Tour of Autumn Landscape is Tonic for Today's Jitters
Travelogue by Inez Robb describes a 48 hour road trip through New Jersey Pennsylvania and Ohio with vivid autumn scenery. The writer contrasts peaceful farms and glowing harvest colors with political tensions and world concerns noting cider stands red leaves and green fields as a soothing antidote to anxiety.
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Mifflin
Ohio
Europe
Asia
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Mendes-France
SEATO
NATO
America
Alexander the Great’s Army Encounters Sugar in Indian Campaign
In the invasion of India, Alexander the Great’s forces reportedly tasted sugar for the first time as they moved into southern territories. The encounter marks a rare culinary note in the march through the subcontinent.
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Alexander the Great
India
Interior of Clam Yields Message Mystery at Wharf Shucking
Clarence Cheek, longtime clam shucker at Cy Ellis' restaurant, found a clam containing a dated message from April 2, 1943 signed MO TU MI. Food broker Alfred E. Roldes verifies the cryptic note as a mystery puzzle baffling shuckers across the region.
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Washington
Clarence Cheek
Clarence
Cy Ellis
Alfred E. Roldes
Paris
Roldes
MO T-U.m.i
Clam Shucking Veteran Keeps Busy At 80
An aging waterman continues eight hour days at shucking clams and oysters. He jokes he would not know how to drive a cab or sell newspapers yet calls a penny-plain living. He muses on age and mystery, noting a clam dies if opened enough to reveal a message.
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Mr. Cheek
Washington
Ullman
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
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Judy Bond
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Tyson
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