Berea College Maintains Wood Supply From Own Forest
Berea College in Kentucky owns 4000 acres of forest and a steam sawmill but never cuts sound timber. Students work two hours daily in labor supervised by the dean of labor, earning funds for expenses while obtaining practical forestry experience. The wood supports college needs for power heat and dorm fireplaces.
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Berea College
Cumberland Mountains
Kentucky
Marie Dickore
American Forestry Magazine
Boone Tavern
Bereh
Forestry Department
Giant skeleton unearthed in Greensburg mound at Secrist farm
Dr W J Holland and Dr Peterson of the Carnegie Museum unearthed a mummified torso and bones from a skeleton 8 to 9 feet tall on the J B Secrist farm in South Huntington township Greensburg PA The mound dates back about 400 years and is thought to belong to the mound builder race with the torso shipped to Pittsburgh for study.
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W. J. Holland
Carnegie Museum
Pittsburgh
Peterson
Greensburg
Philadelphia Inquirer
J. B Secrist
South
Huntington Township
Secrist
Prof
Drs. Holland
Golf Ball Demonstrates Sense on Rom ford Links
A golfer’s badly sliced tee shot at Rom ford links sent a ball through a roadway and into an upstairs window. It returned to the mat at the front door and later rolled downstairs, ending on the mat again. The incident sparked a claim the ball displayed sense, per a London Mail report.
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Romford
London Mail
No More Tarts Loss of Pastry Traditions Warned
The Manchester Guardian laments the war has erased skills for making gateaux and tarts. Wartime rationing drove 20,000 French apprentices from pastry, with many forgetting how to flute icings and combine creams and almond paste, endangering Parisian prestige.
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Manchester Guardian
France
Paris
England Turns to Spanish Fad In Fashion and Arts
English society embraces Spanish culture with two Spanish plays in London. Spanish singers and dancers are in demand. Fashionable women wear the high Spanish comb and mantilla styles. New dances show clear Spanish influence.
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England
London
Flashlight musings on virtue and folly in everyday life
A reflective piece notes fault and fortune paths and urges restraint. It muses on disagreements, self sufficiency, daily learning, vacation timing, traditional meals, versatile workers, and conduct versus money with cautionary tone.
Pointed Paragraphs On Truth And Society From Chicago News
A collection of quips on honesty pride and social behavior from Chicago News. Notes include good liars bad outcomes and gendered legal stereotypes with ironic observations. The pieces highlight self interest facing moral critique and distant social norms in a compact witty style.
Work as universal remedy says Silent Partner
A short aphorism encourages persistent effort under all circumstances. It claims work heals mental and physical ailments and applies whether one is poor rich happy or burdened, urging continued labor despite disappointments.
In Other Cities Note On Local Conditions
In Payta Peru the interval between showers is about seven days. Lisle New York keeps a shovel at a muddy cross walk for pedestrians. New York City covers 320 square miles with about 17 500 people per square mile.
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Payta
Peru
Lisle
N. Y
New York City
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Jersey
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New Holland and
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Thomas Peppler
Hightstown, New Jersey
Chicago News
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Rachel
Bacon
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Storm’s
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B. F. Gunson
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