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A collection of maxims on virtue, pride, and wisdom. It contrasts appearances and true merit, warns against arrogance, and notes how law can exploit knowledge from modest scholars while preserving silence about its source.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Times
Location
Pendleton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
8
Far-ranging Facts and Oddities from History
A collection of curious data points and historical notes including dates, measurements, natural phenomena, and notable statements such as standard time adoption in 1883, tea yields per acre, Waterloo duration, and Titian's death at age ninety nine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titian
Mexican Proverbs Featured by Boston Transcript
A collection of traditional Mexican proverbs illustrated by the Boston Evening Transcript. Sayings include to the hungry no bread is dry a shut book offers no scholar and a cat in gloves will never catch rats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Evening Transcript
Worrying Scenarios From A Chicago Herald Note
A playful list from the Chicago Herald and Examiner teases common anxieties about family life work and social perks. It ponders restless nights hair loss unwanted lunches persistent praise and the odd urge for perfect grades or premium seating.
About Love and Moonlit Nights
A reflective feature quotes London Opinion on love and relationships. It wryly contrasts love as a sequence of events with the idea that men seek belief from a partner. The piece explores ideals of the perfect man existing only in a woman's pre marriage imagination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Birds Beasts Insects Digest Of Animal Life Facts
A concise natural history note describes how a canvasback duck feeds by diving an ostrich egg equals twenty two hen eggs camels live twice as long as horses carpenter bees burrow and construct cell rows in solid wood reindeer fawns are strong and agile within hours of birth and the mosquito has twenty two teeth revealed by the microscope.
Snakes and Venomous Reptiles Facts and Varieties
The Azores host only one lizard species among reptiles. The East Indian python can swallow live pigs. Adders are irritable after waking from hibernation. English adders are the sole poisonous snakes in England. Cobras crotalids and bottrops are noted as highly poisonous. The common king snake preys on rattlesnakes. The ringhalf can spray poison up to fifteen feet. The fer de lance is a highly virulent tropical American viper seen in Martinique and other French Antilles locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinique
French Antilles
Lines Worth Knowing Reflections on Belief and Truth
A compact exchange of maxims on belief versus understanding, self perception, and reputation. It argues that people cling to familiar truths, warn that new ideas face resistance, and satirically notes human folly in creating gods. The excerpt ponders truth, inquiry, and power.
Proverbs on marriage and virtue from New York Sun
A collection of 19th century aphorisms on marriage virtue and vanity. It notes deceit in unions and the ease of attracting but hard to retain a homely husband. It also jokes that husbands forget their matrimony and that vanity and virtue influence relationships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Study Finds Men More Color Blind Than Women
Research notes higher color blindness in men than women, plus patterns showing deafness more common in cold climates and lower death rates among clergy and farm laborers. It also observes nails on the right hand growing faster than on the left.
Neighborhood News Gathers Call For Reporters
The Times seeks correspondents in every neighborhood and asks readers to notify the Editor with suitable candidates for local news gathering in their area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Attendance and social notes from Ingalls community
The Ingalls record shows church attendance totals and local social visits. Notable items include Gypsies in town, KKK parade and meeting attendance, and a Klansmen gathering at the M. E. Church with 55 robed members. Families visit relatives in Anderson Greenfield Indianapolis and Lapel.
Beech Grove Visitors and Local Social Roundup
Clifford Shawl and family of Terre Haute visit Shawl family mother Jennie Shawl. Charles Bennett and family of Ohio join Mrs. Bennett’s relatives for Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Ward Pettigrew. Dale Pettigrew and son George dine with Mrs. Pettigrew’s parents Charles and Berta Brandle. Thimble Club met at Mrs. B L Adams with sewing and music and refreshments for Ward Pettigrew Carson House Ivan Pettigrew Walter Jarrett Howard Burdett and James Denton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E
Ray Faussett
Anderson
Ira Milner
Thomas Kurlin
Earl McCarty
Kenneth Roberts
Mr. Rinker
Muncie
Robert Pettigrew
Forest Moore
Otto Bogers
Rosa Kuhn
Dale Cottrell
Turner Jarvis
George Harrison
Ohio
Charles Jones
Cecil Stanley
Near Anderson
Alice Russell
H. C. Raines
Hubert
Clifford Shawl
Terre Haute
Shawl
Jennie Shawl
Charles Bennett
Appointment of Executor for Hannah E. White
Notice states W F Morris appointed Executor of Hannah E White's will. Estate described as solvent. Dated Anderson April 19 1923. Lawrence V Mays, Attorney for the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah E. White
Anderson
W. F. Morris
Will Build 235 Miles of Road in Indiana
Indiana highway officials say 235 miles of roads will be built in 1923 with 17 miles hard surface 35 miles secondary and 30 miles yarding and building structure. Forty contract projects. 11 concrete mixers active and 15 to start. state inspection on 41 county projects totaling 125 miles costing about 2.25 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
State Highway Commission
John D. Williams
Highway Department
Williams
Kentucky
Commission
The Drift Publication At Butler University Aims High
Butler University releases The Drift, its annual student publication, produced by Mitchell Printing of Greenfield Indiana. The 1880 edition, the junior class issue, is more elaborate than prior runs, with nearly 300 pages, limp leather binding, gold decorations, drawings, cartoons, photographs, and student portraits. It is dedicated to Professor Henry Lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Butler University
Mitchell Printing Company
Greenfield
Ind
Butler
Henry Lane
Executor to Sell Pendleton Lot in Public Auction
The executor of Hannah E. White’S will announces a public sale at two o clock PM on Saturday June 9 1923 of the decedent s interest in Lot 6 Chapman s Addition Pendleton Madison County Indiana. Bidder must obtain court approval for no less than two thirds of the appraised value with split payments over one year. Purchaser may pay all cash, abstract of title furnished, taxes paid, notes secured by first mortgage, 7 percent interest, and attorney fees waived. Household goods to be sold cash at the same time and place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah E. White
Pendleton
Madison County
State of
Indiana
Chapman
Madison Circuit Court
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