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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1922
Page
10
A Staten Island resident guides Manhattan visitors through wooded lakeside skating after dark. Flashlights replace fireflies as illumination, with residents recounting close escapes and humorous flirtations, while distant couples embrace on shore under moonlit ice.
Mountain laurel known as Calico-bush and Spoonwood grows sparsely from Maine to Ohio and Florida to Canada. Roots spread far but plant patches stay the same size yearly. Many plants have been damaged or removed as springtime blooms fade in mountain countryside.
A compact look at Amen as a chief Egyptian deity symbolized by the red crown with the sun disk, its meaning hidden or concealed, and its Hebrew link to strength and truth. The piece also notes the use of Amen to affirm creed truths and ends with a note on paper pulp from oat hulls.
A quirky reminiscence from Elizabethtown recalls Carl B. Daniel and cousin Arthur Norton hauling bull pout home after midnight. The tale unfolds as a dishpan floods the kitchen and turns the ground floor into a pond, with bull pouts swimming across the floor by morning.
Federal officers uncovered a highly clever device on Paget Sound when they captured a fast power boat in Seattle believed to smuggle illegal speeds from Canada. The seizure included more than $2900 in contraband and a complete pipe outfit, suggesting further enforcement against smugglers.
A historical overview praises canning as a pivotal food preservation breakthrough, compares it to the telephone and airplane, and explains how hermetic sealing and heat sterilization by Appert transformed harvest waste into year round sustenance, benefiting households and global supply.
A historic tale recalls Marquis Okuma of Japan showing unyielding resolve after being asked to write. Once unable to write well, he refused the brush, choosing to demonstrate the Chinese character Shoku by burning the ink in ashes with a poker, proving his stubborn resolve.
Theodore N. Vail showed absent mindedness and quirky habits as the biographer Albert Bigelow Paine notes. He would doodle pencil sketches while listening and repeatedly refold a handkerchief when bored, signaling his interest or disinterest in a situation. The traits illustrate a distinctive personal profile from Youth's Companion sources.
Dr Eliot Blackwelder of Harvard spoke at a Toronto meeting, tracing earth’s evolution and suggesting that after humans exhaust their advancement, a future successor may evolve to surpass current humanity. He warned civilization’s increasing specialization makes future adjustment more delicate.
A Chicago Daily News reflection on lovers' lanes, small country crossroads feared to become arterial highways. It recalls a gray hillside cottage, a sunlit arching road, and Abe Lincoln strolling with Anne Hawthorne in Sangamon County, celebrating timeless intimate byways.
Major Orde Lees, a British balloonist and Arctic explorer, becomes the first European to reach Fuji Yamba’s summit in southeastern Japan, 12 865 feet above sea level, guiding by Irish of London. The final 4 000 feet were on slippery ice. Lees, a Shackleton Antarctic expedition member, travels with Mr Insh as part of the British air mission to Japan.
A new electric seating machine promises secure storage for valuables by melting wax with a cord connected to a light socket and running at half a cent per hour. Separately a Spanish shawl theater curtain description notes a large fabric embroidered by highly skilled Spanish needlewomen, measuring substantial feet in length.
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