Local notes and visits fill weekend in Dayton area
Personal notes recount visits by Mr and Mrs Weldon Bairslow and son in Dayton, Col umbus visitors, births of a son James Edward to Ora Heath and wife, and a string of social calls across Richmond Indiana Cincinnati and Wilmington. Several weddings and upcoming events noted including Elizabeth Chay's commencement and Ruth Waybrite's marriage to Forrest J Raus cher.
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Mrs. Weldon Bairslow and Son
Dayton
Ora Heath
Cleveland Street
James Edward
Wisdom from Ptahlotep: ancient Egyptian moral counsels
An excerpt from The Instructions of Ptahlotep presents aged Egyptian maxims on virtue and social duty. It urges bright conduct, avoiding strife, and recalling kindly acts, noting that just deeds endure while covetousness leads to emptiness.
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Egypt
Ptahlotep
Sound to Control Machine by Resonant Notes
A London demonstration explains controlling mechanical functions by sound resonance. A transmitter and receiver with a tunable piston alter air column pitches to trigger relays, enabling engine start stop or bomb release. For dirigibles, ground sirens with specific notes could steer or adjust speed, potentially delaying detection by requiring repeated notes or a note combo.
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London
Signs Seen in the Flowers Superstitions Revealed
A compact collection of flower lore claims signs from blooms indicate love ill health or sorrow. It notes ways flowers and herbs like spearmint catnip and pennyroyal supposedly affect luck health or harmony, including cemetery scents and season rules.
How Luther Valued Music
Luther shows a deep love for music yet places its comfort beside its power to convey Gospel truth to heart and conscience. His devotion shines when composing simple words and tunes for children to sing these core Christian truths, inspiring countless hymns used by Protestants.
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Luther
Peter Bayne
Martin Luther
Fascination in Alaskan Life
The text extols Alaskan life noting lack of fear of hardship due to abundant salmon venison and resources. It describes a groundhole refrigerator and suggests white men can live off a squaw and a fishwheel. It envisions rapid future tourism and prosperity once transport improves, predicting crowded visitors like prewar Switzerland.
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Switzerland
The Scandinavian Race and Its Broad Reach
The term Seyninavians applies beyond Norwegians to Swedes Danes and Teelanders. Germans English and Americans of English stock are also descended from Scandinavian stock, with probable origins in the Northmen and North German lineages. Press Want Ads offer buyers for homes.
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Germany
Calory as a Heat Measure and Copper Substitutes in Germany
The piece explains calory as a heat unit used in nutrition, describing the greater and lesser calories and their role in body heat. It then notes Germany's wartime copper shortage spurring substitutes in wiring and rail, with iron wire and Siemens steel replacing copper in some uses, while long-distance electrical and exposed-air conductors remain copper dependent.
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Germany
Siemens Steel
Early signaling device called stentorophonic tube
Walter Kellogg Lowers recounts an ancient signaling method described as a stentorophonic tube. He notes it was devised for Alexander the Great and likens it to a gigantic megaphone. A Vatican drawing reportedly shows the instrument. claims it could relay a vote across about 24 miles.
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Walter Kellogg Lowers
Alexander the Great
Vatican
New York Telegram
Fifty Italians Planned for Call to Colors Parade
Fifty Italians in this city expected to take part in the Call to Colors day parade. One man was rejected from Co. C by Capt. Freshour for being below standard height. Raymond Manson enlisted in Co. I, Third regiment, today. Maxson almost enlisted in the regular army but consented to wait after talks with Capt. Freshour. Photos of the Choral Union are ready for sale at the water works department. The city council will meet this evening with a representative from a tractor plant builder expected to attend and address the council on its importance to Piqua citizens.
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Margaret
Wall
Piqua
Mrs. Prince
Prince
Joe Wilson
W. J. Prince
Tiqua High School
Wittenburg College
Beta Theta Pi
Piqua Daily Press
Columbus
Army Corps
Locke-I Huntington
Martha Locke
I. William Huntington
St. James Episcopal Church
Ram- Sey
Capt
Gilmore
Daintiz
Georgelta
Chas. L. Hinsch
Ramsey
Hamsery
Piqua Elch
Co. C
Freshour
Raymond Manson
Co. le
Maxson
Regislar
Cant. Freshaur
Call to Colors program eyed for Springfield colored men
Rev Norris of the Baptist church spoke at a patriotic Sunday service to outline what is expected of several hundred colored men in the Call to Colors Day program. In Stein's Park Sunday the Springfield colored team lost a nine inning game to the Meteor outfit 7 to 9, the Meteors delivering a whirlwind battle from start to finish.
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Norris
The
Baptist Church
Stein’s Park
Springfield
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Ruth Waybrite
Forrest J. Rauseher
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United Brethren Sunday School
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Ladies’ Aid Society of
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Ford Hunt
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Troy
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Edna Richardson
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Vane Pancroft
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French Oil Min Machine Co
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Flesh Home
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Lieut. Huntington
Barlow Baker
Piqua Daily Call
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Samuel Schenberger
West High Street
New York
Meads
the Anti-Waste Society
H. W. Kress
Cox
Accomne Womens
Piqua Suffrage Club
Mayvlinen Daily
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Marguerite Clark
Ruamance
Pathos
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Georgeh Washington
Ford Sterling
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