Cincinnati Girl Narrates Missionary Courage in Caroline Islands
Edith Rowe describes Miss Beulah Logan, daughter of Col and Mrs Logan, who grew up in Cincinnati and taught in Ruk, Caroline Islands. She recounts a shipwreck survival, a spine injury, time in Sydney hospital, and return to America for care while continuing to plan for mission work with her parents.
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Cate
Logan
Ruk
Spb
Carolines
Liegan
America
Beulah
Oere
Ameri
Cincinnati
Buffalo
Caroline Islands
Tropics
Miss Logan
Mortolok
New Britain
Germany
Congregational Church
One Forty Two Hat and the Self-Made Man
A rural narrator riffs on growing up and education among undertakers and family lore. The tale contrasts a kid’s future choices with a father’s insistence on literacy and the wiser path, while recalling a stocky elder’s remarks about study and earnings.
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Kidder
Mike
Higher Education for Mike and the Barber School
A humorous tale on lad Mike choosing Barber University over Yale or Sarasota, depicting family sacrifice and the irony of self made success. The narrator mocks the prestige of formal degrees versus practical training while tracing paths of other working youths like Skinny O’Sullivan.
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Mike
de Barbers’ University
Ashland Avenue
Yale
Sarasoten
Observational tests in German schools and tales of layered sabers
A German school experiment tests observer bias as students identify a man in a room, showing focus on clothes or features by girls and boys. The article then describes Japanese sword blades made of magnetic iron ore, formed by stacking thin metal sheets into a long layered bar and hammering through repeated heating and folding to create a blade with about a thousand sheets.
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Germany
Mother Hubbard
Leagan
South
Canary Color Evolution Noted in Early Aviary Reports
Early accounts describe wild canaries as green or gray rather than yellow, noting color variation in the species before selective breeding. Observations record nonyellow plumage in wild populations and in captivity as part of color diversity across regional flocks.
New Stamp Set Ordered for Orange River Colony
A complete set of new stamps has been ordered for the Orange River Colony, aiming to refresh postage issues and improve mailing efficiency across the territory.
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Orange River Colony
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South Pacific
The
Sunday Commercial Tribune
Edith Elizabeth Rowe
South’ Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
Robert Logan
Boston
Morning Star
Kusaib
Tribune
Henry M. Hyde
Higher Education
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Segmon
Dis University
Harrison ‘Street
Bridewell
O’sullivan
Paulli- Yan
Presidente
Halsted Street
Harvard
G. Cleveland
H. M. Hyde
Dee
DE. Barber ‘College
A. Hobsr
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