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Prune shrubs in late winter not spring and remove old stems at the base. If water spills on a book leaf, blot and iron first on both sides. Coat ketchup bottle covers with paraffin to avoid discoloration. Add honey to each baked apple. Floor care needs regular waxing plus extra wax in high traffic areas.
Vanity and the pain of others’ vanity
A concise aphorism noting that what hurts us most in others’ vanity is our own vanity wounded by comparison and judgment. It highlights the mirror effect of pride and the fragility of self image when confronted with external displays.
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Washington
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Me Lamp in Valley by Arthur Stringer
Carol Coburn a Alaska born teacher returns north to an Indian school. Aboard ship she clashes with Ericson and later meets Sidney Lander as she helps find an abandoned Indian baby and confronts Alaska frontier politics and old loyalties.
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N. A. UC
Carol Coburn
Alaska
Eric Ithe Red Ericson
Sidney
Magician John Booth Seeks Pulpit Path in Chicago
Chicago youth John Booth plans to switch from stage conjuring to ministry at the University of Chicago. The 28 year old magician, hailed as one of the era’s top magicians, hopes to use magic and rhetoric to pack pews and rekindle enthusiasm for Christianity, aiming for a modern, sane church setting.
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Run Over by Locomotive, Sleeper Just Has Headache
Oliver Graham, 47, of Montgomery Alabama, slept on Seaboard rails as a freight train bound for Americus Georgia passed. The locomotive and three box cars rolled over him, leaving a severe headache and minor bruises. He was found dazed beside the track and treated at Hubbard hospital.
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Ala
Oliver Graham
Seaboard Air Line
Americus
Graham
Hubbard Hospital
One Shot in the Rabbit Worth Two in Appendix
In Rensselaer New York Charles W Weston died after a rabbit hunting shot perforated his abdomen. He was rushed to a hospital where an appendix operation revealed buckshot fragments in the appendix from rabbits he had slain and eaten.
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Rensselaer
N. Y
Charles W. Weston
Weston
Initiated Turtle Found Back in Lanesboro After 30 Years
Dean E. Newton spotted the turtle on his farm thirty years after Sidney Newton marked it in 1910. The snapping turtle was first named by Sidney as the two brothers picked strawberries in the same Massachusetts town.
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Lanesboro
Mass
Sidney Newton
Dean
Sidney
Dean E. Newton
Whistle of Train Lures Baby and Mother to Death
In Gastonia North Carolina a 16 month old boy Lawrence Chavis lured by a train whistle wandered toward tracks as his mother worked inside. She rushed to save him and both were struck and killed as the train bore down, a neighbors account saying the bell he loved rang before tragedy.
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Gastonia
N. C
Lawrence Chavis
Lawrence
Winter alarm fails cat helps city surveyor rise
Adrian Michigan news tells how city surveyor Kurt Franke uses a cat to wake him on time. In summer he relied on an alarm with a water bucket above his bed, but cold weather made it unbearable. The cat now pulls his hair when the bell rings, forcing Franke to get up in self defense.
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Record Office
Juneau
Anchorage
Doctor Ruddock
Katie
Wasilla
Ruddock
Tokluma
Matanuska Valley
Timbuctoo
Matanuska River
Butte
Keewalki
T’ Wrangel
Adrian, Mich
Kurt Franke
Franke
Handless Hunter Slays Giant Bear in Oregon Mountains
John Tamplin, who lost his hands seven years ago, killed a 400-pound bear in the Blue mountains of Oregon after firing three shots. He wears mechanical hands and learned to shoot with artificial limbs, according to a Blue Mountain rancher who observed the encounter.
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Walla Walla
Wash
John Tamplin
Blue Mountains
Oregon
Tamplin
Blue Mountain
Jake Klicker
Couple in Burning Auto Saved by Second Crash
In Salt Lake City Mr and Mrs J Reed Stewart escaped a fire when a second car struck their burning vehicle after an initial rear collision. The trio car pileup near Bingham injured six others in addition to the Stewarts.
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Salt Lake City
J. Reed Stewart
Stewart
Stewarts
Bingham
Elevator Operator Philosopher Dies Leaves 26000 Estate
Mathilde Fuhlen dorf known as the philosopher without portfolio died recently after 22 years as an elevator operator in Philosophy hall at Columbia University. She left an estate of 26000 and no will.
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New York
Mathilde Fuhlendorf
Columbia University
Philosopher
Philosophy Hall
Writes Himself Out of Debt in Jail Stories
Donald C. Coa, convicted of impersonating an army officer in Tucson Arizona, paid his attorney with three short stories written in jail.
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Tucson, Ariz
Donald C. Coa
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