Climb the Mountains and Gather Nature's Tidings
Poem-like excerpt attributes uplift to mountains and nature. The text speaks of nature’s peace sunlight and wind renewing energy, and waves fading as autumn leaves calm the soul. No specific dates, places, or people are provided.
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Joho Muir
Action and Words Express a Philosophy in Public Life
The phrase contrasts action with verbose philosophy, noting ideas reveal themselves through deeds rather than words. It suggests that real belief shows in public behavior and concrete outcomes rather than rhetoric.
Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On
A compact old column notes public demand for resolve and backbone to defend personal rights amid lingering colds. It frames the need for steady character and steadiness in civic duties during a season of illness and social contention.
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Backbone
The Candidate Image and the Weary Public
Irvin S. Cobb surveys a political campaign persona, mocking a boastful, affectionate, handshake-heavy candidate. He contrasts such theatrics with traffic danger and social behavior, then shifts to Hollywood fashion jibes and style icons, preserving his razor wit and period tone.
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Hollywood
America
Billy Gaxton
Bob Montgomery
Bob
Bing Crosby
Focal Boys
Irvin S. Cobb
Nu Service
Home of the Celt and Veneti People Referenced
The passage notes Britany’s ancient Celtic roots with Pliny's “Looking-on Peninsula” and Caesar’s mention of the Veneti fighting people on the southwestern seacoast. It asserts Brittany as the homeland of the Celt, surpassing Scotland Ireland and Wales in representing that ancient civilization.
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Brittany
Pliny
Atlantic
Caesar
Highlands
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
Europe
The Elephant Charlie Kills Ike Rosen at Hollywood Studio
The 1915 Universal lot tale of elephant Charlie turns killer after conflicts with Ike Rosen. Curley the trainer warns of danger as Charlie assaults the crew then dies in a staged execution using a heavy wire trap.
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the Rosen
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Squirrels as Forest Planters and Canton Island Map Notes
The article notes gray squirrels bury up to 10,000 nuts a season and claims many trees, especially hickories, originate from cached nuts. It also describes Canton Island as the Phoenix group’s main landmass, 2,700 miles north of New Zealand, located halfway between New Zealand and Honolulu, with an 8.5 square mile area and a navigable salt-water lagoon for small boats.
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Ernest Thompson Seton
Canton Island
New Zealand
South Pacific
Honolulu
Women in trade posts abroad boost US commerce
In a survey of women in public office the National League of Women Voters highlights Miss A. Viola Smith in Shanghai and Miss Elizabeth Humes in Rome as successful American trade envoys. Smith, from Los Angeles, earned a law degree and led civic groups in China. Humes, raised in Louisiana, worked as assistant trade commissioner in Rome, promoting Italian women’s fashion and cosmetics campaigns.
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U.S
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A. Viola Smith
Shanghai
Elizabeth Humes
Rome
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China
Los Angeles
George Washington University
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International Committee of Women’s Organizations
Moss Humes
Traly
Italy
Haly
Louisiana
Switzerland
Red Cross
Gudrun Carlson
Oslo
Norway
America
Brazil
Guatemala
Chile
Venezuela
Ten Beauti ful Words Quiz And Kilkenny Cats Legend
A General Quiz asks about Wilfred Funk ten pretty words, presidential authority over National Guard, world circumnavigation time difference, and the Kilkenny cats legend. Answers cover dawn hush lullaby murmuring tranquil mist chimes golden melody. governor lacks authority. westward gains a day while eastward loses a day. Kilkenny cats fought until only tails remained.
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Wilfred J. Funk
United States
National Guard
Lose Ugly Fat With Kruschen Salts Regimen
A weight loss pitch urges fat individuals to weigh themselves, take a 4 oz Kruschen Salts bottle for four weeks, dissolve half a teaspoon in hot water each morning, adjust diet and add gentle exercise, and note fat loss and energy gains. It claims clearer skin and renewed vigor as proof, urging purchases from druggists nationwide.
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America
Reed
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