Teachers Open Institute at St Meinrad as School Year Starts
Harrison township teachers met at St Meinrad for the opening institute with County Superintendent Lindsey in attendance. Free schools opened Monday while several locals traveled to Ferdinand for Henry Reckelhof’s funeral. A. Egloff & Co. expands business at Rush Creek with staff including Isidore Egloff and Bernard Rickelmann. Bunions of housing rearrangements noted. Cumberland Telephone Co. erects large new poles under Louis Wahl supervision.
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Harrison Township
St. Meinrad
Lindsey
Ferdinand
Henry Reckelhof
Adolph Egiloff, Jr
Misssouri
Cairo
Rush Creek
Isidore Hkgloft
Francis Hubers
Isidore Egloff
A. Egloff
Bernard Hubers
Bristow Local Notes Preview Busy Community Update
Rainy weather and a new school opening led by Cleve Bailey and wife. Teachers Institute, ball planned for Oct 12, and several visits between residents including Lydia Lamar, Mary Lomax, and Minnie Miles starting school at ML Pleasant. Local industry shows crowds as Bristow Singletree and Spoke Co. operates new machinery.
Mind Fatigue Theory Challenged by Washington Scientist
A Washington scientist reports experiments on mental fatigue challenging the idea that the mind loses power like a rubber ball losing bounce and that sleep restores energy. He finds the degree of fatigue from mental work is smaller than believed and questions methods used to measure fatigue in school children.
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Washington
Supplying Bird Food in War Time France
A bird dealer describes a season in France where streams are lit by nightly bonfires. Peasants restock fires all night, and at dawn the ground is thick with waste and firefly corpses. These tiny bodies are sold to bird dealers for 4 to 6 cents a pint and resold as food for pets like canaries and thrushes.
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France
Pasadena Citizens Protest Bees and Flies Nuisance
Pasadena residents complain to authorities about intoxicated bees and flies drawn to fermenting orange juice from a local nursery. They allege a large Japanese workforce extracting seeds from decayed fruit causes juice runoff, attracting vast numbers of insects.
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Pasadena
Cal
Treatment for Cerebrospinal Meningitis Using Pyocyanase Spray
The latest procedure for cerebrospinal meningitis sprays a liquid containing pyocyanase into the nasopharynx. Within 24 hours the diplococci from nasal discharge drop by about 40 percent and all diplococci vanish in 45 to 60 hours.
Oklahoma's Blind Senator T P Gore and his wife
Oklahoma's blind senator T P Gore relies on his wife to send daily papers and provide the law books and Congressional Record he needs to stay informed and ready for political competition and campaigns.
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Oklahoma
T. P. Gore
Congressional Record
Vienna Moves To Remove Haydn Benes For Resting Place
Vienna's city council formalities aim to relocate the benes of Haydn to a fitting city grave, near Brethaven and Schubert. Haydn died at 77 in Vienna in 1509 and the plan cites a suitable burial site close to renowned composers. Also notes India testing monorail locomotion with gyro-seone train prototypes funded by government grants.
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Haydn
Benes
Vienna
Wisenstadt
Benes of Jr
Brethaven
Schubert Haydn
New Zealand Domestic Workers Union Expands Across Colonies
The New Zealand Domestic Workers Union extends to leading cities in the colony. Its charter provides a sixty eight hour work week, wage scales, and indoor reforms. Members are categorized as housekeepers, lady helps, generals, housemaids, nursemaids, kitchen maids, laundry maids, cooks, waitresses, and nurses in charge.
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New Zealand
Domestic Workers’ Union
Gatun Dam Area Boosts Canal Water Storage
Survey estimates Gatun Lake will cover 225 square miles after the dam near Caton is built, up from 110. The larger reservoir enables up to fifty six lockages daily, improving canal traffic and efficiency. Also notes Burgenstock elevator service as the world’s tallest, and lists rulers with official astrologers.
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Gatar Lake
Reece
Parama
Gaton Lake
Gatun
Caton
Mississippi Flood Awe Inspires Domestic Travel Swap
In Good Housekeeping, Guy Walker urges readers to explore the United States before abroad. He extols the Mississippi River in flood, describing its immense, silent, restless sweep as a greater sight than Niagara Falls.
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Thames
Seine
America
Mississippi
Guy Walker
Good Housekeeping
Niagara
Yale Yell Impresses Gen Kuroki and Name as Gambolier
Gen Kuroki visited Yale and heard the college yell. An interpreter explains the students said they are glad to see him and hope he returns. They congratulate him on Western victories and declare him unanimously elected a Son of a Gambolier.
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Gen. Kuroki
Yale
Harper's Weekly
Excavations at Herculaneum Unlock Ancient Papyri
In June 1750 the west end of the House of the Papyri garden yielded papyri when sealed bundles of charcoal included inscribed rolls. Father Platina devised a tool to unroll them, and for 120 years scholars deciphered and edited. Some original rolls now rest in the British Isles libraries.
