Durant the 77 year old Napolean of the auto era visits Wall Street
A diminutive 77 year old Lemuel F Parton notes that former GM head Durant, once labeled the Napolean of the auto industry, visits a Wall Street banking office seeking a major auto finance venture. The piece recounts Durant’s rise, his ouster from GM in 1910 and 1920, his losses in the postwar crash, and lingering ambitions to consolidate auto interests amid wartime era finance.
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The Sin of Covetousness Lesson Text
December 11 lesson on covetousness from Exodus 20 17 Luke 17 13 21 and 1 Timothy 6 8 10 emphasizes inner heart motives over outward wealth. It links Christmas preparation to heart change and cautions against greed, urging contentment and true liberal hearted living. It calls readers to prioritize God over material wealth and warns of the fool at the end who stores riches for self.
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Bible School
Ambrose
Jesus
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How Sew 4 Ruth Wyeth Spears Christmas doll making
Christmas doll making discussed with emphasis on adults collecting dolls from scraps. Instructions detail turning a stocking foot into a head and creating arms legs and a skirt, plus notes on related books by Ruth Wyeth Spears and an autograph offer. Address provided for ordering and a free quilt leaflet with orders.
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Spears
Largest Lake Submerges Former North Carolina Farm
Lake Mattamuskeet, once North Carolina’s largest farm, was drained and crops planted in a vast reclamation project. After spending 17 million dollars to keep the sea out, the effort failed, the farm was abandoned, and the lake has since risen again, leaving the area submerged. The world’s largest water pumping system could not prevent the return of water, and the lake remains mostly shallow, between one and six feet deep.
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North Carolina
Mattamuskeet
Wise and Otherwise Walkers and the crossing quip
The piece quips on pedestrian crossings as a cash between dotted lines and notes the oddities of modern life. It humorously reflects on age and aging while mentioning a pedestrian who died of old age and pondering choices humans face.
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Solomon
Sea Going Ducks Cross Pacific In Tiny Junk
An American doctor sailed a small junk from China straight across the Pacific in 85 days. He faced whales and fog as major hazards that nearly halted observations. Junks proved seaworthy as they ride and weather storms while larger ships falter, a contrast noted by early and modern sailors.
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Pacific
China
Orient
Washington Post
Practical Home Tips From An Old Column
A collection of domestic hacks covering oversized sheets for beds and gluing wood joints, warming tea leaves before use, choosing painted furniture for color and ease, using darning cotton for marking patterns, and requesting bones from butchers for soup stock.
Never Sleep On An Upset Stomach
An old advertisement promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a quick relief for acid indigestion and upset stomach after overindulgence. It advises taking two tablespoons in water at bedtime to ease nausea and restore comfort by morning, then two more tablespoons with orange juice upon waking. The ad emphasizes demand for Phillips Milk of Magnesia in liquid or tablet form and mentions brand recognition.
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Phillips
Magnesia
Tysanesesia
Minds at Peace Quote From Stevenson
A compact quotation notes that quiet minds are unshaken by peril and continue calmly, likening their pace to a clock during a thunderstorm. The line reflects Stoic resilience and steady endurance amid disturbance.
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R. L. Stevenson
Ask Plainly Life Gives What You Seek, Plainly Said
A concise reflection on the power of clear, persistent asking echoed in the proverb by Elea nor Nesbit, emphasizing patient, plainspoken requests to obtain desired outcomes.
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Eleanor Nesbit
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