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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
10
Miss Virginia Hylan daughter of New York Mayor Hylan will marry John Sinnott who serves as the mayor's secretary in a forthcoming ceremony.
The piece traces Detroit’s varied titles from You-do-te-ga to Wa-we-a tun-ong and Fort Pontchartrain, noting brief usages like Tuechsa Grondle and Karow-ta-en before the city settled on Detroit. It states the current name was adopted when the settlement became a town 116 years ago, per Polk’s Detroit directory.
A Detroit Free Press humorous snippet shows an interviewer testing a youth applying as a clerk. The candidate’s credentials are deemed satisfactory after a financier paid the youth, and the interviewer jokes about relatives likely to die during the 1918-19 football season before granting starting work the next day.
Jane Fithian, daughter of a mathematics professor, navigates love as Branham Riker and Clement Lea vie for her. After a late football game ends in Warren’s victory and a coach’s injury, Jane schemes to secure an engagement ring from Lea as she faces a looming marriage proposal from a dominant suitor. Lea searches for an jewelry shop to seal the engagement.
Prof. W S Ferguson of Harvard details a three deck Syracusan ship with 20 banks of oars, a crew of 300 sailors and 600 marines. It could carry 110000 bushels of wheat and other goods, and boasted a gymnasium, bath, lounges, gardens, mosaics, and defensive engines.
A sharp critique of those who chase hidden causes and complex theories instead of straightforward explanations. The author likens such minds to Berkshire misers delaying truth and praises the steady, common sense path as the true road to understanding.
In Seattle the Manufacturers' association shows a clock built into a hollow Douglas fir log section about 250 years old. The log dial houses the clock with a dial over three and a half feet in diameter and a minute hand exceeding four feet in length, drawing curious attention from observers.
Chinese porcelain embodies national ideals and symbolic uses akin to medieval stained glass. Palissy and Wedgewood mark a rival European stage only after China’s finest wares set a high standard in porcelain craft.
After years near Windom Minnesota the Marcy family seeks better land for six boys. A cross country tour finally leads O S Marcy to an Alberta farm, bought after seeing thriving four year old steers in Edmonton. Mrs Marcy plans to join him and the six sons will follow.
A brief humorous remark contrasts loyalty with appearance as a confidant jokes about Mr. Jones declaring he would die for someone, but his baldness is presented as a counterpoint to the offer. The line reflects light banter likely from a society page or comic column.
Thousands of women suffer kidney or bladder trouble and many mistakes for other illnesses. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claims to restore kidney health and offers sample bottles by mail to readers with a ten cent stamp. Medium and large bottles available at drug stores.
A proverb signals that prudence should guide behavior but law enforcement may employ force when needed. The remark reflects tension between restraint and enforcement in policing.
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