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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1924
Page
11
An untitled wartime reflection recalls a lone figure among a crowd, a medalled neighbor named for sacrifice. The speaker, tense and reflective, contemplates the cost of victory and the unrecognized toil of those who stood in the breach for justice and right.
A reflection on Memorial Day urging quiet contemplation and active patriotism. Samuel Drury extols memory of fallen soldiers, embraces peace as a worthy victory, and calls youth to honor veterans with service, courage, and civic duty for a nation where freedom and opportunity endure.
Boston’s Province street widening alters a historic district once known as Governor’s alley. The 180 year old path, with its 15 inch sidewalks and stone steps, loses landmarks including Province Inn. The expansion reclaims land from the former governor’s apple orchard near sites of early Boston institutions.
In Saranac Lake a Florida alligator fed in a Chazzy shop window became the latest draw until a Thomas cat attacked it. The animal fought back with snapping jaws, and dawn revealed the alligator torn apart. The owner’s prized pet was blamed for the tragedy.
On Bosworth street where Oliver Wendell Holmes lived while writing The Autocrat of the Breakfast Taste. The area, once lined with gardens of mansions on Tremont and Bromfelt streets, faces widening projects to ease congestion in narrow Boston streets.
A monkey named Jock, living with farmer W H McClure near Republic Kansas, wandered into town three years ago and attached to a chicken pen. After a hog wagon incident he became master jockey to several hogs, sleeping between two hogs and eating from the pig line, ruling the pigsty as his adopted home.
A quotation from Sewetl argues that sin is a mental condition rather than an outward action, framing morality as inner perception rather than observable conduct. The remark frames ethics as subjective and introspective.
The Xenia expedition reports evidence of an early Canaanite civilization from the 20th century B C in graves near the Dead Sea region. Dr. Molyin G. Kyle states the discovery supports Biblical accounts of Sodom and Gomorrah’s disappearance and notes the next civilization to appear is Byzantine, over two millennia later.
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