Army Reserve Taught by Mail In National Program
The army’s correspondence courses now enroll over 40,000 reservists and guard officers, forming a vast nontraditional university. The system spans West Point style schools to CGSC like programs, with about 400 subcourses across branches and plans to reach 50,000 enrollments annually within two years.
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Washington
Army
Army UN Guard
Armng University
United States
Eaginnu
Uncle Sam
Congress
Liam
West Point
Fort Sill
Fort Riley
Camp Benning
Command and General Staff
Fort Leavenworth
Army War College
General Staff
Columbia
Cornell
National Guard
War Department
Special Service
Rubber Hard as Steel Under High Pressure
At Harvard University experiments show Parallin becomes harder than steel under pressures of 200000 to 600000 pounds per square inch. steel flows, water spreads, and Mercury escapes when pressured. Large families drink less milk per person than small families, according to the U S department of agriculture.
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Cambridge
Mass
tHarvard University
Vevey Wl Bridgman
Bridgman
U. S. Department of Agriculture
French Seeress Predicts Year of Great Agitation
Madame Fraya the French prophet foresees 1020 as a year of upheaval with the king’s death and the loss of two prominent French figures plus two world famous men of letters. She warns of aviation and airship disasters and social, political, and financial scandals. She also predicts France’s potential war involvement without bloodshed and rising living costs.
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Madame Fraya
Alfred Loewenstein
Madame Frava
France
Cabiinet
America
M. Loewenstein
Channel
Madame Jaya
Philadelphia Exhibit Showcases First Edition Pilgrim's Progress
The Philadelphia Free Library hosts a display of Bunyan’s first edition valued at 50 000 dollars. The book, printed for Nath Powder at the Peacock in the Poultry near Cornhill in 1678, is shown open to the title page. The exhibit, from Dr. A L S Rosenbach’s collection, includes Danish Portuguese Welsh and the first German translation printed in America. The first two parts were printed in 174 at the Ephrata colony and the third part in Germantown in 1756.
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Philadelphia
Jol Bunnyan
Walls of Life
Hidhway
Bunyan
Httle
Poultrey
Cornhill
AL S. W. Rosenbach
Lost Roman City Found Near Freiburg Germany
Archaeologists locateTaradunun at Zurten near Freiburg linking Second Century Ptolemy mention to a site. Excavations unearthed building materials crockery and millstones confirming a Roman town site near the Rhine route from Alsace to the Black Forest.
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Freiburg
Germany
Taradunun
Zurten
Claudius Ptolemaeus
Alexandria
Eur Zarten
Upper
Alsace
Hick Forest
Varodunuim
Early bagpipes roots and historic notes in ancient music
The piece argues shepherds first used bagpipes with shrill outdoor tones. It cites Persian and Roman familiarity, noting bagpipes were seen as a curious instrument of sound in ancient times. It adds bagpipe notes may be deliberately out of tune to sound effective.
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Delvers
Latter Empire
Detroit News
Use of Night Striking Clocks Questioned by Editor
A Kansas City Star writer argues insomnia sufferers suffer from quarter hour chimes and urges clocks to mute or scrap striking at night. He cites a church clock altered to stop chimes during night hours and questions the usefulness of nocturnal striking overall.
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Kansas City Star
Old Thatched House in Camberwell Home of Great Writers
A 300 year old thatched cottage in Grovelane Camberwell reputedly London’s last intact thatched dwelling. It was William Black’s home in the 1870s where he wrote Madcap Violet and hosted George Gissing later fictionalised as Graveline in In the Year of Jubilee. Entomologists sought Camberwell Beauty butterflies with local authorities paying sixpence a bushel for dead caterpillars.
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Grovelane
Camberwell
London
William Black
George Gissing
Graveline
Nancy Lord
Americans Now Lead Machete Production in South America
A Commerce Department report states the machete, once a tropical tool, is now chiefly made in the United States. It notes the tool’s heavy, multipurpose use across Brazil and interior South America for opening jungle paths, building, hunting, fishing, and food prep.
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South America
United States
Commerce Department
Tropics
Brazil
The Greatest Thing in the World Excerpt on Trust
Henry Drummond argues that guilelessness fuels personal influence and trust. He asserts that believers in you empower others while suspicion stifles growth, creating an atmosphere where people flourish through sincere fellowship.
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Henry Drummond
History of macaroni in Europe and Italy
The passage traces macaroni from Chinese origins to European spread, noting Italy’s early adoption and claim to credit for popularizing the pasta. It asserts Italians learned the craft from Germans and, by the 14th century, Italy was the sole European nation enjoying macaroni.
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Mrcaroni
Italy
Auntie Peart Finds Four Year Old Jean Hiding for Ice Cream
Jean a four year old habitually hid at any sound of incoming people. Her aunt entering the room coaxed, You and I eat this ice cream. Jean emerged and said, Auntie Peart, you found me. This short Indianapolis News item notes a child’s playful hiding and surprise reveal.
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Jean
Auntie Peart
Indianapolis News
The Strawberry Tree A Quiet Irish Wild Remark
Apart from naturalists there are few aware of the strawberry tree distinct from the plant. It bears flowers late September to early October with last year’s fruits. The large orange red berry resembles a strawberry in name. Not native to England it is rare outside gardens, but in Ireland it grows wild near Killarney.
