Honor Awarded for Sacajawea Courage in Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sacajawea born nearSnake River Idaho later captured by Minnetarees rescued papers from a capsizing boat and warned of hostile plots. Her actions saved the expedition and aided the exploration era. A peak in the Bridger range was named for her and identified as a key pass later used by railways.
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Sacajawea
Snake River
Bitter Root Mountains
Idaho
Sacujawea
Toussaint Chaboneau
Brunswick
N. D
Papoose
Lewis and Clark
Geographical Survey
Bridger Range
Grotesque Dolls of Japan in Asian fashion shows
The article notes Japan’s doll making genius using flowers, fruit, beans, or straw. It describes children crafting clever paper dolls, a girl dressing a cushion as a baby, and elaborate displays for the girls festival in March and boys festival in May, featuring tiny dolls resembling imperial court figures and historical or mythic scenes.
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Imperial Court
Asia Magazine
How Male Albatross Makes Love
The article describes albatross mating behavior with a male standing by the nest and lifting wings while tilting the tail and bill, then emitting a cry as the neck sways. The female answers with a similar note, and they touch bills gently for about half an hour.
Admission to the bar rules and oath of office
States set distinct admission rules requiring passage of an examination and oath of office. Upon taking the oath to support U S and state constitutions, the applicant may be admitted to practice regardless of where legal education was obtained.
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United States
Jade and Jude in Spanish origins and ancient use
The word Jade and the name Jude derive from a Spanish term for a stone of the loins. Early explorers noted Central and South American natives wearing precious amulets for protection. One notable Jade ornament was a musical girdle worn by Alden era wearers, linked to virtue and ritual meanings.
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Central and
South America
Masterpieces of Wood Carving Across Renaissance Europe
The Italian Renaissance produced elaborate wood choir stalls ceilings and carved wedding chests. In Spain Moorish and later French and Italian influences shaped wood carving. In the 17th century polychrome wood sculpture became Spain’s hallmark with choir stalls and screens.
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Spain
Devil Drive Parade Description In Kuching
A historical fragment describes a biannual event in Kuching where Chinese residents participate in a long devil drive. The pageant features floats with young women in fine dresses wearing gold ornaments and jewels, while other floats show menacing paper dragons. Silk banners with threatening phrases are carried to frighten the devils.
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Kuching
Borneo
Life Is Love and Laughter
Poem promoting love and joy with lines about life as sun and pleasure. Encourages lifting eyes to see life’s beauty, friendship, and brotherhood. Mentions McClure Newspaper Syndicate as the byline.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Trussed Fox Found in Hay Sheaf on New Zealand Farm
A New Zealand farmer binding hay discovered a fox twisted in the binder twine, its hind legs mutilated by the knives. The fox was hidden in a sheaf of hay, believed caught asleep during dense crop work.
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New Zealand
Pinkertons Plains
Machinery imports into South Africa rise in 1921 over 1913
The Industrial machinery division of the Department of Commerce reports South Africa’s mining machinery imports in 1921 surpassed 1913 by over 20 percent, with a notable shift to the United States. U S suppliers provided more than 85 percent of mining machinery in 1921, more than double 1918 levels, despite a 1920 drop from 1919 figures.
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South Africa
Industrial Machinery Division
Department of Commerce
United States
Union ‘of South Africa
Vitality of Matthew Arnold in a Posthumous Test
In this North American Review passage Stanley T. Williams reflects on Matthew Arnold’s enduring value after death. He notes most who knew Arnold are gone, diaries and reminiscences fade, and asks what survives his poetry. A publisher’s bill of sales is offered as a pragmatic measure of lasting worth.
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Matthew Arnold
Arnold
Chesterton
Shakespeare
Borns
Borns and An Tngersolls
Lalebum
Stanley T. Willams
The
North American Review
Man Found Wearing No Pants Exits Front Door
The Kansas City Star recounts Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge recalling Hamp Strodder emerging from his house with no britches after a spell of driving home. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson discuss the odd sight while Jig Fiddin rides in the wagon, their conversation touching on Why Strodder might be wearing none and that it was his business.
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Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Ine
Kansas City Star
Shaving In Dark Room With New Safety Razor
A laboratory safety razor handle conceals an electric light large enough to let a man shave himself in a dark room. The device suggests innovations aimed at improving personal grooming accessibility in low visibility conditions.
World Timber Supply Threatens U S Paper Output
The forest service of the United States Department of Agriculture says global timber is inadequate for modern needs. Canada supplies one third of U S paper pulp, with an export embargo on pulp wood from crown lands likely to extend to all Canadian forest lands, risking dependence on foreign timber for the U S paper industry.
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Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Canada
Dominion
United States
Colored cotton goods production systems and varieties
The passage outlines multiple cotton colored goods systems each with specific advantages for producing a line of goods. It lists classes such as bleached dyed painted stained embossed enameled printed goods and notes the role of dyestuffs in the process. The text implies growing demand from distinct buyers for each class.
Daring Mountain Descent In A Benz Tallying Daring Drive
E Alexander Powell recounts a perilous journey across a Persian pass in a Muscovite driver’s Benz. The driver uses risky methods including two wheel curving and emergency stops, sometimes steering with knees to smoke while navigating hairpin turns. The narrator fears for survival and even contemplates not seeing the Statue of Liberty again.
