The Distinguished Guest Elopes After College Mixup
Dorothy Mathers hires Mr Brown for a lecture in a village near Mardon college. A mixup at New Kent hotel leads to a mistaken arrival and a dual purpose journey. Donald Brown and Dorothy grow close, attend a lecture, then wed secretly two weeks later.
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Brown
Miss Mathers
Ridley Brown
Mardon College
America
Dorothy Mathers
New Kent
Dorothy
Doctor Math
Mr. Brown
Marden
College
Brookdale
Donald Brown
Africa
Donald
Brovokdale
Breath Count In Power Test For Motors Is Studied
Detroit News reports engineers compare human breathing to engine strokes to explain how air flow and gasoline mixing in a car at 80 mph creates power. The study notes intake air rushes at 74 miles per hour and that higher speed can boost output without extra wear.
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Detroit News
Prehistoric Tools Unearthed in Mosbach Germany
In the Mosbach sand deposit along the Main and Rhine Professor Schmidt gen of Mainz Museum of Natural History recovered bone tools dated to 600000 to 700000 years ago from homo heidelbergensis. A lion skull near Wallertheim is dated about 116000 to 117000 years old and is housed in Mainz.
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Germany
Mosbach
Main and
Rhine
Schmidtgen
Mainz
Museum of Naturel History
Mauer
Heidelberg
New York World-Telegram
Foxes Watch Hunt Unnoticed In English Walton Hill
Three foxes perched in a tree watched the start of a fox hunt by the North Che shire hounds at Walton Hill England. The unprecedented sight halted the hunt as hounds were drawn back and the foxes fled after a whip cracked. The remaining two slipped away after hunters departed.
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North Cheshire
Walton Hill
England
Harrison's Inauguration Exposed In Severe Weather
Nathan Sargent writing as Jonathan Oldstyle reports General Harrison rode in the presidential procession on horseback without overcoat or gloves despite a piercing northeast wind. He delivered the inaugural address bareheaded, barehanded, facing the cold as others suffered exposure.
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Harrison
Nathan Sargent
Washington
Jonathan Oldstyle
Pharvisca
Kean
Fo Howe
City Gorky Name Adopted for Nizhni Novgorod
The city on the Vala river in Russia formerly Nizhni Novgorod has been renamed Gorky by the Soviet government to honor author Maxim Gorky who was born there. Locals sometimes call it Cord Gorky to distinguish from the village of Gorky near Moscow.
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Gorky
Nizhni Novgorod
Vala
Grad
St. Petersburg
Shakespearean Woes in Much Ado About Nothing
An excerpt from Pathfinder Magazine presents a quirky, archaic take on wooing and weddings from Much Ado About Nothing Act 2 Scene 1. It contrasts lively social jigs with inner repentance, highlighting the play's humorous and moral tensions.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Paintings From Prison Exhibit by Convict-Students
The Society of Independent Artists in New York announces a docent tour featuring paintings from Linton Prison Dannemora. The works are created by convict-students in the prison art class, highlighting artistic effort within the correctional setting.
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Society of Independent Artists
New York
Linton
Dannemeora
Dumas Musketeers Real People Not Legends
The London News reveals that the famed Musketeers were actual individuals not fiction. It details Charles de Tint de Castelinoye born around 1624 at Chateau d Artagnan near Lupine, with his mother from Chateau d Artagnan on Gascony border, and notes the estate’s later ownership changes and recent sale proceeds.
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Dumas
London News
Girvive
France
Mveat d'Artagnan
Charles de Tint
de Castelinoye
Lupine
Gers
Chateau d Artagnan
Gascony
Pigorre
Charles de Bratz
Bertrand de Banta
Freud Oedipus complex challenged by Minnesota study
An University of Minnesota official tested Freud by sending questionnaires to 3,178 parents of children 1,626 boys and 1,552 girls. Results show no strong preference for the opposite sex and only a fleeting nearer attachment to the mother, with jealousy peaking when attention shifts to another child.
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Freud
University of Minnesota
An Old but Busy Port of Saloniki in the Balkans
The port of Saloniki on the Aegean has a 2300 year history of change and disturbance, including earthquakes. Its population swelled by about 60,000 Greeks after a Greek republic was proclaimed. The free port district serves Balkan states lacking sea outlets, with exports of grain, flour, silk, chrome, manganese, iron, livestock products, opium and tobacco.
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Saloniki
Balkans
Aegean Sea
Greece
Turkey
Balkan
Roman Naming Conventions Through Ancient Times
The text explains Roman naming structure with three names: praenomen personal name, nomen clan name, and cognomen family branch name. It notes cognomen as the equivalent of a modern surname and details how this system predated Christian times.
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Marcus Tullius
Cicero
Bullet of Water Sharpshooter Fish of Siam
A fish known as the Bullet in Siam streams shoots a globule of water to snatch insects off leaves overhanging water. It can throw the drop up to ten feet, though its accuracy is best around four feet. A cavity at the back of its mouth holds water, and it releases the globule by compressing its gills after sighting prey.
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Siam
Gold-studded Siegfried era sword found near Alt Lussheim
Antiquarians report a gold studded sword with a broken blade dug from a hillside near Alt Lussheim. They place it in the early fifth century as a potential historical prototype for Siegfried of the Nibelungen saga, in Burgundian lands crushed by Hun invasion.
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Alt-Lussheim
Siegfried
New York Times
Woodrow Wilson Kept Faith In Presbyterian Upbringing
The article notes Woodrow Wilson was a conservative orthodox Presbyterian, son of Rev. Joseph KR Wilson. It traces his early education from his mother to Davidson College and Princeton, his rise to president of his alma mater, and his belief that faith was essential to his duties. It mentions his worship at Presbyterian churches and his entombment at Washington Cathedral, with pilgrims visiting Bethlehem chapel.
