Weddings in Indiana and vicinity feature prominent locals
A week of weddings brings Miss Jane Sutton Wettling and Herbert Collins Schneider uniting at Indiana Country Club with 150 guests. The couple plans to reside in Harrisburg after a tour of New England. Also wed were D. Lintner Moorhead and Helen Logan Moorhead at Brookville parsonage, and Dr. R. W. Stushell and Ida Elizabeth Knight in Detroit, with trips planned to Washington and Boston. Donald A. Truitt and Margaret E. Storey wed in Pittsburgh as the community notes extend congratulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Ella
Robert M. Fisher
Mary St.Clair King
Paris
Frank Sutton
Reta Moffit
Hast Orange, Nut
Mary Fisher
Town
Kathleen Schneider
J. Schneider
Wilmington
Del
Indiana
Knox School
Cooperstown
N. C
Wildcliffe School
Swarthmore
Herbert Schneider
Washington, D.C
Cornell University
General Tire & Rubber Company
Harrisburg
New England
Canada
George W. Creighton
Baltimore
Henry Wassam
Ray Baldridge
Marie Craighead
Pittsburgh
Robert .M. Mullen
Windber
James Chambers
Rena Wills
Akron
Robert Smith
Greensburg
John A. H. Keith
Mary
Moorhead-Moorhead
D. Lintner Moorhead
Helen Logan Moorhead
Brookville
D. C. Rinker
Ronald Logan
School Street
Moorhead
Truitt-Storey
Donald A. Truitt
Harry W. Truitt
Margaret E. Storey
Hettie Storey
G. W. Shelton
Second Presbyterian Church
Indiana State Teachers’ College
Truitt
Local Brides and Grooms Tied in June Weddings
In Hershey and nearby towns couples announced marriages this week. Betts-Clawson unites Rev. John H. Clawson of Greensburg Brethren church with Ruth Betts of Robinson. Weaver-Sanford wed in Indiana with ties to the Weaver and Sanford families.
Surprise Birthday Party For Wallace Nordby At Home
Wallace Nordby of the Indiana and Ritz theater was met with a surprise birthday party at his West Philadelphia street home late Friday. Friends gathered to honor him as he returned home, unaware of the plans until arrival, making it a real celebration for “Wally.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Nordby
Indiana and Ritz Theater
Philadelphia Street
Insurance Award At Pittsburgh District Meeting
Frank L. Neff of town received a substantial check for writing the largest volume of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance in the district during the prior week at a meeting of district representatives held in Pittsburgh. Miss Rachel Longwill hosted a bridge tea at the Moore hotel in honor of Miss Annabelle Sutter whose engagement to Edwin Lanner was announced, and Mrs. Stanley Long, formerly Miss Thalia Williams, whose marriage has just been announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Pittsburgh
Frank L. Neff
Rachel Longwill
West Water Street
Moore Hotel
Annabelle Sutter
Town
Edwin Lanner
Johnstown
Stanley Long
Thalia Williams
The Girl Who Couldn't Cry at the Funeral
Joyce, once dubbed the girl who could not cry, returns to Eastville for her mother’s funeral. She battles years of emotional restraint, longs to weep for acceptance, and finally breaks with Tom Grayson’s quiet, compassionate urging as she confronts the mother she never knew.
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Joyce
Hurta
New York
Huastville
Tom
Eastville
Indiana
Big Tom Grayson
Tom Grayson
Western Plains
Medusa
Fruit That Blows Up The Field Museum Exhibit
The Field Museum in Chicago sought to display the fruit of the sand box tree from South America. The challenge was the fruit’s dual nature: ripe and dry it explodes with enough force to shatter nearby windows. Curators subdued the fruit by soaking it in glycerin for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Field Museum
Chicago
South America
Matrimonial Ad in 1771 Swedish Notice
The Carlskrona Veckoblad prints a matrimonial ad describing a 21 year old girl of good looks and breeding. She has 16 000 silver dalers in property plus a grandmother’s legacy and seeks a noble or well positioned suitor. Only gallant cavaliers with good carriage should apply through the paper’s guardian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlskrona Veckoblad
Stockholm
How Thirty Became an Ending in Newspaper Telegrapher Lore
Charles Payne Smith recounts in the Typographical Journal how the term thirty arose among Civil War era newspaper men. A central office message of eighty words ended with good night and the sender’s signature, and printers, waiting for the foreman to declare that thirty was in signified the end of the workday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Payne Smith
Seaboard
Curly Maple Identification and Causes
The forest service notes curly maple remains not fully understood with opinions it is accidental and not hereditary. It occurs on occasional sugar maples among white maples in the Lake states. Bark curls inward forming a notch. wood displays small depressions and end logs reveal the trait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
Lake States
Waters from Icefield Takakkaw Falls Yoho Park
The stream rises in the Waputik Ice field on the Great Divide and travels about nine miles to the Yoho valley. It plunges 150 feet at the east rim, then a curtain of 1,000 feet down the cliff, finally tumbling 500 feet into the Yoho River in a grand cascade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Takakkaw
Yoho National Park
British Columbia
Waputik
Great Divide
Yoho Valley
Yoho River
Life of a Sponge: Early Growth and Feeding
An overview of sponge life describes how a sponge begins when a particle attaches to rock, creating a home. It feeds on yolk cells in infancy and acquires solid nourishment as it matures, aided by ocean currents.
Name evolution of Great Britain through unions
The article traces how the term Great Britain was once used for the island distinct from Brittany called Britannia Minor. James I used the tithe king title without parliamentary approval. Official adoption followed England and Scotland’s 1707 union, then the 1800 union with Ireland created the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Britannia Major
Istand
Britannia Minor
Brittany
England
Scotland
Ireland
Kingdom of
Great Britain and
Not for Her: Jeane Faces First Barber Shop Visit
Small Jeane, used to home haircuts, is taken to a barber shop for the first time. She sits brave but panics as the clippers start, sobbing stop it I won’t have a vacuum sweeper on my send.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeane
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Journey's End
All Star
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Indiana Theatre
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Courtin' Wildcats
Hoot Gibson
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Ken Maynard
Woolworths
Alice White
Associated Gas and Electric Company
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