion
Excavations at Chester infirmary field reveal Roman era graves from the twentieth legion rather than plague victims. Finds include a plastered tomb, bronzed coins of Antonius, Pius and Commodus, tiled floors, a V shaped trough grave, and shallow trench burials showing distinct roman burial practices.
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Chester
England
Chester Infirmary
Robert Newstead
Antonius
Pius
Commodus
Styx
Charon
Paris Mouchoir Bracelet and Tidally Fattened Cod Pond
The piece describes Paris mouchoir bracelets with a tiny gold clip for handkerchiefs, then shifts to Logan by the Mull of Gallo way where a tidal saltwater pond holds cod fish. Cod are fed daily by a keeper, become tame, and some four feet long, lifted from water, are served for table, claimed better than sea fish.
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Logan
Mull of
Galloway
Minstrel Leader Opposes Tobacco On Stage
George Evans and his Honey Boy Minstrels at the Colonial on Monday March 31 reveal Evans’s strong stance against tobacco. Once famed for a smoking routine, he now bans cigarette use, even warning dismissal to any performer seen with coffin nails. Youths who once smoked cigarettes now favor cigars, reflecting a shift in habits.
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George Evans
George “Honey Boy” Evans
Honey Boy
Hot Springs Liver Buttons Claim Gentle Constipation Relief
An advertisement from Hot Springs Arkansas promotes HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS as a gentle cure for constipation headaches dizziness and biliousness. The copy claims the liver’s health controls overall wellness and warns against harsh calomel purgatives. It notes availability from druggists and physicians and offers a sample for 25 cents.
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HOT Springs
America
Hot Springs ‘Chemical Co
Hot Springs, Ark
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Wingfield
the Shop OF Quality
Greene County
Baptists
W. P. McWhorter
Ithaca, N. Y
Sangest
THE
Athens Savings Bank
Unding
M. Stern, Prest. T. S. Mell
Deupree
Hunnicutt
Aaron Cohen
M. G. Michael
W. T. Bryan JR
A. Hunnicutt
Edwards
U. A. Mell
America’s
Paris
Titus, GA
D. L. Burrell
Foley
Kansas
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