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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1925
Page
7
The Zuni carve totems from stone, bound with flint arrowshead symbols on the heart, and keep them in a basket in the house of the deer medicine. At New Year festival they are blessed in a sacred chamber by priests, then hunters carry the powerful images for luck.
The Family Herald notes extreme rituals to fit beauty ideals. Some tribes pierce lips with wooden disks from ages five to seven, gradually enlarging them until lips resemble plates, sometimes hindering eating and limiting to liquids. large lips are prized.
The spring beauty grows from a tuber under ground with a bud that forms a long stem and two opposite leaves. A cluster of two sepals five petals five stamens and one pistil with three stigmas appears at the top. Found in moist open woods it is delicate and trembles in the breeze.
The coast and geodetic survey notes Bay of Fundy tops global tides with a mean 44.2 feet and spring 50.5 feet in Noel bay Minas. Anchorage Alaska shows 30.3 feet mean range. Other high tides appear in Frobisher Bay Davis Strait Ungava Hudson Strait Port Santa Cruz Port Ballegos Mage Nan Strait Turnagain Arm Bay of St Michael Bristol Channel Severo River Rogland.
A tale from film casting shows producers rejecting applicants as types. One hopeful sent autographs of George Washington, but the producer declared the applicant not the right type despite the effort.
The scene from L Echo de Parts shows Bobby four and Janet eight playing travels in a garden. Janet rushes back remembered face powder while Bobby repeats he forgot his powder. Janet asserts boys do not use powder and Bobby asks what he has forgotten.
A Boston Herald reader recalls a home dinner where a young girl named Elsie, polite and quiet, initially accepts an oyster and later reveals she does not want more. The mother, seeking to ease formality, offers another oyster and Elsie protests with a shy, earnest refusal.
The author recalls reading an appeal in the London Times personal column seeking the return of books from the late William Archer. The piece argues readers borrow widely and a distance limit helps ensure books are returned, noting the author’s livelihood relies on timely access to his books and tools.
The Charter Oak in Hartford, Connecticut, thwarted a royal demand for the colony's charter in 1687 when Captain William Wadsworth seized it during a blackout and hid it in an oak. The tree, named for that act, stood until 1856 when destroyed by a storm. the charter was renewed after William and Mary took the throne in 1689.
Eleanor Elsner recounts a travel anecdote in which explorers misinterpret a peasant’s casual command to his mule as the land's name. The farmer says Anda Lucia meaning Go on Lucia, but travelers record the land as Andalusia, shaping the province's famous name.
The Alexander Erath county picnic in Alexander Texas is announced for Friday and Saturday June 26 27. Free rodeos polo and baseball games will be among attractions with old timers invited for a two day Home Coming event featuring good speakers and entertainment.
Alfred Sanders, 19, drowned while attempting to swim across the main Concho River six miles southwest of Miles, Sunday afternoon. His body was recovered about an hour and a half later and sent to Cameron for burial. His parents live in Austin.
Armstrong Cox and Will C Cauley were ordained as elders of the Central Christian church during a morning service Sunday June 21. The ceremony marked a significant step in the church’s leadership and community duties.
The Hassie Baylist intermediate class held an entertainment at Miss Aline White’s home. The event featured games, a Bible contest won by Theola Dunn and George White, and a mock wedding for Inez Williford and Harold Starkie with Ardith Starks as best man.
A promotional note extols Herbine as quickly alleviating torpid liver and constipation. The remedy purports to cleanse bile, improve vitality, and restore buoyancy after the first dose. Sold by Paris Smith at a stated price.
A misdated anecdote recounts judge Sir Henry Hawkins during summing up with the prisoner's children present. He allegedly invoked pitiful images to sway jurors and secure the prisoner's release. A friend later claimed to have seen the children near the prisoner's home singing about the father's fate.
The pomelo or shaddock or grapefruit Citrus decumana originates in southern China. It is sourer than an orange but less sour than a lemon. Pomelo derives from the Dutch Pompelmoes. Shaddock was a captain who introduced the fruit to the West Indies. Some authorities distinguish shaddock as larger and grapefruit as smaller with a finer flavor. They are grown in Jamaica China California and many Oriental countries.
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