Maori chieftain Ranginia Gains London Society Fame
A Maori chieftain named Ranginia captivates London drawing rooms with long hair, flax robes, and royal blue garments embroidered with gold. Entertained by the Prince and Princess of Wales, he speaks in a melancholy tenor and leads a 4004-person Te Poy dance, drawing fashionably curious crowds.
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London
Rangimia
Xung
New Zealand
Prince and Princess of Wales
New Zaland
Ranginia
Prince of Wales
M. E. Church Paragraphs Reflect Active Congregation
Sunday services drew a large audience with Epworth League attendance and personal testimonies. The pastor urged prayer meetings, rehearsals, and Christmas offering envelopes while planning sermons on “People who are in their right mind” and “The Mighty Christ.”
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Christ
Congregational Church Notes and Community Events
Sunday school notes report boys in Mr Dean Johnsons class recited Old Testament books with greater fluency than girls due to longer practice time. Sub commities for the Christmas entertainment formed and rehearsals progress. A church program tips readers to bring Bible and offerings, attend on time, and study lessons. Leader Rudolph Savage presided at Sunday evening meeting. Emily Chichester led a fine gathering with good attendance. Mr Plattenburg gave an engaging lecture Friday night despite stormy weather. Next program by Emerron Winters and partner is planned for Wednesday the 12th. The Ladies Aid prepares for an upcoming handkerchief bazaar over tomorrow.
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Dean Johnson
Old Lem Tarkina and the High Towes Shootout Tale
A rambling Arkansas story recalls Lem Tarkina and five Hightowe men outside a house. The narrator, reading his Bible, spots the group firing at his chickens then noting their later disappearance, tying a tense scene to rural life and conflict.
Pacey Aged Wife Dies at Elmwood Home
Mrs Lena Pacey wife of Harry Pacey died suddenly at her Elmwood home on Monday afternoon December 12 at about four. She had not felt well and was under a physician’s care though able to attend to duties. Later her death was attributed to heart trouble with autopsy showing neck fracture from a fall. Funeral services will be held from her mother’s home in Brimfield at 2 o’clock this afternoon. She leaves a husband two daughters Elizabeth and Viola and was a member of Arnholt Camp and Royal Neighbors.
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Mra Lena'Pacey
Harry Pacey
Elmwood
Anghhore
Kilpatrick
Margaret Witord
Brimfield
Elizabeth
Normal, Ill
Viola
Arnholt Camp
Local Notes and Public Auctions Around Brimfeld and Oak Hill
Local notes list Clark and Sons grocery selling a buckled box of hand wrapped apples. Geo Mulvaney schedules a public auction at his home west of Brimfeld on December 22. Col Doug McDonnell, auctioneer, to sell horses cattle sheep farming implements and more. BRA Hall holds a public sale on the Oak Hill Kickapoo road two miles east of Oak Hill and four miles west of Kickapoo on Wednesday December 21 featuring four head of horses seven head of cattle eighteen tons of timothy hay four tons clover hay harness and farm implements.
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Geo. Mulvaney
Brimfeld
Sygid
Doug McDonnell
BRA Hall
Oak Hill
Kickapoo
Col McDonnell
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Arkanasaw
Lem Tarkina
Lear
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Oregon
H. R. Johnson & Son
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Kuck
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