Fresh begins and new day inner renewal in faith
A Christian Science Monitor reflection urges daily renewal of mind and conduct. It emphasizes letting go of yesterday’s regrets, embracing new consecration, love, and service to reflect God’s will. It cites biblical verses and Mary Baker Eddy to urge positive, selfless living.
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Children of Israel
Jesus
God
Paul
Lot
Mary Baker Eddy
First Church of Christ, Scientist
The
Christian Science Monitor
Berbers and Barbary Coast History Mentioned in 1815 War
The text notes Berbers as a Hamite race in northern Africa near Tripoli, linked to southern Europeans and Egyptians. It recalls the Barbary coast’s naming and a brief 1815 US war with Algeria, where Stephen Decatur captured two Algerine vessels and secured a peace treaty with the dey of Algiers.
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Africa
Tripoli
Riffs
Atlas Mountains
Deserts
Europe
Barbary
Mediterranean
United States
Stephen Decatur
Algiers
Bowl Over Long Course Bowling in Eire
In Ireland a rough form of bowling on open roads tests strength and skill. Two men from distant towns compete, backed by their entire town. The course runs three to four miles to a pub, using a 28 ounce iron ball, with scoring by the fewest strokes. Cork hosts the most popular contests where top bowlers can throw the ball about 70 yards plus a long roll.
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Eire
America
County
Cork
Lily white feed hooks in a comic scene of household life
A humorous domestic dialogue features a daughter pleading for stamps to send to a beauty expert while she jokes about arms like phantom wings and avoiding sharp comments from Jimmie. She plans a quick sip of gossip and begs her mother not to reveal sweeping arms.
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Jimmie
Romeo
Lambkins
Sybil
Pardons of Brittany Stand Out as Unique Local Ceremonies
In Brittany, unique pardons honor local saints with color and ritual. Saint Nicodeme and Sainte Anne de la Palue attract grand processions featuring decorated cows, drums, banners, and auctioned animals. Widow sea lore and Breton costumes enrich the medieval atmosphere, with the eldest daughter wearing the finest dress amid family participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brittany
France
Saint Nicodeme
Quimper
Jesus
Sainte Anne de la Palue
Anne
Mary
Palestine
Beauty Secrets Wins Hope Love and Housework Victory
Hope contemplates marriage to Jimmie while Mrs. Dale guides her with a beauty column answer. Hope embraces domestic duties, cleans the attic, uncovers her mother's handwriting, and learns that the secret to triumph lies in quiet, patient support at home.
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Hope
Maybelle Lejeune
Mrs. Dale
Mona Lisian
Beauty Secrets
Mother
Jamaica's diverse flora hailed as botanical treasure
Jamaica boasts about 2 100 plant varieties earning its nickname botanical garden of the New World. Pimento and annatto are key crops with ginger thriving on red hillsides. Orchids, bougainvillea, poinciana and other tropical blooms flourish, while the wild Woman Dildos tree yields wool with flowers and fruit.
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Jamaica
Botanical Garden
New World
Pimento
Annotto
Light Sources and Education in Early American Views
The piece notes that overhead and skylight illumination tends to reduce glare compared to side windows, while northern light is least likely to be harsh. It also cites a belief that pioneer women valued daughters receiving strong "book learning" to compete in the new world.
Electric eels and shocks in nature
The article notes several fish species capable of electric shocks including electric eels and electric rays. It describes the eel as a central and South American freshwater fish that can paralyze or kill small animals and even stun humans. Humboldt is cited reporting natives using eels to exhaust their power before catching them for food, sometimes causing horses to drown.
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Central and
South America
Baron von Humboldt
Brazil
Guiana
Dust of Alexander and the conservation of mass
A quotation from Shakespeare on the law of conservation of mass notes that matter persists on earth despite changes. Hamlet recalls Alexander the Great turning to dust and earth, joking how loam from clay could seal a beer barrel or stop a wind.
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Hamlet
Alexander the Great
Alexander
Caesar
Cupid Wins 15 U P stewardesses in 1938 on UP trains
Union Pacific records show fifteen registered nurse stewardesses resigning across the year as Cupid’s darts found their marks. Ten worked on Challenger trains. others moved to marriages with lawyers, pilots, executives, and two to be wed in January.
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Cupid
U.P
Daniel Cupid
Union Pacific
Oil Company
Film Company
Emily Zelenda
Clarkson
Neb
Omaha
Charlotte Rossiter
Pasadena
Cal
de Witt
Hollywood
Elizabeth Sbara
Raton
N. M
Denver
Colo
Thehna Keeiler
Pine Bluffs
Wyo
Bernice Roddewig
Hartington
Los Angeles
Frances Simon
North Platte
Mary Agnes O’keefe
Schuyler
Notice to Contractors for York Osceola Federal Aid Projects
Sealed bids will be received at the Nebraska Department of Roads and Irrigation in Lincoln on January 19, 1939, for grading culverts and two bridges on Federal Aid Projects 143-C(2) 143-E(2) and 143-F(3). Work covers 8.7 miles of graded earth road with extensive earthwork, culverts, pipes, concrete, and bridges. Bids require 100 percent bond and a bid guarantee with specified prepaid amounts. The notice includes wage rates and details for seeing plans at Osceola County Clerk or Lincoln department offices.
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Department of Roads and Irrigation
State House
Lincoln
Nebraska
York-Osceola
Osceola
A. C. Tilley
John I. Anderson
Polk County
Notice to Creditors in Hendrickson Estate Polk Nebraska
Public notice in Polk County Nebraska announces a hearing in the County Court on April 24 1939 to hear and allow claims against the estate of Frank D Hendrickson. Creditors must file by April 22 1939 or be barred. Dated December 23 1938. L M Merrick County Judge Seal.
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Polk County
Nebraska
Frank ‘D. Hendrickson
L. M. Merrick
Notice of Sheriff Sale in Polk County Nebraska
By order of the District Court of Polk County Nebraska The Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati Ohio plaintiff versus William H McBeth et al defendants a decree of foreclosure rendered February 28 1938. The sheriff sale is ordered under the court decree.
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District Court
Polk County
Nebraska
Union Central Life Insurance Company of
Cincinnati
Ohio
William H. McBeth
Notice of Probate for John P Allinder Estate
The State of Nebraska notifies interested persons a petition for probate of the last will and testament of John P Allinder, deceased, and for appointment of Carl W Allinder as administrator with will annexed. Hearing set for January 13, 1939 at 10 a.m. Dated December 16, 1938. (Seal) County Judge. Publications: December 22, 29 and January 5.
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Polk County
Nebraska
John P. Allinder
Carl W. Allinder
L. M. Merrick
Seal
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WIN Service
Joan of Arc
Challenger
Elizabeth Knight
Linette Peterson
Elk Point
S. D
Chicago
Dorothy McDonald
Council Bluffs
Chadron
Gwendolyn Robinson
Beatrice
Oakland
Margaret Dorwart
Friend
Yankton
Bethine Calkins
Maxine Hensley
Central City
Laurine Jacobsen
Miss Hensley
Miss Keiler
Jan DaEry
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation of
Washington, D. C
Towit
Gunnard Peterson
Wm. W. Graham
Phil B. Campbell
Philip H. Nyberg
Attorneys
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