Bazaar at First Baptist church nets 175 dollars
Wil ling Workers Society of the First Baptist church concluded a two day bazaar raising 175.00 dollars. The event featured Japanese and Christmas booths with kimonos, candy, aprons, and a lunch counter, run by volunteer ladies and sale teams.
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Willing Workers Society
First Baptist Church
First National Bank
Paul Jack
Geo. Fuller
Bruce Merrell
Henry Robinson
Janet McRae
Mary Lou New
Robert Fitts
Frank Weems
Fitts
Weems
C. E. Roop
Santa Claus
Mesdames Brodnax
J. A. Sewell
E. M. Bass
Lee Vaughn
Financial Committee
Mesdames Rhody
J C Bass
Money! Money! Good land loan at six and seven percent
Advertises land loans offering six and seven percent interest for five years on good land. Urges readers to come at once and bring all deeds to obtain the financing.
Wanted at Once for Plows and Groceries
Wanted at once exchange deals for two car loads of Enter prise Stores and Rangers for money scrips or cotton receipts. Also two cars of plows, one car improved Combination Middle Musters. J. H. Harris, of course.
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J. H. Harris
Camp Supper A Novel Entertaining Affair On Mayle Street
A charming camp supper hosted by Misses Mary Long and Eugenia Mandeville Saturday on the vacant L. C. Mandeville lot near Mayor Long. Guests in camp attire gathered around a blazing log fire, cooked their own supper over a long fork, and enjoyed songs and jokes before retiring to the Long home for dancing and music by Miss Thomas of Waynesboro. Attending were Dr. and Mrs. Boykin, Mr. and Mrs. Head, and many others including Natalie Thomas, Marion West, Helen Long, and L. C. Mandeville Jr.
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Mayle Street
Mary Long
Eugenia Mandeville
Log
Buckwood
Long Home
Miss Thomas
Waynesboro
B. F. Boykin
Geo. Head
Natalie Thomas
Marion
Helen West
Italy
Simonton
Helen Long
Nell
Camilla Maddeville
Messrs
P.W. Reese
C. Newell
Lewis Sims
O. L. Hay
Wailes Aycock
L. C. Man
Marriage Lotteries Across Europe End in Unlikely Weddings
A Brussels tailor offered a husband as a prize to the widow or maiden who spent the most with him, yielding a sixty year old widow as winner and many relatives receiving patrons. Similar schemes spread in Vienna and Berlin where firms offered husbands for small payments or coupons, with a Leeds shop once raffling a husband for a guinea.
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Brussels
Berlin
Leeds
Waercon
London
Sentry’s Reason at Toulon Arson Magazine Moment
A sentry on duty outside a powder magazine at Toulon halts an officer from smoking. The officer obeys, returns and the sentry reveals he meant to demonstrate the order to throw it away. The captain smiles and moves on.
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Toulon
St. James’ Gazette
A Sailor No Longer Painting a Continuous Performance
A traveler recalls meeting an elderly seaman painting a vent and chatting as the painter revealed he is now an artist, not a sailor. The man spoke of distant ports and his transition from seafaring to painting, brushing aside the title of sailor with humor and pride.
Famine Heroine Honored by Royal Fish Bull Collection
A London Telegraph writer recalls a famine era remark and notes Miss Balfour sister of Arthur Balfour as Ireland secretary, praised by an old man who blessed her brother and all who aided the hungry. He quips that without famine they would be starving this day.
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London Telegraph
Miss Balfour
England
Arthur Balfour
Ireland
Leddy
Writing Letters and the Hand's Hidden Journey
A statistician notes that average writers pace about thirty words per minute, with pen movements totaling roughly five yards per minute. Over two hours daily, this adds up to about 120 miles of movement by the writer's right hand, based on up and down strokes and curves described in the London Gentlewoman.
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London
Ways of the Cuban Character and Speech
The article describes Cuban character by everyday talk in the village. It notes his sober tone on ordinary topics yet florid language and exaggerated gestures. A proverb about many enemies signals his constant sense of threat and extreme views.
Absent Boy in the Vacant Chair Question
A western college professor of English called roll each morning and, after naming an unresponsive student, peered over his glasses and asked sharply who the absent boy in the vacant chair before him was. This anecdote appeared in Lippincott's.
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Rell
Fruit Cures and Remedies Mentioned by a Wine Jlower
A Cincinnati Enquirer note quotes a Wine Jlower extolling grape cures from Switzerland and listing fruits and juices as remedies. It praises grapes for anaemia, apple as blood purifier, currant leaf for gout, black currant jelly for sore throat, and suggests pineapple for diphtheria, strawberries for rheumatism, elderberry for chills, and lemon for colds etc.
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Switzerland
Cincinnati Enquirer
Four Footed Animals Fact From Natural History
A well known horseman describes a natural history fact: in starting any forward motion all four footed beasts begin with the left hind leg. Even a child placed on all fours will first move the left leg, with hands acting as fore legs.
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