Translating the Bible into Pagan Languages Challenges Translators
A World Outlook writer notes Bible translation into Eskimo and Zulu faces vast linguistic gaps. Eskimo translators struggled with terms for sacred concepts after 250 years of work, while early Zulu efforts misrendered seas, deserts, and styles, shaping native speech and humor.
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Eskima
Igléns
Holy Land
Ann
Aulus
Red Sea
Jordan Dry
Israel
The City Niece and the Country Adventurer
Adella Blaine, a city visitor, longs for escape from summer days at her aunt’s country home. Homer Grant, the village engineer and neighbor, stirs her curiosity with subtle encounters. A chance meeting at the post office and a dropped slipper spark a coy exchange, hinting at a possible ride together and a developing connection.
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Adella
Count
Adonis
Adela
Adelix
Martha
Homer Grant
Adelia
Miss Blaine
Tamer
Anto
Tromer Grant
Tame
Grant
Jill
Aliss Cinderela
Increased Length of Life and Public Health Notes
The article discusses improving life expectancy by reducing fear and environmental disease exposure. It references historical health arguments, mentions vaccines and preventive measures, and cites ancient plagues as context for modern public health efforts.
Weathering a Channel Patrol Winter Indignities
A Channel Patrol diary excerpt describes a brutal blizzard the ship endures with three inches of snow on deck. The crew battles a biting northwesterly wind and a rolling craft, facing cold damp bunks and scarce comfort while chasing a German target at sea.
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Atlantic Magazine
Germans Target English Words In Teutonic Speech
An episode relayed by Prof Sefton Delmer, once Berlin University English instructor, describes German attempts to purge English origin words from spoken and written German. A porter’s companion is rebuked for using adien, with the remark that such a word is English and no longer spoken in German.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Sefton Delmer
University of Berlin
Am Portierfran
Adien
Ration Limits Restrict German Officers’ Uniforms
The article notes new regulations limiting officer wardrobes. Officers may obtain new uniforms only with clothing cards and must not exceed set limits. Unlike enlisted men they need not declare existing clothing inventories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvdic Nnns
Light Work and a Morning Woodcut Story
A humorous rustic tale recounts Light Work bargaining with Mrs Griddies for breakfast in exchange for some wood cutting. The tramppet promises a hearty meal and the man eats biscuits ham eggs potatoes and coffee before whittling a toothpick and bidding a cheerful good morning.
Burnside visitations and local movements reported
County Town News notes several Sunday visits including Mr. and Mrs. Chester Williams and John Napier to Burnside, G Is Wassam and family with Mr and Mrs W R Calhoun in Tayersville, and Miss Marie Lynch bound for Washington DC to enter government service. Elmer Lydie, son of David Lydie, suffered burns and shock from a live wire on a coal tipple and was hospitalized at Dixonville. Mrs. Wm Parkins and her children of Earnest visit the Reeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Williams
John Napier
Burnside
G. Is. Wassam
W. R. Calhoun
Tayeorsville
Marie Lynch
Washington, D. C
Elmer Lydie
David Lydie
Dixonville Hospital
Wm. Parkins
Mra
J. B. Reed
Indiana Town Approves Maple Avenue Paving Ordinance 1915
The Indiana Town Council enacted ordinance No 282 authorizing grading and paving Maple Avenue and adjacent Paper Mill borough area with assessments on abutting real estate. Plans prepared under Borough Engineer and Street Committee, costs to be collected by the borough, with publication and posting requirements fulfilled June 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maple Avenue
Indiana
Oakland Fill Alley
Oakland Mulalley
Wneleer
Indiana Progress Ordinance
Dodson
Pres
Council
Motorization of United States Artillery Advances
The Ordnance Department reports greater motorization of U S field artillery than in any other nation at war. Nearly all American artillery will be motorized except some 3 inch gun batteries, with tractors replacing horses for transport where feasible. The article notes untapped tractor output and limited horse supply as factors driving the shift.
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Aay
Ordnance Department
Europe
United States
National Army
Railway Engineers to Help France in War Effort
The United States will deploy 50 000 Americans in railway construction and operation in France as part of a war effort. Nine regiments were in France by August 17 with six in construction work and three in operation. Funds of 100 million dollars have bought 14 locomotives 22 000 tons of rails and related materials. All soldiers serve on equal footing with native and naturalized citizens except officers cannot hold certain posts.
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France
United States
Gen. Pershing
Tie Ndler
Tas Wen
Htom
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Prince
Rene Ee
Western Moneprper Union
Hyveston Yelles
Ogly
County Town News
Starford
Eatep Trading Co
Lovejoy
John
Taylor
RQ. F. Wleming
Mollie Miening
Clara Munshower
J. 1. Tatman
J. J. Shaw
Cherry
Lawrence Reed
Pe Hanes
M, Morris
Pittshure
Clymer
Harry Allison
Dixonville
Lown
Janes Smith
Laymer
Buck Run
Alex Smith
Harry Gess
New Derry
Maybon Shank
William Caldwell
St. Benedict
Thomas Dixon
Lee Street
Roper Dixon
Anna
Bessie Ingles
Margaret Lartle
Campbell's Mills
J. Vonatae
Samplelin
Calleod
Miys
Haren
Om Sutardiay
Rose Greenkind
Bedford
Ealed
Black
Shank
Mach Stewart
Roswell
John Kelley
Diamondville
Samuel Kalley
Mrs
Wil Sharpless
Altoona
Dixon
Sample Run
PINE
Stoffy
Gy My Tuaton
PENN
Tholinn
Leroy
Hugh Myers
Steven Berkey
Johnstown
Mary Yeagley
Jane Dunwiddie
Mile Tiwennia Williams
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Clarence Douglass
Taylorsville
Tore
Baptist Church
Millville
Marvel
Mira Gibson
Pleasant Valley
Allene Byterbaugh
Sharp Decker
F. Nelson Stein
Tva
Culver
Linus Unterbaughami
Matilda
Rt. W. St. Clair
Willon Sheesley
Quarles Lydia
Mer Roy Canrath
Viola Buterbaugh
Hope Meekins
John O McGrail
Garmantown
Simday
James McCradk
Alfred Buterbaugh
Fort Gthaon
Pleaseant Valley
Royce
Lavejay
Madison Shields
Janes Waddell
Anna Harkens
Telen Rica
Tixonville
Betep Trading Co
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