Walla Walla Name Origins Described by Meany
The Walla Walla Indian name meaning running water is cited by Edmond S. Meany a Washington historian as one of the state’s most beautiful geographic names. Early spellings and reduplication explain how walla walla came to denote the small rapid stream and the land the tribe inhabited.
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Walla Walla
Washington
Edmond S. Meany
University Ofshington
Prof Meany
Detroit News Agers
Walla
Grass chair making from bog grass spreads in Mississippi valley
The article notes grass chair production as a key industry in parts of the Mississippi valley. Wire grass from bogs is twisted into twine then woven into matting and furniture. It cites St Paul Oshkosh and other cities as centers where couches and chairs are produced from this material. Cremona varnish re discovery is also mentioned.
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Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
St. Paul
Oshkosh
Loose but Harmless English Visit in Scottish Town
A lighthearted miscommunication unfolds as an English visitor questions a town porter about a local official. The porter replies with dialect and ambiguity, highlighting cross language humor and a quaint, provincial setting without clear names or places.
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Scotland
Fragmentary Old Text Teases a Political Tale
A garbled passage hints at a debate over leadership and ambition with dialogue about a future statesman. Fragments mention deity, birds, a pest, and earnest speculation as characters speculate on desires and power.
Mirror 2400-Year-Old Greek Bronze Added to British Museum
The British Museum gains a 7 inch Greek bronze mirror dated before 470 B.C. per Copper and Brass Association. The disk features egg and tongue molding and relief figures of a winged youth and maiden, possibly Agon and Nika, with a pedestal base and lotus motif.
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British Museum
Acropolis
The
Copper and Brass Association
New York
Bank buildings reflect wealth of American banks in Philadelphia
Banks dominate real estate value with a million dollars per property and total new bank building projects in Philadelphia surpassing ten million dollars. The United States government remains a benchmark for leasing, while the Chestnut Street building noted as a former beauty would be too small today.
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United States
Girard
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia
United States Bank
Chestnut
Fourth Street
Auction sale to close Lehighton livery business
The Park Livery Stables Lehighton announces closure and a large public auction of wagons carriages harness and 20 horses as the last livery in Carbon county ends. In Ambridge a gas explosion at Samuel Mears home seriously injures four. second floor blown through and family buried under debris and plaster.
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Auto
Carbon County
Brey & Hoppes
Park
Lehighton
Samuel Mears
Ambridge
Mears
Flont
Catherine
Harold Mears
Raccoon Digger Fined Under Pennsylvania Game Laws
Warden James D Geary arrested Paul Derr of Wescoesville R 2 near Hynemansville for illegally digging a raccoon from a groundhog hole. He was fined $10. Pennsylvania game laws allow hunting fur bearing animals in season and by certain methods but prohibit poisons explosives or digging dens. The report notes Derr removed the animal from its den.
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James D. Geary
Paul Derr
Wescoesville R. 2
Hynemansville
Pennsylvania
Derr
County Happenings Three at the Length and Breadth of the Garden Spot
Three dozen suits were brought against residents of Washing tonbore for picking coal from along the railroad tracks, charged as trespass and larceny. A Pennsylvania train, No. 622, used its cow catcher to strike a wandering cow west of Dillerville. no injuries reported, fate of the animal unclear.
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R. RB
Pennsylvania
Dillerville
Lancaster Business Views shows split 1924 outlook
Lancaster business leaders split into three camps on 1924 prospects. The decidedly optimistic group includes big merchants and manufacturers linked to building trades. Agriculture is rosier with tobacco profits improving and poultry products yielding higher returns than in 25 years.
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Lancaster
Ephrata Firemen Elect At Pioneer Company Meeting
At a well attended Ephrata Pioneer Fire Company meeting in its hall officers were chosen. President Earl Wearr. chief D H Doremus. assistant chief Edward Aible. secretary H E Dierwechar. treasurer J Leber. Trustees Charles Beck Walter Snyder Charles Mull. chief driver Abe Bru baker. assistant chief driver Earl Weaver. hose captain Walter Demmy. assistant hose captain George Dommeyer. janitor Walter Demmy. delegate to state convention Grant Dickersheid.
