Campaign Nears Finish in Culver-Stockton Drive
A review of Missouri notes shows Culver-Stockton College in Canton aiming to raise 300000 for its endowment, with 264000 secured and 36000 more needed by midnight May 31. The event spurs church workers and preachers across 21 counties to mobilize 100 preachers in 200 churches, while other items cover bank rumors, road projects, tax actions, and local incidents across the state.
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Culver-Stockton College
Canton
J. B. Weldon
Missouri
Welon
Issouri
Jeffery City
Putnam
Livan
Chariton
Scotland
Platte, Per
Morgan
Crawford
Perry
St Iles
Cedar, Dade
Carter
Bolling- Wayne
Mississippi
Parkville Highway
Platte Corn
Parkville
Ston
Missouri River
State Public Service Commission
Jefferson City
Hannibal
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Commission
State Tax Commission
Supreme Court
En Banc
John M. Crawford
Buchanan County
One Mule Power Leads Belden Bride to Oil Vow
Helen Pierson plans to marry Billy Kent as he reveals the farm hidden oil fortune after a mule named Neddy helps uncover a gushing site. The couple discuss remodeling plans while villagers gossip about Billy’s luck and ambition.
Hostility to Japan Across East and Its Causes Explored
William I. Irvine in Current History argues that hostility to Japan in East Asia arises from jealousy and cultural clash. The piece notes Oriental distrust of Western influence, Chinese nationalism shaped by policy moves like Shantung, and ongoing friction in Formosa under Japanese rule compared to Chinese governance.
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Japan
William I. Irvine
Current History Magazine
Shantung
Formosa
Taller London Campanile Falls Short of Tallest Tower
The Westminster cathedral campanile rises 283 feet, seven feet under twice the Nelson column height, and 110 feet shy of the monument. The clock tower reaches 320 feet and the Victoria Tower 340 feet, while historic access to the top was restricted after a death in 1850.
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Westminster Cathedral
London
Victoria Tower
York Column
List of Best English Novels Voted by 28 Authors
A Kansas City Star note lists Vanity Fair Tom Jones David Copperfield The Scarlet Letter Robinson Crusoe Ivanhoe Lorna Doone Tess Tristram Shandy as top English novels chosen by 28 prominent writers. The last four titles received the same vote total.
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Vanity Fair
Thackeray
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
David Copperfield
Dickens
Hawthorne
Defoe
Not the first Caesar for this mammoth production
An audience member rebukes a fellow spectator noting he has seen Julius Caesar before. The companion defends the new show praising its scale and scenery with mentions of two new buildings beside the forum.
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Julius Caesar
Singing Carr Creek Community Grows from Creekbed Roads
Olive Marsh and Ruth Weston lead Carr Creek Kentucky efforts to build a seven room schoolhouse a cottage dormitory and a new center building. The community club runs a clothing sale free lending library and an orphaned children dormitory while constructing a home for orphans and widening access with a mountain trail and footbridges.
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Olive Marsh
Singing Carr Greek
Knott County
Kentucky
Radcliffe College
Ruth
Weston
Miss’ _Marsh
Miss ‘Weston
Carr Creek
Woman Elevates Oldest American Museum to New Vision
Laura M. Bragg directs Charleston’s museum, blending tradition with modern science. Her leadership has stabilized finances, expanded educational outreach, and created standout exhibits like ancient prescriptions and early glass bottles from the city’s oldest drugstore.
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America
Carolinas
Charleston
Connecticut
Winthrop
Massachusetts
Laura M. Bragg
Museum Board of Governors
Miss Bragg
Owl's Island
American Association of Museums
Old South
Secret Helium Extraction Method Described
A process exposes natural gas to extreme pressure and a secret method to produce a liquid at 817 degrees below zero, from which helium is then drawn off.
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Zera
Many Dialects Found in English Language
The Kansas City Times notes English belongs to the Teutonic branch of Indo European, a low German West Germanic tongue. It outlines three periods Anglo Saxon middle and modern English and traces influences from Celtic Latin Danish and French shaping modern English.
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Kansas City
Britain
Wales
Cornwall
England
William
Duke of
Normandy
Harold
Hastings
Lava Bears Prove Real in Oregon Lava Fields
The Portland Oregonian reports lava bears exist in Oregon lava beds near Fort Rock. Game warden Dan Godsil says he has seen two, one trapped by a government survey. The creature is about the size of a house cat, looks like a regular bear, and is said to be easily booted to death if approached.
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Portland
Oregonian
Irvin Cobb
Oregon
Dan Godsil
Lake County
Government Biological Survey
Cobb
Fort Rock
Royal Sufferings and a King’s Hidden Ailment
A London Daily Mail writer notes that the king suffers chronic indigestion and the prince of Wales shares the trouble, living largely on eggs and fine chopped chicken. Despite nervous fidgetiness, both appear well in public, their discomfort largely camouflaged.
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London Daily Mail
Prince of Wales
Training the Senses and their Hidden Depths
Dr James J Walsh argues in Popular Science Monthly that humans possess many senses beyond five and can train perceptual abilities such as feeling colors in the dark. He notes blind people do not have keener touch but develop concentration through need.
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James J. Walsh
Popular Science Monthly
Insect Sounds Detected by New Microphone Device
Scientists at an eastern electrical concern reported to Popular Mechanics that faint insect sounds once mute are recorded by a microphone. The device captures waves altering a delicate current between contacts in an insulated ring, promising advances in taset lite study.
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Popular Mechanics
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Ewner
Howard.e. Smith
Nelson
State Bank
Smith
Consolidated
Vernor Hyde
Ourt Board of Boiler Works
E. E. Er
Peter F. K
Eugene Webb
Ouis
E. R. Fish
St. Is
Arthur J. Fitzsimmons
Walker D. Allen
N. H. Monroe
Arthur Young
Utica
Rand River
United States
A. Frank Smith
Macon
Ben Gregory
John Meriwethering
Eolia
Hyde
Kansas
Boyles
Clarence Boyles
Opeka
Phyllis Perkins
Flat River
Cape Girardeau
Virgil Walls
Fairview School
Jennings
St. Louis County
Board of Regents
Cape Girardeau Teachers’ College
Miss Perkins
Fairview
Reed & Reed
Killwinning
Downing
Oscar Reed
Ray Staten
Reed
Staten
Keokuk
Vandalia Banking Associated
John Dierking
Sweat Springs
Edgsdon
Research Hospital
Southeast Missouri Drummers’ Association
Sikeston
Noel Poepping
Helen Pierson
Jacob Frame
Helen
Belden
Jacob
Billy Kent
Billy
Kent Place
The
Agricultural College
Dixie
Pierson
Nellie
Mr. Pierson
Kent's
Phoebe
Annie
Neddy
Kent
East
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