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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1914
Page
8
In a Pacific gale Captain Hodson of a schooner clung to a dangling rope after being swept overboard. The rope struck him, he grabbed a rigging stay and was hauled back aboard as the vessel fought the storm and reached port safely.
The Gaelic language was once widely spoken across the British Isles Isle of Man Brittany and parts of France Spain and even in New York. Authorities link the ancient Cimbri to Gaelic speech showing the breadth of the language’s historic reach.
The Baltimore Sun notes that George Washington’s early surveying, done at age nineteen with simple instruments, was later verified as perfect by modern government surveyors. The piece praises his patriotism common sense fore sight and persistence as qualities shared by the mature leader.
The text discusses Neptune as an eighth magnitude star with a diameter about 35 000 miles and Uranus at about 82 746 000 000 miles from the sun with one moon at roughly 220 000 miles. It also briefly notes limited knowledge of the planets and speculates they may be heavy globes of gas.
Letter from Dudley Missouri dated January 26 1914 updates Clark county residents on weather crops and farming. Notable items include Will Kelly’s horse accident Jack Bailiff's trip to Queen City and Ottawa and Lyman Wright buying and shipping stock Rogs Noyes adding a restaurant John Speidel clearing and fencing farms W W Stuard living in a Wright tenant house Henry Morgan making fence posts. North Dudley area hosts families from Illinois Indiana and Nebraska.
The School of Education at the State University Urbana seeks pre 1880 textbooks projects models charts and apparatus for an educational museum. They request information on old geography history reading arithmetic spelling and grammar texts and old copybooks sent to curator L F Anderson. William Denman a Mexican War veteran was jailed at Mt Carmel on Saturday for drunk and disorderly conduct.
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