Local Notices From Conespondents In Virginia And Nearby Areas
A collection of brief-item notes from Lan deedeed and Pleasant Valley regions recounts visits, illnesses, and social gatherings. Names include Mary Gledhill, M rs Charles Fawley, and various Spurrier, Spurrier, and Gibbs households visiting in Virginia, Harrisburg, and Monrovia. A Goats accident and a horse mishap are noted. A 13 1/2 foot corn stalk exhibit by John Q Himes is highlighted along with multiple Sunday visits and travel to Washington D C and Camp Hill W Va. A new Ford five passenger touring car is reported purchased by Gilbert Reeser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landee
End
Charles Fawley
Virginis
Mary Gledhill
Hawn
Frederick
Cordell
Ayes Brown
Jefferson
Gallagher
Washington, D
Jessie Stocka
Anche Fry
Taylorstown
Arca Wilt
Virgina
Robert
Richard Harare
Dilly Gort
Mies
Annie Cochran
Wiliam Gerhard
Lander
Grider
Mia Esther Jones
Harrisburg
George Spurrier
Monrose Davis
George Davis
Mia
Harry Netkirk
Dorothy
Monrovia
Louis Spurrier
Earle
Stanley Gibert
Henry Gilbert
Willam Cain
Esther Jones
Beatrice Chaney
Lucy Hood
Mary Thompson
Mamie Murphy
Elvs ‘“Spurrier
Harvey and Bromwell Spurrier
Crider
Norman Brashear
Hannon Runkles
Blanche Rinkles
George Runkles
Eldridge Burgee
Freda Spurrier
Helen Moxter
George Wagner
Virginia
Amy
John Buxton
George Burgees
Pleasant Valley
John Q. Himes
W. Reeser
Louise Harrison
Camp Hill
W. Va
Thomas Norris
John Miller
Samples Manor
John Norris
Richard Holder
Garretts Mill
John Himes
Charles Nelson
Jesse Holder
Washington, D. C
Isaac Gordon
Arpeburs
William Kronk
Sandy Hook
S. W. Besser
Woedgendar
Spapeker
Sandy
Birthday Social Honors Elsworth Pickens in Union Bridge
Mr and Mrs James Wiesauer hosted a birthday social Tuesday evening for Elsworth Pickens of Chicago. Guests included the Wiesauers Star family Earnest Foreman and Crabbs among others. refreshments followed a late game session. Thursday visitors included John Earnest Roy and family with several Earnsts and related guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Wiesauer
Elsworth Pickens
Chicago
James, Wiesauer
John Star
Edward Earnest
Lennie Wiesauer
Frank Baer
Foresman
Mary
Ruth Starfier
Mary “Star
Helen Foreman
Edna Crabbs
Martha Haines
George Wiesauer
John Snyder
Willie Davia
Leonard Foreman
George Crabs
Little Brother
George Fogle
John Earnest
Roy
Martin Routzen
Kathrine
Helen
John
Misa Fannie Earnst
Edward Earnst
William Freed
Charles
William Earnat
Brownsville Bids Update on Local Residents
At Brownsville, Wilbur Harrison shows improvement after a severe arm injury at the transfer shed and will be out of work for weeks. Rev. H. Clopper from Myersdale conducts a revival at the Dunker church near Garrett's Mill. Luella Brown of Parkersburg visits Mr and Mrs George W Fouch. Ridenour couple begin a two week relatives visit in Freeport Hinots. Alex Gray and Massey Castle Jr former Brownsville students depart to study at Maryland Agricultural College and State Normal School in Baltimore.
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Brownsville
Wilbur Harrison
H. Clopper
Myersdale
Dunker Church
Garrett’s Mill
Luella Brown
Parkersburg
W. Va
George W. Fouch
Ridenour
Free Port
Alex Gray
Massey Castle, Jr
Brownsville School
Maryland Agricultural College
State Normal School
Baltimore
The Lacebark Tree and Goldfish Observations
The lacebark tree grows in the West Indies with smooth oval leaves and lace like inner bark that can be separated easily. A Jamaica governor supposedly sent Charles I frill and cravat woven from it. Also notes cruelty in keeping goldfish as they die from restlessness and exposure to light in glass vessels.
