Town Talk and Oddities in a Busy Page
A fragmentary column mixes local chatter with humorous asides about propriety and social behavior. It references a German proprietor, a pastor, and a bartender in a humorous vignette while tossing in trivia about Canada’s asbestos share and Rome’s Coliseum. The piece ends noting puzzles about letters and numbers.
Bees Stop Traffic at Stettin Bridge
Bees swarm fills a railway draw bridge channel at Stettin Germany halting ships and delaying traffic for an hour before the swarm lifts and port operations resume. Attendant reports the lever blocked by bees as crew and dockworkers shout for help.
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Darkness at the crucifixion cited as not caused by an eclipse
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that the darkness over all the earth during the crucifixion could not be an eclipse since it occurred after Passover at full moon, and eclipses require alignment between the sun and the moon.
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Hogmanay Traditions In Northern England And Scotland
On the last day of the year children sing through northern England and Scotland and are rewarded with gifts and cakes. The term also applies to entertaining visitors or gifts given to applicants.
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England
Scotland
Ritz Vanilla Cookies Recipe From Chef Louis Diaz
Louis Diaz of the Ritz Carlton New York shares a long career in royal kitchens and a simplified cooking note. The article includes his Ritz vanilla cookies recipe with flour sugar butter eggs vanilla cream of tartar baking powder and instructions to bake until lightly brown.
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Hints for Homemakers by Jane Rogers
Ashioned flooring made of pressed wood with an in built shock absorber reduces fatigue and comes in varied sizes and shades for decorative designs. It can be laid over old floors sub floor or concrete. Canned fruit should be opened an hour or two before use and poured into a dish to absorb oxygen and become richer.
Norway Coastline Features Vast Islands and Lengthy Reach
The coast of Norway, described as Little Norway, spans about 2 100 miles and if stretched would wrap halfway around the earth. It is fringed by roughly 150 000 islands according to Conlier's Weekly.
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Norway
Conlier
Largest Oil Painting Robusti's Paradise on Venetian Wall
The world's biggest oil painting, Paradise by Jacoppa Robusti known as Pintoretto, measures 74 by 80 feet and covers a full wall in the grand council hall of the Ducal Palace in Venice.
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