Red Cross Remembered in War Memories Tribute
A World War veteran Frank A Holden of Athens Georgia praises the American Red Cross in a dedicatory foreword to his War Memories He lauds the Red Cross presence from embarkation to battlefield relief and postwar care noting its enduring light in peace and war and the ongoing work to sustain its ideals.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
Courier
Frank A. Holden
Athens
328Th Infantry
82Nd
Holden
Notice of Appointment of Receiver by Ripley Circuit Court
The un dersigned has been appointed by the Ripley Circuit Court as Receiver for Alfred C. Foerster. All accounts owing to Foerster should be paid to the receiver Batesville Bank Receiver. E C Timmermann Manager Trust Department.
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Ripley
Alfred C. Foerster
Foerster
Batesville Bank
E. C. Timmermann
Moral and Immoral Life by Charles Wagner
The passage argues that dedicating life to appetites strengthens them until they control the person eroding moral sense and energy. Moral life means self governance while immoral life means being ruled by passions.
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Charles Wagner
Trap-Door Spider Nest Weaves Daily Camouflage
A description of the trap-door spider shows a net of fine gauze spread across its nest. The spider emerges at dusk, seals the entrance with silk, erects a long web, and rests. At dawn the web is dismantled and the spider vanishes until evening when the cycle repeats.
Must Be Worthy of Friendship in Everyday Life
A reflection on friendship as earned through living rightly. Being true to principles, acting for the common good, and striving for the best builds friendships that are meaningful and lasting.
Excellent Qualifications For A Steady Character
The guidance lists key traits for reliable conduct including good health truthfulness temperance industry courage and fortitude the latter described as the ability to bear pain and trouble without wavering.
Art and Artists Pref Luckie Devout Signature
A compact note elevates art as the highest form tied to religion and devotion, reflecting on the artist as a devout figure and the role of luck in creative reach.
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Pref
Luckie
Letitia Dawson Chooses Ambition Over Hired Girl Role
Letitia, a lifelong Dawson household worker, contemplates becoming a housekeeper and pursues advancement. She reveals plans to Tom Dawson, seeking a higher status, while he reveals his own dream of farming and proposes marriage. She writes a hopeful letter to Tom but later burns a book in the stove as the night deepens.
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Letitia
Dawsons
Mrs. Dawson
Grandu Dawson
Father Lawson
Tom
Samminson
Letty
Mr. Dawson
Mrs
Miss
Taawset Met Old Mult As It Was To Deliver, Mr. Dawson Sr.o
Tom Dawson
Fin
State College
Father
Dawson
Diversity of Eyes Across Animals
The article describes vast eye diversity from two in mammals to thousands in arthropods. It notes dragonflies with about 10 000 eyes, starfish and sea urchins with eyes on each ray tip, scallops along the mantle edge, and marine worms with cluster eyes along their bodies.
Largest Power Dam spans Mississippi River
The Keokuk dam across the Mississippi from Keokuk to Hamilton is described as the largest power dam in the world. It houses 15 turbine generators sending electric power to St. Louis 144 miles away and to Winox Iowa and Missouri. The 65 ton turbine wheel weighs four times as much as any before and will reach 80 [In p number and together will produce 200000 horsepower.
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Keokuk
Mississippi River
Hamilton
St. Louis
Winolx
Iowa
Missouri
Portable Oil Refinery On Mall Road Car
A Vexas gman invents a portable oil refinery mounted on a vehicle that can be moved easily from one oil field to another, enabling rapid deployment and operation across sites.
Real estate transfers throughout Batesville and surrounding townships
Property records show numerous transfers in Batesville, Johnson and Franklin counties. William Curran to Carrie Grierson et al 141.29 acres. Hillenbrand Co. to Batesville Cabinet Co. and vice versa. Edw J Vierling and others involving lots 217-219 and parcels in Batesville. D C Yater transactions in Center Jackson and Johnson Townships. many parcels exchanged for nominal sums. Several parcels include Jefferson County land. Commissioner Arch Connelly handles several entries.
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William Curran
Carrie Grierson
Franklin Co
J. Vierling
Hillenbrand Co
Batesville
Fred H. Belter
D. C. Yater
Willard S. Reed
Center
Jackson Tp
Amelia Brack
Albert Brack
Jand Batesville
Dorothy Beck
Hazel Taylor Pruis
Peter Lostutter
D. C
Thos. W. Laws
Delaware
Carl Schnitker
Batesville Bank
Adams
Michael F. Kohland
Casper Reidel
Celia Ellis
Albert
Amanda Thompson
Brown
Jefferson County
Ben A. Dirkhising
Mary Dirkhising
Pennsylvaniaburg
Reassuring Words from Proud Wife on George's Red Cross Work
A nervous friend hears reassurance from a wife who says she feels safe with George at the wheel now that he has joined the Red Cross. She notes he is learning first aid and knows hospital locations in London.
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George
Red Cross
London
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