Welsh tunes survive in Westminster cathedral services
Traditional Welsh melodies, preserved through unaccompanied singing, appear in recent Westminster cathedral benediction music. Organist Dr. R D Terry notes many tunes date from pre-Reformation times, with some altered in later harmonies. Figures like David Lloyd George praise these ancient Welsh tunes.
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Reward Not Accepted Drug Coaxing A Gentle Farewell
A druggist refused payment for a brief eye treatment, stressing public service over profit. Separate items report fossil treasure recoveries after a dynamite blast near Torrance revealing large prehistoric teeth and New York parks facing tree losses due to limited staffing and funding.
Boston Pipe Arch Bridge UniqueEngineering Curiosity
The pipe arch bridge over the Sudbury River carries Boston's water supply and is said to be unique in the country with only one parallel in Europe. It spans 80 feet, a 7% feet diameter pipe rises %% feet above the center, and massive concrete backs the abutments to withstand water pressure. A raised foot bridge runs across the curved top and the arched steel pipe is % inch thick.
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Nott h Times Changes Called By Couple Lullaby Sound
A bachelor recalls visiting a married couple where no baby slept to a lullaby played on graphop, signaling a shift in routines and technology influencing daily life.
Advice Well Worth Taking From a Slipping Auto
A sleet incident on Central avenue leaves a big passenger car trapped on a car track. The driver fails to free it, bystander humorously suggests cutting engine speed and shifting to low gear. After a shove, the wheels ease away from the curb and the car departs.
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From Messenger to General Pellegrin rises on effort
General Pellegrin, now commanding the thirteenth division of French Infantry based at Langres, embodies Napoleon's idea that a marshal’s baton rests in every soldier. He started as a telegraph messenger in Marseilles, saved to buy books, pursued studies at night, earned the baccalaureate, entered Saint-Cyr, and won a commission. He served in Morocco in 1907, was wounded at the Marne, and later aided Marshal Lyautey in Morocco.
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Umbrella Sign of Married Man Reveals Union Rules
A lighthearted take notes that a married man is shown by the umbrellas he carries at a family restaurant cloak room. It contrasts two umbrellas a cheap heavy one and a finer one as signs of marriage and asserts that married couples share duties, though tendencies have shifted since prenup days.
Prohibition of Smoking Across Olympic National Forest
Washington district forester in Portland imposes a no smoking rule covering about 540000 acres of the Olympic National Forest as a precaution after a severe cyclone left broken trees and debris. The ban lasts until the district forester determines otherwise to prevent possible wildfires in the damaged terrain.
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