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Brookshire Times

Location

Brookshire, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 19, 1931

Page

5

Good Old Days Notion Faces Modern Convenience

A Toledo Blade columnist dismisses nostalgia for the past and touts modern progress from kerosene lamps to automatic heating, self starters to better foods and clothing, arguing improved physical and mental well being render old ways obsolete and calling the idea baloney.

Toledo Blade

Seven Languages Heard in Old City of Tallinn

Tallinn features Toompea castle and steep walls with a tree planted moat. The city bears centuries of conquest under Denmark Sweden Russia and Germany. By 1848 Estonia becomes its own domain and locals speak Russian German English French Swedish or Danish.

Old City Tallinn Baltic Denmark Sweden Peter the Great Istonia Toompea

Ancient English Oak of Cowthorpe Heraldring Age and Size

The Montreal Family Herald notes the Cowthorpe oak near the Toman road three miles from Wetherby as England’s oldest. It is said to be about 1600 years old with a trunk 60 feet in girth and 43 feet tall, once spreading over half an acre. Workers strive to keep the giant alive for a few more years despite declining limbs.

England Montreal Family Herald Great Toman Road Wetherby

Horseflesh term origins in English and French usage

A historical note explains that horse meat is commonly called horseflesh while beef veal pork and mutton derive from French terms. The French word for horse Sebeval was not adopted into English as bargefiesh due to a lack of need.

Sebeval

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