Language lives on in southern Illinois dialects and lore
A retrospective look at how local speech evolved from older rustic talk to modern diction. The piece recalls humorous and vivid phrases, everyday expressions, and regional quirks, noting education and media shaping a third English. It mentions John Allen’s Leg ends and Lore of Southern Illinois.
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Willer
Tumar
Kawfeg
Gramma
Grampa
John Allen
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Ill
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A compact listing of crossword clues across and down including 1 Across Golf stroke shot through 29 Down Ukrainian Black Sea residents and 83 Across Overhead. The puzzle asks for common words matching the given hints such as Decree Enploys for wages and Indonesian island.
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Sym
N.Z. Fort
Black Sea
Riddling Crossword Clue Fragments From a Last Week List
The page presents a mixed set of crossword clues and answers with numbers matching each entry. It includes references such as fireplace shelves birthplaces malayan and Jacob’s gloss, alongside descriptors like dull devoured ripped and line. The fragmentary reading suggests a column puzzle with numbered hints and solutions.
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Jacob's
Gloss Son
Dull
Flood areas inspected as federal teams mobilize
State civil defense chief Col. D M Vance described federal state engineering teams inspecting flood tornados damaged zones in Round Lake Beach Crystal Lake Island Lake. Next weeks will cover Mississippi River public property damage to qualify for federal assistance.
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Col
D. M. Vance
Vance
Round Lake Beach
Crystal Lake
Island Lake
Mississippi River
Cutworm control tips and new mineral exhibit opening
The article notes cutworm control methods for home gardeners and field crops, listing chemical pesticides such as carbaryl DDT aldrin dieldrin heptachlor diazinon and xenaphene. It also covers a geology exhibit Natural Design in Minerals at the Illinois State Museum featuring native copper and tourmaline. A 10 year fish study from Lake Chautauqua near Havana presents fish abundance biology and effects of commercial fishing. STEM warns about dry peaks or tunnels in cakes due to over flour or too high oven temperature.
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William T. Larkin
Illinois Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry
Larkin
Richard Leary
Illinois State Museum
Chautauqua
Havana
Mason County
Illinois Natural History Survey
State Department of Registration and Education
Renovation tips for SIU pasture renovation profits
SIU expert Herbert Portz advises farmers to renovate rundown meadows into high yielding pastures with legumes and grasses. Plan early summer plowing, July seed bed prep, weed control, lime if needed, and seed mid August to mid September with alfalfa, clovers, lespedeza, tall fescue, and orchard grass to improve forage quality and stocking rates.
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Herbert L. Portz
Southern Illinois University School of Agriculture
Talking too much and making remarks at sixteen
A teenager asks how to curb talking too loud and foolish remarks. The reply emphasizes listening, showing interest in friends, and thinking before speaking to keep and grow friendships. Submit questions to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS at the Community and Suburban Press Service.
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Frankfor
FAA objects to radio controlled door openers concerns rise
FAA warns electronic garage door openers can emit signals in intra high frequency bands used by military and aviation communications and air navigation. Some units may be legally blocked if they interfere with communications. In Los Angeles area one week 58 openers were traced and shut off.
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Federal Aviation
FAA
Los Angeles
American Medical Association
AMA
Pennsylvania State University
Remembering Philadelphia Street Life From The Old Timers
A Philadelphia-born reminiscence recalls streetcars horse-drawn wagons watermelon peddlers and vendors selling pretzels snow balls and tobacco products in a bygone era. The author describes cycles and drums cigarettes plug chewing tobacco corn cob pipes and named tobaccos amid a Frankfort Kentucky appeal for contributions.
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Wallace S. Murray
Alburtis
Philadelphia
U.S. Marine
Public Works Plan Aims to Aid Ozarks Development
Special Washington report outlines the Public Works and Development Act proposed by the Senate to fund 400 million dollars annually for public works and regional development. It highlights benefits for the Ozarks region, Arkansas River Basin navigation, and broader efforts to reduce poverty across overlooked rural pockets.
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America
Appalachia
Ozarks
Congress
Appalachian Commission
U.S. Senate
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri
Arkansas River
Gulf of Mexico
Tulsa
Arkansas Valley
Johnson
Retirement Prayer Reflections On Freedom And Purpose
A long contemplation on retirement asks for integrity courage and curiosity. The speaker hopes to use freedom wisely to improve the world while resisting laziness envy and vanity and seeks spiritual understanding and genuine goodness. A note at the end promotes a 36 page booklet titled New Golden Years sent in coin to a New York address.
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Dept
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Paradise
Influence
Criez
Immature
Gene Graves
Illinois Board of Economic Development
Illinois Division of Oil and Gas
SIU
Albert Meyer
AIR Agency
Janine Gray
U.N.C.L.E
Frankfort
Washington Report
Fred Harris D
Okla
Fred R. Harris
Georgia Tech
California Institute of
St. Louis
U.S
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