Local town notes on oil, health, and community events
Louis Bradford plans quicker fuel service while Mrs Maddox cares for a sick mother. Alice Wight and Maude to Minneapolis for goitre surgery. Measles hit Mary Ward and Alice. Helen is the source. Oil field growth draws attention from Lewistown to Grass Range as locals await lines and pipelines. Socials, anniversaries, and visits fill winter days.
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Louis Bradford
George Ayers
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Lewistown
Mary Ward
Alice
Helen
Mrs. Ward
Sanctified Husband Sparks Flight From Plantation Romance
An older aunt recounts a marriage to a sanctified man who mistreated her. After leaving him, she secured a lawyer and took half of the man’s plantation, claiming relief from the holy spouse who blocked her freedoms. The tale highlights rural social tensions and the quirks of a local community.
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Lizzie
Chile
A Stiff Upper Lip Editorial Notes Tone
The Louisville Herald critiques the idea of an always stiff upper lip praising occasional emotion as natural. It argues the phrase should evolve to something like a lower lip to maintain impact and inspire steadfastness without forcing rigidity.
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Louisville Herald
Rasmussen to Study Eskimo Peoples by Danish Explorer
Danish explorer Koud Rasmussen, part Eskimo himself, aims to study the entire Eskimo race from eastern Greenland to Siberia. Ekblaw notes Rasmussen has visited all Greenland Eskimo settlements and knows many personally, with recent trip to Ammassalik showing East Greenland Eskimos closely tied to the central group rather than other Greenland tribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koud Rainesen
W. BE. Ekblan
Geographical Review
Rasmussen
University of Copenhagen
Greenland
Siberia
Ekblaw
Ammassalik
Hudson Bay
Greenland West Coast
Scientific American
Oldest Living Artist of New England Is in Abington
Mary Delilah Porter of Abington Massachusetts is named the oldest living artist in New England at age 92. She began painting after age 50 during a Maine visit, began teaching soon after, and has produced five pictures in the last five years despite material shortages. Porter was born in Cornwallis Nova Scotia and moved to Abington at 26. she is the mother of six and lives with her son Lysander and two grandchildren.
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Abington
Mass
New England
Mary Delilah Porter
Maine
Porter
Cornwallis
N. S
Lysander
Boston Post
Treated Alike at Local Servants Club
A London Answers item describes disputes at a local servants' club where Bolshevik talk and class reform were opposed by a chauffeur who carries a laundry lady on her Monday rounds. He notes she treats him the same as her husband and bosses both.
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London
Egg-Hatching Periods Among Various Birds
Birds with altricial young such as the catbird incubate for shorter periods while precocial species like shorebirds and ducks require longer incubation. Common small birds need ten days to two weeks of nest incubation, while ruffed grouse eggs take about three weeks, ducks about four weeks, and the emu of Australia requires around ten weeks of incubation.
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American Forestry
Agasio
Rosetta Stone and town of Rashid in Egypt
The Rosetta area near Rashid, Egypt, rose as a strong Crusader era site but later declined behind Alexandria. A 1708 French discovery yielded the Rosetta Stone, dated 136 B C, with inscriptions in hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek. English captured the tablet, now in the British Museum, measuring 8 ft 9 in tall.
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Rosetta
Egypt
Nile
Alexandria
Haroun-al- Rashid
Old City
Ptolemy Epiphanes
Thomas Young
British Museum
Dice from Famous French Criminal Sold by Paris Curio Dealer
A curious lot auctioned by a Paris curio dealer includes small dice cut from the molar teeth of a notorious French criminal and professional gambler who died by the guillotine, along with a dice box fashioned from a hardened piece of his skin.
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Paris
Governor Signs Tax Relief Bill For 1920 Taxes
The governor signed the house substitute for senate bill 95, an emergency measure extending the payment deadline for 1920 taxes to October 1, 1921, and remitting penalties. Penalties already collected will be refunded upon filing with county commissioners. property owners receive 11 additional months to meet obligations.
The Fast Age Reflected in Daily Peculiarities
Mr Simmons muses on a speeding world where winter ice is in July and magazines arrive early. The narrator notes calendars and communications shrinking as modern life accelerates with telephones and cables crossing time zones.
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Mr. Simmons
San Francisco
New York
Japan
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E. C. Neal
Vert Neal
Custer Inn
Old Soldiers’ Home
Mr. Neal
Retha
Walker
H. A. Mitten
Minnesota Loan & Trust Co
Minneapolis
W. C. Weber
J. L. Putnam
R. B. Vrooman
Louise Dengel
Barbara Eckley
First National
Miss Eckley
Mike Eckley
R. N. Wellman
Hedge
George Wright
Focht
Freed
George Breckenridge
I. L. Putnam
Bettie Teahon
C. L. Stanley
Wrights
Denton
Washington
Oaklake
Manitoba
Montana
Winnett
Grass Range
West Dome
Ritter Lawson
Black Butte
Boston-Montana
Thornquist Place
Mrs
Harry Braniff
Ontario
Oregon
Mr. Braniff
Harry
Geo. Rhone
Lairds
Andy Kato
California
Paso Robles
Los Angeles
Mr. Kato
Fergus County
Latch Bros
Ed Smith
the Enterprise Meat Co
Anderson’s
Fred B. Hedge
Teigen Oil & Gas Co
Teigen
Black Panther Oil Co
Philadelphia
M. W. Friedell
Black Panther
Reei Bros
Friedel
Ae Hedge
Grass Range Mercantile Co
Grand Theater
Northern Lights
the Wonder Man
Cartoon Magazine
Somoyi Ev
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