Oldest Living Artist in New England Named
Mrs. Mary Delilah Porter of Abington Massachusetts is claimed as the oldest living New England artist at 92. She began painting after age sixty during a Maine visit and quickly began teaching, with five paintings in the last five years amid material shortages. Porter was born in Cornwallis Kansas and moved to Abington at age two, mother to six, living with her son Lysander and two grandchildren.
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Abington
Mass
New England
Mary Delilah Porter
Maine
Porter
Cornwallis
K. S
Lysander
Boston Post
Servants Debate Class Distinctions and Loyalty
A London club scene shows advocates of bolshevian ideas and railway social reform clashing with a chauffeur who defends equality. He notes the laundry lady’s independence and his own treatment as he drives her on her Monday rounds.
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Disciples of Freedom
London
Egg Hatching Variations and a New Microscope Illuminator
The article notes that pericda birds and similar species incubate eggs for shorter periods than shorebirds and ducks, with small bird eggs requiring ten days to two weeks and fowl-like birds about three weeks. It mentions Prof Alexander Silverman’s new microscope illuminator enabling strong lighting for opaque and translucent samples, aiding metal flaw detection, fabric thread viewing, and bacteriology study.
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American Forestry Magazine
Australia
Alexander Silverman
Long Wait for Musical Approval Teases Classic Masters
A young musician asks how his compositions please a professor. The elder suggests they may be played when Mozart Haydn Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer are forgotten, but only after such neglect, delivering a wry, era asides line from a Houston Post feature.
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Mozart
Haydn
Mendelsohn
Meyerbeer
Houston Post
Insulted Guest Charged Extra for Dinners in Paris
Col Elliston P. Masters recalls a Fort Sherman tea tale about a Paris hotel guest charged 350 francs for twelve dinners he did not eat. The proprietor claimed the extra 100 francs were for the insult, a price the guest disputed as unjust.
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Col. Elliston P. Masters
Fort Sheridan
Paris
North Africa seen as vast museum of Latin antiquity
Louis Bert rand in L Illustration argues that North Africa is the richest Latin antiquity museum in the world. He notes Roman ruins spanning 2000 kilometers from Volubilis in Morocco to Girba in Tunis, with arches, colonnades, temples, basilicas, and Christian burial sites along the coast. France’s tricolor flies over these lands as readers miss the deeper history.
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North Africa
Morocco
Algeria
Louis Bertrand
L'Illustration
Paris
France
Mediterranean
M. Bertrand
Volubilis
Tunis
Africa
Denmark to Erect 70 Foot Granite War Memorial
An obelisk seventy feet high will be erected in Denmark as a memorial to the thousands of American and allied soldiers of Danish descent who died in the World War. Estimates show about 80 000 men of Danish blood fought in American and allied forces, with about 20 000 Danes serving in Canadian, Australian, British and French armies.
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Denmark
France
Language of the heart surpasses speech amid global journeys
An essay-like meditation notes one language of the heart vs the tongue, praising actions over words. It cites American soldiers in France and explorers like Stanley Roosevelt and Kinglake as examples of humane conduct bridging cultures and overcoming language barriers.
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France
Sauvages i x
Farabee
Amazonia
Stanley
Africa
Roosevelt
South America
Kinglake
East
The Hun Never Changes in War Memory and Readings
The American Legion Weekly notes Germany clings to war memory. Germans, young and old, study military leaders and tactics, and demand deeper analysis of strategy. Some see a future revulsion, but Heinle warns prudence, not pessimism, in anticipating future conflict with the Teutonic menace.
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the Hun
Germany
America
Britain
France
Italy
Hunland
American Legion Weekly
von Hindenburg
von Kluck
von Sanders
Heinle
Value of Foods Laboratory in New York College
The first laboratory for studying household food problems was installed in a New York City Teachers College more than ten years ago. Science has transformed food value ideas and wartime rationing for American soldiers in France relied on these investigations. A notable lab feature is a full flat with kitchen dining room bedroom and bath used by selected students for weeks to solve vital problems.
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Teachers’ College
New York City
France
Fire resistant wood treatments tested by U S Forest Laboratory
The United States forest products laboratory evaluated three methods to boost wood fire resistance: making wood fire resistant, keeping wood wet, injecting chemicals, and applying coatings. Painting, especially with ordinary whitewash, is the cheapest and most practical for small uses, while linseed oil medorate and chrome green coating withstood over three years outdoors.
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United States Forest Products Laboratory
Furs Export From New South Wales Sets Record
New South Wales fur trade expands with exports totaling 2,912,462 pounds valued at 7,000,000 dollars in the six months ending January 30. Fox skins dominate shipments while demand for kangaroo opossum wallaby and wombat skins rises.
