A Partnership in the Trout Business
Grandfather Brown and eleven year old Leslie form a partnership to raise and sell trout from a spring on the Brown place. Leslie improves a tangled net, floods the brook with a freshet, and they expand the spring to stock more fish. A visiting buyer offers fifty cents a fish, prompting them to enlarge the spring and create a nearby feeder pond. The plan hints at funding Leslie’s future education with trout money.
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Randfather Brown
Leslie
Lesle
John
St Hopkins
Johnny
Grandfather
Gramfather Brown
Trestle
Hipparchus Father of Geography Pioneer Astronomer
Kansas City Star notes Hipparchus as the father of geography for systematic observations and a digest of astronomical science. Born near Nicæa, he lived around 160 to 145 B C, discovered the procession of the equinoxes, eclipses, planetary periods, and catalogued five stars, laying foundations for cartography and celestial mapping.
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Opparchus
Strabo
Nicca
Ptolemy
Hipparchus
Kansas City Star
Old Term Coolie Described as Indian and Chinese Laborer
The Pathfinder Magazine traces the word coolie to Windu kul or quill meaning la borer. It explains coolies as unskilled laborers from India China and the Orient. They were first imported under contracts binding a term of service. In the United States Chinese immigrants are sometimes called coolies.
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Pathfinder Magazine
India
China
Orient
United States
Brunettes More Appealing to Screen Than Blondes
According to Liberty, brunettes outshine blondes among film actresses as dark hair and eyes show up better on screen under normal conditions.
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Liberty
Proof of Colossal Beasts Roaming Mexico
A Sonora discovery reveals gigantic prehistoric creatures. A tooth measures 12 inches long and four inches wide, from a creature about 16 feet high. Dental experts estimate a full set of teeth would weigh about a quarter of a ton. The monster’s head would be as large as a motor car, and total weight would be scores of tons.
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Sonora
Mexico
Black bottom poles lengthen chestnut timber use
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company adopts black bottom poles treated with creosoted oil to extend chestnut timber life. Chestnut poles, vital for lines in DC area and surrounding states, face blight and depletion. treating plants in Virginia and West Virginia now treat large numbers to reduce outages and costs.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Telephone
Telegraph
American Forest Products Company
You Can and Will by Evelyn Gage Browne
Motivational message urging readers to believe in themselves and persist until success. Emphasizes that any claimed impossible task can be achieved by one determined person, encouraging self-confidence and action to win the highest prize.
Poetic Mood Mirrors Sky Over His Time
The narrator describes how poets seek day’s pulse and how poetry reflects a shifting sky. It notes a piety tied to the seasons, and an unstable idealism that endures amid earthly joys and heavenly bliss, despite trials of fortune and weather.
Valuable Alloy German Sliver Explanation
Valuable alloy called German sliver blends copper nickel and zinc. Used in spoons forks teapots and table articles. It corrodes with vinegar and acids so forks and spoons of this material are typically silver plated.
Ethel Keeps Quiet Then Notices Bath Water Woes
The parents of Ethel discuss rearing rules while she bursts with a thought after tea. She is told to wait until father finishes reading. He promotes listening, then asks what she wanted. She replies she could not turn off the bath tap and water is running down the stairs.
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Ethel
Father
Mother
Editor's Wife Quips Love Gap At Home
A remark overheard by The New Yorker shows the wife of a sex magazine editor lamenting the lack of affection at home. He replies that he prefers not to “talk shop” in private.
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Henry
The
New Yorker
Talisman Charm Linked to Astrology and Protection
A talisman is described as a charm usually a figure engraved on stone or cast in metal. The artifact is linked to astrology and was believed in the Middle Ages to shield the wearer from evil spirits.
Expensive cutting quoted in household advisor note
A household advisor in the Women’s Home Companion jokes that pictures cut from forgotten books were used to decorate waste baskets. An editor recalls a long-forgotten book near Boston selling for 16000 dollars two or three years ago.
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Woman’s Home Companion
Boston
Environment versus heredity in shaping a child
An examination of how environment and upbringing influence a newborn adopted into a Chinese family. The piece questions whether innate traits persist or are overridden by cultural immersion, noting differences in language, music, and behavior and calling for caution in drawing universal conclusions.
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Aimer
Ching
Johan DB Watson
Larper
Yesteryear
Virgil The Poet From Antiquity And His Masterpiece
Virgil born October 15 70 B C in Andes near Mantua was a farmer’s son with Celtic roots. He studied in Milan and joined poets in Nome at eighteen before composing the Georgics and the Aeneid. He died in 19 B C after years of work, reportedly unsatisfied and wishing the Aeneid burned.
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Virgil
Italy
B.C
Andes
Mantua
Vigtlus
Maro
Kansas City Star
Cisalpine
Julius Caesar
Milan
Nome
Ile
B. C
Hurricanes on the Sun Akin to Gas Hurricanes
A Popular Mechanics summary explains sun storms or sunspots as gigantic solar hurricanes. The central vortex can be about 20 miles across, with vast gases and speeds far exceeding earthly hurricanes. The dark spot on a plate is a brightness contrast, not a true absence of light.
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Caribbean Sea
Florida
Mavosina
Merriken Sues Swift and Swift Wife in Civil Case
Calvert C. Merriken files suit against John E. Swift and Sallie A. Swift, his wife, naming them as defendants in a civil action. The filing seeks relief as determined by the court and outlines claims connected to the dispute.
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Calvert C. Merriken
John E. Swift
Sallie A. Swift
Wanted refined housekeeper near Easton Maryland
A notice seeks a refined white housekeeper about forty to fifty years old who values shelter as part of wages. Readers are asked to write with names and addresses. Address P.O. BOX 391, 8 27 Easton, Maryland.
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P.O. Box
Easton
Maryland
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Walsh
Geography
Evelyn Gage Browne
Power
Spenser
Niss
Caroline County
Chy
Calvert C., Merriken, Agsignee
T. Clayton Horsey
Clayton Horsey
Weasley FE
Tunnleys
James Calvin ‘Smith
Barintha Smith
Circuit Court
Chancery
Wesley E. Thawley
W. A. Smith
Marner
Denton,md
Webster S. Blades
Moses W. Rosenfeld
Eugene Frederick Blades
Rosenfeld
Plaza
Frederick
Attorneys At Law
Fidelity
Baltimore
Gertrude Dix
Bessie Green
Circuit Court For
W. Brewster Deen
Charles B. Harrison
Nisi
Percy C. Douglas
Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro
Robert Jarrell, JR
Enoch George
Preston, Md
Royal Standard Cleaner
Eastern Shore Gas & Electric CO
Denton, Mary and
Hirhmen’s
Chestertown
Automobile
Frigidaire
James J. Ross
Cecil C. Fulton
Sec’y Treas
Kent County Mutual Insurance Co
Dover
Delarvare
J. T. Carter & Son
L. Irving Jones
Denton
Greensboro
Clare N. Payne
Agt
Prestos
Ernest G. Cooper Denton, Md
the Farmers & Merchants State Bank
George W. Beck
the Provident State Bank
Preston
J. A. Trazzare
Wilbert L. Merriken
George O. Emig
Emma M. Emig
Hells
John L. Everngam
East Main Street
Holiness Church
Peoples Bank
Bell System
Denton National Bank
W. I. Norris
the Peoples Bank
J. Frank Wright
Press
Chesapeake and Potomag Telephone Company
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