No-Goods Courage Lifts Village Spire Job Tale
In a Susquehanna village of about 1500, lumber wealth funds the town. A new church spire weather vane is to be installed with help from a Philadelphia craftsman. a determined 12 year old, nicknamed No-Good, volunteers to assist after challenging him to prove his mettle. The boy’s backstory includes a vanished father and a dead mother, leaving him to endure village hardship with courage and cheer.
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Chicago News
Susquehanna
Philadelphia
Hoy Wa
What Children Fear Examined by a College Professor
A college professor analyzed fears in 1,700 children, totaling 6,456 fears. Principal fears include lightning, reptiles, the dark, death, ghosts, disease, and robberies. He notes some fears are teachable and urges education to eradicate groundless fears.
Wonderful Lichen Endures Centuries in Forests and Rocks
A reflections on lichens, humble yet beautiful organisms that survive for centuries. They lack flowers yet display vivid colors and intricate forms, from tiny branched trees to red cups. Lichens thrive in extreme climates, growing on rock or grass, surviving winter droughts and heat, and persisting far beyond other plants.
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New York.Tribune
Tropics
Arctic Circle
Black Bear Steals Pig and Receives Punishment
A tame black bear on a farm steals a pig during November and is forced to carry the pig back home the next morning. The bear, once well behaved, is chained up as punishment for the misdeed, while the pig is rescued by the farmer.
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Detroit News
Black Bear
Peafowls of India Face Hunting in Tiger Regions
The text notes India as the peafowl’s real home where birds are hunted for flesh. It mentions hunting as a dangerous sport shared with tiger habitats and describes misstatements about the peafowl’s crest and body.
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India
Hero of Susquehanna Flood Save No-Good Village
In a Susquehanna village a freezing flood threatened homes as ice and logs jammed near the bridge. No-Good the orphan boy braved the wall of ice with a cant-hook, broke the jam, and saved the town. He later became valedictorian at Dickinson College but died days after a fall during an accident in Philadelphia. A granite monument honors him.
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Saskahanner
Susquehanna
Carlisle
Old Dickinson College
Philadelphia
Market Street
Chestnut Street
Chestnut
Hig Hayfidhes
Hill
John Warde
William Scott
Aldérney Steam Packet Company
Christ
Sir Henry Wotton
Eton
Curious epitaphs and the blurring of memorial lines
The Spectator discusses old grave markers in Westminster Abbey and parish churches. It notes conflicting aims of epitaphs from sober remembrance to humorous or ironic lines, and cites examples from polite yet flawed inscriptions that reveal family or social tensions.
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Westminster Abbey
John Broughton
England
Ledbury Parish
William Hunter
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