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Woodrow Wilson
Joseph KR. Wilson
Om Patsonage
Janet
Jessie Woodrow
Davidson College
Princeton University
Bryn Mawr
Wesleyan
Princeton
Lord Jesus Christ
Wilson
Central Presbyterian Church
New York Avenue
First
Eastern Presbyterian
James E. Freelan
Washington
Washington Cathedral
Bethlehem Chapel
Diamond Drilling Seen as Tedious World Task
A Path finder Magazine note describes the arduous diamond drilling process. A hole of .0004 inch diameter requires two weeks of continuous work, with diamond dust and oil applied during drilling. The work is manual, using a stationary steel needle and a rapidly rotated diamond gem. Drilled diamonds serve as dies for tungsten wire filaments in incandescent bulbs, with tiny holes etched in acid for three watt lamp filaments. Trayoux, France, is noted as having a near monopoly on diamond drilling.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Trayoux
France
Pock Marked Earth Craters Revealed by Aerial Photos
Recent discoveries indicate many craterlike depressions worldwide are formed by meteor impacts. In the southeastern United States a large field shows evidence of meteorite impacts, with similar depressions found in the Carolinas.
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American Academy For the Advancement of Science
United States
Carolinas
Pine and Hickory Heat Values Compared in Wood Use
Rural New Yorker notes tests showing pine burns hotter per pound than hickory, despite common belief that heavy hardwoods yield more heat per cord. Resinous woods like pine often have higher heat per pound than nonresinous varieties, affecting stove fuel value.
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New- Yorker
Mockingbird and Nightingale Song Experts Compared
The European nightingale and the American mockingbird, leading songbirds of their regions, are debated for vocal power and quality. The nightingale may boast richer notes, but the mockingbird excels at influencing other songsters with its versatile repertoire, per Detroit News.
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Detroit News
Copper Hardening Through Alloying and Hammering
Copper becomes harder by alloying and hammering, and no pure sample surpasses hammering. Modern steel tools reduce demand for hardened copper, as experts can produce edged tools as good as prehistoric ones.
Mourning Cloak Emerges Early feeding on sap and fruit
The mourning cloak butterfly hibernates in woodpiles and protected spots then reappears in early spring feeding on tree sap before blossoms appear. It later sustains itself on decaying fruit juices such as apples after most flowers have faded.
Local Visitors and Social Notices in New Florence Area
A collection of social news from New Florence and nearby towns notes visits by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Anderson, Joseph Higgins, Rev. Henry Weeghtley and others. Rededication services occurred at United Evangelical church, and Brethren church hosts weeklong services led by Rev. John Clawson. Mentioned are hospitalities, quilting party guests, illnesses, and local travel between Conemaugh, Clyde, and Somerset.
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Joseph Higgins
Frank Fligelns
Akron
Henry Weeghtley
Youngston
H. Jay Bowner
McClure Hall
Lafayette Gamble
Joseph Hall
Johnstown
Pierce
Ambridge
Merl Mack
Brethren Church
John Clawson
United Evangelical Church
G W. Sprinkle
Eugene Steele
Jerry Saxton
Indiana
B. Lichtenfels
Christopher Ford
Arthur ‘Stormer
Anna Elizabeth
Conemaugh
Henry Wesenberg
Clyde
Harry Donahue
Donahue
Kennedy
Altoona
W. H. Little
Mary Walbeck
Kathleen Moody
Harry T. Johns
Charles Bowser
Somerset
Charles A. Robinson
Flora Mack
Geneveve ‘Rehn
C.A. Robinson
Local Social Notes From Marion Center Area
Marion Center residents and visitors are noted in a sequence of short social items. PUNXSUTAWNEY guest Mrs. P J Straitiff visits Mrs H J Thompson. D D Long visits his brother John Long who is improving. Edgewood visitors Mr and Mrs James Blakley visit Horace Kinter. Blairsville visitors Dr and Mrs J C Glasser visit Mrs Glasser's parents Mr and Mrs Griffith. Miss Muriel Barr from Indiana. Laura Frederick and Mrs Emma Simpson return from Indiana. Mrs J C Bovard makes a business call in Indiana. N E Barr and family drive to Brookville to see his brother J C Barr. N L Bhe hospitalized in Indiana. a small daughter of Mr and Mrs Napier on N Manor Street ill and ears lanced. Marty McAfoos and wife of Plumville visit Mrs Frank Doyle. W S Wetzel and wife visit Indiana. Mrs Hallie Holt class of M A church hosted by Mrs J E Long and Miss Mabel Work.
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P. J. Straitiff
Punxsutawney
H. J. Thompson
D. D. Long
John Long
James Blakley
Edgewood
Horace Kinter
J. C. Glasser
Blairsville
Indiana Hospital
Napier
N. Manor Street
Marty McAfoos
Plumville
Frank Doyle
Wetzel
Ware
Indiana
Hallie Holt
M. 4. Church
J. E. Long
Mabel Work
Picnic Luncheon Menu and Salad Preparation
A summer spread outlines chilled tomato juice in a thermos, meat loaf sandwiches, stuffed eggs, assorted cold meats rolls, pickles, mayonnaise and chili sauce. Saratoga potatoes, pies, coffee, and a Brazilian cabbage salad with kidney beans, cabbage, cucumber relish, ketchup, mayonnaise, and salt. Serves 6.
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Bmcclare
Byndlenta
WNU
Marion Center
Main St
South Ninth
J. Bear A. & P. Stove
Western
Penna
Josephine Gibson
Heine Food Institute
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Bell Telephone Company OF Pennsylvania
R.W. Werble & CO
Indiana Progress
Indiana Progress Indiana, Penna
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