LOCAL CITY OFFICIAL LISTING AND NOTICE AD
A dense OCR listing shows city government officials, trustees, county officers, tax assessors, registrars, education board, roads and revenues, notaries, peace officers, and a small for sale notice offering a cow and a piano by H B Coooran. The document reads as a roster of names and posts with minimal narrative context.
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Chistie Piers
Ieee
Dave
R. B. Bakerma
W. M. Rice
John Evans
G.G. Evans
W. J. Free
O. Johnson
W.H. Jones
W. J. Hightower
County Board OF Education
W. B. Lowe
Oxon Dockery
Mre
Jones
N. P. Hightower
J. N. Satterfield
N. P. Jones
Watkins Direct Sales Opportunity Advertises Territory
A Watkins Co job ad offers a long term business selling over 187 products to farmers. It promises bonding with personal sureties, large seller support, and a 52 year history with 20 million product users. Written in Winona Minnesota.
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Watkins
J. HW. Watkins CO
Winona
Minn
Old Age on the Decrease Says Pearl Study Changes in Life Expectancy
Johns Hopkins Professor Raymond Pearl concludes life expectancy at birth and early ages improves while expected longevity after age 50 has declined over two millennia. He cites rugged survivorship in ancient times and broader care for children now extending adolescence but reducing gains in old age. Women’s life expectancy, he notes, has shifted relative to men, reversing prior trends.
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Raymond Pearl
Johns Hopkins
Pedestrianism as a Lost Art in Automobile Era
The American Motorist laments the dominance of driving over walking, noting people who never use their legs and treat cars as accessories. It jokes about converting car schools into walking universities to relearn the forgotten art of pedestrianism.
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Scotland
Babes
Heartbeats and marriage proposals in witty exchange
A Shriner pin bearing a young man sparks a joke about heartbeats. An Eastern Star lady asks if a man’s heart beats 92,160 times daily and contends that a suitor who does not meet that pace would be a cold proposer. The quote from Yonkers Statesman presents playful banter.
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Eastern Star
Yonkers
JUST THE JOLT HE NEEDED
Sir Harvey Beacon, a gifted but wayward boy, received a sharp rebuke for a brief crab essay. The teacher corrected his science misstatements and praised the style. That moment sparked a lasting transformation, and he later became a leading scientist.
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Harvey Beacon
Harvey
World's Largest Buzz Saws In The Pacific Coast
Giant buzz saws nine feet high have been installed on the Pacific coast to cut enormous cedars. Each rim bears 190 detachable teeth that can be replaced. Ingot weights started at 1140 pounds and final weight is 795 pounds after processing.
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Pacific Coast
America
Lathe Turns Masts for Ships in Georgia Yard
A new shipyard lathe spans 100 feet to shape masts and spars. A center chuck holds the timber while two tailstocks support both ends. A 25 horsepower motor drives the rotation at 18 rpm, with electric cutting heads moving along rails at 3, 6, or 12 feet per minute.
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Georgia
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Busy Beavers Move Dams Near West Mt Vernon Pond
A beaver colony that for years lived in a pond at West Mt. Vernon Missouri has relocated this summer to the pond's upper end. They built a new dam and home after depleting trees near their old site. The colony now resides close to two farmhouses with children and dogs nearby.
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West Mt. Vernon
Angld Timer Echoes Of A Fast Life On The Corner
A reminiscence from Ohio State Journal recalls a past era when a brisk city street life meant bold greetings to passing girls. The memory captures the tense voice and crowd mood of those moments.
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Ohio State Journal
E F Benson Encounters Nixon the Tennis Playing Dean
In London Tit Bits a vivid portrait recalls J. 2. Nixon dean of King’s Cambridge. Though small and missing a right hand he plays tennis with the ball tucked under his arm and bursts into lively argument. He jokes on what counts as a fine day with a comic fish comparison.
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E. F. Benson
J. 2. Nixon
King’s College
Cambridge
Nixon
Mr. Benson
London
Laid Bare Medieval Church Unearthed in Jerusalem Garden
Excavators in November uncovered a Thirteenth-century church in the Garden of Gethsemane beneath a Fourth-century structure. The site shows two rows of columns, three apses, and mosaic floors, with walls and mosaics largely preserved. Franciscan excavations reveal the find while seeking a chapel and plan to build over the site.
