Ancient Weapons and Armor Exhibit At Metropolitan Museum
Exhibition showcases recent accessions from the Met to include a vast armor suit and varied weapons. Highlights feature a calendar blade with saint names, an Italian knightly sword with tongue blade, a long 1600s pistol, a Wheelock Day firearm, an eighteenth century Naples pistol, and a large wall gun of the seventeenth century. The second largest suit of armor claims to fit a warrior so mighty no one could wear it.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saint George
Naples
Tradition Bars Jews' Union With Gentiles
The American Hebrew traces intermarriage prohibition to Abraham directing Eliezer to find a wife for Isaac among his kin in Aramea. It notes this as a tradition that became practice after the Babylonian exile, though intermarriage has occurred at times. Moral mission and fear of weakening influence underpin the stance.
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Abraham
Eliezer
Isaac
Aramea
Ezrates
Ilim
History in Song of Early War and Love Traditions
The Kansas City Star discusses how ancient songs were created by communities rather than individuals. These oral tales captured war and love, reflecting collective beliefs and emotions, with many songs lost over time as they were not written but passed down orally.
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Charlemagne
Kansas City Star
Sea Bird Gets Seasick On Deck Albatross Feats
A scientific expedition reports albatrosses caught on hooked pork bait and later tossed overboard. Sailors fear the wind bird, but crew members briefly disregarded superstition and several birds were captured and eaten, with some scientists declaring the flesh tasty in stew.
Bride Orders Coal by Shade in Mistaken Purchase
A newlywed woman, eager to impress her husband, phoned a coal dealer and asked for a ton of coal but failed to specify the type. After the dealer explained coal sizes, she requested the “nicest shade of black coal,” thinking she was buying a hat or dress.
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Salem News
Truth About Petrification Explained
An old superstition claims hickory wood placed in water will turn to stone in seven years. The piece notes no wood truly turns to stone. petrification is a mineral deposit process as the wood decays. Time varies from a few years to a thousand, depending on conditions.
Tracing Cliff Dwellers Across the Southwest
The so called cliff dwellers are shown not to be an extinct race but the ancestors of modern Pueblo Indians including the Hopi with villages on mesa summits. Evidence also ties cliff dwellers to early European sites in antiquity.
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Southwest
Colorado and
Rio Grande
Utah
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Europe
How It Started By Jean Newton Manufacture Of Paper
The article traces the origin of paper from ancient papyrus to Chinese invention, Arab introduction, and spread to Europe. It notes early Samar kand mill circa 706 A D, the Fabriano mill in 1150, and the 1690 Roxborough mill by William Rittenhouse in America. It highlights the Fourdinier brothers as fathers of modern paper making.
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Europe
Samarkand
Spain
Italy
Fabriano
France
Germany
England
America
Roxborough
Philadelphia
William Rittenhouse
Fourdinier Brothers
Charles B. King
Youngest Civil War drummer boy served with Confederacy
George H. Jacobs of North Carolina enlisted at nine as a drummer with Camden Grays, became a soldier at twelve, and served through the war. He and his father were at Appomattox with General Lee. Born August 20, 1854 at Nne's Head, he died November 25, 1908. He spent much of his service in Virginia and once hid in a ditch during heavy firing.
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George H. Jacobs
North Carolina
Camden Grays
Lee
Appomattox
Jacobs
Nne's Head
Thinker and risk in Emerson warning on science and progress
Ralph Waldo Emerson warns that unleashing a thinker on the world endangers all. Conflagration-like changes may strike any field from science to literature, challenging reputations, beliefs, and morals as new generalizations reshape mankind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nightingale Defies Poetic Image as Noisy Bird
In a Forum critique H D Lawrence argues Keats misreads the nightingale, claiming the bird's song is vivid and assertive rather than sad. He says the nightingale is one of the most lively birds, shattering romantic myth and making humans feel small before its vitality.
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H. D. Lawrence
John Keats
John
Hfe
Finland’s Claims to Fame Across Its Rich Heritage
Finland stands as the northernmost republic, first to grant absolute women's suffrage, first to adopt prohibition, and home to Europe’s largest forest area, paper mill, and lakes totaling 36000. A travel writer notes 30 000 stands. For six centuries Sweden ruled, then Russia, finally forming a republic in 1918. The president heads state, laws pass by a single-chamber diet.
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Finland
Europe
Pathfinder Magazine
Sweden
Russia
Humorous Definitions Move From London Schools
A London press novelty features playful definitions of common terms as juvenile atrocities. The list includes Cistercian as a garden plant, Macadam as a Scotchman, Boadicea as a serpent, Theodolite as a Browning saint, and Artisan as a wall. Written with light satire, the piece cites the Christian Science Monitor source.
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London
Christian Science Monitor
Britain
Browning
Easy Lessons in Auction Bridge
A compact guide to Auction Bridge detailing deck composition ranks and partners setup. It explains dealing bidding trump no trump minor suits, odd tricks, and scoring, then outlines play of tricks from the declarer side and dummy, leading to 18 tricks and scoring.
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Gaume
Assignment Sale of Valuation Real Estate in Caroline County
Frederick R. Owens as assignee for collection announces the sale of a mortgaged property in Goldsboro Maryland by public auction between 2 and 4 pm. The 76 acre parcel near Ridgely and Bridgetown includes a five room house stables vineyard and 1 acre asparagus with grape vines and a race track. Terms: one third cash day of sale one third in six months and one third in twelve months with interest and secured notes or cash. Auctioneer A J Dhue.
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James B. Wilkerson
J. Spencer Lapham
Fred R. Owens
Liber L. B.T
Caroline County
Maryland
Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro
Bridgetown
Greensboro
Boone Lockerman
Lockerman
Hridgetown
Stone
Lloyd B. Andrew
Concord
Ridgely
A. J. Dhue
Adelais Countess of Avignon Paragon of Love and Taste
The Kansas City Star notes Adelais, Countess of Avignon, as a paragon of beauty and wit who presided over a famed court of love in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She united intellectual charm with radiant looks, acted as arbiter of gallantry, and banished license from her court, a muse copied for friends and princes.
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Adelais
France
Poesy
Avignon
Kansas City Star
Disease Spread by Pets
Domestic pets can transmit diseases to humans through close contact. Tuberculosis mange ringworm and now pyorrhea are listed as possible: dogs and sometimes cats lick or nip skin spreading germs.
Varying Vocabularies Reported For Iowa Students
The University of Iowa lists 10 000 words as most accurate for writing. Estimates place an 8 000 word vocabulary as good, and a 1 000 word vocabulary as average for laborers. High school students show a wide range from 2 900 to 4 000 to 6 000 words.
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University of Iowa
Taxpayer notice for Hillsboro Ridgely sales dates
Notice to Taxpayers Hillsboro Friday October 28th 1 till 6 pm Thompson's Hardware Store Ridgely Saturday October 29th till 5 pm Ridgely Bank T Frank Seward Treasurer of Caroline County.
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Federalsburg
Covey & Williams
Henderson
Stubbs
Greensboro
Caroline County Bank
Scott’s
Hillsboro
Thompson's Hardware Store
Ridgely
Ridgely Bank
T. Frank Seward
Caroline County
Desirable North Market Street Residence in Denton
For Sale. Desirable residence on the north side of Market street between Sixth and Seventh in Denton. It has electric lights bath and several out buildings. A splendid location with immediate possession and liberal terms. The Denton National Bank.
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Market Street
Denton
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