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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1925
Page
7
Millicent tells her mother that Robert Gray and the Jones boy burned a fire with kerosene behind the chicken coop. Millicent admits helping them though she claims she forced them to get materials and supervise the act.
A Filipino boy who studied English in a Hawaiian night school writes to a white benefactor. He thanks him for pictures and a shirt, expresses joy at the gift, and gratefully recalls the friend’s kindness and ongoing protection from misfortune.
The text explains nautical food nicknames such as salt beef called junk or salt junk, lobscouse stew, twice laid fish and potatoes, dogs body peas, hardtack biscuits, and soft tack bread. It notes a writer linked to tea stories and links diet terms to life at sea.
A playful girl Elizabeth Wilshire aged years indulges in make believe telephones with her grandmother. In a bath time prank the grandmother uses a toy phone and calls Elizabeth to bath, but the child answers Wrong number ending the prank with a giggle.
A South African woman farmer Mrs Jd Francis, battling isolation and hardship, reports floods wrecking her farm near the Kalahari fringe. She notes British women settlers keeping pace with men as she struggles to rebuild after devastation to cattle and property.
Notice announces evening hours beginning Feb 27 with motto Service With a Smile.
Witney, famed for its blanket industry for centuries, lies along the Windrush with the Blanket Makers' guild hall bearing the motto Weave truth with trust. The town, once Saxon Witaneye, thrives on an enduring craft that shapes its identity and economy.
The piece portrays Sweden as a great medieval power with southern cities like Stockholm and Lund among the era’s leading trade centers. It notes Sweden’s later rise as a northern military force and reports ambassadors, battles, and peaceful Norway secession underlines its historical prominence.
Brig Gen William Mitchell recalls a tiger shot in the eye at about 60 yards using a right barrel. The animal leaped 20 feet, then collapsed without a visible wound or twitch, a phenomenon he says was unseen before in tiger fatalities. National Geographic Magazine quotes the account.
The annual United States coast and geodetic survey report notes millions of dollars in land washed away along the New Jersey coast, highlighting the ongoing global struggle between sea and land and the net changes as erosion and land formation continue in cycles.
The passage recalls a quaint English custom forcing a speaker to add Except the mayor. Comedian Foote, dining boldly, was pressed by an innkeeper to pay a shilling for not conforming. Foote paid and quipped that his accuser was the greatest fool in Christendom except the mayor.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a jumble about musical figures and a piano chord. It mentions Wolfgang Mozart and “harmal chord” but lacks clear facts or coherent events to summarize meaningfully.
The Thrift Magazine recalls Benjamin Franklin's early struggles and frugal habits. He read by candlelight, bought books with savings, and traded meals for study. He never attended college but became a leading educated figure, valuing thrift in time and effort.
A perceptive observer notes English words for truth differ in force and bluntness. He cites that saying a man tells the truth is blunt, while many synonyms for lie exist to soften or avoid directness. The Montreal Star laments rhetoric that skirts honesty and urges restraint to maintain peace.
In 1782 Pedagogues protested Parliament over meager earnings of about £18 yearly vs ploughmen at £14 to £16. The 1602 act fixed income at 16 to 22 pounds in Scots, with houses and modest grounds required, ending open indignation over palatial dominies.
The article explains two main jelly fish reproductive methods. Some species begin as eggs on the sea bottom that grow into tree like structures then buds and jellyfish. Other large species release eggs that become pear shaped larvae which swim with hair like ears before settling and splitting into discs that mature into adults.
The article traces glove origins from biblical mentions to prehistoric carvings on stone. It cites monks as early glove makers in the Middle Ages and notes Charlemagne granting hunting rights in 790 to obtain deer skins for gloves. It also mentions a glove king and begins a claim about twelfth century French industry.
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