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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1932
Page
6
An incomplete OCR snippet shows scattered phrases and names. The readable text hints at a local notice or column item with people and dates obscured by damage. Reading lacks coherent event, place, or outcome to summarize a full story.
A compendium of odd memorials spans cemeteries in Mayfield Kentucky to a Camembert cheese statue near Vimoutiers France. It notes plaques to horses and dogs, a gull monument in Salt Lake City, and a dramatic Soapy Smith skull carved in Alaska, tracing how communities honor notable and infamous figures through memory.
A jovial Paluka youth Leroy Gadsbie marries Beatrice, a city bride. The piece lampoons local reaction from townspeople, noting Beatrice’s social performance, the “Weak Mouth” critique, and the town’s sharp class contrasts. The story ends with a cautionary moral: never marry anyone from somewhere high.
In a reflection on superstition and fortune telling, the author argues that ancient oracles and omens fail to guide life. He cites that Greeks Romans and Phoenicians consulted birds and clouds for fate, while moderns waste time with astrologers and palmists. The piece endorses the line that fate lies within ourselves, echoing a poet’s insight.
An ancestor of Oliver Bollard of Berlin Michigan bought a Damascus steel razor with a bone handle about 200 years ago. The heirloom has passed from father to son and remains in daily use. The current owner, who took it at nineteen, notes heavy wear on the maker's name and a handle barely thicker than a 2B pencil, yet believes it will last another century.
Ancient Allanthus trees on the front terrace of Carvel hall in Annapolis are believed aged between 250 and 800 years. They were reportedly brought from China aboard a sailing ship over two centuries ago near the Prince George street entrance of Carvel hall hotel, built in 1764 by William Paca, a signer of the Declaration and Maryland governor.
The quoted remark extols the human capacity to elevate life by conscious effort. It argues painting or sculpture is noble, yet greater is shaping the atmosphere and medium through which we perceive, a transformation of perception itself.
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