Suwannee River Blede in Southern Georgia Swamp
The Suwannee River rises in Okefinokee Swamp and begins modestly as Billy's lake outlet. It rapidly grows via underground springs and streams, flows through Moriola, and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Settlements along its shore are sparse, often perched on banks as the river veers around towns.
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Georgia
Suwannee
Okefinokee
Billy's Lake
Moriola
Gulf of Mexico
Pathfinder Magazine
American Museum of Natural History
Golid Rock
Palaces for Poor in Danzig's Old City Streets
Descriptive piece on Danzig highlighting tree shaded old streets and old stone houses with baroque facades. Notes disparity as shawled women and children mingle near portals while authorities demand cleaner streets. Mentions Frauengasse Frauentor and archways linked to sixteenth century architecture.
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Free City
Danzig
Bowling Green
New York City
Varieties of Dogwood and its global use
The Cornus florida is the commonest American dogwood, praised as a beautiful flowering tree with a white form featuring a light yellow green center and four surrounding bracts. About eighty species exist across the temperate zone, with Mexican and Peruvian representations. In Europe the Cornus sanguinea provided arrow shafts in the Middle Ages and remains valued for its hard wood used in inlay work.
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America
Florida
Mexico
Peru
Europe
Firsts in New Brunswick history spark lasting innovations
A brief recount of early North American milestones rooted in New Brunswick. It notes Minto as the site of the first coal mine shipped to Boston, Upper Sackville hosting the first wood paper project, Benjamin Tibbets' early compound steam engine used on a St. Johns river boat, the 1852 submarine cable linking New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, Glace Bay’s 1902 Atlantic wireless message, and Robert Foulls’ 1859 steam foghorn in St. John harbor.
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North America
Minto
N. B
Boston
Upper Sackville
Benjamin Tibbets
New Brunswick
St. Johns River
Prince Edwardsland
Atlantic
Glace Bay
Postage Stamp Errors Stir Collector Interest Worldwide
Errors in postage stamps arise from wrong color wrong paper or design flaws. When found stamps are withdrawn and new plates made. Meanwhile collectors worldwide buy errors as they surface in circulation.
Student Builds Shelter Car Shelter on Campus at Utah State Agricultural College
A student at Utah State Agricultural College drove to the institution in a car he converted into a shelter with sleeping quarters. The rudimentary home on wheels allowed him to save room rent while living on a weekly allowance of fruit and vegetables sent from the home farm.
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Utah State Agricultural College
Resourceful Halydresser Letter Found Aboard New Zealand Liner
A letter addressed to A Marjory with two song plaits sailed by TNAL 8 Mariposa on a liner near Auckland. The missive came from a hate dressing parlor where a young woman left a gold wrist watch. An assistant who plaited her hair overheard the name Marjorie and that she was to sail on the liner.
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Halydresser
Auckland
New Zealand
Marjory
TNAL
Mariposa
Marjorie An
Sal
Hner
Outgrown Comic Song and the Cottage Organ Era
A writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat recalls how early century music faced limits from cottage organs and the slow rise of pianos. The piece traces phonographs and radio expanding access to diverse tunes, from ragtime to ballads, while the old organ clung to gospel hymns as its traditional role.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Minting Gold for Friends Was His Mining Sideline
Christopher Bechtler, a Baden native who emigrated to the United States, settled near Rutherford in North Carolina in 1829. A goldsmith by trade, he minted coins for neighbors and mined gold and silver with minor labor charges, serving Carolinas and Georgia with a local mint operation and a simple assay process.
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Christopher Bechtler
Duchy of Baden
United States
North Carolina
Rutherford
Carolinas
Georgia
Bechtler
Some Acorns Edible
The piece notes acorns once fed people and strengthened bodies, with Indians in New England eating white oak acorns and California oaks ground into flour for bread. It mentions English rural communities letting pigs forage fallen acorns each fall.
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New England
California
England
Royal Forests
Washington Star
Height of Man Increasing Heights for American Boys Evident Says Institute Official
An Institute of Juvenile Research official in Chicago notes American boys today are at least two inches taller than their grandfathers were at the same age. Over 1,000 American-born boys were measured and compared with those measured fifty years ago by a scientist. The rise in height is linked to better health knowledge and disease control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Institute of Juvenile Research
Chicago
Washington Star
Active Volcanoes in the United States
The United States has few active volcanoes with Lassen in California showing occasional small outbursts. Hood in Oregon and Rainier in Washington vent vapor. The Mono Valley, Shasta, and other Cascade peaks are extinct. St Helens erupted in 1841 and 1812, Baker in 1858, and Tres Virgines in California saw activity in 1857.
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United States
Mount Lassen
California
Mount Hood
Oregon
Mount Ralnier
Washington
Mono Valley
Mount Shasta
Cascade Range
Mount St. Helens
Mount Baker
Tres Virgines
Meteorology Through Ages From Franklin to Civil War
The article traces meteorology as an ancient yet modern science, noting its youth yet long history. It contrasts early curiosity during Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiments with the post Civil War era when formal meteorology began gaining footholds.
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Benjamin Franklin
Ulster counties form Northern Ireland list
Six of Ulster's nine counties make up Northern Ireland along with the Belfast and Londonderry boroughs. The counties named are Antrim Armagh Down Londonderry County Tyrone and Fermanagh.
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Ulster
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Londonderrry
Antrim
Armagh
Down
Londonderry
Permanagh
Tyrone
Birthday gathering fills Maple Grove with guests
Seventy five people attended a July fourth birthday celebration at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Waltemire. News notes list numerous visitors and callers from Glen Campbell, Johnstown, Indiana, Pittsburgh, and nearby towns alongside church services and family visits across the region.
