Marion County Red Cross Adopts Relief Rules
The Marion County Chapter of the American Red Cross held a Salem meeting to set relief policy. Rules cover eligibility, appeals, confidential handling, and distribution of flour yard goods bedding and emergency aid with monthly issue days. The chapter reports aiding 1238 families and about eight thousand people last winter.
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Marion County
The
African Red Cross
H. D. Bigelow
Salem
Leuty Byars
Kell
Eck Zollar
Tonti
James Meredith
Carrigan
Dick Edgeworth
Stevenson
Ellis Kagy
Archie Beard
Omega
Leroy Pickett
Iuka
Ralph Holstlaw
Christ Neilson
Foster
Ben Sweney
Red Cross Relief
Chapter Central Committee
Home Service
Red Cross
American National Red Cross
H. D. B Zelow
Mary Gehrig
Omar J. McMackin
Earl Merritt
Ruth Seidel
Helen Fleming
Chester King
Anna Morton
van Howe
John Bigelow
Joe Schwartz
Wm. P. Frakes
Centralia
Raccoon Townships
Sunday School Organized at Eaglin Schoolhouse
Sunday School was organized at Eaglin Schoolhouse Sunday afternoon April 23 with an attendance of twenty three. Beginning April 30 Sunday School will meet each Sunday at 9 30 a m. Teachers and officers will be elected or appointed next Sunday as no definite arrangements could be made at the first meeting. All not in Sunday School elsewhere are urged to attend. Christina Yardley Chairman.
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Eaglin Schoolhouse
Christina Yardley
Salem Circuit Court Opens April Term With Grand Jury
The April term of Circuit Court opened in Salem with the grand jury present. The petit jury was not called yet but expected next Monday. From Patoka township Louis Davidson Merritt Caldwell named for the petit jury and William Cain represented the grand jury. From Foster and Carrigan no petit jurors were selected. From Carrigan Julius Chausse and Foster Frank Doudera Jr were on the grand jury.
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Salem
Patoka Township
Louie Davidson
Merritt Caldwell
William ‘Cainv
Foster
Carrigan
Peck
Julius Chausse
Frank Doudera, Jr
Centralia High School Orchestra Concert Attended
Mr and Mrs T E Irvin and son Edgar with Doyle Beck Meyer and Miss Ruby Eagan Betsie Simcox and Mae Eagan attended the Centralia High School Orchestra concert at C T H S Auditorium Sunday afternoon. They then traveled to Salem to view the Salem Odd Fellows drill team in front of the Court House. The drills announced the Southern Illinois Odd Fellows Association meeting at Marion this week and Salem was chosen to host the 1934 convention.
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T. E. Irvin
Edgar
Doyle Beckmeyer
Ruby Eagan
Bettie Simcox
Mae Eagan
Centralia High School
Salem
Rebekah
Court House
Southern Illinois Odd Fellows Association
Marion
Sandoval Annual Comic Dress Ball Invitation
The Sandoval Alumni Association hosts its annual comic dress ball at the Sandoval gymnasium on Friday evening. The public is invited to wear funny costumes with prizes for the fanniest outfits. Max Weil's Orchestra will provide music for round and square dancing as the queen is crowned by last year's queen, Miss Wands Troutt.
Local Notes Highlight Shop Ads and Social Visits
Local notes show shop promos at Altom's and Peters Shoes. Residents like George Wickersham and Doyle Outhouse visit Salem and Venice. Several family and social visits, a blood poisoning accident from a rusty nail, church missionary notes, and farm supplies (onion sets and slug spray) are mentioned with multiple towns and names.
Lead in Pencils Revealed graphite origin and inventor
The article explains that pencil lead is actually graphite mistaken for lead. It details the discovery of graphite, the French Conte’s method of combining graphite with clay, and how pencil hardness varies by mixture. It notes cedar wood scarcity led to metal and paper covered pencils.
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Conte
Montreal Herald
Changes in Word Meanings Explained by Language Scholar
A Manchester Guardian columnist notes how words shift meaning over time. Archbishops and lexicographers show terms like internecine and mess evolving from older senses, with examples from leprosy to a quartet of diners at the Inns of Court.
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Archbishop Trench
Manchester
Fng
Guardian
Trench
Inns of Court
Latimer
Shakespeare
Edward
George
Richard
Edmund
Ancient Egypts Dogs Plush in Royal Homes and Hunts
Archaeological finds show dog bones and art prove early domestication. Assyrians had greyhound and mastiff breeds while Egyptian monuments 5,000 years old display varying hounds and a short legged toy dog. Egyptians kept dogs as pets and hunting aids.
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Detroit News
First Cigarette Origins In Arabic Memoir
The origin story credits an Egyptian soldier in 1882 with inventing the cigarette after a grenade destroyed a tobacco wagon. Ibrahim Pasha’s victory at St. Jean d Arc led to a tobacco grant that was ruined, prompting a soldier to roll tobacco in Indian paper to smoke.
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Ibrahim Pasha
St. Jean d’Arc
Montreal Herald
Kinmundy Beats Salem Leaguers In Openers Amid Scoring Flurry
Kinmundy crosses Salem Leaguers 4 to 0 as James Wasem Porter Simeoy Jr James Emerson Jr and others contribute to the win. Cubs and Cardinals fans lament a rough Sunday evening. Ted Lyons threads a Chicago win with two singles and a homer as Fitzsimmons also goes deep for the Giants. Becken of Decatur shines in the majors with two wins. Ray Starr struggles for the Giants after five errors.
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James Wasem
Porter
Simeoy, , Jr
James Emerson
Kinmundy
New Salem
Cub
St. Louis
Rajah
Charlie Grimm
Ted Lyons
Chicago Sox
Cleveland
Fitzsimmons
York Giants
Philadelphia
Beck
Decatur
Ray Starr
New York Giants
Giants
Ray
Lake Reelfoot Lake a Tennessee landmark from 1811 quake
Lake Reelfoot in Tennessee is the state's only sizable lake formed by the 1811 earthquake. Spanning about 18 miles long and up to 3 miles wide, it lies in Obion and Lake counties. The lake drains via Reel Foot River into the Obion River, a Mississippi tributary.
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Tennessee
Reel Foot Lake
Obion
Lake Counties
Obion River
Song About a Fox Teaches Lesson at School
Junior smiles as his mother asks what he learned and he sings a sequence do re me fox so la ti do. The classroom song mirrors a scale and playful wordplay shows a lighthearted school moment with a fox theme.
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Junior
New Zealand's Unique Domesticated Animal History
New Zealand lacked domesticated animals originally and was first inhabited by birds reptiles and one frog species. The only native mammals are two bat species, later joined by domestic animals imported by humans.
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New Zealand
Club officials attend Federated meeting in Newton
Mesdames H. N. Potts president A. M. Peek vice president E. W. Belcher secretary and D. W. Troyes treasurer attended a Federated clubs convention in Newton last Monday and report a very enjoyable and interesting meeting.
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Mesdames
H. N. Potts
A. M. Peek
E. W. Belcher
D. W. Troyes
Newton
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Pat) Malone
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