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Jerusalem
Gethsemane
Mount of Olives
Palestine
Victory for Airplane Across Gale Weather
Handley Page pilot Mr MacIntosh battled a hurricane from Paris to Lympne in over three hours on a DH9 with Siddeley engine. Vaughan Fowler flew London to Paris 240 miles in 1 hour 40 minutes on an old DH4 with Rolls engine. Both were the only craft to cross, suggesting air mail as the surest route.
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England
France
Mr. MacIntosh
Handley-Page Transport
Paris
Lympne
Siddeley
Vaughan Fowler
London
Inventor's Machine Automates Camphor Harvesting
An American inventor has developed a gasoline powered machine that strips camphor trees of leaves and small branches at regular intervals without injuring the limbs or reducing the trees’ productivity. The device includes its own engine and promises to cut the labor costs of the camphor industry.
Spaniards Dominate Mexico Land Holdings
Mexican census shows about 7,000 families of Spanish Creole descent own nearly all fertile soil. Mexico spans about 750,000 square miles, so estates average over 100 square miles each.
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Republic
Mexico
Fishes with Forked Tails Feature in Marine Swift Swim
Dr. John T. Nichols notes in National Geographic Magazine that most fast swimming marine animals, including whales and porpoises, mackerel family fish, and freemoving sharks, possess forked tails. Freshwater minnows also typically have forked tails to navigate their sizable waters.
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John T. Nichols
National Geographic Magazine
Sun’s ancient youth vanished as stars grow unstable
The article explains that the Sun was once at least ten times bigger and brighter in ancient, clouded skies. It notes uncertainty about historic warmth due to sunlight being screened by clouds and cites a natural limit that prevents stars from expanding until they burst, with internal pressure stabilizing them.
Cottonwood buds spark BC farm industry
Farmers in British Columbia harvest cottonwood buds and ship carloads to eastern druggists. Buds match eastern varieties in quality, promising a thriving local industry and jobs for many workers as surveys map potential districts. Prices reach 50 cents a bushel.
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British Columbia
Canada
Radical Remedy Quote From Sovietist Preface
A busy sovietist answers the question what is your remedy for unrest with a blunt reply to have as much as possible all at once and get it over with reflecting wartime or revolutionary rhetoric in a historical newspaper tone.
House Names and the Value of Proper Designations
The author notes English suburbs and villages label homes with names like Terrace house or Ivy cottage. Names on stone posts help identify houses, and the practice adds recognized value and significance to homes or farms, suggesting a preference for personal identity over numbers.
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London
Oaktree House
Ivy Cottage
John Buyrmzchks
Paris the cradle of a city unseen in Rome's shadow
The article recounts Paris origins on the Île de la Cité, a reed island in the Seine first known as Lucetia Lutetia or Lutetia. Caesar walls and Jupiter temple sparked a settlement that grew through Roman emperors and forests to become the Paris of today, while preserving the cradle as La Cité.
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Paris
Europe
Caesar
Lucetia
Luecotetia
Lutetia
Seine
Jupiter
Juelian
Rome
la Cite
At Home in the Kitchen Row In House Drama
A domestic exchange shows a woman insisting on sociable company while Jane says the young man is too shy to enter the parlor indicating social constraint and shyness in a household scene.
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Jane
Love Letters and Breach of Promise Case In London
A breach of promise case in London features a plaintiff admitting carbon copies of all her love letters to her swain. The jury awards damages, highlighting the era’s rise of typed and carbon copied correspondence as a prudent practice for lovers.
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London Mail
King’s Bench
Purification by Explosion Joke At Harvard Laboratory
A Harvard man authored a grim laboratory joke referencing the chemical lab. The quip describes immersing iodine in aqua ammonia, filtering and drying the precipitate, grinding it in a mortar, and writing notes for the afterlife.
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Harvard
Chemical Laboratory
Confusing Times For Early Spring Wardrobe
A fragment quotes Mrs. Upton Dayton on the confusion of buying spring clothes early. She says the season is so far ahead that she cannot tell if she is wearing winter wraps or summer furs.
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