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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1931
Page
7
The piece counsels that every dark situation holds a gleam of light and that sympathy, friendship, and help are earned by giving, not waiting. It urges not to worry, noting there is always another day and even the next moment can reveal a way out.
The article credits Croesus of Lydia with inventing coinage and establishing a bimetallic system of gold and silver around 560–546 B C. It notes metal durability and value as reasons, cites Greece’s early use of silver and brass, and claims widespread money use by the Fourth century BC.
The three rulers after Caesar’s death issued a formal proscription targeting political enemies. Each chose victims including relatives of colleagues and the great orator Cicero. The practice, common in Rome’s civil wars, is noted as Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar reflecting these events.
A Traunstein mountaineer experiments with a divining rod to locate buried objects after avalanches. The dowser finds watches rings coins and ski gear deep in snow, suggesting the rod could help recover items and possibly save lives as avalanches recur each winter in the Austrian Alps.
Observers visiting Carnac in France are told the Druid menhirs mark graves or sun worshipers, though little is known of Druid religion. Noted laws include not discussing religion, women may become judges, and prophets of equality with no man richer than his neighbor per Caesar.
A guard escorting Temple University students on a tour of the eastern Penitentiary stopped to point out the coat of arms of Pennsylvania above an arch to the cell blocks. He jokes that the three words Virtue Liberty and Independence seem out of place in that setting.
Prof W Gordon Childe reports in Antiquity on a Skara Brae bed room in Orkney showing stone bedframes with canopies once used in daily life. Beds held matted ferns or heather as mattresses and reveals gnawed bones and valuables indicating eating in bed and hidden treasure.
The Damascus Medina Hadj railway, famed as a powerful line built by Muslims for pilgrims, was destroyed in WWI. A petition to rebuild reaches the King of Hejaz as Moslems tire of the Hadj on foot. Christians once built and equipped the line but are barred from riding.
Iceland undertakes large scale transplanting of Canadian northern spruces pines tamarack and balsam to create a wooded climate. The experiment shows success with shipped trees warmly received and cared for. Funds are sought from international humanitarian sources to support the project benefiting island inhabitants.
President Angell of Yale spoke at a New Haven luncheon noting the Yale library doubles its books every 20 years, adds 50,000 new volumes annually, and stores as many old ones to make space, cautioning that not all that lights is literature.
Macao the two square mile city at the river mouth is described as the sin capital of the world. Colliers Magazine notes its chief trades include opium smoking fan-tan roulette lotteries liquor and prostitution serving crowds from Hong Kong and nearby cities.
A short dialogue from Lustige Kolner Zeitung portrays a husband promising to return before rent is due and a wife preparing for a night at the club. The fragment hints at domestic love, a looming payment, and a lingering cough as a minor motif.
A comic caption riffs on marital banter as a wife notes she now has a rag, while the husband jokes about lacking one at marriage. The dialogue plays on domestic humor and quick quips in a single panel style.
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