Social dances and club notices from Adamsboro town
Community events include matinee and evening dances directed by local organizers with fifty couples at the afternoon event. performances by Denbo and Barley and a solo by Barley. Society meetings cover English literature on Moore with several papers, and a Gamma Lambda Purdue dance chaperoned by C O Fenton party. The Owls elect officers and a Purple Club dance drew about fifty couples with decorated hall and twenty numbers.
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Carl Anderson
John Routh
Denbo
Barley
Mr. Barley
Library Hall
Moore
Purple Club
Social Calendar Highlights for Stettiner and Crescent
Today features Stag Club Stettiner and Crescent Club Stettiner social events. Monday brings Women’s Progressive Club at Library Hall and Married People’s Club Dance at Stettiner. Tuesday schedule to follow.
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Stag Club
Stettiner
Crescent Club
Women’s Progressive Club
Library Hall
Married People’s Club
Post Office Bait Sparks Grant County Political Clash
Report claims Jones promised the Fairmount post office to win support from the Southern Grant County faction. Vicious campaign rhetoric arises as Good followers vow to oppose the Landis machine to uphold open methods. Marion Chronicle anger over candiate coverage fuels a high stakes contest between Fairbanks and Beveridge forces aiming to renominate Landis.
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Grant County
Jones
Fairmount
Marion Chronicle
Fairbanks
Lockwood
Beveridge
Landis
Predictlandis nomination Marion primaries spark fierce race
The Marion County Republican primaries Tuesday will choose delegates for the Marion convention amid intense contest. Fred Landis is forecast by the Marion Leader as having an excellent chance, with Landis supporters merging with Good while anti Lockwood sentiment grows against the Fairbanks machine influence and federal patronage spending. R. Harry Miller and John A. Jones of Fairmount are involved.
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Marion
Fred Landis
Landis
Lockwood
Good
Fairbanks
Harry Miller
John A. Jones
Fairmount
Deaths and Funerals Notices
Miss Susie Yarner’s funeral set for Monday at two from her home with Rev White officiating. Burial follows at Mount Hope. Mrs O H Bacon, widow of O H Bacon and former city resident, dies in Bradford Ohio. burial at Crown Hill Indianapolis. Mrs W W Burke dies in Madison Indiana. husband is brother of Mrs Jeannerette. Mrs Harvey Elliott to be buried after 11 am service at Zion M E Church. The funeral for Elizabeth Sieber was held at home on Spear Street with Rev Walter Johnson. George Doan’s funeral at Hoover’s church with burial in Shiloh cemetery.
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Broadway M. E. Church
Mary West
J. C. White
Susie Yarner
Rev. White
Mount Hope
O. H. Bacon
City
Bradford
Ohio
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
Harvey Elliott
Zion M. E. Church
Bebee
Elizabeth Sieber
Spear Street
Walter Johnson
George Doan
Hoover's Church
Shiloh
Lake Cicott High Water Reaches Twenty-Year Peak
Water in Lake Cicott rose to near the bank top, the highest level in twenty years. The lake crested at about one foot below the rim, prompting local officials to monitor potential flooding risks.
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Lake Cicott
Why Misfortune Sparks Self-Righteous Judgment
A melancholy narrator ponders why distant misfortune prompts a sense of superiority. He notes readers excuse themselves from guilt, contrasts Jones’s failure with others, and jokes about Brown’s runaway son while questioning if selfishness or lack of personal sorrow drives such attitudes.
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Jones
Brown
Noiseless clock trend in Germany spares nerves
A Frankfurter Zeitung writer notes a shift from cherished ticking clocks to silence as a new Schramburg factory produces noiseless clocks. Other papers say anti noise fervor makes once pleasant sounds unbearable and may soon hush birds and rustling leaves.
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Frankfurter Zeitung
Schramburg
Rain Rainmaking Rite in Changamwe East Africa
A self appointed committee collected two annas from each hut in Changamwe to buy an ox for a rainmaking ceremony. The ox was sacrificed after a two hour procession led by children, with Koran prayers sung. Meat fed to children, bones and offal tossed into the sea, and rain fell the next day.
