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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
5
An ancient Beowulf tale recounts a youth from a warrior tribe who travels with his fighters to aid Denmark against Grendel and a dragon. After feasting, Beowulf defeats Grendel, tears the dragon’s arm, and faces Grendel’s mother in a perilous contest.
The Beowulf tale was recorded in the eighth century though its events date to the fifth century. The epic circulated by memory through generations with storytellers competing to tell the most entertaining version and possibly performed aloud around campfires.
Beowulf tracks Grendel’s mother to a cavern by a black tarn and battles her with a mortal sword that fails against a supernatural foe. A forge sword on the cavern wall helps him kill the dragon. he beheads Grendel and, dying of wounds, designates a faithful warrior as his successor.
Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds, age twenty three, pitched consecutive no hitters in the same season. He shut out the Boston Bees, then four days later blanked the Brooklyn Dodgers 6 to 0 at Ebbetts Field, the first pitcher to achieve two no hit games in a single season in a century of baseball.
In 1910 the headless body of an older man was found on the Bow River's banks after freeze up. A later discovery of a skull led Royal Mounted investigators to a plot involving an English settler Peach, his buyer Robertson, and a confederate Fisk. Robertson confessed after evidence and a long pursuit, with Fisk executed. Robertson received life imprisonment.
Claire Gibson recalls a 1910 Springfield trolley crash where she survived a horrific train collision. She dragged an unconscious elderly woman and a neighbor from the wreck, tended the wounded, and aided the engineer before help arrived.
An old Moslem legal note states a man may view a woman's face and hands before marriage, claiming a woman’s hands reflect her personal beauty.
The text notes fleas comprise over 100 varieties, both rare and common, and none can survive independently. They must continually feed on the blood of birds or animals to live.
The gardener bird of New Guiana Builds small stick huts with enclosed gardens outside. It decorates the nests with moss and picked flowers that are renewed as they wither.
A rugged stony area once called Shades of Death in Indiana’s foothills has become an early draw for travelers as Shades Park gains recognition statewide.
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