Natives in Rapa Wear No Clothes in Isolated South Pacific Isle
A 19th century account describes Rapa also known as Oparo in the South Pacific. It notes isolated life, scant contact with outsiders, and a white Tahitian missionary’s push to gather old clothes for locals. Women are depicted as serving men at meals and performing daily labor. The island possesses a harbor and coal deposits, with rare visits by ships or French gunboats from Papeete.
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Rapa
South Pacific
Seven Seas
Micronesia
Polynesia
Tahiti
Papeete
Oparo
Itlex
Tropics
Oceania
South Sea Islands
Panama Canal
Loyalty to Mikado taught in Hawaiian schools and missions
In Hawaii some priests and school instructors teach young Japanese children loyalty to the emperor. The Hawaiian board of missions submits a resolution urging plantation-financial backers to push back on non Christian groups. They argue such groups hinder Christianization and Americanization of local peoples and urge boards to adopt this view.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Board of Missions
Hawaiian ‘Board
Hawaiian’ Islands
Man Quoted Bible in Court and Went to Jail for Contempt
Charles B. McCormick appeared in a Pittsburgh court with a Bible under his arm and quoted passages prohibiting divorce. He said he would rather go to jail than pay his wife Eva M. McCormick's counsel fees, according to court records.
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Pittsburgh
Charles
Trade by barter replaces money in Austrian countryside
A Viennese region story shows peasants trading farm products for goods to survive amid a currency flood. Hides, wool, yarn, stockings, and even furniture pass as payment while mills and hosts barter for grain and sustenance. A retired officer and villagers restore barter first principles through practical exchanges.
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Austria
iLife
Vienna
Farmer with 17 children keeps funds in eight banks
In Sunbury Pennsylvania Despar F Campbell, a Lower Augusta township farmer in Northumberland County, has money in eight banks. His wife and he testified in a farm income accounting case judged by Cummings. They have been married over thirty years and live in the same house and eat at the same table, yet do not speak. Both sides hired costly lawyers, and both must pay their own expenses from the family fund.
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Sunbury
Despar
F. Campbell
Augusta
Northumberland County
Cummings
Zulus Honor Buxton at Durban Governor General Farewell
In Durban the Zulu chief and headmen gathered to honor Lord Sidney Charles Buxton retiring as governor general of South Africa and Lady Burton. Speakers praised Buxton and lauded his tenure while the gathering included Maritzburg leaders and various chiefs.
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Durban
South Africa
Maritzburg
Lord Sidney
Charles Buxton
Burton
Bie
Ships guided now by ears in New York harbor
New York harbor pilots ships through fog and storms using an energized submerged cable emitting sound waves. Vessels fitted with audiphones follow the center channel from Ambrose through the Narrows to the harbor, supplementing radio compass for exact position and safety in all weather.
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New York
New York ‘Harbor
Ambrose Channel
Inner Harbor
Grand Central Terminal
Times ‘Square
Atlantic
Navy Department
Colleges And The Pil Grins Observance Call
Ethel Armes urges American colleges and universities to observe the Pilgrims Tercentenary with dramatic activities linking history to present-day learning. She notes the 1620 events commemorated by the Mayflower compact and a national program distributed by the Bureau of Educational Dramatics to churches schools and communities. The piece asks students at Central to act promptly and honor Pilgrim Day with fitting celebrations.
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American College
Central
Wilson
Women win Jewett Sunday baseball ban
In Jewett Texas a wave of women officials who were elected last April ban Sunday baseball. The city officers including the mayor police chief all women, opposed by husbands disgusted with office who challenged them. The Methodist congregation passed a resolution against Sunday baseball, and all municipal leaders are church members, sealing the ban.
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Jewett
Texas
The
Methodist Church
Won Race With Playful Dog Carrying Dynamite
Peter O'Brien of Lancaster won a half mile dog race with a playful canine that carried a burning fuse and dynamite in its mouth. He struck the fuse with a match, causing a dramatic scene as the dog raced along the course, leaving tire marks on the road.
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Peter. O'Brien
Turtle
Hunter
Lancaster
Dog
Peter
A. Atick
Creek
Pedro
Pedra
Jonee
Pella Markets Advertises Produce and Poultry in Brief
Local notice from Pella Markets lists produce offerings and poultry items including eggs hens old roosters ducks full feathered geese cream hides and related merchandise. The fragment indicates a small town grocer advertising a varyingly described selection and contact line.
Central HighMusic Notes Show Glee Club Plans
The Central High notes section reports the Men's Glee Club slating numbers for the Boys Conference to be held soon. Nick Gosselink and Anthony Var Zante performed Simple Alan by Thome, Wednesday morning. Anthony joins Central's new pianists. Prof Sadler hosted a stag party for some boys Wednesday evening. Ladies Glee Club plans concerts in nearby towns. The piece ends with a caution that mental anxiety and excess worry harm vitality.
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Central ‘Ray
Whittlees
Nick Gosselink
Anthony
Zante
Mother Gray's Powders for Children Advertised
A brief sale note touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children as curing colds in 24 hours and relieving feverishness headaches and teething troubles. It claims bowel regulation and worm destruction with a pleasant formula, offered at 3 for 30 cents with drug-sample or frequency address to Mother Gray Co. Le Roy New York.
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Mothes Gray Co
le Roy
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DE Reus & van Zante
Chamber of Commerce
C. I. Fox
Mainland Liberty Ste
Sybenga
Franklin St
Si Calis
P. A. Edmund
Wagner's Clothing
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T.G. Fultz
Carreree
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Owa
Georgia
Prysiouas
Tek
AOI
Allen
Mission Board
Buxton
Tell Channel
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Shiba
Castoria
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