Osceola High School Scouting and Debate Highlights
Osceola High School notes Tuesday Boy Scouts meetings at the school with several new Tenderfoot members led by Wen dall Beatty and trained by leaders. The pace test produced seven successful scouts as the troop runs two tests for individual and troop points while debates against Aurora yielded a unanimous win. Girl Reserves host a boy and girl party with over forty attendees chaperoned by Mrs. Hagey. The Latin class begins an engineering project building Caesar's bridge in pairs.
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Robert Nyquist
Wendall Beatty
Wendall
Doctor Lear
Lester Peters
Lawrence Anderson
Merwin Ransome
John Zang
Greenwood Splinters and Lumber Ad Pun
A fragment shows a fragmentary dialogue about a troublesome liquor and a joke about a lumber number. The text mentions spring, avoiding a joint, and a playful ad line urging readers to call the lumber number.
Biting remark gave modern phrase its origin in ancient Greece
The piece recounts Nearchus, Alexander the Great’s admiral and Lycia governor, who in tyranny had a philosopher pounded to death. As the mortal was beaten, he whispered a message, and biting off the ear of the tester inspired the first literal biting remark, shaping common speech.
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Greece
Nearchus
Alexander the Great
Lycia
Asia Minor
Warmed Water Boosts Fowl Laying and Rye Nativity Noted
Experiments show warm water increases pullet water intake by 25.4 percent in freezing weather and raises egg output by 4.2 to 5 percent in milder western winters. White leghorn pullets at midwinter lay about 60 percent, consuming 0.26 lb water per bird daily and 44 lb per 100 eggs. Electric heaters and lamps offer simple methods to warm water. Also notes rye origin near the Black Sea Caspian region, its northern European cultivation, cold tolerance, and breadstuff role.
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Black Sea
Caspian
Europe
Superstitious Sue and the Left-Hand Luck Sign
A McClure syndicated note describes a superstition where ballplayers at game start or season onset pull the forefinger on their left hand for luck, attributed to a fictional character Sue and her brother Bill.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Quote compares reliability to owl in Boston Transcript
A Boston Transcript quote quips that an owl says one thing and sticks to it, highlighting a sharp, humorous view of consistency and reliability. The remark frames a skeptical take on trustworthiness with a wry animal analogy.
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Boston Transcript
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