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West Indies
Jamaica
Charles 1
Calrly
Mount Etna the mighty volcano of Europe
Etna, the burning mountain, stands as Europe’s mightiest volcano. It rises about 10,800 feet, with slopes that descend toward its broad highest crater nearly a mile across.
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Mount
Etna
Europe
Get Rid of Those Poisons in Your System
Poised as a health tonic ad claims King’s New Life will release poisons from the body through a laxative effect. It promises relief from fatigue, eye spots, and general misery by morning after taking the product.
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King’s New Life
Dome
Memories of the Past and Obsolete Finery
A London journalist ponders the vanished era of congress gaiters and retro fashion. The piece recalls carpet bags, sleeve buttons, foolscap rings, and caster centers, noting how relics of the past clutter memory and shelves as Philip Hale of the Boston Herald muses on shifting tastes.
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Congress
London
Washington
Peter Lerdic
Philip Hale
Boston Herald
Training the Flea and Other Small Tales
A collection of quirky notes on a flea trainer revealing the method to wean fleas from jumping using a glass globe and three weeks of confinement. The piece also recounts a motor speed law case and a remark on an English church spire warped by lead contraction, all from the Kansas City Star and Indianapolis News.
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Kansas City Star
Jack
Pine” Ve
Treaty -Five
Costa
Indianapolis News
Corn Cutting Struggles amid High Labor Demand in County
Local farmers report scarce labor as corn cutting reaches peak season. Wages of 1.50 to 2.00 per day fail to attract workers, with county officials noting many refuse jobs now but seek work later in winter or elsewhere. Despite heat and storms, some corn remains healthy. one farmer notes minimal crop damage and even finds usable corn despite a few damaged ears.
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Creagars
Pedpié
Montévue
Frank M. Stevens
Paintings That Last and Other Fragments From A Distant Page
A collage of early 20th century notes on art techniques and curiosities. Discussions on painting thinness to prevent cracking, the lifespans of canvases, remarks by a Broadway warden on singing and appearance, locusts as food in antiquity, and a survey claiming over ten thousand island counts in the British Empire.
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Uleps
van Myck
Raphael
Atlantas Constitution
Mentha
Warden
New York Letter
Widsburgh
Christian Herald
Bate
Diodorus Siculus
Aristotle
Greece
Evening dew or skyfall a meteor myth debate
The piece surveys whether a phenomenon described as rain from a clear evening sky exists. It cites Gustav Hellmann and Maeterlinck, noting that repeating claims does not prove the event. Some cases may be explained by oblique raindrop fall, with wind carrying drops after cloud passage.
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Aky
Thia
Gustav Hellmann
Russian Meteorological Institute
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Youthful Genius Authors Early Works In Math And Language
The passage notes Pascal composing acoustics treatises at age twelve and a conic sections work at sixteen praised by Descartes. Mill studied Greek from age three and led his siblings by seven, Ruskin produced a three-volume manuscript before seven, and the piece concludes that activity in advertising mirrors business activity.
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Pascal
Descartes
John Stuart Mill
John Ruskin
Rough Music Punishes Abusive Partners in English Villages
The piece explains rough music a centuries old punishment used in English counties to shame offenders of conduct unbecoming a burgher. A village group wakes a household with noisy raucous sounds then recites verses insulting the offender before moving to taverns to repeat the charges.
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Gentbert
England
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Untitled Exchange on Characters and Complaints
A garbled exchange questions why Tom is disliked and dismisses him as a “T told you Bo” fellow. It adds Bill as even worse, implying a bragging brag and a backhanded remark about telling others if desired, reflecting a fragmentary dialogue.
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Tom
Bill
Prognostications in The Neca Club
A fragment notes predictions about events and timing with cautious opinion. It mentions Advertion and a sense of anticipation before an unspecified deadline, reflecting a casual discussion within a club context.
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Neca
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Aestews
Union Bridge
Renee
Yuan Shih Kai
China
Americar Frese Ask
Frederick County
Stevens
Maeterlinck
M. Maeterlinck
London Spectator
Rough Music
ST. Frederick, Mp
Pearre's Modern Pharmacy
Frederick Gas and Electric Dept
East
Patrick Street
J. A. Williamson
North Market Steet
Bartholomay Beer
W. H. Shipley Menerick
P. Hows
W.patrick St
Moto
Excelsion Sanitary Dairy
F. Rothenhoefer
East ‘Seventh of
Marnet
Bray
Earehive
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