Local Social Notes Include Guests and Picnic Attendance
Rochester Mill residents visit relatives in Indiana and Glen Campbell while several families host visitors over the weekend. A Marion Center Sunday school picnic drew residents from town names such as Eugene Bilder, Bert Braughter, Ethyl Pollock, and Fanny Elder. Other locals, including Rev Mathew Jordan and Betty Gibson, are noted with brief visits and trips to State College and Rossiter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnahan
Indiana
T. M. Gilpatrick
Cleave Cochren
Philip McClain
Ernest
Imogene Miller
Kathryn Johnston
Jessie Potts
Ethyl Pollock
Gaynelle Dodson
Sadie McCall
Martha Potts
Fanny Elder
Mathew Jordan
Rossiter
Betty Gibson
Pittsburgh
William Gibson
Mount Union Elderton Callers and Weekend Visitors
Mount Union residents hosted and visited neighbors including Mrs C Rowley and Ramona in Elderton, Harve Poole visiting John Kough, William Cravenor of Elderton on the streets, Charley Rosborough shopping in Hilderton, and Mr and Mrs Lewis Miller of Vandergrift at J H Kough's. Harriet Blystone from Indiana spent the weekend near Mt Union. James Heckman and Hilda Boyer enjoyed a mountain outing near Medix Run. McPhersons from Apollo visited families nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Rowley
Ramona
Elderton
John Kough
Harve Claypoole
William Cravenor
Charley Rosborough
Hilderton
Lewis Miller
Vandergrift
J. H. Kough
Carl Fleming
Dennis Rearick
South Bend
Harriet Blystone
Indiana
Mt. Union
James Heckman
Hilda Boyer
Medix Run
Love Has Its Own Way
Teresa, a lonely department store worker in Chicago, meets a shy stranger at the library who shares her loneliness. Their romance grows with movies and walks, but he disappears then returns changed, revealing he wrote the book she read and spoke to her under a fictitious name. Love has its own language.
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Teresa
Walnut Place
Chicago
Big City
Midvale
Alg Los
Pacifism and a Fish Joke Echo in Russia Talk
A late Judge Parker quips that Russia is very pacifist while mocking Litvinov and others. The exchange shifts to a joke about “Trussian pacifism” being dubious, then to a sharp shopper interaction with a fish seller offering eight cent fish, the old lady pressing for fresh purchase.
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Judge Parker
Russia
Relics of Bronze Age At University of Pennsylvania Museum
The American Museum exhibit features over 800 artifacts from Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia dating to the early Bronze Age. Highlights include ancient pottery, a copper frying pan with original handle, goat and ibex seals, alabaster figurines, a clay chalice, animal amulets, a bronze casting mold, and a stone mixing palette. Dr Ephram A Spelser notes the finds show modernistic design in seals and offer rare preservation and insights into preBronze leisure before metal changed daily life.
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University of Pennsylvanian Museum
Tepe Gawrn
Mesopotamia
Near East
Ephram A. Spelser
Authority on Spelling of Geographical Names
The U S Geographic Board is the final authority on spelling of place names and the U S Post Office generally follows its decisions. In Pittsburgh Iowa the board first favored Pittsburg in 1891, faced opposition, reconsidered in 1911, and based on the 1794 original seal, settled on Pittsburgh as the official spelling.
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Federal Department
United States Geographic Board
United States Post Office Department
Pittsburgh
Pittsburg
Borough of
Geographic Board
Moss Rose Legend From German Tradition
The legend tells of an angel weary from witnessing human sin resting beneath a rose. Sheltering under its shade, the angel grants the moss a lasting token of love. Leaf by leaf the moss grows around the stem, creating a cradle for the newborn rose as a sign of God’s power and love.
Electric Pipeless Organ Invented by Captain Ranger
Electric pipeless organ designed by Captain Richard Ranger, famed for trans oceanic radiophotograph work. It uses electrical switches and tone generators to produce organ sounds without pipes, with tones amplified and sent to a speaker when keys are pressed.
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Richard Ranger
Transoceanic Radiophotograph Fame
Origins of Fire Insurance in Britain and America
The concept dates from the Great Fire of London in 1666 with early English companies formed in the 1600s and 1700s. In the United States, the Philadelphia Contributionship organized on April 13, 1752 became the first fire insurer, patterned after London's Hand-in-Hand from the late seventeenth century.
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London
United States
Philadelphia
Family humor turns on misheard age question
A boy Ted and his mother take his younger sister to a downtown store where a salesman begins a chat. He asks the sister's age, Ted says he doesn't know and asks his mother. The mother answers, revealing she knows the sister’s age indirectly.
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Ted
Local Folks Gatherings and Visits in Deadwaters Region
Indiana visitors like Mrs Amanda Moose and Mrs Lizzie Wike called on kin while Helen Artemus visited Pike's Peak cousin Betty Cramer. Typhoid fever illness concerns Dale Shaffer near the Lutheran church as camp activities end with Campfire girls of Grace Evangelical church breaking camp at Deadwaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amanda Moose
Lizzie Wike
Alice
Indiana
Helen Artemus
Betty Cramer
Pike’s Peak
Harry Syster
Earl
Homer’City
Thomas Sysater
Dale Shaffer
Frank Shaffer
Harvey Moose
Thelma
Campbell- Stewart
Penn Run
Sandy Moose
Ethel White
Dick Zamboni
Veteran's Hospital
Pittsburgh
Brushvalley Lutheran Church
Blair Nelson
Jean
Brushvalley
Clarence McTentery
John Goodlin
William Clawson
Blairaville
Clarente McPheaters
I. Evans
Grace Evangelical Church
Johnstown
Rungsell Rhine
Homer City
Vampire Girly
Local residents visit kin and attend church events
Mrs. Sarah Campbell of Washington D C visits relatives here as Mrs Harnest Lichtenfels and son Dwight tour from Johnstown. Odessa and Laura Patchin from near Pittsburgh visit aunt Miss Rae Riggs while Mr and Mrs H R Falcon with Helen and other relatives join Sabbath guests of Mrs Roy West of Robinson. Others include Mr and Mrs J R Mack and Earnest Kingey returning from State College. Sophia Gents of Indiana visits Mrs George Dick. The M E church Willing Workers and Ever Ready classes held a picnic at Cliffside Park on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Campbell
Washington, D.C
Harnest Lichtenfels
Dwight
Johnstown
Sabbath Buesty
Melving
Odessa
Laura Patchin
Pittsburgh
Rae Riggs
H.R. Falcon
Helen
Roy West
Robinson
J. RR. Mack Andson
Earnest Kingey
State College
Sophia Gents
Indiana
George Dick
M. EW
Cliffside Park
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Dolly Brown
Brown’s Boot Shops Shoes and Hosiery
Pacific
Donald Igorhead
Locust St
Rochester Mill
Alfred Johnston
Homer Downey
Charles Jeffries
Helen Graffitis
H. H. Ryen
Gon
Paul
H. D. Widdowson
Mount Union
Mt I Weta
VOSS
Voss Meating Agitator
A. W. Maron & Sons
Phila
Indiana, Pa
Sou Wasr
Rin
Troue Furniture
Ritz Theatre
McClure Newsnaner
CWNU
American Museum
First National Bank of
Deadwaters
Armage
Wilbur Coon
Matrix Shoes
Nunn Bush
Marion
Funeral Service
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