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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
3
The Beowulf tale follows a youth turned chieftain who travels from the north to aid Denmark by battling Grendel and a dragon. Beowulf defeats Grendel, tears the dragon's arm, and returns to a hall of triumph amid danger from Grendel's mother.
The Beowulf saga was recorded in the eighth century though events date to five centuries earlier. Storytellers preserved the legend by memory, often reciting or singing around campfires as entertainment and competition to tell the best version.
Beowulf pursues Grendel’s mother to a cavern by a black tarn and uses a wall sword to kill her. He retrieves Grendel’s head, then faces a dragon later in old age. A loyal warrior dies aiding Beowulf, and the king dies from a wound and fever after the final battle.
Johnny Vander Meer, 23, of the Cincinnati Reds, threw back-to-back no hit games in one season. He blanked the Boston Bees then shut out the Brooklyn Dodgers 6 0 at Ebbetts Field, a feat unmatched in a century of baseball.
In 1910 a headless body was found on the Bow river banks and a months long investigation by the Royal Mounted followed. English settler Peach disappeared, Robertson and Fisk emerged as suspects, and both were tried with Fisk sentenced to hang and Robertson given life for murder and conspiracy.
Claire, knocked through a window by a freight train at a foggy crossing, crawled from wreckage to rescue an unconscious neighbor and a dying woman. She helped the engineer, assisted police and ambulances, and survived with a deep wrist wound and glass in her face.
A historic note explains that under old Muslim law a man could inspect a bride’s face and hands before marriage, as a woman’s hands were believed to indicate personal beauty.
The article notes fleas number over 100 species including rare and common types and all must live on the blood of birds or animals, unable to look out for themselves.
The gardener bird of New Guiana builds small stick huts with an enclosed garden outside. It decorates these nests with moss and flowers which are renewed as they wither.
The Shades of Death area in Indiana’s foothills, once a rugged rocky spot, gains recognition as Shades Park broadens its appeal and visibility across the state.
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