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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1931
Page
2
A Candle in the Wilderness is a historical novel by Irving Bacheller depicting frontier life, community resilience, and the moral tests faced by settlers in a remote region during early American expansion.
In a tense colonial scene Governor Vane presides as William Heydon, wearing the hempen noose, confesses his moral burden and accepts judgment for a shared sin with Robert. Rev. Porman and others offer forgiveness. The crowd shows mercy as Peggy and William's circle move toward reconciliation and future plans. William later reveals his past and romance with Peggy as he departs for England to pursue a deeper life.
The passage defines boxing the compass as reciting the compass points in order. It lists the sequence from north through various quarter and intercardinal directions, ending with east and its subdivisions.
Kansas City man Bartholomew J Scannell aged 33 is arrested by city detectives in connection with the death of his father John F Scannell a poultry farmer near Jacksonville Florida. The elder Scannell was found murdered with an ax in a shed five days before the arrest was made. Sheriff W B Calhoun cites an eyewitness. The son says no motive and notes debts on the farm exceed the life policy. Scannell previously lived in Kansas City where he and his family studied and his mother has died.
A World War romance began when Miss Anna May Miller pinned her name to a shirt at Jeffersonville depot. A soldier in Hawaii replied to her note, but the man is now Mrs. Harvey Deering, mother of three.
Joseph Forsythe, 71, who had been blind for twenty years, regained sight after an operation in New Orleans. He looks forward to seeing a movie and admires Marlene Dietrich, noting rural residents rarely saw films in 1911 before his blindness.
Two of three eaglets hatched in the Western Reserve University biology lab died after injuries inflicted by their foster mother, a setting hen. The surviving eaglet thrives, and the hatchlings are believed to be the first eagles ever hatched in captivity.
A doll’s leg was removed from the lung of Agnes Winkleman, fifteen, in Utica New York. She fell while running with the doll in her mouth and the leg lodged in her nasal passages.
In Angora a commission has labored over two years on a Turkish language grammar and a dictionary based on the French Larousse. The dictionary advances only to B while the grammar nears public release. The project creates thousands of new Turkish terms, especially for modern science, risking a literary tongue unfamiliar to everyday speech.
Texas Technological College archeological expedition members unearthed human skeletons and artifacts along the Tecolote river near Las Vegas New Mexico. Eleven students found remains and tools from a civilization about 1800 years old, with plans for an Aztec culture study in 1932.
Department of Commerce data show 417 more airplanes in use July 1 than January 1 and gains in licensed aircraft pilots and mechanics. Licensed pilots rose to 16 238 with 445 women pilots and five women mechanics. California New York Illinois lead in aircraft pilots and mechanics. Gliders most numerous in California. 100 licensed and 1 107 unlicensed.
Sulphur Oklahoma reports J L Young, a veteran sportsman, found a large water moccasin on his fishing line. He left the snake on the hook overnight and, when he checked it in the morning, discovered a forty pound catfish had taken the line, not the snake.
Joe Lawren, longtime blacksmith, expands the East Kingston business into a combined garage and smithy serving motorists and horsemen as cars rise in popularity, keeping the traditional craft while adapting to new needs.
Little Red Hen in Kinston North Carolina leaves her nest at 6:15 a.m. noon and 5:45 p.m. daily for food and water. Owner W R Brinkley reports one egg is flat and bears a clock dial with twelve notches.
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