Marion Area News Mixed: Visits, Travels and Local Moves
Marion residents and visitors share a busy week with trips to Benton West Frankfort Murphysboro Johnston City and Buncombe. Local tradespeople and families attend services visit relatives and chase business while several move homes and plan Memorial Day events.
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ML. Coloper Dt
Cartérville
Ernest Patton
Harry Parkg
Marion
Vienna
Francis Cox
Bessie Boles
Julia Carlton
Carbondale
West
Will Burkhart
William
Winnifred
Country Club
Florence True
Chicago
J. R. True
Johnston
City
West Frankfort
L. EB. Williams
Benton
Jack Ferguson
J. C. Ferguson
Martha Martin
S. 1
N. Y
Cypress
Charles Leigh
Alice Russell
Buncombe
Pete Bearden
Amon Bridges
Herrin
Josie Hudgens
Goreville
J. M. Miller
South
Court Street
Catherine Day
Johnston City
Allin
Kitty McNeish
Alice
Johnston Guy
Ernest Smith
Laverne
L. L. Rodman
W. Yates
Kankakee
Will Stout
Hugh
S. Cole
W. Foster
W. E. Pike
Hickory Grove
C. C. Foster
Merle Robertson
Ruth Laughlin
Ruby Latham
Lela Deering
R. R Fowler
W. P. Moore
Round Lake
Prudential Insurance Company
Mt. Vernon
Greenville
Burlington Reservoir
Sam Thomas
Raleighs Great Work History From the Tower
Sir Walter Raleigh produced a voluminous world history while imprisoned in the Tower of London. The work, rivaling Wells in scope, showed profound scholarship and research despite his confinement and limited access to sources.
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Raleigh
H. G. Wells
Sir Walter Raleigh
Tower of London
Dreaming of Putty and Window Glass
Dreaming of putty indicates poverty and losses with larger holes signaling greater losses. Dreaming of filling holes suggests decline, and putting glass into a window predicts moving to a meaner place than current.
Poorly Arranged and Pride in Boston Tran Script
A short note comments on misarranged items and pride, noting that a man can pocket pride while a woman with more pride has few pockets. The remark targets social behavior with a casual, humorous tone.
The Mark Shows Insight on Mending Broken Bonds
A wise woman notes that cracked dishes and friendships can be mended but never fully return to the original state. She warns that those who value repair must handle both objects and relationships with care, acknowledging the enduring mark left by past breaks.
Will Grow Democracy Quote by Henry Van Dyke
A fragmented quote contrasts force with democracy and growth likening it to a tree whose roots reach humanity and shade persecuted peoples. The speaker urges daily determination to achieve personal satisfaction and progress toward liberty.
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Henry
van Dyke
Fragmentary OCR item with vague notices and ads
The text presents scattered phrases about streetcars, intelligence standards, and a product line mentioning Baby Chicks priced at 12 dollars with parcel post delivery, plus references to Far row Hirsh Co in Peoria and a vague postal delivery claim. The passage is garbled, containing incomplete phrases and non-sequiturs.
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Farrow-Hirsh Co
Peoria
President Taylor Known For Courage Despite Short Presidency
Zachary Taylor is described as a relatively obscure president who served only 16 months yet earned public admiration for courage and character. He rose to fame through Mexican War victories, remained unknown to most politicians, and disproved the stereotype of a rough and uncouth officer.
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Zachary Taylor
Smoke as a Lightning Rod Over Etna Observatory
An astronomical observatory atop Mount Etna lacks lightning rods yet does not need them. The crater’s vapor stream acts as a natural conductor, draining electricity from clouds, keeping lightning rare near the summit.
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Astronomical Observatory
Mount Etna
Water-Finder Locates Water and Metals in Dorset
A reader from Dorset VI describes using a forked stick as a water-finder and claims it points downward over water. He says adding lead at the end helps detect buried metal deposits and even a buried pipe for a farmer. He also reports copper detection.
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Dorset
Not Afraid of That End at Grandfather’s Minnesota Farm
Gladys visits her grandfather’s Minnesota farm where a frisky dog roams. While playing she pulls the dog’s tail, prompting the warning that the dog will bite if she doesn’t stop. Gluiga responds with a puzzled remark about the dog’s bite.
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Gladys
Minnesota
Gluiga
Chicago
English travellers seek houses in Cairo amid oddities of the city
An excerpt from Egypt as We Knew It humorously notes how hard it is to find a person in Cairo. The narrator recalls a doctor’s address clue about a family living in a nameless house on a nameless street, near a signless Armenian butcher west of Abdin. The building’s staircase is said to have eighty seven steps.
