Tintagel's Arthurian Legend Lives On In Hall Of Tintagel
Readers are invited to Tintagel Cornwall where the National Geographic Society notes the Arthurian legend endures. A modern Arthurian hall is praised with stained glass, oak torches, and a Hath érall paintings collection celebrating King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Washington
Arthur
Tintagel
Britain
Kent
Cornwall
Ingland
National Geographic Society
Tintagel Head
King Arthur
Merlin the Enchanter
Winotagel
Tennyson
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Mallory
Tintagel Castle
Ygrayne
Duke of Cornwall
Castle Terrabil
Terrabil
Uther Pendragon
Trevena
King Arthur’s Hall
Tintagel Village
Knights of the Table
William Hatherall
UC Student Keeps Diverse Snakes as Bedside Hobby
Kenneth Johnson, a University of California student nearing graduation, nurtures a collection of live reptiles and a black widow spider as part of his path to becoming a herpetologist and future zoo director. His menagerie includes king snakes, indigo snake, boa constrictor, moccasin, Texas chicken snakes, gila monsters, and two rattlers that died. He names the spider Eliza and stores it in a mayonnaise jar.
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Kenneth Johnson
Kenneth
University of California
Johnson
Florida
Texas
Eliza
Demand for Horses Is Found to Be Growing
Ames Iowa despite a large rise in automotive sales experts predict higher prices for farm work horses in the next year or two. Wayne Dinsmore and H A Aberg say demand outstrips supply as Iowa horses per county fall from 100 in 1914 to 32. Farmers are buying more horses even with rising tractor demand.
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Ames
Iowa
Wayne Dinsmore
Horse Association of America
H. A. Aberg
State College Authority
Chestnut Trees Coming Back Say Foresters
Foresters in Providence Rhode Island report chestnut trees are staging a comeback despite fears of extinction. Dr Walter H Snell of Brown University notes sprouts from dead stumps are growing two to five inches in diameter and up to 25 feet tall.
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Providence, R. I
Walter H. Snell
Department of Botany
Brown University
Museum Adds Rare 165 Year Old Bloom
The Field Museum in Chicago adds a rare orchid collected in Tahiti 165 years ago by Captain James Cook to its herbarium. The dried specimen is preserved in excellent condition, as if gathered only recently, highlighting historical significance and careful storage.
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Chicago
Tahiti
James Cook
Field Museum of Natural History
British Plan to Study Antarctic Region
A British expedition will depart in autumn to determine if Antarctica is a single or dual continent by surveying the largely unknown coast between Luitpold Land and Charcot Land.14 men include J R Rywill and W E Hampton among others. voyage spans about three years with air and marine surveying plus a 700 mile west Graham Land leg. Discovery II will carry a plane to Deception Island and Wilhelmina Bay arrival is expected by December.
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London
Antarctic
Luitpold Land
Charcot Land
Antarctica
Graham Land
Wilhelmina Bay
Crane Channel
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Deception Island
Three Arkansans Find Way to Aid Themselves
Fordyce Ark three Word brothers Oddie Guy and Ollie start farming after aid program ends. They plowed their ground by hitching Ollie and Oddie to a turn plow while Guy drove, claiming they plowed as deep as any man.
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Arkansans
Fordyce
Ark
Oddie Word
Guy Word
Ollie Word
Guy
Ollie
Oddie
Saloon Walls Recast as Church in Hamburg Arkansas
The former Senate Club saloon building in Hamburg Arkansas is being razed. Materials are hauled to Mist eight miles away to construct a Presbyterian church there.
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Hamburg
Ark
Senate Club
Presbyterian Church of
Mist
Rats Triumph as Cats Die in Store Ring Incident
In Edgewater a grocery store opened its doors to a staged animal contest when two large river rats fought off two attacking cats. About fifty spectators watched from outside the window as the brawl ended with the cats killed and the rats resuming foraging.
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New York
Edgewater
Sets Record for Worship in Rockland Maine
George E. Torry died at eighty two after a lifetime of church service never missing a Sunday for more than 60 years, totaling 3,000 consecutive Sundays attended.
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Rockland
Maine
George E. Torry
Smooth Strategy Speaks on Enemies and Ends
Senator Sorghum remarks that he has few enemies and only causes active antagonism when he believes an opponent is needed for his business. He emphasizes restraint and purposeful confrontation as a strategy.
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Senator Sorghum
Married men preferred for steady work says boss
A Brooklyn Citizen quote depicts a boss preferring married men over bachelors, claiming married workers stay calmer when pressure or discipline arises and do not get as upset as single men.
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Drooklyn
Ice Seller Converts Attic Clutter into Sale
A humorous exchange shows a daughter recounting how a high pressure salesman arrived and she sold him their father's old clothes and the attic’s discarded furniture, turning the visit into a domestic episode.
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Byrd
Detroit Free Press
Fountain pen fuels lifelong notoriety in Cincinnati Enquirer
A quoted Cincinnati Enquirer cartoon snippet ponders which invention is most unnecessary. The speaker claims the fountain pen aided his notoriety by drawing dotted marks on his name, implying the pen shaped his identity in public records.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Practice of graceful corn eating and polite playful critique
A brief note judging a man's corn eating grace with a humorous quote about being a pliccole player. The remark mirrors light social satire and a casual, period voice.
Neighbor Takes Wife Home as Hostess Questions Delay
A Deseronto Post item notes a man visits a hostess to collect his wife, asking why she did not come sooner, reflecting a domestic scene and local chatter.
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Mr. Jones
Deseronto Post
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Rymill
Hampton
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Ale Meri
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