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Changamwe
East Africa
Roentgen Rays Said to Affect Child Brain After Hair Disease Treatment
A Danish medical journal reports a five year old boy treated with Roentgen rays for a hair disease. After 25 treatments he appeared cured but became absent minded and unreliable. Doctors warn rays easily penetrate a thin scalp and may adversely influence the brain.
The Earth Moves Galileo’s Legacy Carsing of Thought
A historical reflection on the din of opposition to Copernican proof. It emphasizes the earth and celestial bodies truly move despite Inquisition threats. The passage asserts science grows despite bigotry and political power, naming Galileo and Edward Everett as symbols of enduring truth.
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Galileo
Inquisition
Carpernicus
Edward Everett
No Offense Intended. Browning at a Dinner with Aristocracy
Robert Browning recalls a dinner at a great English house where he sat beside a duchess connected with the highest aristocracy. She sought conversation and asked if he was a poet. Browning replied that people may say so, noting Byron and Tennyson among poets.
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Robert Browning
Browning
Byron
Tennyson
Frozen Siberian Mammoth Carried to Sea by River Flood
A Siberian river flood exposed a perfectly preserved mammoth in a bog. Benkendorf, a Russian engineer, and crew cut off tusks and dissected it before water carried the carcass toward the sea with the last meal of fir shoots inside.
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Benkerndorf
Lena
Siberia
Benkendorf
Infringed Copyright Case Linked to Irish Poaching Tale
A Chicago lawyer recalls Frederick McNally consulting him on an infringed copyright. McNally believed the infringement was innocent and minor. The culprit was an amateur publisher and a village girl who brought game to the rector, claiming her father was a poacher to Lord Clare.
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Frederick McNally
Chicago
Early Oklahoma Snowstorm Drift Story
In Watonga Herald style a drought period ends with a big snowfall that brings farmers hope for wheat. A south wind 40 mph drifts snow northward for a day, then an 80 mph north wind drives it south again. The winds continue daily until no snow remains in the county.
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Crabtree
Oklahoma
Watonga
Streets and closes name Edinburgh lanes and alleys
The piece notes Edinburgh streets with queer names such as Jacob's Ladder Gabriel's Ladder Coffinland and Cuddy Lane while praising the closes especially Hole in the Wall close Little Jack and Big Jack close Lady Stairs Heave-Away and Long closes noting Long’s shortness and comparing Crooked and Turnagain lanes in London to illustrate street geometry.
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Edinburgh
Coffinland
Cuddy Lane
London
Fiber from Algerian dwarf palm spurs growing industry
In Algeria the dwarf palm fiber, once deemed useless, is emerging as a key industry. Factories rise as natives supply palm leaves for processing into vegetable fiber via steam carding, then spinning and braiding. The material resists moths and insects and is used for mattresses, woven goods, harnesses, military bedding, hats, and more.
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Algeria
Queer Breed of Chickens in a Paris Pension Tale
A girl recalls returning home and a Paris pension where Sunday chicken was served. She notes diners believed the dish resembled a giant centipede, with thirteen legs reportedly placed on plates during the meal. The anecdote contrasts country dining with urban manners.
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Paris
Troubles of an Amateur in Bee Keeping
A suburb dweller recalls losing half a dozen bee colonies after they swarmed while he consulted literature on beekeeping. The man from the city notes no signs of the bees and describes having a library of books before the swarm caused their disappearance.
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Library of Literature
The Measure of His Love and Miss Honjely Rich
A fragment reports a dialogue about love and trust between Miss Cutting and Mr Hunter. The lines hint at doubt over professed affection and a banker’s lively chatter as part of a social gossip item.
Irreverent Exchange Sparks Curious Shoe Talk
A brief quotation captures a quirky exchange where a customer explains her shoe request and a shopkeeper jokes about fit, noting inside versus outside dimensions in a humorous vignette.
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