Weekend Visits Highlight Rockfield Community Notes
Percy Plank and wife spent Sunday with Mrs. Elia Plank. Genevive Wise of Delphi visited Moa Landis. Dwight Plank family shopped in Logansport. Rockfield home economics club met at Kate Schnepp’s. A Flag Day program was held. Multiple relatives visited and returned from trips in Kokomo Indianapolis North Dakota and Monticello.
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Percy Plank
Elia Plank
Genevive Wise
Delphi
Moa Landis
Rockfield Home
Eeconomics Club
Kate Schnepp
Thomas Starkey
Chas
Isey Starkey
Harold Welch
Cleo Thomas
Jack Starkey
Kokomo
Lillie Starkey
Deer Creek Area Notes Show Visits and Local Life
Local items mention visits by Deer Creek residents to Chicago Marion and Kokomo. Wedding bells at the Deer Creek Lutheran church next Sunday. Travel and family visits include Mr. and Mrs. Walter Myers from Indianapolis and Mr. and Mrs. Len McCauley of Kokomo. A 9 year old Boston pupil Arthur Cantor has a poetry volume printed.
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Deer Creek
Lutheran Church
Ama McCleary
Montana
Larabee’s
Jones’ Store
Standard Oil
Arthur Cantor
Boston
Burrows Church School Hosts Children’s Day Program
Rockfield Burrows Presbyterian Parish fields a 9 30 a m church school session with orchestra music. After class, a Children’s Day talk by the pastor. Evening vesper on the church lawn planned if weather permits. Theme Seeing God led by Pastor L Dewey Burham.
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Burrows Church
Rockfield Church
Dewey Burham
Illnesses and travels noted in Burrows area
Wm. Taylor and Commodore Woodward are seriously ill at their Burrows homes. Rev. Elmer E. Kahl spoke to the Burrows Presbyterian Brotherhood. Lavonne Martin visited Cincinnati. Sunday guests with the Gish and Watson families included Elisha and Ed Gish and Isimer Gish families from near Clymers. J L Ruhl of Wabash and Curtis McCain hosted at a Lake Freeman cottage. Coach Russell Cripe and family travel from California to Indiana to visit relatives. L. Davidson and family plan a ten day motor trip visiting Belvidere Illinois and Detroit Michigan.
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Lavonne Martin
Cincinnati
Ohio
J. L. Ruhl
Wabash
Curtis McCain
Lake Freeman
Mr. Ruhl
Smith Hubbard Lumber Co
L. Davidson
Robert Pharp
Lincoln
Belvidere
Detroit
Mich
Breton Holiday Festivities In Brittany France
A traveler describes Brittany celebrations in Quimper with peasants in town in carts and wagons. Cafes fill as cider flows, bagpipes and fiddles play in open squares. Dancers leap in wooden sabots, songs and laughter echo until daybreak, signaling the holiday.
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France
Brittany
Quimper
Simple Strategy That Costs Monkey Freedom
A hunter uses a hollow monkey pot and Brazil nuts to trap a monkey alive in South American forests. The monkey grabs the nuts, cannot withdraw its hand, and wanders away with the pot, allowing the hunter to capture it.
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South America
Sail-Fish Acrobat of the Gulf Stream
The article extols sail fish as agile gulf stream inhabitants, noting their rare breeding knowledge and widespread slaughter. It portrays their birdlike features, down-turned mouth, large eyes, long beak, and a purple-splotched dorsal fin, making them among the world’s quaint tropical fishes.
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Florida
Gulf Stream
Nature Magasine
Why Ad Writers Grow Gray Clock Ad In Shop Window
In a shop window an alarm clock drawing draws attention as a vivid display. Two workers discuss the clock with one noting its appeal while the other jokes about waking at an odd hour. The clock face shows 3:40.
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Proletariat
Origin of the phrase kick the bucket dying tale
An origin story explains the expression kick the bucket as a self-inflicted death by hanging from a bucket. It recounts a man standing on a bucket, tying a rope, and kicking away the bucket to produce a drop, plus Sheridan’s deathbed quip about a friend who fell down a well.
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Sheridan
Oly
Pepper and related condiments outlined from botanical sources
The text explains pepper from unripe Piper nigrum berries, producing black and white pepper. It notes dried skin removal causes white pepper. It mentions P betle leaves chewed with areca nut and lime to prevent dysentery and that Cayenna pepper derives from a Capsicum species.
Breakages and a Proposal on the Sofa
A whispered question unfolds as Sid asks Will you marry me to Dear while seated together on a sofa. She responds with a ready, thoughtful pause and affectionate reassurance.
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Sid
George
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