Spittoon Episode Highlights at Kearney Post Meeting
About seventy five Legionnaires packed G A R Hall for a lively evening with clean comedy and the Spittoon Episodes. The gathering included gifts of six spittoons and cleaning gear, a new custodian’s oath, a new member and a plan for Memorial Day observances.
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American Legion
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Early Learned Truth About Eratosthenes Vision of a Westward Route
The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes in Egypt authored a geography book and argued that sailing west from Spain could reach India, predating Columbus by over 1,700 years. He estimated Earth’s circumference using crude instruments around 250 B C, laying geodesy’s groundwork.
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Iratosthenes
Egypt
Spain
India
Eratosthenes
Nile
Codfish as Old History of the World's Most Eaten Fish
Codfish ranks as the world’s most important and widely eaten fish. It yields vast numbers of eggs and has a omnivorous habit, thriving where food is found. Found in many regions beyond North American banks, it has been fished since ancient times by northern European fishermen and long before written records.
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North American
Europe
Humorous Case Clears Turkeys in Grain Dispute
The article notes larceny charges against turkeys drop after evidence shows birds select a single fat cricket from a field of grain during prep for Thanksgiving. It cites a fall crop count of 240 grasshoppers, 50 black crickets and nine kernels of grain as key proof in a broader state-wide pattern.
Pecuhaic Stone Found Near Dead Sea Used by Bedouins
A pecuhaic stone located on the shores of the Dead Sea between Jerusalem and Nebi Musa is abundant and widely used by locals to make souvenirs. Bedouins have long used this stone as fuel, a widely known practice.
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Dead Sea
Jerusalem
Nebi Musa
Boston Schools Urge Ban On Hello In Classrooms
Boston Superintendent Jeremiah E Burke urges students to avoid Hello and slang yes or no terms like Nope and Yep. He calls for dignified speech in classes such as salesmanship to preserve Boston’s reputation as a center of refined English usage.
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Boston
Athens
America
Jeremiah E Burke
Etiquette in Chaucer's London Lecture Highlights Odd Customs
Kenneth Hare describes fourteenth century manners in which meat was held between two fingers, soup was followed by pike in claret with splices, partridge with saffron and ginger, jam tarts and jelly. Feasts used scented cloths, and baths resembled pulpits with herbs hung nearby for fragrance.
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Chaucer
Kenneth Hare
London
Harvard Astronomer Sees Life on Moon through Photographs
Prof William Henry Pickering of Harvard argues from August 1920 to February 1921 observations that life exists on the moon. He cites a 37 mile crater and hundreds of plates showing dawn sprouting vast foliage, rapid blossoming, and recurring blizzards, storms, and eruptions, likening lunar life to Mars.
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Willam Henry Pickering
Harvard
Ife
Mars
Ship Has 18 000 Spoons in Majestic Liner
The White Star liner Majestic, the largest steamer, is listed with 56000 tonnage and capacity for 14 000 knives 10 000 forks 18 000 spoons and 45000 pieces of plate. The memorandum highlights the vast supply and the burden on the captain’s responsibility.
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White Star
Majestic
Shoved Off The French Marines And The Leatherneck Exchange
A wartime dialogue depicts French Chasseurs Alpins and U S Marines misunderstanding each other. A Leatherneck asks for the lieutenant, the poilu answers in broken English and French, mentioning someone was pushed over and the scene reflects cross language wartime banter.
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France
Marine Corps
Blue Devils
Sea Gang
Roman Relics Unearthed in Grace Church Street London
Workmen uncover a Roman wall four and a half feet thick on Grace Church Street. The wall extends downward to about 38 feet and forms part of an underground chamber. The chamber outline shows pointed wall ornamentation. Museum officials say the walls likely belong to the original forum of Roman London.
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Grace Church Street
London
Stradivarius Violiius and His Craft Across Centuries
Stradivarius born 1644 died 1737 worked past ninety years produced about one thousand violins and three hundred other instruments including bass viols lutes guitars and mandolins experts say genuine labels are paper and identification requires mastery.
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Stradivarius Violiius
Stradivarius
Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Treasure of Treacle Pudding
A London Tit Bits tale has Sir Ernest recounting a jest about dreams. A gushing lady praises his voyages and asks what he dreamed of in the Antarctic. He replies simply that he dreamed of treacle pudding.
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Sir Ernest
Ernest Shackleton
Antarctic
London
Sumerian Officials and Contractors Reported as Bribed and Dismissed
Ancient Mesopotamia allegedly punished corrupt contractors and officials after tests show a complex society with banking systems, a river punishment, postal networks, and circulating libraries distributing clay tablet books.
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Mesopotamia
The Guest An Odd Ball at a London Dinner
An unconventional young American visitor at a London dinner party jokes about icicles on him, saying he might have been ill for 37 years for all the icicles there are on me. The hostess tries to put him at ease as they converse in the drawing room.
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London
America
Londono
Tact Versus Talent in Success and Approach
The text argues tact surpasses talent, describing tact as the keen eye ear taste and touch that anticipate obstacles. It claims tact avoids missteps and uses every windfall by adapting to circumstances, highlighting situational awareness as key to seizing opportunities.
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Hita
Rattlesnake Story From Bossworth’s Sprout
A youth on the south road near the graveyard reports his locomotive seemed to run but the engine died at midnight. In fright he shook the car so hard that the barned old thing rolled on toward town before realizing its mistake, as noted in Science and Invention Magazine.
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Bossworth
Science and Invention Magazine
Badger Villages and Burrows Across the West
The American Forestry Magazine notes badgers dig extensive burrow networks across western areas. Though built by badgers, many burrows target gophers mice and other prey. The burrows cover acres and pose constant annoyance and danger to horseback travelers.
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American Forestry Magazine
Celebrated for Untruthfulness: Ananias and Sapphira
Ananias of the Jerusalem church with Sapphira plotted to misrepresent their offering to the brethren and both died as a result. The name Arulaulus has entered common usage for one who takes liberties with the truth.
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Ananias
Young
Church of Jerusalem
Sapphira
Community of the Brethren
Aruaulus
The Pawnbroker’s Silent Wealth Meets a Conjurer
A retired pawnbroker, now wealthy, stays at a fashionable hotel and frets over absent mindedness. A conjurer performs and asks the audience for a ten dollar loan. The ex pawnbroker yells, “On what?” triggering a comic moment.
Warning of Carrot Carriages in Old Fashioned Spoonerism
A correspondent recalls a pre auto era moment when a young woman at her window misquoted visitors as Carrots in their carriage instead of Cabots in theirs. The lighthearted Spoonerism captures a playful linguistic mix up.
Plump Wives Preferred By Barbary Markets
Description of Moorish and Tunisian customs where elders fatten young women for marriage in villages across Morocco and Tunis as a profession and practice within Barbary society.
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Morocco
Tunis
Barbary
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