Cupid's Keen Arrow in a Small Town Romance
Elva Burton pursues a wealthy suitor Horace Filberton while courting with Jimmy Crandall, a flashy chauffeur. A dramatic car crash brings the lovers together as Elva fi nally confronts love’s consequences, ending with the car named Cupid's Keen Arrow.
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Et Burton
Kathie Mahoney
Moretown Emporium
Kathie
Cupid
Elya
Elva
Miss Burton
Wilberton
Horace Filberton
Jimmy Crandall
Crandall
Mr. Witberton
Valley Inn
Horace Fisberton
Mr. Pilberton
Llorace Filberton
Simmy Crandall
Jimmy
Jimimy
Gulf Stream Temperature Pacing Ocean Heat Transfer
The Gulf Stream's water runs several degrees warmer than adjacent seas due to its high heat capacity. Its capacity is about four times that of air and five times that of Earth, allowing it to store tropical heat and release it gradually over long distances to the atmosphere.
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Gulf Stream
Earth
Skunk and Civet Description From Natural History Notes
A civet cat is called the little striped skunk and is smaller than the genuine skunk. Text describes the animal’s short thick body and dark fur with silky top hairs and white stripes or patches. Also mentions a Chinese civet in the civet family with heavy silky fur and varying spotted color.
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Hate
Perfection in Samplers From Perforated Canvas Designs
The old fashioned sampler used a perforated canvas grid with equally spaced rows. Designs were stamped on the canvas and filled with colored worsteds, the stitches forming little x s. On finest canvas the result resembled a painting.
Silkworm Culture in Japan From Myth to Arrival
The article notes silkworms in Japanese myth but traces modern history to 199 CE when a Chinese named Komo-O brought silkworm eggs to Japan. Ninety years later Chinese agricultural experts aided Japan, and the industry began to flourish.
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Komo-O
Japan
Secretary of the Navy Names Battleships by State
The secretary of the navy controls naming and christening of battleships. He typically selects a woman from the state the ship honors to christen it. Battleships are named for states without a fixed order.
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Secretary of the Navy
Home-Loving Cow Forces Furniture Store Window Escape
A Newport cow described as a home lover vaulted through a plate glass store window, surveyed the showroom, jumped back through, dashed across the street, and ascended real estate office stairs before vanishing. Local farm authorities and police investigated the curious incident with no injuries reported.
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Newport
England
Advice to Sweeties From a Newspaper Trade Journal
A trade journal notes many people work in giving advice on love in newspaper columns. It pays well and is a labor of love, a craft behind the heart affairs column.
Pioneer in Equality Union Embraced Women Equally
Nations Women's Trade Union league notes in a sketch on Women in Industry that the International Typographical Union was the first national union to admit women on equal terms with men. Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville recalls that when British Admiral Sir John B Warren ascended the Potomac in 1812 a large expedition was reconnoitered by an American steamer.
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International Typographical Union
Women In Industry
The
Nations Women's Trade Union League
Admral George Wallace Melville
Sir John B. Warren
Potomac
Iodine use and animal feeding claims in period notes
The item asserts that speaking softly aids sick room comfort and cites Yokohama as the eye of Dopan for its strategic V shaped plain. It quotes Capper's Weekly on child behavior and adds a claim that iodine in animal feed extends life spans of cows and hens by years.
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Yokohama
Callea
Denotes No Change in Free Will Quotation
A reflective line on choosing between fixing one’s mind and following guidance. It emphasizes maintaining personal agency even when swayed by wiser directions. The author urges self determination while acknowledging influence from a guiding figure.
Wall Street Named for Dutch Wall Guarding Property
In New York the famous financial hub derives its name from a historic wall built by early Dutch settlers to protect their holdings, marking the boundary of the settlement and shaping the district's future as a center of commerce.
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Wall Street
New York
Uses for Sawdust From Fine Woods
The mahogany and rose wood sawdust is used in dressing furs while cedar pencil wood yields perfumes. the passage notes various practical uses for wood byproducts.
Sick Transit on My First Ocean Voyage Poem
Correspondent describes a debut ocean voyage in a poem with nautical imagery and reflective mood. The piece channels maritime curiosity, weathered decks, and a sense of new horizons aboard a ship associated with Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
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Norfolk Ledger-Dispateh
Almost the Limit Absent Minded breakfast mishap
A professor visiting for breakfast accidentally kissed the egg and struck his wife on the head in a humorous, absent minded moment. The incident played as a domestic mishap with light, nongraphic details and no serious injury reported.
All-Glass House claims air and dust proof design
A Japanese scientist has built an all-glass house pitched as airtight dust free and bacteria proof showcasing a novel transparent living space for environments requiring sterile conditions.
Cherry Tree social notes from Emeigh and surrounding towns
Amanda Kring and Grace called in Emeigh while families from Lancaster Clearfield and Indiana visited locals. Several moves and visits chart a busy week with Barnesboro and McKeesport connections. Wedding bells and family trips frame community life as residents relocate and return from nearby towns.
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M. J. Jamison
McKeesport
Rand
Clyde
Harlin Bea
A. C. Shank
J. L. Shank
Commodore
R.D
Martha Learn
Earl Ruffner
Ronald
Indiana
Frank Kring
Wm. Hoover
Clearfield
Florence Madden
Grace Harkness
South Baltimore Hospital
Baltimore
Frank Jamison
Zella Ober
Penn Run
Clyde Bee
C. W. Sebring
Jerry Shaner
Nanty-Glo
Henry Rummill
J. H. Peterman
Lambertville
N.J
Walter Jones
Bob Schmonder
Ernest Roberts
Kate Jenney
Homer City
W. BE. Shaffer
Ronald and
Wallace, Jr
Lancaster
WH. Shaffer
Elizabethtown
Anna Leath
H. R. Bee
S. C. Bee
Elizabeth+ town
J. EB. Wooster
Altoona
K. A. Krona
Lock Haven
Local Sabbath School News And Community Visits
Local notes from Lewisville recount Sabbath school next Sunday at ten o'elors and a flurry of visits. Velma and Helen Barkley return from Ohio with cousin Miss Jennie Barkley visiting. Priscilla Newnan returns from Ohio. Mrs. Bertha Ewing and daughter visit O Wy Shields. several families travel to Blairsville and Clarksburg events. a kitchen shower honors Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maloy. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Diven and others make rounds in Elders Ridge, Clymer, and surrounding communities. An Indiana trip reports Hart Shields visiting friends. miss Virginian Kennedy suffers a left arm fracture and is recovering.
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Lewisville
Ten O’elors
Velma Barkley
Ohio
Helen Barkley
Pricillla Newnan
J. L. Divyen
Oghie
A. G. Fails
O. W. Shields
J. A. Diven
Bertha Ewing
Elizabeth Watlege
Somerset
Jennie Barkley
Marshall
Cree Hood
Velma
Blairsville
JL. M. Speedy
Dinth
J. M. Speedy
G L. Dixon
Anabel Marshall
Gree Hood
Elders Ridge
J. L. Diven
Sallaburg Calera
Clarksburg
G. A. Fails
New Jersey
J. B. Gibson
Michael Shaffer
Somerset County
Mabel Williams
Clymer
James Davis
Colyer
Ira Myrees
David Smith
Manor
Paul Maloy
Elmer Barnett
W. L. West
Morgan
Ida Berkeypile
Cherryhill
John Hagle
John Engle
Wesley
Leone Willams
Mary Laner
Helen Laner
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