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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1921
Page
2
A speaker on a Sunday stroll in Rock Creek Park contemplates mortality and immortality. He argues death is a doorway to a better life and asserts conscious continuity of memory and personality beyond death.
The article explains three new fog and mist countermeasures discussed by British authorities. One uses a charged electrical cable along the airway to emit a constant signal for navigation. The second adds a trailing weight to aid landing when visibility fails. The third is an artificial horizon with a gyroscopic instrument and a model airplane demonstrating the pilot’s movements.
A Philadelphia woman refused to drill children for an Easter program and began a paid, yearround pin money career. She now arranges programs for Sunday schools, lodges, and clubs, assigning parts and handling practice times from her home, earning 20 to 40 cents an hour with occasional church offerings.
Ductless glands linked to epilepsy, feeble-mindedness, and cancer become focus of study at Penn. A world first endowed chair in endocrinology will guide experiments at Philadelphia hospitals and university clinics. American Therapeutic Society aims to standardize endocrinology teaching nationwide.
A Indianapolis News item recounts a minister's wife preparing for hospital surgery. Her husband and children have shown care all day. In a quiet home scene the seven year old twins quarrelled, prompting a lecture about worrying and family ties.
The passage shows Harry after a confrontation with neighbor boy. His mother asks if they fought recently. He denies fighting this time and recalls past incidents involving shared kite, birdhorse, and holes dug, noting the neighbor took some items home previously.
A speculative discussion notes that automobiles may not be the final mode of transport. A far-sighted citizen predicts future people wearing wings outdoors. The piece reflects a 20th century curiosity about advanced travel concepts and changing mobility.
Janey, a gentle Boston-born woman, delays marriage to her porch friend Don Avery. Years pass a lonely garden, a war, and a later rendezvous reveal enduring love. Old Ellen’s warning looms as Don returns aged yet hopeful, and Janey refuses to say goodbye to their bond.
In a Martinsville office, Horace Tremont accuses his daughter Betty of a romance with secretary Will Preston. Preston reveals his kinship to Garrett Bowdoin and vows to prove loyalty while Tremont weighs workers’ loyalty versus private gain. The scene shifts to a funeral notice for Ernie Peat Rose, noting survivors and a Martinsville burial.
Henry Buckner was born near Melrose Illinois on December 29 1839 and died September 1921 at age 81 years 9 months 1 day. He served in the Union Army from March 14 1863 until the Civil War end and married Sarah A Blizzard on April 10 1868. He leaves four children ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren with three brothers and two sisters.
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