Local Government Roster Fragment from Cuvy Area
An OCR reading lists city officials and board members including mayor aldermen trustees of city school and police figures. Names such as J B Vickery Wm Ric Christinas Davi d Peo Porte ce John Evans Sage Peek and others appear with positions like city marshal trustee chairman secretary treasurer police and county board of education, amid erratic punctuation and incomplete lines.
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Hee
W.B. Townsend Court
Christinas
David Peo
Portece
John Evans
Rax
Sage
Peek Rio Dr
Cantrell
Bakerry Polic
MAN
Ggg
Reed W.J. Free
C. Johnson
ARS
H. Jones
W. J. Hightower
County Board On Education
Bi Low Gah
The Oxen Feast in Philippine Villages
In Ifugao culture a rich man may give friends a cara bao. A pair of oxen are released into the plaza and mobbed with bolos. The animal is slaughtered swiftly, entrails shared in a tug of war, and within fifteen minutes only fodder remains as boys search for scraps.
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Philippine Islands
Detroit News
Bonds of Matrimony Comic Exchange at Club
A humorous club exchange features two members joking about marriage and a wife who approves of self purchase autonomy. The banter touches on cigars and neckties as symbols of a husband’s control and affection in a light social setting.
Novel Penknife described in Popular Mechanics
The new knife variation is built in several types from hunting to watch-chain sizes and features a blade that locks in use and hides when closed. It is dustproof and optionally waterproof, eliminates the costly steel backspring, and offers interchangeable blades by unscrewing a pin for rapid blade substitution.
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Popular Mechanics
Selfishness Quip Sparks Morning Dream Debate
In a playful exchange quoted from the Detroit News a man jokes that his selfishness interrupted a dream of buying a seven passenger car and starting a trip, prompting his wife to scold him for delaying as she prepared.
Hittite Empire Explored by Oxford Scholar at Philadelphia
English scholar David George Hogarth of Oxford spoke at the University Museum in Philadelphia about the Hittites. He noted eight excavations at Carchemish and progress in reading Hittite archives, linking Hittite culture to broader Near Eastern history and showing its dominance across western Asia from about 600 B C. The empire was not centralized like modern states, with many districts intermittently attached to Cappadocia.
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David George Hogarth
Oxford
England
University Museum
Philadelphia
America
Carchemish
Hattushash
Cappadocia
Near East
Mesopotamia
Western Asia
Cape Padocia
Only Woman Byron Loved
The article argues Mary Chaworth was Byron's唯一 true love among many he experienced. It notes their reunion amid her troubled marriage and Byron's rising fame and beauty, suggesting a remorseful turn that influenced his marriage and later cynicism.
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George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
Mary Chaworth
Caroline Lamb
Lady Oxford
Anna Isabella Milbanke
Jane Clairmont
Countess Quicciolo
Venice
Byron
The Zero Hour Inspires Westward Meeting
Ex-President Taft spoke at length while a merchant seaman captain, famed for wartime courage, was urged to address a West meeting. When Taft finished, the audience mostly left, prompting the chairman to urge them to return and honor the veteran who served through the war.
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Merchant Marine
Taft
H—I
Christian Register
Mean Trick On Blood Oranges In Onion Room
Egbert jokes that placing blood oranges with onions for days transfers onion flavor. Bacon calls it a mean trick to play on the oranges.
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Egbert
Burdock Weed Spreads Across the Country
An article citing Helen M. Gilkey of Oregon Agricultural College details how burdock, a European weed, spread to North America via animal hair and immigrant clothing. Its seeds germinated, colonies formed, and explorers carried it beyond borders, now common in nearly every U.S. region.
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Europe
North America
Portland Oregonian
Helen M. Gilkey
The
Oregon Agricultural College
Cupid's daring romance shocks Montauban convent
A 20 year old French girl from Scptfonds defies her father by fleeing a Montauban convent with her lover. The 20 year old student climbed a wall with a ladder during daylight, and the couple escaped through the wall amid surprised nuns.
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Cupid
Scptfonds
France
Montauban
Seamen's Menu Demands Modern Fare In Union Petition
The Australian Federated Seamen's union asks for a modern menu replacing the old salt horse with canned fruits condensed milk Worcestershire and tomato sauces rolls scones bacon and eggs boiled eggs steak and onions soup Irish stew roast beef mutton veal assorted salads cakes plum pudding custards and jellies. Enameled utensils and clean tablecloths three times weekly are demanded.
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Federated Seamen’s Union
Woman Medal Designer Anne Moureux Visits Country
Mme Anne Moureux, a French medal designer famed for war medals and other works, is touring the country. A Prix de Rome winner, she has long competed as the sole woman among finalists since 1666, with the award eventually narrowed to six finalists.
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Mme. Anne Moureux
Daughter of a Bootlegger Enters Fashionable School
A Birmingham Age Herald note remarks on the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger joining a fashionable girls school. It questions how she might answer if asked how her father earned his money and suggests she could say it came from operating in the street.
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Birmingham Age- Herald
Observant Youth Confuses Grandmothers For Stockings
A boy named Robert walks with his grandmother and points to an approaching elderly woman saying she is another grandmother. When questioned, he reasons he can tell by not seeing her stockings, a playful mix up highlighting child logic.
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Robert
Sunshine and Moonshine Confusion In Family Chat
A short vignette captures a humorous exchange where Uncle Bill Bottle Top contrasts sunshine with moonshine, noting many people mistake the two for the same. The dialogue emphasizes clarity and warmth in helping others.
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Uncle Bill Bottletop
Mines lighted by candles in South Africa and abroad
The 1920 Johannesburg chamber of commerce year book shows South African mines used 9,917,716 pounds of paraffin ten ounce candles in the last year. Of this, 8,218,367 pounds went to Rand gold mines. US coal mines avoid candles due to dust risk, while metal mines burn many candles and increasingly use carbide and electric lamps on miner backs with cords to a lamp overhead.
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South Africa
Johannesburg
Costs to be French ruler amid presidency expenses
The London Chronicle notes that a French president faces a high finance burden with a roughly 240000 dollar annual salary and expenses. Faure spent his fortune in office, Carnot lamented the Elysee as boring and ruinous, Fallieres saved little, and Grevy was frugal yet unpopular. A visitor quips about Missouri river water tasting fine.
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M. Millerand
London Chronicle
M. Felix Faure
Mme. Carnot
the Elysee
M. Fallieres
M. Grevy
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Dahlonega
J. R. Watkins Co
Memphis
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J.H. Watkins Co. Dept
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