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England
Ireland
Killarney
Key to the City: Keys Symbolize Historic Tribute
The practice of gifting keys to visiting celebrities is a sentimental survival of medieval feudal customs. Towns once presented real keys as tokens of submission or allegiance to kings or overlords during visits.
Funny fish from Malay jungle hops to tree and bathes
A New York Tribune item describes a fish from the Malay peninsula that emerges from a ground hole, hops to a nearby tree, climbs it, winks at an onlooker, climbs down, and then dips water with its fin for a shower bath. The creature is called the funny fish or periopthalmus scholos seril.
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Malay Peninsula
New York Tribune
Mysore Rugs and Navajo Blankets Displayed
The passage highlights Mysore India blankets noted for craftsmanship and three yards square with a rollable size. It then describes Ren Navajo all wool blankets made by Navajo Indians in New Mexico entirely by hand, spun and woven, praised for durability and beauty.
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Mysore
India
New Mexico
Loyalty and Trust: A Grit Philosophy Note
A concise aphorism stressing loyalty as a foundation for friendship and success. It asserts that loyalty to others first builds trust, and that untrustworthy behavior undermines achievement, attributed to a speaker named Grit.
Receipts and Payments for Monticello School District 1928 29
The Monticello Iowa Independent School District lists receipts and claims paid from July 1 1928 to June 20 1929 in the General Fund. Amounts are shown for numerous individuals and vendors including W B Sloan J Chaloupka J Finlay R T Moore and many others with payments to local businesses and services.
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Independent School District
Monticello
Iowa
General Fund
B. Grimes
Ewamiahden
W. B. Sloan
Joe Chaloupka
John Finlay
R. T. Moore
J. E. Heiserman
Hattie L. Specht
Rose Edie
Emma Grote
Leona Reindahl
Rose Wilcox
Georgia Miller
Vera Mattocks
Bernice Ferguson
Lois Reisinger
Ann Miller
Margaret Kaste
Mary Sheets
Martha Meyer
Alice Cook
June Meyer
Nettie Holme
D. P. Sutherland
Town Electric Co
N. W. Bell Telephone Co
Roberts Hardware Co
Monticello Express
Chas, M. Luett
Metropolitan Supply Co
Hoag Duster Co
Harry Soule
Eclipse Lumber Co
High School Fund
W. L. Dodds & Co
Ginn & Co
D. C. Heath & Co
Gladys Skelley
Joe
C. A. Palmer
Palmer Products Co
W. E
North Side Garage
Practical Drawing Co
Educational Music Bureau
Heston & Anderson
Myrtle Rockstad
Farmers’ Mutual Co
Monticello financial ledger shows numerous payments and fund totals
The record lists diverse payments to firms and individuals including Fidelity & Casualty, Baker Paper, Stuhler's Sons, Standard Oil, Rand, McNally, and others, with totals for General Fund and School House Fund. It shows on hand balances, receipts, and a recap of disbursements and current year activity totaling $71,264.34 in receipts and $48,129.61 in disbursements.
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Fidelity & Casualty Co
St. Anthony Dé Dakota Elevaton CO
Occcicucceseseseceseeseenne
D. O. Ferris Sales Agency
Geo. Stuhler’s Sons Co
Baker Paper Co. Ou
Chas. Scribner’s Sons Co
Newson & Co
Lyons & Carnahan
T. F. Denkhoff
Thomas Charles ‘Co
Hall McCreary Co
School House Fund
FOR RENT FURNISHED ROOM NEAR MONTICELLO STATE BANK
Various small ads include a furnished room for rent with private bath near Monticello State Bank. free removal of dead animals from Hopkinton rendering works. cards of thanks for funeral support. sales of Hereford bulls and land. a typewriter for sale. and an estray yearling heifer with TB ear tag.
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Bath
Monticello State Bank
Leo Kane
Hopkinton, In
Hopkinton Rendering Works
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Army Reserve
Military ‘University
Arthur J. Klein
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery
Engineers
Air Service
Reading Circle
Benjamin Sanborn Co
City of
Matt Parrott Sons' Co
Express Fund
American Book Co
World Book Co
Monticello Water Dept
T. M. Redmond
Childress Motor Co
A. J. H. McNeill
United Chemical Co
Bruce Publishing Co
Caxton School Supply Co
Jacobsen Manufacturing Co
Dodd, Mead & Co
J. I. Holcomb Mfg
Kewanee Boller Co
E. C. Rickless
Lovell State Bank
Poru
TOE Occ
State of Iowa
Jones County
Montipalin
Chas. M. Luett
Paul T. Schuetz
Iows
Steiner Grocery
A. W. Steiner
Choice Alfalfa Day
Clover
J. R. McNeilly
Center Junction
FORD
Tudor
L. F. Balster
August Dirks
Langworthy
Main Street
Fred Kellum
J. F. Meyer
Victor P. Collins
Viola
G. H. Hanken
Pd-2
L. E. Hoag
F. E. Collins
Olin Howle
Renadndtion School District
Madison Township
H. E. Stingley
Adie
Si As
William Luck
John Wilken
Duckett
Mazie Gordon
Jake Probst
Clarence Gordon
Earl Gordon
A. Coxsee
Paving
J. L. Weber &Sons
Cascade
The
Holatein
Bért Kiburz
Chevrolet
Fisher
Flint
Michigan
Tee Orbk
Itfan
Ivery Chasis
Enery Ton Ulinsals
Matthiessen Auto & Supply Co
Monticello, Iowa
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