Banquet Honors Marshfield High School Seniors
A Marshfield high school banquet featured senior students receiving praise and guidance from juniors and teachers. Speakers lauded athletic prowess, oratory growth, and the value of opportunity while urging continued personal and educational effort. The event closed with a dance and music from Lydia Eckhoff.
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Nhat
Hemp
Addie Hanson
Miss Hanson
Howard Pulling
Leonard Schneller
William Witt
Lindley Rowe
Renden Eiche
Willie Borden
Pulling
Bernard Hemp
Lawrence Webster
Arthur Leahy
Walter Sexton
Loretta Cole
Miss Cole
J.C. Marsh
Marshfield
Compass plant of Asia Minor mentioned in biblical text
The compass plant of Asia Minor, praised in scripture for its constant northward orientation, is an annual shrub resembling indigo with branches along the stem on the north side. Travelers in the eastern Mediterranean, Arabia, and Persia rely on it as a reliable guide, akin to a mariner's compass built on modern science.
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Asia Minor
Mediterranean
Arabia
Persia
Bia Mariner
Hard Luck Texas man faces multiple misfortunes
The Halletsville Herald reports a Texas man endured a string of calamities including cotton destroyed by boll weevil, drought devastating corn, his daughter eloping with a vagabond, his son joining the circus, and a wife giving birth to triplets. Facing despair, he hanged himself, with the coroner returning a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Texas
Halletsville
Not Finished Yet Says Bobby On New Brother
A humorous brooklyn Life vignette centers on seven year old Leckiam Bobby examining a newborn sibling. He critiques the shiny head and toothless gums and replies that the new brother is "not finished yet," revealing a playful family moment.
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Leckiam
Bobby
Brooklyn
Willing to Walt in Childhood Exchange
A visitor asks a boy what he will do when grown. The child, grave and shaken by past memories, replies with a single resolve to "Whip papa" reflecting a dark moment in a local tale.
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Walt
The Genial Alderman and the Greek Word for Nothing
A London alderman is described as listening to schoolboys reciting Greek rations and bowing whenever hearing the word for nothing as it sounded like his own name. The anecdote highlights a humorous clash of language and personal habit in a city setting.
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London
Cuden
Missing cashier mystery sparks town chatter
Hoth residents speculate about a missing cashier who has not been seen for days. Rumors swirl about his whereabouts with notes suggesting he may have left town for rent issues or to escape, while locals await clarity on the true reason.
Poable Mummation Notebook Mystery
The Syracuse Herald reports a light burning at home for a late husband, noting wives’ vigilance and language as curious details in a puzzling item from the city’s pages.
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Tucque
Syracuse Herald
The Cape Cobra Lures Birds With Instrumental Music
The article describes a Cape cobra that enthralls birds by perched displays and a hypnotic head nod. It details durations of fascination lasting hours, notes on birds’ inability to flee, and claims the snake prefers instrumental music over human voices, reportedly favoring bagpipes.
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Cape
Brough Down From Heaven and Virginia Slave Tale
A composite item recounts Mohammed’s alleged Koran revelation, noting Gabriel, Mahomet, Ramadan, and a heavenly-to-earth transmission described with musical imagery. It then shifts to Virginia history, detailing Ben the Bell Ringer at the University of Virginia, his role, drinking, and death in Albemarle poorhouse. a colonial era anecdote.
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Brough
Mohammed
Gabriel
al Ebade
God
Virginia
Commonwealth
Ben
Uiiversity of Virginia
Albemarle
Lark's Lofty Fight Over Balloon Mystery
Bavarian officers test a balloon 6000 feet aloft and notice a small black speck trailing the craft. They suspect a card for reports, but the balloon rises. A sudden chirp reveals the speck is a frightened lark clinging to the balloon and reacting to the ascent.
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Lark
Belgut
Highest Waterfall in Mexico Near Sierra Madre
A Mexican waterfall, possibly the world’s tallest, is known as Busigeuthic. It lies about 190 miles west of Chihuahua city near the Sierra Madre summit. The midmountain elevation is 6000 feet above sea level and the cascade drops 078 feet.
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Mexico
Chithuahua
Sierra Madre Mountains
Miduntain
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Ladysmith
W.H. Roddis
Milwaukee
G. L. B. Rounseville
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E. B. Dunegan
Stevens Point
State
Kempf
A. L. Hall
Wausau
Tadge RB. B. Salter
Colby
F. R. Pollard
Oshkosh
Ed, Earhart
Sherman
Clark County
Mary‘* Mathes
Geo. Mathes
W. H. Budge
Madison
J. B. Borden
Milton Tunction
G. A. Lupient
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Calby
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Owen
J.M. Reese
Dodgeville
E. L. Reese
John Riley
Fond du ‘Lac
Frank Brainard
Orton
Dan White
Delia Larson
Minneapolis
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Whitehall
City
Frank Wing
M. J. Kraus
Chilton
Jos, Brown
Miss Brown
Ospkosh
G. A. Warsinske
Yellowstone Park
Montana
California
Samuel Foster
Seattle
Wash
Guy and
Glen Ramsdell
Boyd
H. B. Jennings
Klondike Creamery
George
Iowa
Jennings
J. A. Hill
Loyal
LaCrosse
A. C. Loucks
Fond du Lac
W. &. Upham
Nettie Dickinson
St. Paul
Margaret Weiland
Mattie O'Brien
Fred Krahn
Rhoda Heffron
Newman Newell
New Richmond
W. R. Bryan
Gordon
Chicago
Gates
W. H. Lind
Geo. W. Peck
J. L. Gates
Frank A. Cady
Grand Rapids
B. Willett
Wausan
J. C. Hayward
Raymond Barber
Merrill
Guy Barber
A.W
Waupaca
Margaret Mohr
Clara
Anna‘Kohl
Hattie Wright
Ethel Dwinnell
Miss May
Kate McPike
Eat Claire
Amos Fowler
L. Brill
Spokane
Washington
Big
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Usc
Tiffault-Kamps Mer. Co
Upham
Royal
Minnesota
Dakota
Europe
Upham Manufacturing Co
Wisconsin
Chichester
Alenys
Mley
Mali
Droggista Onighestha Che
Madison Square
Phila
Geo. W. Upham
Oes Ey
Gale
Sexton Brothers
Fitz & Webster’s
Sexton's
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