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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1929
Page
8
Washington Star explains coral reefs form from lime carbonate secreted by countless polyps. Reefs protect island waters but require inlets for ships to enter harbors, a result of natural laws governing reef growth and currents.
Men have long debated thrift and greed. The duke of Martl borouesh, famed for niggardly ways, would resort to almost any means to save costs. Tales tell of his rebuking a Servurs for four candles, walking to lodgings to save sixpence, and never losing his own baggage in campaigns.
The mistletoe’s pagan origins and Norse and Druid beliefs influenced early Christian use, with legends claiming it once grew as a tree then shrank into a parasite used for the cross. Now linked to happiness safety and fortune when not trod upon, it carries mixed associations.
The article traces the development of electric light from Davy's first lamp 118 years ago to Edison filament lamps and the Edison effect. It notes Fleming using the effect in radio detection with the Fleming valve, then DeForest adding the grid to create a more sensitive detector, culminating in the era of broadcasting.
John L Morrison argues that wooden Indians are not indigenous to American soil. He notes early English wooden figures appeared under James I, and cites a 1730 Pocahontas statue on Hancock Street in Boston. The first cigar store figure in America appeared in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1770 as a refined gentleman with a snuffbox.
A humorous exchange unfolds at a funeral as five year old Mary Ann mishears pallbearers as pall bears seeking food. The child’s innocent question lightens the somber mood and elicits laughter from her mother and relatives.
A proverb notes that a gentle word soothes anger much like water quenches fire. Tenderness awakens fruit from barren ground, for unripe fruit is bitter until preserved. Reproof tastes bitter unless sweetened by kindness and heated by charity, becoming cordial and gracious.
French Grove residents Mrs Joe Reed Mrs Francis Bodinus and Mrs Clarence Biederbeck combined pleasure and business on a trip to Toulon and Galva Monday. Various locals visited relatives, shopped in Peoria, or planned travels including Miss Marie McCoy heading to Europe on her birthday June 18.
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