Ben's Rags and Tags Sell Basket of Rubbish for Eight Hundred Dollars
Ben Moran challenges the rummage sale at the community house, auctions off a basket of junk from his own desk, and discovers the fundraiser can raise five hundred dollars or more. Elsa Miner explains the purpose while the event attracts male skepticism, then Ben helps raise eight hundred dollars, transforming a joke into a pivotal community fund drive.
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EN Taylor
Ben
Elsa Miner
Elsa
Jim Nnd
First National Bank
Moran
Martin
Benny
Tere
Tycho Brahe’s Nose Forged From Gold and Silver
A sixteenth century tale recounts Tycho Brahe’s rival duel at Rostock university over mathematics. After losing part of his nose in a sword duel, Brahe allegedly fashioned a replacement nose from gold and silver, with observers claiming it matched the original in appearance, though some doubt the verdict's impartiality.
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Tycho Brahe
University of Rostock
Brahe
Tycho
Lead Artifacts Decay in Cluny Museum
Interesting experiments show ancient lead medals vases deteriorating in Cluny Museum as they interact with saline traces in soil or water. Microscopic impurities act like microbes, making the lead become sick and eventually perish unless the salt is removed. Curiously, adding salt to fresh lead makes it vulnerable to damage as well.
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Museu
Cluny
Museum of
Watch that never stops from Catalonia amazes horology
A Catalan watchmaker unveils a self winding timepiece claimed to run indefinitely without rewinding. It displays seconds to years, day and night, weekday and month, leap years, zodiac, weeks remaining, sunrise and sunset, moon phases, and more. With over 800 parts, it took 1,100 hours of spare time to craft.
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Catalonia
Darwin and Worms Transform Soil Over Time
Nature Magazine notes Charles Darwin studied ground worms. British soil averages 53,000 worms per acre, moving about ten tons of earth annually. Worm activity, ongoing for hundreds of thousands of years, gradually reshapes the landscape as worm casts accumulate.
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Darwin
Nature Magazine
Acre
Wes ley the most redoubtable eighteenth century horseman
John Wes ley is lauded as the era’s most redoubtable horseman. He rode 60 to 70 miles daily during his career and after eighty years old logged 4,000 to 5,000 miles in a year. He often started by 8 a m and rode with a tight rein, reading history with his wife when weather allowed.
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John Wesley
Icose
A. M. Pagan
The
Empire Review
Hugo on Genius and Nature in Nictar Hugo's Vision
The passage discusses genius as an entity like nature, existing because it is. It asserts that genius requires simple acceptance and that a mountain can be taken or left, while genius defines its own reason for existing. Its shadow contrasts with its clarity, emphasizing existential affirmation.
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Nictar Hugo
Sealed bids sought for State Highway section in Caroline County
State Roads Commission invites proposals to build one section of concrete State Highway free end of Cont toward Bridgetown for 1.0 mile in Caroline County. Bids due May 2 1927 at noon in Baltimore. Bid must include 500 bond and comply with Maryland acts. Commission may reject any or all bids. JOAN N. MACKALL Chairman L H Steuart Secretary May 6 1927.
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Caroline County
Bridgetown
State Roads Commission
Garrett Building
Baltimore
Maryland
Commission
State Roada Commission
General Assembly of Maryland
State Bonds Commission
Thea
Joan N. Mackall
L. Hi. Steuart
Court orders auditor report ratified in Caroline County
In Equity No. 2474 of the Circuit Court for Caroline county an order dated May 12 1927 directs that the Auditor's Report filed in the proceedings be ratified and confirmed unless a showing of good cause to the contrary is presented within three weeks from May 11 1927. The order requires publication in a Caroline County newspaper once a week for two consecutive weeks before May 23 1927. Clerk T Clayton Ifors ey. True Copy Test: T Clayton Horsey.
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Caroline County
Equity
Caroline OU
T. Clayton Iforsey
T. Clayton Horsey
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