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Newspaper
Lynden Tribune
Location
Lynden, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1921
Page
11
George J. Taylor of Keller Washington purchased the Fred Cheney place on B C Avenue. The three acre property sold for 4100 dollars in a Lynden Pioneer Realty Company transaction.
In a brief notes column an eye specialist named Dr F L Wood is described as fitting glasses with scientific accuracy, reflecting a focus on precision in optical work.
Mrs L A Treen and Virginia Treen of Seattle visit the Alversons. Oscar Sheets hosts a berry picker camp at Big Lake with eight boys who caught bass and perch. The annual Sheets berry picker trip included Manuel Sheets Hubert Sheets Grant Reed Lowell Bostwick Kenneth Bostwick John Hayes Earl Hayes and Floyd Anderson. The party lands fish each day and returns Saturday. Mrs Sheets will supervise a Cottonwood Beach camp for girl berry pickers this week. The Dykstras plan a move to Iowa where John Dykstra will attend Northwest Academy. John Brink John Hoksbergen head east by automobile. The Schuyleman Haveman and Zylstra sisters head to Orcas Island for a week of camping. Sam Stuurmans family and Mrs Bouma join a Soap Lake auto trip.
A poem by Marc Cook reflects on aging from childhood notions of old age to sixty years, noting the speaker feels young despite gray hair and a cane. The narrator traces changing age thresholds from ten to sixty, concluding wisdom grows with years while the question of aging remains.
Popular Mechanics describes a French viper hunter who protects vineyards by trapping and killing vipers. He travels from estate to estate wearing heavy boots with a scissors forked-stick knife and handbag, earning pay by snake size. vipers in France are common in many districts, with vipers reaching 3 to 4 feet and distinctive body coloring.
A man claiming to be a Calvin descendant provides a lead to the reformer’s burial site in Geneva. He says the grave location, long kept secret by the Calvin family, was handed to church authorities and that Calvin died May 27, 1564. The common cemetery Plain Palais is the traditional resting place, but the exact spot remains unknown.
A Vermont youngster was born with six toes on each foot and developed two rows of teeth on the lower jaw. Doctors note the rare congenital condition and plan to monitor development as the child grows.
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