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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1925
Page
4
The passage traces Ethel Hueston's Prudence novels from Prudence of the Parsonage to Prudence Says So and Prudence's Sisters. Fairy Geraldine becomes Jerry, and a new volume Prudence's Daughter appears, continuing the witty, graceful style. Readers new or old are invited to enjoy it.
The Amer ifda Forestry association credits a Chinese scholar eunuch named Tsui-lun with making the first writing sheet. In 75 A.D. at age 40 he was raised to marquis. He invented a finished paper sheet from tree bark after years of practice, using bark as raw material in early processes that led to modern paper manufacture.
The Times Literary Supplement recalls Heine’s evolving relation to Don Quixote as a child’s faith, a comic indulgence, and a wiser, lifelong influence. Heine reread the tale every five years or eighty, finding both ridicule and nobility in the knight and Sancho shaped by his changing outlook.
The article notes St Leonard as a French nobleman turned monk who founded a monastery and became famed for freeing prisoners. After his death about 509 his miracles reportedly continued, with his festival tied to the Michaelmas term and writs returnable.
Excavators uncover a long 100 foot quipu in a prehistoric tomb. Knots encode numbers from one to nineteen across ten colored sections red blue yellow white and more, suggesting early adding and calculation devices.
A Montreal Star item describes silver bead counting as a single decimal based method to represent elven numbers from two to twenty, enabling rapid calculations.
The narrative describes a first wife on a river bank supervising a second wife as she washes plates. The first wife had urged the husband to take a younger wife to share duties and companionship. Her jealousy fades as she trains the second wife, ending with no maid and no need to wash dishes alone.
A Germin magazine note claims Thebes was ancient Egypt’s Reno. A tomb papyrus unearthed at Thebes allegedly contains history’s first divorce decree, authenticated and about two millennia old, with notary Thut’s signature and four witnesses on the reverse. grounds not stated.
A discussion traces jury trial origins from Saxon era England with six Welsh and six Anglo-Saxon freemen assigned to try property disputes and liable for verdicts. It notes Magna Charta's emphasis on juries as a liberty bulwark and mentions challenges to jurors as an ancient right under early law.
The article highlights Britain's famous caverns such as Peak Cavern in Derbyshire and Cheddar Caves in Somerset. Peak Cavern, known since ancient times, features a deep black opening and a cold stream, explored to 2250 feet. Cheddar Gorge hosts spectacular limestone halls with stalactites and stalagmites, discovered in stages with one cave found by accident.
Two employees of a telegraph company were sent to repair a burglar alarm at a financial institution in Boator and were saved from death by knowledge of Morse code.
Prisoners locked inside a vault with a time lock were confined for an hour. Bank staff, police, and experts failed to open the door until Morse telegraph code was broadcast. The two men finally emerged as the door swung free, exhausted but alive.
A boy named Jimmy tries to shake a kitten from a window ledge claiming his father said there is money in the kitty from a card game. His mother interrupts and rescues the animal. The anecdote is recounted from London Answers.
An 18th century legal anecdote recounts the earl’s quip during a lunacy statute examination. The lord chancellor asks about a sheep’s feet. the earl jokes that a live sheep has four legs while a dead one has two, with shoulders described as legs of mutton.
Scientists attempt to learn cancer nature by producing it in animal specimens. Rats and mice exposed to tar develop cancerous formations after six months. Cancers also arise in stomachs of animals fed cockroaches carrying a worm. Researchers pursue improved treatments while seeking a cure. Calgary Herald.
A Tatler column recounts a British workman named Jim who is habitually late to work while his neighbor Teddy is punctual. The foreman notes the irony of Jim living next to the works yet arriving late, while Teddy, three minutes away, is always on time.
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