Hollywood Night at Community Building Set for Feb 7
Community notes report events around Peoria and nearby towns. The Big Fun Festival on February 7 at the Community Building features comedy and the Hollywood star theme, with tickets sold at the door and soup bowls and spoons urged. Local visits include families from Galesburg and Ottawa, and theater ads mix social news with upcoming farm sales and charity events.
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R. R Claybaugh
Mary Hefler
Peoria
Frida
Minnie Christia
Mildred Dell
Phillip Kellatadt
Marcella Travis
Prophetstown
Walter Clark
Willard and
Barriett
Warren Ayershan
Thurstay
Tally sticks as ancient records of debt and exchange
The article explains tally sticks used across ages and regions to keep short accounts. Notches signified amounts, with sticks split between creditor and debtor, and states sometimes using tallies as negotiable records akin to stocks and bonds.
Classified Wants and Exchanges From a Local Paper
Strayed white faced cow listed by Chalm er Catton with custom butchering days. Tucker and McDonough advertise sales details. Various for sale notices include raw $10 per ton bean hay and a sewing machine $20 cash. A Shetland pony mare, two years old, gentle and trained to ride listed by J C Globs. Edwards Coal Co. ad offers delivery in bin swap for corn or hay. Hardwind Lumber delivers at $25 per M with custom sawing $10 and hauling $5 by Hello Bros Sawmill Co Brimfield Illinois.
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Hello Bros. Sawmill Co
Brimnheld
Food for Thought and Quotes from Eliot Swift Goethe
A compendium of aphorisms on motive perception and language. It links weary life to motive absence and blind insistence to heedlessness, with reflections on self and foreign language awareness. The verses invite contemplation of self image shaped by behavior.
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Eliot
Bermuda discovery claim backed by 1510 map evidence
A Spanish dated map from 1510 and a 1515 attribution to Juan de Bermúdez are cited by the American Express educational department to support that Bermuda was discovered before 1510 and named after Bermúdez. The note emphasizes the naming link to the explorer.
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Bermuda
Educational Department
American Express Company
Juan de Bermudez
Islands
The Sphinx and Egyptian symbolism in ancient worship
The Egyptians called the sphinx Fu or Neb, representing the sun god Ra. Sphinxes and obelisks stood in temple entrances for worship, not ornament. Tibetan bridal head dress signs marital status with turquoise and coral indicating marriage or single status. plucking turquoise by a husband signifies legal separation.
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Neb
Condors As Scavengers Insects Fawns And Flight Limits
Condors are scavengers and take no interest in living flesh. They will not kill sick or injured animals. A condor cannot soar away with a living fawn due to foot structure.
Finger ridge patterns persist from birth to death
The text notes that fingerprint ridges remain unchanged from before birth through death, while the body grows, decays, and time alters the face. It emphasizes that the myriad skin patterns at the fingertips never alter, enduring beyond other changes.
Buy and Sell Brides in Southern Serbia
The old custom of buying and selling brides persists in southern Serbia with prices ranging from 2,000 to 30,000 dinars. Most brides traded are in their early twenties.
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Serbia
Public Sale Announcement for Warren Ayers Auction
Warren Ayers will conduct a public auction sale. Details on date time location and terms are not fully legible in the fragment but sale likely involves personal property offered to the highest bidder. Interested bidders should monitor local notices for complete information.
Public farm sale on the C. L. Dungan farm Jubilee
Auction listing for February 21 sale at Jubilee includes 4 Shorthorn cattle and 4 borsea 12 Duroc gilts 1 male Duroc and various farm machinery harness gas engine and accessories plus household items Radio and stoves to be sold by Mrs N R Claybugh with details of cattle sheep and other stock to lamb in April 1 and 15 cattle 32 ewes 1 buck seed corn and full line of implements under AL or clerk H S Beeney and H A Blundy
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N. R. Claybugh
C. L. Dungan
Jubilee
Matchen
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