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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1916
Page
9
Canton Ohio reports success as two rural telephone managers connect exchanges through a 484 foot tunnel. A fish line and ferret attempt fail, rats and newspaper ads aid the effort, and a bell is finally attached to a rat to pull the line through.
In Dallas the tale of wheat over 4000 years old stored in a hermetically sealed glass container from the tomb of an Egyptian king travels from Cairo to Colonel F. P. Holland of Dallas. Former U S consul John Cardwell sent the grain to his friend. The grains appear sound and plump though never tested for germination.
Blairsville Pennsylvania. William Kinnan and wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in a log cabin built in 1771 on the Pittsburgh pike five miles west of Blairsville. Five sons and five daughters and twenty five grandchildren joined in the multi day celebration.
In Candle Alaska a college senior at the University of Washington receives an allowance of gold dust from his parents. Colin Clements sends dust and nuggets in a ptarmigan-skin purse which he exchanges for coin with an assayer. He plans to use the funds to report news back to his northern home region.
A lively spring column notes March’s cold wet weather delaying oats and peaking farm activity. It mixes rural scenes with election hopes, hog trading, and a tongue in cheek forecast of Mexico and European war outcomes, closing with patriotic praise for Uncle Sam.
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