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Ethel Ross Barker
Burlington Magazine
Pereulaneum
Platain
Irish Museum
Bodleian Library
England's Highest Church rising above Darimoor village
The Church of St Michael and All Angels sits 140 feet above sea level atop Darimoor’s highest point, in the parish of Tedford, Bene land. Erected in the early nineteenth century by French and American prisoners of war held during the Napoleonic era, it stands as England’s highest inhabited village church.
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England
Darimoor
Eaglands
St Michael and All Angels
Liisa
Europe
Manchuria Exports Bean Oil for Lamps and Food
The article notes bean oil as a major Manchurian export used for lighting and cooking. Mitsui Basean Kaisha in Vieling experiments with blending a small amount of another oil to create a cheaper, better lubricant, believing current blends yield satisfactory results.
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Manchuria
Mitsui Basean Kaisha
Vieling
Cat Recovered After Sixteen Days in Rabbitrapping
A crossbred Persian from Horbling near Billingsherond Maeland vanished for sixteen days then was found in an open field trapped in a rabbit trap. Despite exposure to rain and a long confinement the cat survived though reduced to a skeleton and unable to walk. With proper treatment it recovered.
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Billingsherond
Maeland
Mass highway raveling amid dry spells prompts sand use
Dry weather raveling of Massachusetts state highways has been limited by spreading a thin layer of sand. Last year two prolonged dry spells disturbed road bonds causing loose stones to stand up on the surface despite sand application.
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Massachusetts
The Sailor's Counsellor and His New York Port Role
The Sailor's Counsellor describes H. A. Hanbury as the U S shipping commissioner for New York who acts as sailors judge and protector. Sailors bring papers for foreign crates before him rather than consuls and he decides disputes between mariners and their quarters.
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H. A. Hanbury
Hanbury
United States
New York
Tle
Courtroom quip recalls Court of Appeals luncheon remark
In a recent case before Justice Darling the judge refused to grant an unrequesting filing, saying the Court of Appeals would deem him wrong. Counsel disagreed, and the judge noted familiarity with the court at work, not at lunch. The barrister retorted, Your lordship sees them at their best. A quip follows.
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Ustice Darling
Court of Appeals
Chinese Walking and Indian File Ethnology Debunked
A writer argues that Chinese and American Indians share stock, citing Indian file rhythm and travel silence as evidence. The column contrasts Chinese quietness with Italian chatter to claim racial differences, asserting the two races are unrelated.
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Valley of the Columbia
United States
Antonio Apache
Almeri-ca
Willmaking and Widow’s Payouts in Historic Testaments
A column notes how testators use wills to direct money and disputes, citing the Duke of Monmouth’s farewell bequests to his Duchess and legacies in a Kerr will. It highlights spiteful tones in provisions, including fines and legal costs, reflecting volatile testamentary gifts.
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Duke of Monmouth
Blenheim
Kerr
Grand Magazine
Origin of the Almighty Dollar phrase
The familiar saying originates with Washington Irving in The Creole Village, who faced controversy over the wording. He later clarified there was no irreverence toward the dollar, noting its rising worship. The term dollar derives from thaler, coined in Joachimsthal Bohemia in the sixteenth century.
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Washington
Creale
Joachimsthal
Bohemia
French government mission to study American women workers
Mme. Lawrence Fiedler of Paris is entrusted to conduct an exhaustive study of the special and industrial conditions of women and children in America. The aim is to raise wages and improve the social status of French women across all industrial and commercial sectors.
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France
Mme
Lawrence Fiedler
Paris
America
Mme. Fiedler
Priceless Sevres Service and Iberian Gift at Apsley House
The Duchess of Wellington possesses a Sevres service made for Napoleon I, each piece unique and priceless. In the Apsley House cellars lies the Portugal gift to the Iron Duke valued at £200,990, with a centerpiece five feet high requiring four men to place it on the table. The article also notes the origin of the “Goon Song” and traces modern syncopation to older African slave melodies handed down through generations.
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Duchess of Wellington
Apsley House
Alan
Portugal
Africa
The Mikados Wife and Other Notable Fragments
The text notes Ilari-Ko as the Mikados wife a famed poetess who may enter literary history. It touches on a National Park famed as Americas first preserved by white settlers and Native tribes and mentions various cultural notes from Russia to Greece including clergy and presidential beliefs.
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Ilari-Ko
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Bristow
Cleve Bailey
Rose Hobbs
Nell Miles
Stella
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T. K. Miles
Bristow Singletree & Spoke Co
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Tell City
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Charley Hobbs
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Minnie Miles
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J. R. Hail
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