Ruskin on Historical Truths in Nature and Time
The essay argues that truths that reveal past and future states are most valuable. It favors dynamic growth indicators in trees over precise textures, and asserts that vivid, historical factors illuminate life and motion more than fleeting details. It notes crag lines and erosion are richer histories than lichens or minor fissures.
Tithe to Red Cross by Unknown Station Donor
An elderly man at Union Station quietly donates twenty dollars to the Red Cross, instructing that sixteen dollars and ninety cents be taken as his tithe while noting the pennies, then leaves smiling. A Red Cross canteen attendant says the donor appears monthly, refuses to reveal identity, and seems glad to give. Enclosed is a note about a separate topic describing a massive log raft built in Haparanda, Sweden, used to ship logs to Copenhagen, measuring 387 feet long and supported by steel cables.
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Union Station
Red Cross
Indianapolis News
Haparanda
Sweden
Copenhagen
Denmark
Japanese Trade With Panama Expands Consulate Opened
A Japanese consulate has been established in Panama City as trade between Japan and Panama grows. Japan exports a wide range of goods valued at 13 684 000 dollars in 1917, with virtually no imports. The outlook for ongoing commerce between the two nations is described as excellent.
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Panama
Panama City
Japan
Republic of Panama
A New Star Martha Pleads To See Judge Ewbank
Martha Hedrick five-year-old daughter of a Marion Circuit court court reporter asks her father W M Hedrick to take her to see the second instalment of The Quannibals and to see Judge Ewbank herself. Catherine notes Douglas Fairbanks as an extra draw.
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Martha
W. M. Hedrick
Louis B. Ewbank
Marion Circuit Court
Catherine
Douglas Fairbanks
Papa
Ewbanks
Indianapolis News
Jerusalem freed from mosquitoes by Zionist unit
Zionist organization announces relief in Jerusalem after American sanitarian Louis Cantor and the American Zionist medical unit clean the city. Cantor’s team sanitized 860 cisterns and improved sanitary conditions to curb typhoid and malaria carriers.
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Jerusalem
Zionist Organization
Louis Cantor
Palestine
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Ruskin
Indianapolis
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Armandes
Mele