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Carl Anderson
Creal Springs
Marion
D. H. Harris
Curtis Brown
Ruby Latham
Main Street
Gladys Smith
Holden Hospital
Carbondale
H. P. Fluke
Route Four
C. W Compton
John McCarthy
Abney Lloyd
West Frankfort
West Vienna
Norman Dempsey
Ojbnston City
Dempsey
Cairo
Egypt
Mra
Butcher
Abdinpaidcel
Pasteur and the butterfly as a potential cure tale
The article reflects on Pasteur’s advance in bacterial therapeutics and contemplates a butterfly larva as a possible source of cures for various pestilences. It traces the lineage from Pasteur to Lister Koch Finlay and Carrell and imagines future cures from natural agents.
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Huxley
The
North American Review
Pasteur
Blot
Dumas
Science
Lister
Koch
Finlay
Carrell
Metalnikov
Tobacco not a shield against most germs warns Rome professor
Professor Panton of the University of Rome reports experiments testing whether tobacco smoke or chewing tobacco can disinfect against disease germs. Using paper smeared with cholera, influenza, diphtheria, typhoid, and meningitis bacteria, he found tobacco is ineffective except for cholera and meningitis. He notes tar nicotine and formaldehyde as the active disinfecting elements for those two cases.
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Panton
University of Rome
Tuscany
New York Evening Post
Pantoni
Silk Chemises for Dusky Belles in Congo Order
An announcement from a Chicago mail order house reports safe arrival from Chief Angogo of Congo Belge of an order for lurid purple silk chemises sized 62 for 12 of the chief’s wives. The chief notes the results are satisfactory and the order financed shoes with watches, rubber boots with copper toes, pink silk stockings, beads, and cotton goods. Twenty Years in Forestry marks Yale’s forestry school twentieth anniversary reunion with over 100 alumni and students attending, about 20 percent of those trained, noting Yale leadership in the field and graduates teaching forestry at multiple institutions.
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African Congo
Chiscago Maik
Foreign Department
Angogo
Belgian Congo
Yale Forest School
Americ Forestry Magazine
Yale
America
Motion Pictures in Java Expansion Report
The American consul at Batavia notes rapid growth in Java’s motion picture business. American pictures gain popularity with big features and travel reels, while locals prefer action adventure films. European and American audiences favor well acted drama, illustrating differing tastes across regions.
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Java
Batavia
Ivas
America
Employer seeks use not sale in job chat
An employer clarifies employment terms with the applicant, noting he only wants to rent use of the worker and not buy. Eugene Roberts of route five visited Marion on a business trip Wednesday.
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the L. Morgan
Metropolis
Marion
Ir. W.T. Tidwell
B. T. Tid
Pittsburg
George D. Miller
Alsey Jones
C. Spitznass
Marion Thurs
Feri
Eugene Roberts
Route Five
Cleopatra Hair Restorer Rumors Stir Debate
The Exchange notes there is no evidence Cleopatra used or valued a hair restorer to influence Caesar Antony or Pothinus. Speculation ponders she might wielded it as a political or personal ploy at various historic moments, but Egyptology finds no real efficacy.
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Cleopatra
Caesar
Pothinus
Antony
Tarsus
Actium
Cannibal Trout Report by American Forestry Magazine
The American Forestry Magazine notes trout can be cannibalistic feeding on their own kind when necessary, and in many cases even when not forced by scarcity. The observation highlights the species' unusual feeding behavior across various instances.
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American Forestry Magazine
Farm Machinery and Population Growth
The passage argues modern farm implements drive population support and urban development by freeing labor for manufacturing and commerce. It notes that 60 or 70 years ago, such development would have been unimaginable without current farming tools.
Preserving Milk Condensed and Evaporated Varieties
The text explains that milk is condensed by evaporating water after pasteurization. Some brands have sugar added making sweetened milk, while unsweetened milk is called evaporated milk. Large copper vessels handle 1,000 gallons or more during sterilization and water removal in vacuum pans.
Adam Family Garden Tale Traced To Scotland
A Boston Transcript quote ties a Garden of Eden claim to Scotland. A scientist’s note about Ohio’s Garden of Keep is linked with a Scotch laird who told a famed singer Gaelic was Adam’s language. A Gaelic remark follows, asserting Eden’s garden was in Scotland and naming Adam as McPherson.
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Adam
Garden of Keep
Ohio
Scotland
McPherson
Boston Transcript
Speed of Gulf Stream Travel Time Report
The Gulf Stream water is estimated to take about two years to move from Florida to the coast of Norway, reflecting the slow, long distance transport of ocean currents between the two regions.
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Florida
Norway
Falconry and the falconer: roots of the occupation name
The chief medieval English sport was hunting with a falcon. Tracing the term falconer shows it comes from the occupation of training and handling birds, with variations in the derived name Paulk and related forms.
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England
Of the Family of Smiths and Their Metal Names
The article explains variations of the surname Smith and origins of related trades. It notes that the spelling with a y and final e reflects original forms, and describes gold and silver smiths as metal workers, brownsmith for bronze, greensmith for lead, and Na smith possibly deriving from nailsmith.