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New South
How to Remove Foreign Particles From the Eye
Floyd W. Parsons advises eye care steps from the Saturday Evening Post. Parents should have the guardian look down while pinching the eyelash and pulling the lid, then turn the lid outward to remove the particle. If on the cornea seek a physician. Use boric acid for irrigation and avoid saliva on instruments. Never drip directly onto the eyeball unless a doctor approves.
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Floyd W. Parsons
Saturday Evening Post
Bark on Trees and Its Three Layers Explained
The article explains that bark differs from wood and covers the wood surface. It describes three tissue layers including the inner food-conducting fibers the green tone and the outside cork which is dead. It notes cork used in commerce comes from tropical trees while outer bark is technically cork.
Lawrence youth resigns after mock fire drill
A Lawrence Kansas man applied for a fire department post and, after a seven o'clock drill simulating an alarm, served as an interested spectator. The chief asked who should be notified in case of accident and the recruit then resigned, having been a fireman for a brief 0 minutes.
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Lawrence
Riches of the Indian Tribes—Govt Runs Demonstration Farms
The government conducts twelve demonstration and three experimentation farms under practical reservation industries. Nearly 400 farmers and assistants work with Indian communities, providing instruction and counsel. The service handles large loan sums as initial capital for self support and oversees loan liquidation. Total value of individual and tribal property, with mineral returns, approaches $1 billion.
One Liner on Legal Stays in Balti American Note
A Baltimore American quip notes a young lawyer should master the art of securing a stay when he practices law. The remark reflects legal strategy guidance in a casual, period voice.
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Ella
Stocking His Cellar in Dryden Sale of Thermometers
Wetmore asserts a large stock of thermometers filled with 9 percent alcohol. The exchange hints at a humorous or illicit aim to corner a market as one speaker accuses another of hoarding.
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Dryden
Wetmore
Missionaries Rambo Family Return on furlough from Near East service
Oregon relief head reports Mr and Mrs W E Rambo, long time Baker area missionaries, have landed in New York returning to the United States on furlough after years aiding refugees in the Near East and Greece. The Rambos endured dangerous evacuations from Batoum to Salonika and Adana amid turmoil as Allied actions loomed and floods of refugees faced typhus and cold.
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Oregon
W. E. Rambo
Baker
India
Near East
United States
J. J. Handsaker
New York
Rambos
Greece
Caucasus
Batoum
Constantinople
Salonika
Handsaker
Kars
Adana
Miss Grane
Ford
Thy
Rambo
Jehu
Famine in North China Faces Billions in Need, Bishop Warns
Bishop W H Lambuth, supervising Methodist missions in North China, reports 45,000,000 starving after floods and two drought years. He cites ragged clothes, weed and corn cob gruel, and a refugee camp where 1000 froze to death in January. He warns relief must come within months to avert vast deaths. famine death rate cited at 15,000 daily, with typhus rising and relief hinges on American food aid.
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W. H. Lambuth
China
United States
Queen Fredegonde: France’s bloodthirsty queen
A panoramic sketch of Fredegonde who ruled with Chilperic from 568 to 697. The beauty queen rises from servant to royal power, sources recall murders of the king’s sons and plots against her own child, with brutal acts and threats surrounding her reign.
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Fredegonde
France
Chilperic
Regunthe
Jerious
Old New England Squire Says Hank Miller Guilty Of Something
A rural judge finds Hank Miller not guilty of larceny since the oats and corn were used by the horse. The squire adds a humorous twist by sentencing Hank for “something” and sending him to jail for a month.
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New England
Hank Miller
Hank
Change Ringing and Change Ringers in English Towers
Change ringing uses a swinging bell mounted on a wheel with a rope. Ringers train a year with weekly practice, performing in a circle with a conductor in the center. The Ancient Society of College Youths, founded 1637 in London, has over a thousand members and rings peals for royal and ceremonial days, though ringers are unpaid.
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Ancient Society of College Youths
London
London Mail
Find Your Niche and Turnsetbacks to Success
The passage urges accepting the next best path when unable to pursue desired work. It cites Marshall Field, Green, Parkman, and Haydn as examples who failed at one craft but achieved great achievements in others, illustrating Providence guiding unpromising starts to lasting renown.
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Marshall Field
Chicago
Green
Francis Parkman
America
Haydn
Rubber Unearths Shifting Global Dominance
The article notes a shift from Brazilian rubber to the Far East, now supplying nine tenths of the world’s rubber. It recalls H. A. Wickham’s 19th century venture to grow rubber in India, growing trees at Heneratgoda and starting tapping experiments in the same year.
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Brazil
Far East
H. A. Wickham
India
Amazon
Heneratgoda
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