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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
6
Professor Carl Lumholtz describes a Bukat raid on Saputan hunters with three heads taken. Heads hang in the kapala house, women replace a head badge with cloth, meals split with a skull hole, and ritual phrases address the heads. After twelve days the heads no longer receive food.
Mrs Agnes Ketchum and daughter of Alexandria dined with John Wilson and family yesterday. Waldron couple Joseph Patterson and Floyd Gardner eloped May 15 then wed in Covington Ky and remarried at home May 29. Birthday dinner honors Mr Small with out of town guests including Ketchums and Gates Ketchum. World Call social by Christian church Missionary Society featured talks lantern slides and tableaux. Birthday surprise for Mrs Harry Jackson with neighbors and relatives. Lists of church classes picnics Layton's Mill outing and Flatrock picnic. Dance at Dalembert Hall next Thursday. Ladies Aid and auxiliary meetings at local churches. Pitch-in dinner at Mary Amanda Dobyns home. Women’s Relief Corps and other society gatherings noted. Marriage of Miss Laura Sager and Frank Lamping at St Maurice Catholic church.
The piece notes women in Kandy favor the sarong over fashion and recalls Kandy as the Sinhalese last royal stronghold. It recounts centuries of resistance against Portuguese Dutch and British, culminating in the 1815 exile of Sri Lanka’s last king. It contrasts splendid temples with the quiet modern life under stable governance.
The passage notes how sea imagery shades Anglo-Saxon and English verse, with northern Scottish bards and southern Devon traditions linked to famous explorers. It highlights epic open water works like the Odyssey and Aeneid, and reminds that Greece and Rome were historic maritime powers.
The passage ranks fish by egg production with the cod at nine million annually followed by the sturgeon seven and a half million and the flounder about one million. It notes egg deposition in sand or gravel and weed, carnivorous feeding, and reliance on smell over sight.
A list of foreign coinages and their exchange rates into local units including Abyssinia 16 guerches per thaler, Bosnia 100 novies per florin, Bulgaria 100 stotiiki per leva, China 100 candarins per tael, Hayti 100 cents per gourde or piastre, Macao 100 avos per pataca, Montenegro 1 noveies per florin, Persia 20 shahi or chai per kran and 10 krans per toman, Roumania 100 bani per leu, Siam 64 arts or 100 sat ungs per tical or baht.
Ad claims Jiffy Pie comes ready to bake with complete lemon or chocolate fillings. Lemon essence from lemon peel is liquid in a vial and all ingredients including egg yolk are in the package. Buy Jiffy Jell flavors, present coupon, and receive a free Jiffy Pie at cost.
A marriage license was issued this afternoon to Victor Wayne Neihert and Miss Neltie Marie McKee daughter of Charles O McKee of near St Paul The bride is a school teacher.
National Nurseries seeks in every community a well connected, courteous woman to introduce Hybrid Tea roses and other flowering plants. The appeal invites interested readers in Rochester, New York, to write promptly for details and employment.
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