New Year Brings Hope for Two Boonville Neighbors
Mrs McCrery, who fears she has little to offer, helps Dora Pike through a New Year funk with compassion. Margie and Bob Marchant dream big, pitching a half million geraniums scheme to Ripley Brothers after Margie’s bold newspaper letter inspires a store order and a hopeful bloom season.
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Margie
Boone
Bob Marchant
Ripley Brothers
Marchant
Bob
Ripleys
France
Western Newspaper Union
Simple Set of Bibs For the Little One
A tiny ad offers a package labeled No A-4 with three bibs on heavy sheeting. Embroidery uses outline stitch. binding thread not included. Send 15 cents to Home Craft Co. Dept A at Nineteenth and St Louis Ave St Louis Mo with stamped self addressed envelope for details.
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St Louis
Dog River Gorge Carved with Names Across Eras Near Beirut
Carrier of ancient military routes Dog River Gorge in Syria hosts vast inscribed records from 3000 years of passing armies. Inscriptions mark journeys by Egyptian pharaohs, French marshals, and other rulers who traversed the Beirut region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dog River
Beirut
Syria
Africa
Egypt
France
Intermarriage of Normals Strengthens Race Claim
Pathfinder Magazine reports Dr. Olga Bridgman of a California university clinic stating studies show intermarriage does not weaken the race but strengthens it. Cousins who are both normal may produce better offspring, while union of below normal parents could yield less intelligent and less healthy children.
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Olga Bridgman
California University Clinic
Pathfinder Magazine
Irish Lads Find Black Paint Conducive to Rest
Two Irishmen on the top floor of an eight story building could not sleep as sunlight filled the windows. They bought black paint to block the light and slept until 7 15. On rushing to work, the foreman questioned their lateness. Pat quips about being twenty minutes late, while the foreman asks where they were Monday and Tuesday.
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Pat
Wall Street Journal
Freedom Is Right and Duty Paradoxes for Youth
A civic exhortation urges new adults to reflect on two paradoxes: Authority versus Freedom and Right versus Duty. It defines freedom as power to do what one ought and states that no one has rights except the right to fulfill duty, attributed to Sir HB Stuart Jones.
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Sir HB. Stuart Jones
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Gaisford
RS. McCrery
Dora Pike
Dearie
Mrs. McCrery
Darlin
Western
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Illinois
John D. Sullivan
Rochelle
Edward McDaniel
McDaniel Plumbing Company
Litchfield
Henry Horner
Springfield
Charles McMillan
Rock Island
Ivan Cole
Downs
Brantley E. Kerry
Alexander County
Peyton Brebling
Tessville
Niles Center
Chicago
Lincolnwood
Charles Ranzany
Ottawa
Louis Solio
Elgin
Doerge
Elgin High School
Charles E. Bliss
Taylorville
Young Democratic Clubs
Ilinois
Bloomington
Homer J. Byrd
Herbert N. Jeffrey
National Finance and Trust Company
Wilbur J. Sadler
Chicago Heights
Supreme Court of Illinois
Samuel FP. Irwin
Mlinois Supreme Court
McLean County Bar Association
Frank Lock
Kewanee
Henry County
Lee
Staley Muay
May
Anton Zawistowski
American Legion
Gertrude Schackell
Woodstock
Edward D. Shurtleff
John C. Martin
W.S. Reynolds
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission
Mary L. Bilderback
Martin (Farmer) Burns
Omaha
Neb
St. Joseph Hospital
Aurora
Bilderback
Gabe Bilderback
Michael
Breen
Will County
Joliet
William BR. Hunter
Kankakee
Hee
Firestone
Firestone Auto
Supply and Service Store
Crooks
Nelson
Eddy Wath
Margaret Spooks
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