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Newspaper
Pleasant Grove Review
Location
Pleasant Grove, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1944
Page
3
The piece traces bells as ancient signals for peace and time, noting early wooden bells and the fist bell, and explains bells marking the end of one year and the start of another before clocks dominated towers. It also touches on carillon music as a means to foster human accord among diverse groups in America.
The article traces ancient bell origins in Campanis Italy to Paullinius and notes early bell baptisms. It mentions a Swiss tradition of baptized bells traveling to Rome during Passion weeks and returning afterward. It highlights bells’ harmless ringing and references carillonneurs like Kamerevire at Riverside Church New York and the global rise of carillons.
Poem fragment by Lord Tennyson urging ring out the old year and its flaws and ring in the new era of peace, justice, and virtue with charitable acts, sweetness in manners, and the Christ to be. The verse exhorts washing away war sickness and civic strife.
A reader explains how to repurpose saved greeting cards into decorative gift wraps and custom decorations. Cleaned images or colorful pictures on cards can be cut out to enhance wrapping, with practical tips for turning discarded cards into personalized art and keepsakes.
Virginia valiqa Simms, an honorary member of the Order of the Purple Heart, toured veterans hospitals during a recent vacation and helped wounded servicemen. The piece also previews radio ventures, film assignments, and career moves for several stars including Harold Lloyd Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Nancy Porter Marlene Dietrich Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Gregory Peck and Erich Lubitsch projects with studio plans and Navy involvement.
The article explains that lineage does not double each generation due to intermarriage among relatives. Over ten generations or 300 years, the theoretical 1,024 ancestors reduce to about 300 to 400 actual individuals.
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