Well Known Woman Dies This Morning Funeral Sunday
Mrs Barbara Helms aged 80 wife of J W Helms died at the family home after a three week illness pneumonia the cause. She was a longtime resident respected by many. Survived by husband two children Elijah Helms and Mrs Martha Auten, a brother George Cutshaw and a sister Mrs Ellen Hayes. Funeral Sunday at 10 am Baptist church near Clay City with burial in Sink cemetery.
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Barbara Helms
J. W. Helms
Martha Auten
Switz City
George Cutshaw
Wierre
Kas
Ellen Hayes
Missouri
Baptist Church
Clay City
Sink Cemetery
Church Membership Surges to 46 Million in Census
New York March 6 The Christian Herald annual census finds U S church members total 46,142,210, up 130 percent since 1891 with a net gain of 640,000 in the year. Catholic Church leads with nearly 16 million. Evangelicals total 28,021,953. Methodists 8,700,007 and Baptists 8,227,225. Baptists show larger increase at 88,098.
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Nual
New York
Christian Herald
Methodists
Baptists
Oldest cross word puzzle found on Crete
Archaeologists long strive to solve the Phaestus disk believed to be the oldest crossword puzzle. A Cretan fashioned it about two thousand years ago and a copy rests in the archaeological museum at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
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Archeological Museum
Johs Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Phaestus
Crete
Early Shirt Factories in United States History
The first recorded American shirt factory was owned by merchants David and Isaac N. Jordan in New York City. They sourced Southern orders, then hired seam stresses to unmike. In 1852 they opened a stock shirt factory and in 1845 the first shirt factory appeared in Troy.
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David and
Isaac N. Jordan
New York City
Tros
Procream linotype note on Japanese war cloud terms
The note mentions twelve national hightlays in Japan with names such as Shiho-Hai and Gensu-sai and lists entities including Shin-nenen kai Kigen-setsu Shuki-korei-sai and Jin wu-Senn. It references Meiji-Tenne Ten-chossensu Shuku-jitsu Njicname-sai Shinnkikerte and Wian-name-sai-Pittsburgh Post.
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Japan
Ie Shiho-Hai
Gensu-sai
Shin-nenenkai
Kigen-setsu
Shuki-korei-sai
Jinwu-Senn
Meiji-Tenne
Ten-chossensu
Shuku-jitsu
Njicname-sai Shinnkikerte
Wian-name-sai
Pittsburgh Post
French gardener grows grafted mistletoe in a pot
After twelve years of trial a French gardener develops a potted mistletoe plant. He grafts mistletoe shoots onto the top of a pruned sapling apple tree. Five years later the grafted plant bears berries.
Untitled Quote From Ohio State Journal
A discouraging line notes that examining successful peers reveals they worked intensely all their lives with little rest or reward, reflecting the grind behind achievement in any field. The remark cites the Ohio State Journal as its source.
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Ohin State Journal
The Hoopie Bird Named For Its Strange Call
A description notes the hoopee is about eleven inches long with a dull corpus or fawn color marked by black and white. Its name comes from its peculiar call and the bird is native to parts of Europe Asia and Africa.
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Nature Mygpazine
Europe
Asia
Africa
Oyster Dish Bearing Weems Line Markings Found
An oyster dish inscribed with a Weems steamship line flag was found with a natural oyster inside, five inches long and three inches wide, no cracks in the dish. The text notes tide-related movement at Waterloo Bridge and questions tidal effects on the St Pauls cathedral structure.
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Yeoromeo River
Virginia
A. T. Muir
Weems
Waterloo Bridge
London
St. Paul’s Cathedral
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