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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
8
In a St Nicholas memoir a young sailor recalls a near disciplinary moment on the after bridge. An admiral’s barge approaches and the seaman faces a stern report for failing to report, with a promise from Lt. Dorn to reform him. The tale covers brig life and the risks of disobedience in naval duty.
During a visit to Simpkins, Sanderson views a family album where Simpkins jokes about relatives including a note nosed aunt Susan and a self portrait at age twenty. The exchange turns awkward as misidentifications reveal a past marriage misunderstanding.
A discussion notes how the word for mother appears in many tongues with similar forms. Examples include em in Hebrew, madre in Spanish, mater in Latin, madre in Italian, and moder in Danish, among others, illustrating the near universal basis of the term across cultures.
Careful research shows India as the origin of the orange spread to western Asia and then Europe and the Americas. Wild in northern India today, oranges were cultivated in Hindustan from ancient times and carried to southwestern Asia by Arabs before the close of the 16th century. They then spread to Afghanistan, Spain and Sicily with the Moorish conquests.
Clara Louise Burnham argues most children are born fearless and fear is taught by parents and nurses. An anxious approach and frightening stage elements distort a child's confidence, she says, urging avoidance of fears and grim monsters in plays and daily talk to protect a child's nervous system.
In New York on March 27 Mrs. Raymond rushed into a blazing building to rescue five children after Mrs. Jos. Lock woke and alerted her. She carried two children then retrieved two more, with the final pair choking as flames spread. She suffered burns but declined medical aid as firefighters arrived. The house was destroyed.
An old advertisement notes most appendicitis victims suffer from chronic constipation. It promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup which supposedly stimulates the liver and bowels to restore natural action, claims to be non nauseating and mild. Sold by J. H. Gwyn.
An applicant named J. E. Johnson offers to pay one dollar for a year’s Mount Airy News subscription. The notice requests delivery of the paper and payment before the year ends, with a witness line for the accarder’s name.
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