Sanitary fountain installed and plans for team practices
The school installs a new sanitary drinking fountain while the boys basketball team nears regular practice. The Board schedules lab renovations and gas work, and Superintendent Kean and wife visited a tank farm west of Artinevine Saturday. A library purchase of reference books is noted and a student librarian may be elected.
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Lyceum
de Parle
Paris
Mar &Ehall
Beieidee
Pranks and Poems From Aboard a Liverpool Train
A youthful Stuart Robson tricks a companion named Bul on a Liverpool train by swapping tickets and hiding under a seat to evade the conductor. The tale unfolds with Robson revealing both tickets and Bul crawling out from under the seat. Also included is a short verse about time and kindness by Frank Walcott Hutt.
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Stuart Robson
England
Bul
Liverpool
Robson
Bill
Frank Walcott Hutt
Amusing Tourist Tale At Boston Cambridge Cemetery
A tour group in Boston Cambridge visits a cemetery famous for lore about James Russell Lowell. A guide recounts a ghost story about a man with three wives, noting inscriptions on each wife’s stone and joking that ghosts might walk there for the first wife.
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Boston
Cambridge
James Russell Lowell
Dance and mountain guest stir Louisville party tale
A Louisville family invites a mountaineer guest who reveals he drinks to dance. He confesses he lacks dancing confidence until he has five or six whiskies, causing astonishment at the birthday celebration. The scene, cited from Lippincott's with other moral snippets, ends with scattered literary references.
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Bracer
Louisville
Blue Grass
Cummins
Lippincott's
Martinsville area notes on people and events
Martinsville community notes list residents visiting nearby towns, moves, and social happenings. Items include Wheeler Baker leasing land to an oil firm, locals traveling to Terre Haute and Cleveland, a rise in canned potatoes, and plans for a Martinsville homecoming. The piece mentions aging residents, parish and school ties, and local entertainment like fiddlers contests and Cremona violin practice.
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