Train Conductor Mistakes Traveler For Youth
A conductor greets a traveler as a youth and notes a youthful appearance, though the narrator feels clearly older. The moment brings flattery and reflection on aging and perception.
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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
7
Climate links marriage rates to warmer cities study says
A University of Wisconsin survey finds women aged 15 to 24 in warmer climates more likely to marry than peers in colder cities. In twelve large southern cities mean temps 59 to 69 degrees, 27 percent of native white women are single versus 33 percent in twelve northern cities with 40 to 48 degrees. Smaller cities show weaker ties. The study uses 144 cities and sources including the U S Weather Bureau and World Almanac.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
School of Commercce
University of Wisconsin
United States Weather Bureau
World Almanac
United States
Superior
Tampa
Mia
Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin Endorsed After 47 Years Practice
A physician reflects on 47 years of practice and endorses Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a natural, non habit forming remedy for constipation. He cautions against drastic purges and urges daily bowel movement and trying the product from local druggists or by mail for a free trial bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell Elwaya
Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
Red Light Seen Through Closed Eyelids Explained
A study explains that light can be perceived as red even with eyes closed because eyelid blood vessels transmit light to the eye nerve center. The red tint depends on the color of the blood. had it been another color, that shade would appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Dickens Draft from Pickwick Papers Sells for Nine Thousand
Philadelphia reports that a page and a half of Dickens original Pickwick Papers manuscript sold for 9000 at executor sales of George W. Childs collection. The faded yellow sheet, dated 1835, contains the chapter conclusion and bears Dickens and Boz signatures. Purchaser was collector Charles Sessler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Charles Dickens
Pickwick
George W. Childs
Boz
Charles Sessler
Lincoln's Bible markers placed at Deuteronomy and Hosea
The Library of Congress now houses Lincoln's Bible with two white silk markers placed by Mrs. Robert Toda Lincoln. The markers rest at Deuteronomy 31 and Hosea 4, verses seen as fitting Lincoln's Civil War ordeal. The book and Lincoln family Bible were given to the Library by Mrs. Lincoln’s heirs along with a gold medal from Trance citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Toda Lincoln
Lincoln
Citizens of
Trance
Israel
Ancient Gothic Ruins Reveal Old Metropolis
Russian archaeologists uncover extensive ruins in Crimea at Eski Kermen valley claiming a two mile spread fortress walls hundreds of rock homes and six cave temples with frescoes. They designate the site Feodora once capital of the Goth kingdom from Justinian era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Backtchisaral
Crimea
Eski- Kermen
Crimean Peninsula
Feodora
Justinian the Great
Morals debated over shop window artificial legs
Reverend P Knight of Nychope near Sunderland condemns artificial legs used to display silk stockings in shop windows. He bought the legs from the draper and insisted they be removed and burned citing public morals concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
P. ¥. Knight
Nychope
Sunderland
Entomologists' Value Revealed by Institute
Carnegie Institute of Technology houses over 1,500,000 insect specimens and studies show how entomology benefits humanity. Pittsburgh hosts noted figures Dr. W. J. Holland Dr. Lugo Kahl H. G. Kliges and B. Krautwurm who lead the museum collection and research on pests and beneficial insects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute of Technology
W. J. Holland
Carnegie Museum
Lugo Kahl
Sweden
H. G. Kliges
B. Krautwurm
Castoria: Safe Pediatric Relief For Common Ailments
A vintage pitch promotes Castoria for infant and child comfort. It claims natural ingredients, soothing colic constipation diarrhea and minor pains without drugs. The advertisement notes widespread use with twenty five million bottles sold last year.
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Velvet Chapeau
Thomas Arkle Clark
University of Ilinois
Mr. Corrington
Mr. Carrington
Lie
Mrs. Gould
Frazier
Connor
Illinois
Robert Z Wickman
Benton, M
University of Illinois
Bob Zuppke
Hion
Dickens
Isthonia
Baltic States
Library of Congress
Charleston
Moonbeam
Bill
W. H. Price
Doctor Price
Fortu
Nately
Slaughter House
Jolly Island
L. Sapsford
Cheshunt
England
California
Pierce
Grand Island
Nebr
Cincinnati Enquirer
Reni
Castoria
W. N. U. Lincoln
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