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Ephrata Pioneer Fire Company
Earl Wearr
D.H. Doremus
Edward Aible
H. E. Dierwechar
J. ©. Leber
Charles Beck
Walter Snyder
Charles Mull
Abe Brubaker
Earl Weaver
Walter Demmy
George Dommeyer
Grant Dickersheid
Honors for Marietta Soldiers
Marietta post receives two citations from the French government signed by President Poincare. One honors William Brenner, killed on the battlefield by a German machine gunner and the post bears his name. The other honors Robert Libhart, who died of wounds in a hospital at the front.
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Marietta
Poincare
William Brenner
Robert Libhart
Farm Calendar and Poultry Week at State College
A roundup of farm topics urges keeping purebred birds for better prices and preparing for ice harvest with tight tool readiness. It highlights tank heaters to prevent freezing, energy savings, and a Pennsylvanian Farm Products Show in Harrisburg January 22 to 26. It notes beaver colonies near Orangeville aiding dam repair, their spread across multiple counties, and a cautious view of their ecological impact. It promotes about 50 Lancaster farmers attending State College poultry week February 4–9 for intensive poultry instruction covering feeding, housing, marketing, and disease issues.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
North Mountain
Benton
Orangeville
Board of Game Commissioners
Canada
Potter County
Lycoming
Union
Center
Mifflin
Perry
Dauphin
Carbon
Bucks
Westmorelond
Lancaster County
State College
New England "Blue Laws" Debunked by Tory Preacher
Floyd W. Parsons rebuts a Tory preacher who fled to Hingland and published a long list of absurd Sabbath enactments to slur American patriots. The piece notes the mockery, cites examples such as prohibitions on kissing a child, labor, travel, and music on Sunday, and asserts colonial acts were not as intolerant as claimed.
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New England
Hingland
Floyd W. Parsons
Silver Watch Of Maj Andre Traced Through History
The silver Mull's-eye watch once worn by Maj John Andre is now owned by the New York Historical Society after passing through Isaac Van Wart and his descendants. Congressional debates on John Paulding's pension followed Andre's capture, with Col Benjamin Tallmadge and Washington lauding the captors’ actions and Congress awarding annual pensions to Paulding Williams and Van Wart.
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Maj. John Anite
New York Historical Society
Samuel V. Hoffman
Isaac van Wart
Andre
van Wart
W. Eliott Woodward
Hoffman
Maj. Andre
A. J. Wall
John Paulding
Congress
Tallmadge
Benjamin Tallmadge
Connecticut
Westchester County
Salem
West Point
Hudson
Haverstraw
Tappan
N.Y
Col. Tallmadge
Maj
Hubert Benson
Samuel Bowman
Massachusetts
James Oglethorpe
Philadelphia
Evening Post
Washington
David Williams
David Wilms
New York
John Andre
Benedict Arnold
Hght
United States
Fidelity and Patriotism Medal Inscription Across Shield
The Board of War procures a silver medal for each, bearing on one side a shield with Fidelity and on the other the motto Vineit amor patriae. The design links loyalty to country, reflecting military honors.
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Board of War
O K and the origin of GQ and KK explanations
A fragmented note discusses slang origins for ok and the colloquial GQ and KK forms. It cites Andrew Jackson, Chickasaw language, and a Chicago bakery link to O Kendall Sons. The tale links initials on army crackers to the phrases These are all right and These are Tk.
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Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Cornelius Newflall
Chicago
Therdail
Oxtit Kendall
Ein Kendall
Gies
Chieny
Court Proclamation for Lancaster Tail Delivery Session
Public notice proclaims a Court of Tail Delivery and Quarter Sessions to begin in Lancaster County on the third Monday in January 1924. Officials and jurors are summoned to attend with rolls, examinations, and remembrances to prosecute prisoners in the jail. Dated Lancaster, December 17, 19.
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Wherras
Charles I. Landis
Aarow B. Hasslee
Court of Common Pleas
Uputy of
Lancaster
Jao Ies
Courts of Oyer and
Jai Deliv Hug Gu
County of
Court House
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Lasa
Len
Ater
Cownty Otep
Lancast Fa
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Hulland
Antonello da Messina
Cremonese
the County
Ephrata Firemen
Pennsylvania State College
Hisiber Shen
Major
Ture
George Washington
O. K
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Hammer Creek Poultry Farm
J. A. Hougendobler
Brunnerville
Boyd
Boyd's Shoe Store
E. King St
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