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Smiths
Brownsmith
Nasmith
The Word Metis and Mestizo Origins
The term Metis comes from the French metis derived from miscere meaning to mix. It was first used by early French-speaking Northwest populations for mixed white and Indian ancestry. In the Southwest the Spanish term mestizo shares the same origin but refers more to half white and half Indian blood.
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Northwest
Southwest
Mistaken Self View Sparks Social Inflation
A critique notes that people overestimate their own importance and react poorly when not validated. It argues for trimming ego and avoiding harm to others by reducing personal inflation and taking a harsher view of self-importance.
Scented Acacia wood from Australia as violets when worked
A note from American Forestry Magazine describes Myrals or violetwood from two Acacia species native to Australia. The article warns against tasting the wood to maintain a high opinion of its fragrant violet aroma developed during handling.
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Australia
Notice of Jersey Calves For Sale In Tennessee
Local ad offers 20 registered Jersey calves from a high quality Tennessee herd. Prices range 50 to 150 dollars, with delivery on June 10. Write or call Mr Ballance for details and payment options.
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Tennessee
Ballance
Souttigen
Aukus, Slerramens Trust & Banking CO
Washington's Religion and Character in Public Life
The article argues that Washington showed little bias in religious matters when selecting officials, basing judgments on honesty, industry, and ability rather than creed. It notes Sundays often spent on letters, accounts, or business, except during his presidency when he aimed to set an example.
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Washington
Fox Climbs Trees and Aims for Survival
The American Forestry Magazine notes foxes can climb certain trees using trunk gaps and lower limbs, aiding escape sometimes. It also mentions foxes can swim. The report adds a note on Philippine and Malay Peninsula onions and Brazil garlic wood scents.
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Fox
Red Fox
American Forestry Magazine
Philippines
Malay Peninsula
Brazil
Argentina Not a Paradise in Century Magazine
In a Century Magazine piece, Henry A. Franck notes uneven rainfall in Argentina, drought not widespread, but challenges include food shortages and periodic locust plagues. He mentions the idea of a giant net, possibly balloon-supported, to combat desert swarms.
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Argentina
Hany A. Franck
Untaught Slovaks Hold Fast to Freedom in Europe
A Slovak village resident explains his choice to avoid Magyarization by learning English only after moving to the United States. He describes night school work, pride in becoming American, and how the war altered his return plans as he shapes Slovakia’s mental climate. The National Geographic account notes many such stories.
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Legion
Slovakia
National Geographic Magazine
Medici emblem roots in heraldry and medicine
The Medici family is linked to the three gilded balls on their coat of arms, adopting them after a legendary act by Averardo de Medici who defeated a giant Mugello. The symbol later became associated with money lending and, incidentally, influenced the word medicine as a tribute to the family's healing skills.
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Medici
Averardo de Medici
Charlemagne the Great
Mugello
Prodigies of the Past and the New childhood boom
The piece notes a shift from aging prodigies to child geniuses across chess, diary writing, literature, composing, and painting. It cites eight year olds solving complex problems, a seven or eight year old diary author praised by literary lights, and recalls historic child prodigies to argue the trend is becoming usual.
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Chatterton
Mozart
Evelyn
Macaulay
Millais
Freight by Air England Leads In Aviation Growth
England is credited as the leading nation in aviation with 82 000 passengers and 200 000 pounds of freight carried in 15 months across 43 000 flights covering 1 000 000 miles. A London to Paris round trip can now be done in six hours for about 90 dollars, instead of twenty four by rail, while a Key West to Havana service charges 150 dollars for a one way New York to Boston trip of 260 miles.
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England
London
Paris
The
Aero Company
Key West
Havana
New York
Boston
Rabbit Leather Prospects for Shoe Uppers and Linings
Samples of rabbit leather from Australia were tested by the United States Bureau of Standards. The leather shows only about one quarter the strength of calf skin and tears easily. It is very cheap and may suit uppers or fancy shoes with low wear. Experts suggest it could be used for linings and novelty items.
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Australia
United States Bureau of Standards
Preparing Soil for Tobacco Equipment and Method
Preparing Soil for Tobacco describes a method to ready soil by removing clods weeds seeds and insects using a canvas cover and a steam heated road roller. A high temperature is maintained for two hours to improve conditions for planting.
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J. A. Oliver
Ilimo
Brice Cantrell
Little Joe Pierce
Neilson
Fred Stotlar
Clyde Claxton
Lena Derring
George Stone
W. C. Cober
George R. Stone
Ed Jeter
Lela McCowan
An Sims
Stonefort
Republican
Partom
West Fort
Coyd
Mae Halterman
Eugene Hartline
Tamms
W.M. Smith
Herring
Erwin Lang
Comb
North Legant
Silas Parker
West Nirfort
Khill
J . Parker
J. A. M. Edwards
St.Luis
Metropolis Hursday
Brookport
Gillette
Frad Razor CO
Broadway
New York City
Hharn’s
New ‘York
John A. Harris
Harris
D. C. Crawford
West Wrinkfort
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