Girls and Education Composition Contest in Orange County
A 1906 notice invites girls and student teachers in Orange County to submit two page compositions on Education or Good Roads. The best essay wins winter clothing or five dollars in gold, submitted under number only to prevent bias. Winners will be published in The Orange County Observer and Chapel Hill News by the author’s (pinned) slip.
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Orange County
Orange County Observer
Chapel Hill News
Bank of Orange Seeks Accounts From All County Residents
The Bank of Orange announces it will open accounts for every man woman and child in Orange County. It offers four percent interest on time deposits and accepts deposits from $100 up. The bank calls itself the Financial Bureau of Information for Orange County and pledges to provide information as needed.
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Orange County
Fnnancial Bureau of Information
Worn Shoes Tell of a Mother's Love and Courage
A pair of shabby shoes and striped stockings beside a chair evoke a mother's devotion to a daughter lost to illness. A tale follows of Allen Durfee, who risks train danger to save a baby, earning praise from his town and a proud look from his mother. The story contrasts wartime heroism with daily acts of bravery at home.
Home Guard Hero Faces Toll of Brother in War
Sergeant Allen Durfee, of the high school cadets, endures a hard day as news arrives that Private James Durfee was severely wounded in Luzon. Allen longs to join the front, feels jealousy and duty, while his mother offers comfort and hopes for his brother’s recovery.
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Times
Philippines
Sergeant Durfee
Indianapolis News
Allen Durfee
James Durfee
Calumpit
War Department
Washington
Luzon
Thomas
Tiny Tim Engine The World’s Smallest Motor in Gold and Steel
Technical World describes a microscopic engine named Tiny Tim weighing about 4 grains. Built with a gold bed and steel components, it fits inside a 22 short cartridge and runs at 6006 rpm. It uses compressed air, produces 1498 horsepower in scale, and makes a mosquito like sound while remaining visually still.
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Tiny Tim
T. H. Robinson
Grass Widow Origin From Paris Grace Widow Tale
A professor argues that grass widow is a long standing term derived from the French grace widow meaning a widow by courtesy. The remark is tied to slang discussion and propriety. An unrelated note adds that the ant has the largest brain relative to body size among living creatures.
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Grace
Minneapolis Journal
The Pulpit Sermon at Hanson Place Church
Vacation preacher W S Lewis of Morningside College Sioux City Ia speaks on The Fear of the Lord at Hanson Place M E Church. He urges belief in others honesty and faith linking God act to heart and word while contrasting Moses understanding of God with Israel. He warns against placing money making above character and recalls a Civil War era scene of faith and sacrifice.
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Brooklyn
W. S. Lewis
Morningside College
Sioux City
Hanson Place
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Moses
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Nebo
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Adirondack Mountains
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Christ
Make a Friend of Christ in Daily Fellowship
The text urges cultivating time with Christ as well as earthly friendships to gain their blessings. It emphasizes friendship with Christ as essential to spiritual nourishment and growth.
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Christ
Be Kind Promoting Happiness Through Kindness
A short quoted adage from Henry Drummond urging kindness as a means to secure happiness for those around us. The message emphasizes personal responsibility in improving others' well being.
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Henry Drummond
Exiled horse images shift from polite literature to dialect stores
The New York Mail notes a change as the faithful horse moves from refined literary depictions to dialect shops and pastorals. It predicts scenes of circuit riders in the Southern mountains, horse traders, simple peasants, and nostalgia for ye olden times replacing fox hunting and English stage coaches.
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New York Mail
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