Slavic Harvest Festival and Ancient Iron Smelting Notes
In Arkona on Rugen island the harvest festival honors Svantovit with a four headed image and a ceremonial horn of wine. If the horn empties, next year will be lean. if full, harvests will be heavy. Also describes early iron furnaces, bellows, and small preindustrial iron lumps from Crete and Greece as money. UNCLE RAY column notes.
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Baltic
Svantovit
Arkona
Rugen
NEA Service Inc
Crete
Greece
Ray
Publishers Syndicate
Eminent Novelist and East Indian Plant Puzzle
The puzzle lists clues for a crossword style fill in both across and down. Across include eminent novelist and Uncle Tom's Cabin author, and East Indian plant among others. Down clues cover horse's foot top region and celestial bodies. The grid references and exact answers are not provided in the excerpt.
Iron Tools in Ancient Egypt and Early Metallurgy Revealed
A century-old note recounts an iron blade found among Egypt’s pyramids dating to about 6,000 years ago. It discusses iron’s early use by Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Persians, and Egyptians, and explains how iron extraction from ore required intense heat. The piece cites the Delhi iron pillar as an example of wrought iron construction and traces early metalworking origins.
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Pyramids of
Egypt
Peale
Asia
Mediterranean Sea
Delhi
India
Curious World Counts a Five Percent Investment
A quirky note claims money invested at five percent compound interest would reach 51 329 212 dollars, then pivots to describing the cassowary. The bird, native to Australia and nearby islands, is flightless and makes an unearthly croaking sound lasting minutes. When excited it snorts and to its young it sounds like a cow.
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Australia
Separated Siamese Twin Dies After Surgery
Simplico Godino aged 29 died at York hospital after being severed from his brother Lucio who died in November from rheumatic fever. Doctors announced cerebro spinal meningitis as the suspected cause. Lucio was buried in a Westchester cemetery. The twins were born in the Philippines and adopted by a Manila family that plans to adopt another pair.
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New York
Simplico Godino
York Hospital
Godino
Lucio
Westchester
Godinos
Philippine Islands
Manila
Six Die In South Carolina Highway Crashes
Six persons were killed on South Carolina highways over the weekend with several injuries. Belson Todd died when his car was struck near Anderson. Robert Snetley Jr. age 12 died in a Greenville crash. James Deas six Julia Gaillard thirty five both of Jacksonboro and Theodora Holmes thirty nine of Parkers Ferry perished in a Charleston wreck. A Negro girl named Vivian Baker was killed in Greenville when struck by a trackless trolley.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Belson Todd
Anderson
Robert Snetley, Jr
Greenville
James Deas
Julia Gaillard
Jacksonboro
Theodora Holmes
Parker’s Ferry
Charleston
Vivian Baker
Indian boys turn handbag into passing football
In Plummer Idaho Indian youths used a lady’s handbag as a football for an afternoon. Parents found the bag and returned it to owner Pauline Campbell, 92, after discovering it contained $100.
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Bucks Plummer
Idaho
Pauline Campbell
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the Zoo
Fella
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Joe
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MR. Weidebottom
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Iron and
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B.C
Cassowary
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