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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1922
Page
7
The text outlines Copper Kakimos beliefs of constant danger from unseen powers and hostile beings. It notes propitiation of dead trees, animal spirits, and spirits haunting daily life, along with festive dress and dance oriented fashion for ceremonies and travel.
Jatce Weetfall Thompson argues in the North American Review that Hamlet mirrors Amy Robart and the murder case of Salcester. The article contends Elizabethan dynastic danger shaped Shakespearean satire and veiled political commentary through Crimson in language and irony.
The article describes a medieval punishment for bankrupts in Italian cities. A stone in the market square held the display where failed traders faced public jeers as their balances were read. After the crowd’s reaction, the bankrupt lost clothing and was paraded by six officers, bumped on the stone twelve times, with schoolboys invited to watch for moral lessons.
The text claims Jews were allowed asylum in New Netherlands in 1614 with a rule permitting trade and residence if not burdensome to the Dutch West India Company or community and supported by their own union. It asserts 1616 NY Jewish population over 1,250,000 with only 72 paupers on Blackwell's Island.
Henley reflects on George Borrow's Dialogue Circumatantinid and On Instinct noting how the author blends racy idiomatic English with a primitive scholarly speech. The critic argues the dialogue charms at first but ultimately seems natural and authentic as the genuine outcome of the author's experience.
In early Tennessee a railroad allowed conductors to control rules for passengers and their dogs. One dog kept pace by tying to the train until a rival conductor forbade dogs. A passenger later showed the dog had fallen through a hole in the coach floor, trotting along under the train to stay in the shade.
In ancient days bands of white men traversed from Rusa along the Hkuxine to a lake shore near Crete then Africa near Tripoli. They carried stone weapons, blue eyes, beards, and red or sandy hair. They buried loved ones in stone cairns and tumuli, a practice evolving into the pyramid in Egypt.
A London Daily Express item claims a Kent thatched cottage haunted and one dog refused entry on move in night. The hostess says placing the bishop of London’s picture on the door pacified the dog and ended the uncanny episode in the Jacobean cupboard corner.
The first California legislature earned the nickname Legislature of a Thousand Drinks. A popular theory links it to saloonkeeper Green who ran a San Jose tavern near the state house. At adjournment he called to lawmakers, Come on, hoya, let's take a thousand drinks.
A northern revival meeting unfolds with the parson preaching reform and warning against crime. A darky in the tent snaps fingers and questions the preacher’s admonitions before a brief exchange ends with a penitential reply about a jackknife.
A Boston Transcript quip recalls an editor pushing to alter a report about Mr. Longbow. The editor defends harm in spelling a word backward to avoid offending relatives while noting Longbow's notorious reputation for truthfulness.
Elizabeth J. Goathworth argues in the North American Review that modern art is deeply rooted in ancient and distant sources. She cites Rome, Egyptian origins of letters, Arab numerals, Theocritus, and Edo period color prints by Utamaro Hokuchi and Hiroshige as influences shaping line, composition, and the modern European poster school.
The Marriage of the Adriatic is a historic Venice ceremony dating to 1177, established after a naval win over Frederick Barbarossa. Pope Alexander I ordered annual rings cast into the Adriatic on Ascension Day, symbolizing the city's dominion. The first rite occurred at Lido with holy water and a ring cast to wed the sea, followed by mass and a feast.
A visitor recounts the famed Break neck Steps stairway linking Quebec’s upper and lower towns. Old-time incidents mix tragedy and humor as travelers once faced the treacherous descent, including a tale of a man slipping on the second step and saving a woman who clutched his knotted tape.
A Navajo tradition forbids a son in law and mother in law from seeing each other after marriage and notes a girl remains under parental control until marriage. It details clan descent, marriage between clans, and the concept of a wife becoming free if she worries.
The Mason and Dixon line marked a boundary between slaveholding and non-slaveholding states though it ran mostly between Maryland and the slave states Maryland Delaware. English engineers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon laid it from 1764 to 1767 to settle disputes among Maryland Pennsylvania and Delaware. The 1849 revision with precise instruments found no significant error.
An editorial sentence argues that daily household harmony requires sacrifices and virtues. It suggests temperance courage and love are built from small shared sacrifices to maintain domestic life.
Hood River counties report fewer fires then a wave of burn injuries near Wyeth. Prune crops valued at about 1.36 million dollars. Portland court actions include a 25 thousand dollar public works claim and a $1 million pipe contract. A forest patrol fleet, a Wasco pioneer death, new Lincoln county high school, and road construction updates round out the dispatch.
A scientist who led an Andes expedition to Mount Aconcagua describes fierce winds fashioning enormous dust clouds on the upper peak. The rock proved soft and rotten, rain never falls there, water frozen in carried for drinking had to thaw, and climbers spent two hours sometimes trying to start a fire.
A clerk quips about smoothing a rough letter with sandpaper in a brief exchange. The boss asks to file the note, while the clerk suggests a literal joke on smoothing. The light humor plays on office banter over a correspondence.
A reader is urged to use Enterprise Classified ads to sell buy trade or find items locally. The message emphasizes the versatility of classified listings as a marketplace for goods services and opportunities.
County Court of Polk Oregon appoints administrator for Louisa J Bezanson estate. Creditors must present valid claims with vouchers within six months to the administrator in Independence Oregon. Dated and first published June 30 1922.
C W Irvine is appointed by Polk County Court as Administrator of the Estate of Jane B Constance deceased and must present vouchers within six months to Farmers State Bank of Independence Oregon. Dated first publication June 16 1922. D E Fletcher attorney.
C W Irvine has been appointed executor of Henry C Constance deceased by Polk County Court Oregon. Claimants must present verified claims within six months from June 16, with any debts paid promptly. Dated June 16, executor D W Irvine with D E Fletcher attorney for the estate.
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