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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
6
An attorney warns young lawyers to learn what a client may reveal under questioning. He recalls a bread wagon collision where the plaintiff’s admission on the stand toppled the case after a crossing inquiry. The narrator notes a man often respects his servant less than the servant.
A boy eyeing unripe cherries plans an escape from punishment. His mother warns him to wait for ripening fruit. She discovers him in the orchard and prepares to punish with a switch. The boy quips that leaving the switch on the tree would have made a bigger limb later.
Kansas farmers learn bullsnakes in alfalfa fields save crops by reducing gophers and pests. Scientific American notes an acre harboring about six gophers benefits from one adult bullsnake, which also eats rats and mice around barns, meriting farmer protection.
A terse exchange frames Brown as both a war figure and a thief, prompting a blunt rebuttal that labels the estimate as rough and unsatisfactory.
A terse admonition warns that excessive zeal is a form of mental disturbance. The quote suggests avoiding extreme behavior and emphasizes restraint in passion or ideology.
Advertisement notes cotton and linen prices doubled by war. It suggests extending garments’ life by using Red Cross Ball Blue in laundry as a cost saving tip from grocers.
A weary traveler laments a slow line and mocks the staff in black, joking the refreshment room girls are in mourning for late trains. The quip ends with a line about trouble and alarms.
Dave and Erskine pursue a fleeing cousin through frontier woods aided by Firefly. Erskine accepts a Shawnee mentor role after rescuing his tribe from Crooked Lightning. He returns to a James River fort with news and a warm welcome as the wilderness trails unfold toward a broader destiny.
A frontier tale set around Red Oaks plantation on the James River Virginia. Erskine Dale, cousin to Barbara and nephew of Colonel Dale, grows from fencing lessons to rival Dane Grey at the Williamsburg fair. A fugitive white boy sheltered by settlers foreshadows Shawnee danger before a Virginians rescue at a fort.
Led by Dave and a boy, four travelers push upriver routes and over mountains. Virginia youths struggle yet learn fires and survival as they reach Holston River and Clinch Mountain. They press toward the Cumberland range via the Cumberland Gap along a rugged wilderness trail.
The article notes Portugal contains only two cities with populations exceeding 50,000, namely Lisbon and Oporto. It emphasizes their status as the sole large urban centers in the country.
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