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Statue of Liberty
E. Alexander Powell
Harper's Magazine
Lost Treasure of Montezuma Legend of Mexico’s Hidden Gold
Legend says Montezuma hid vast gold beneath a secret palace in the plateau region of Nayarit Mexico before his overthrow in 1520. Cortez captured much of the wealth but failed to extract the precise cache from Aztec leaders, delaying discovery for years.
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Montezuma
Cortez
Nayarit
Mexico
Telephone use by country averages hours per inhabitant
A study compares per person telephone use across nations. The United States averages 16 hours annually, Scandinavia 12 hours, Germany 5 hours, Switzerland 3 hours, Great Britain 2 hours, France 1.4 hours, and Italy less than 1 hour, indicating varying reliance on telephone conversations.
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United States
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Germany
Switzerland
Great Britain
France
Italy
Alamogordo Desert Landform in New Mexico
A description of the Alamogordo or Tuta rosa desert in New Mexico notes its large sandy plains spanning roughly 100 to 125 miles north to south and 55 to 50 miles east to west. It describes an upper crustal block that sank after Cretaceous deposition, bordered by an elevated rim with cliffs up to 1,000 feet, near the Organ Mountains. Gypsum deposits lie within the plain as white drifts blown by wind, and the vegetation is noted as peculiar and of interest to botanists.
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New Mexico
Alamogordo
Tutarosa
Organ Mountains
Moody and sages quoted on happiness and mind’s adventures
A Boston Transcript excerpt mentions Hindu sages teaching that using a child’s resources need not deprive happiness, and poet Moody praising mind adventures as more enthralling than senses. It also notes Conrad Marion chasing notions for fun.
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Moody
Conrad Marion
Boston Transcript
Fine Italian Renaissance Wood Carvings Reach Carnegie
Italian Renaissance carvings brought to America in 1018 and placed in the Carnegie museum. Once in the collection of Paris antiquarian M. Emile Pines, the seven panels depict scenes from the life of St John the Evangelist. They are religious in character and part of church or interior door decoration.
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America
M. Emile Pines
Paris
Ahi
John, the Evangelist
Timely Thoughts on a Still Moment
A well known lawyer chides a legal friend for passing him in a motorcar without recognition. The lawyer asks about the driver and is told yes. The friend notes when driving you think only of your Maker and not of earthly friends.
Nature's Wonderful Mechanism and Earth’s Stable Day Length
A description asserts the sun’s swift movement and Earth's rotation show nature's precise mechanism. It notes energy comparisons with Niagara power and asserts that despite rapid orbital and axial speeds, the length of a day changes by at most a second over 100,000 years.
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Stokeley
Common Words. In conversation what heard oftenest
A brief note from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat indicates that in the first year of Its ownership the word what dominates speech, except the phrase our car appears most often. The report analyzes daily usage patterns and suggests emphasis on practical terms.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Wanted Girl for Style Housework in Hartford Times
Classified ad seeks a girl for style housework with no washing and no objection to green or colored girl. Hartford Times notice.
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Gill
Hartford Times
Sale of School Properties in Greensboro Maryland 1923
The Denton Maryland Board of Education announces a public sale at Caroline County Bank in Greensboro about 2 p m on Saturday April 2 1923. The property fronts Academy street and Maple avenue with a seven room wooden school building and outbuildings. Lots offered separately then as a whole, plus Lowis's School Property on the Greensboro to Whitehall Road, half acre with building. One fourth cash day of sale, balance cash or short term note with security. Auctioneer James Temple.
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Greensboro
Maryland
Caroline County Bank
Academy Street
Maple Avenue
Lowis
Whiteleysburg
Board OF Education
W. M. Wirch
C. B. Jarman
James Temple
State Roads Sealed Bids for Four Highway Sections
Sealed proposals for four state highway sections in Howard Montgomery Caroline and Wicomico counties will be opened April 17 1923 at the State Roads Commission Baltimore. Bids require a 600 dollar certified check and a $1 bid form fee, with bonds and compliance to Maryland law. The commission may reject any or all bids.
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Howard County
Laurel
Scaggsville
Montgomery County
Dawsonville
Beallsville
Caroline County
Federalsburg
Delaware State Line
Wicomico County
Salisbury
Nanticoke
State Roads Commission
Garrett Building
Baltimore
Maryland
Commission
General Assembly of Maryland
J.N. Mackall
L. H. Stevan
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Denton Journal
Howard Melvin Benj. H. Johnson
Melvin & Johnson, F Publienere
Lewia and
Clark
Grotesque
Japan
Devil Drive
By Douglas Malloch
Windsor
Heywood-Wakefield
Kingsbury
Singer
M. K. Newnam
Denton, Maryland
Noble Music Store
Federalsburg, Md
the Board of Education
Denton
State OF
W. F. Jackson
Purnell Johnson Farm
John Steinman
Nancy Hall
Vanna
T. H. Everngam
Denton, Md
M. Corfield
Brooklawn Poultry Farm
R. F. D. Denton, Md
Goodrich
Silvertown Cord
Perfection
Red Star
C. Leslie Walls
Law Building
Court House
Star Cars
A. P. Whitby
W. P. Carroll
Baby Shop
Easton
Baltimore Sun
Ing
Newsdealer
Sunday Sun
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