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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
2
Rainey dives to save Sandy during a brutal sea chase aboard the Karluk as killers attack a bowhead. The crew battles massive waves while Lund and Rainey wrestle control and the girl Veggy Simms questions Carlsen's leadership amid rescue and peril.
A vintage advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children. It claims a teaspoonful cures constipation and restores a playful child within hours, urging mothers to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup with proper dosing directions on the bottle.
John Rainey, a San Francisco reporter, is kidnapped aboard the sealing schooner Karluk by a blind man claiming to be Jim Lund. Captain Simms, accused of abandoning Lund, denies the charge as Rainey is forced into a perilous voyage to a gold field, with Carlsen muting danger and seizing control.
Rainey and Lund oversee a hunting contest aboard a schooner as Deming and Beale tie for first in rifle and shotgun events. Carlsen demonstrates pistol skill, smashing seven of eight bottles as rivals scramble for ammo and shots.
Captain Simms shows signs of deep illness altering his vigor as Rainey and Carlsen share wheel duties. The girl appears with Rainey and Carlsen, then retreats with Rainey guiding the ship while Carlsen rarely takes the helm. The pair exchange limited intimacy, and Rainey senses subtle tension between them aboard the deck and cabin.
The oldest amusement in the world is dice throwing with dice appearing on Egyptian monuments and similar to today’s dice. Palamedes is linked to their origin around 1244 B C while cube dice for gambling likely predates that. Ancient Greece Rome and other cultures regulate dice games in laws and literature.
A Missouri youth collecting funds for a benevolent institution asks an elderly tightwad for a dollar. The old man quips that at seventy five he expects to reach the Lord sooner and will hand him the dollar himself.
Franz Joseph Gall born in 1758 originated phrenology. He lectured at Vienna University in 1796 faced ridicule and 1805 Austrian officials feared religious conflict. He moved to France in 1807 and remained in Paris until his death amid students and colleagues.
A terse exchange mocks family illness and overwork as a business theme. The quip suggests contagious fear versus doctor earned fatigue, framed in a Carnegie puppet metaphor about cash registers and endurance.
Advertisement urges taking aspirin only as directed by Bayer. It highlights the Bayer Cross as a safety mark and notes aspirin has been prescribed by doctors for over twenty-one years. The copy stresses following the package directions for quick relief.
A grad school primary class illustrated a story read by a teacher about three children in a font wagon in a wood until sunset. Most drawings show a horned goat pulling the wagon and a sun setting behind a hill. one girl drew only a hill and grass. Opal says the goat and children have gone home.
The piece describes island dwellers relying on peat and drift wood for fuel with open hearths. It notes constant low fire heat, difficulties restarting once out, and pervasive peat smoke that reddens eyes and lingers on hair and clothes, claimed to imprint Harris tweed with its scent.
The article traces wedding rings from royal seals to popular charms used by magicians and priests. It notes centuries of belief in rings curing ailments and protecting lovers, and mentions French betrothal customs with hay straw and horseshoe nail rings.
The article recalls Camille Saint-Saens hearing music in commonplace sounds as a child and waiting for a kettle to sing by the fire. It notes Pasteur faced public anger over his early serum work, with a mass meeting claiming science should be decided by the people. It closes with a reflection on love and silent wisdom.
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