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Maple Grove
G. R. Waltemire
Conrad
William Sleppy
Glen Campbell
Elmer Detwiler
Somerset County
Albert Coy
David Strassler
Join Waltemire
Margaret
Maxine
Covode
F. M. Uncather
Buddy
Dolly Jacobs
Jesse Ober
Indiana
Roy Wolfe
Winifred
Alice
Blaine
Leone
Penn Run
Buddy Jacobs
Conrad Sloppy
David Ober
Strongstown
Ralph
Detwiler
Iona
David
Wade
Pittsburgh
D. E
Johnstown
F. M. Unecapher
Conrad Sleppy
H. I. Adams
George Greene
Ella Coy
Rape
McCullough
G. J. Galentine
Merl McManus
Dayton
Robert Adams
Gladys
Paul Adams
Dick Fair
Culver
M. A. Fulton
James
Neff Taylor Farm
Ray Wolfe
Saltsbury Extension
Richard Love
Vandergrift
Lenore Parks
Town
Mary
Mildred McCall
West Wheatfield Social Notes and Local Gossip
West Wheatfield community updates list Mrs Clyde Palmer and children and Mr and Mrs Carl Sunburg visiting the Shoups, Maybelle Lindsey with Rose Palmer, sick list for Mrs Clarence Warner, Mrs Guy McConnell and children from near Blacklick visiting Geo Palmer's family, and other visits by Allen Wood Harold McConnell and Timers. humorous ad jokes about lawn care and misreports from Washington.
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Clyde Palmer
Carl Sunburg
G. R. Shoup
Maybelle Lindsey
Rose Palmer
Clarence Warner
Guy McConnell
Near Blacklick
Geo. , Palmer
Russell Palmer
Harry Deemer
Dick Shoup
G. W. Palmer
Liner Neely
Leopold
Allen Wood
Foster Johnson
Harold McConnell
Blacklick
Roy Palmer
Clarksburg Sabbath School and Fourth of July News
Clarksburg notes weekend visitors from Pittsburgh Vandergrift Blairsville and Indiana visit relatives across town. Fourth of July events include farm visits West Lebanon game result Clarksburg 13 West Lebanon 10. Local families and church activities feature through photographs and social rounds.
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Clarksburg
Misa ‘Marie Sandies
Pittsburgh
Jennie Sandies
Jessie ‘Mae
Mairwell Cribbs
Hear Town
Rey
Charles C.cribbs
Ingram
W. L. Clawaon
Blairsville
Anna Dixon
Paul Dixon
Lioyd Gulick
Mary Elizabeth Jewell
Indiana
Bud Weik
Livermore
Miss Speedy
Carrie Elrick
Bush
William Pletcher
Bahel Whitesell
Saltsburg
Ora Mabon
James
J. A. Compton
C. Cribbs
John Cribbs
John Berish
John ‘Herish, Jr
Detroit
Mich
Mary Broznik
Andrew
Reynoldsville
Mike Ritz
Ford City
Carrie Hirick
Young Peoples’ Council
Paul ‘Lowman
West Lebanon
Raymond Elrick
Near Town
Harold Borland
A. R. Jewell
Paul Elrick
Minta McPhilimy
George Rose
Lewisville
R. N. Coleman
Conemaugh
Harry Ferguson
M.A. Fulton
Neff Taylor Farm
T. S. Ashbaugh
Ross Ankeny
Lincoln Debtor
Vandergrift
Clark ‘Clawson
Harrison City
Harry Culeman
Jean
Frank Calhoun
Harry Coleman
J. E. Fryar
Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Socials
A roundup of visitors from New Philadelphia Dover New Kensington Pittsburgh and Saltsburg includes Mr and Mrs George Fryar and extended families visiting relatives. Local members attend a missionary meeting at the church and a poverty social is planned in Clarksburg inviting all to attend in costume.
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C. A. Wright
Jeffrie
Lillian
Bernie Beringer
Cooks Forest
Thelma Stiffler
Vandergrift
Clair Sweitzer
Spangler Hospital
Ned Baker
Namine
Wallie Coble
Wayne
Thomas Shaw
Commodore
Saylers
Nanty-Glo
James Langham
Langham
Max Langham
Max, Jr
Seward
Smith
Jack
George Fryar
K. Fryar
John Fryar
Norma Jean
New Philadelphia
Ohio
M. J. Fryar
Dover
Harry Ferguson
James Moorhead
Homer City
Mountain
Connellsville
James V. Mountain
Gordon Clark
Sykesville
Mike Ritz
Martha Cribbs
Near Town
C. ‘W. Hart
Derry
Ladies’ Missionary Society
Charles Cochran
Apollo
Hugh Thompson ‘Kerr
Harry ‘Coleman
Jean
Saltshore
Marian 'Ritz
William Clark
Paul Lowman
Albert Sandles
Sackville
Jennie Sandles
Clair Marshall
Indiana
Misa Bertha Nau
W.R. Donahey
Punxsutawney
Mike Rite
Clifford Cunningham
M. A. Fulton
Saliaburg
New Jersey chick hatched with legs pointing in opposite directions
A newly hatched chick in New Jersey has two legs aimed in opposite directions, so when one leg looks east the other faces west. The remark draws a parallel to how some politicians are described.
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New Jersey
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Woodin
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Farmers Bank & Trust Company
Indiana, PA
Patronize Progress
Silas C. Streans
Penna
Larrow and
Edelmans
Ee Dries
Wingold
Goldenrod
Millers Dog
Hetrick & Wilson
P.B.R
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