Local News Roundup Highlights Trips and Entertainments
A bustling Prescott update notes visits and trips by locals including J U Betts to Texarkana and M Haltom to Arkadelphia, along with Rev Ren C Few in Maxnotia and Miss Sithelm arlew ill. Theaters show The Western Romance at Theatorium, with changes to the program and photos of local figures.
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Ren. C. Few
Maxnotia
Prescott
Theatorium
GS Hamby
Randolph Tlamby
Milda
Montgomery Espeuit Court
Fire Dreaded as Shed Lint Cotton Burns at Aburrow Farm
This afternoon at about 1 o clock children at Cal Burke's Abur row place a mile northwest of town started a shed fire with lint cotton. Mrs Burke acted quickly gathering wet blankets and smothering the flames, saving the home from likely total loss. Loss stood around 800 pounds of lint cotton.
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Cal Burke
Aburrow
Methodist Sunday School Service Next Sunday
The Methodist Sunday School is conducted by Superintendent Murrah with practical application by A Vaughan. Hymns listed include 99 84 70 71460.
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Murrah
A. Vaughan
Hesterly's Cold Tablets Endorsed For Early Symptoms
Autumn colds often persist into winter with serious results. Prevention matters, so keep remedies ready. The notice recommends Hesterly's Cold Tablets as reliable and trustworthy for first symptoms.
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Hesterly
Forced to Complete Depot and Transport Debate
An article discusses city officials led by the attorney pursuing action to complete a depot and open it for traveling public use. Mayor and supporters spoke on the issue, referencing state possessions and a planned movement to advance the plan amid local skepticism.
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Vyotel Co
Brooks
Missouri
Fabrics From Waste Plants Reach Viable Forms
Scientists in several nations highlight progress in turning plant byproducts into textile substitutes. Four inventors report success with nettle fibers from Jamie resembling silk and cotton, cactus-leather from desert cactus leaves usable for many leather tasks, and pine needle fibers suitable for cloth and even clothing.
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Technical World Magazine
Jamie
China
Guayule Shrub Found Rich in Rubber for Commercial Farming
A Guayule shrub has been identified as containing sufficient rubber content to support commercial farming viability. This finding suggests potential economic value for cultivation and processing, signaling possible development in early rubber crop research and industrial applications.
Viking Funeral Ship Unearthed in Norway Near Tonsberg
A 70 by 16.5 foot Viking funeral ship about 1100 years old was found in a tumulus near Tonsberg Norway. The mortuary chamber held two noble women bones a four wheeled chariot four sledges beds lintels a mill spinning wheels and kitchen utensils. The ship and cargo will be restored and placed in the Christiania museum as a landmark archaeological find.
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Norway
Tonsberg
Dialect of New York Newsboys
A New York Sun observation notes that city hall district newsboys, including Tutlan and Jewish and Greek youths, speak a distinctive mixed dialect. It blends Irish American and German American accents, forming a self contained speech that echoes neither parent tongue. The language, about 150 words, is expressive clear and musical and often learned by young recruits.
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New York
Trish
City Hall
New York Sun
Pandanus Prairies of Fiji Describe Odd Plant Life
A fragment describes the pandanus or screw plant of Fiji as a grotesque and witchlike feature of the flora, noting its oddity within the vegetable kingdom in its early stages.
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Fiji
Growth of a curious plant with swordlike leaves and fruit
The description chronicles a very young plant with twisted swordlike leaves forming tall stilts. Drooping tubed mops hang beneath, bearing fruit resembling a pineapple made of hard red and yellow kernels, woody and inedible to Europeans.
Our Real Army and Citizen Soldiers
The piece argues that no nation can permanently maintain a standing army large enough to defend against all powers. It asserts that a government’s strength lies in its citizen soldiers, with bravery and effectiveness as the true measure, placing reliance on state militias and national guards as essential reserves behind regular forces.
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Wil ‘National Guard
England
Landwehr
Landsturm
Germany
Coal trust doomed, geologist warns twentieth century end
In the Birmingham Age-Herald a geologist predicts the coal trust will go out of business in the twenty-first century. A reader responds with skepticism asking what benefit that would bring to him and noting he expects to still rely on coal himself.
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Coal Trust
Birmingham Age-Herald
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Seal
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Texarkana
Dno
M. Haltom
Arkadelphia
L. L. McGuire
St. Louis
A. M. Denman
A.M. Denmanool Larkin
Texas
Lufkin
Jas
Lm Gossett
Gertrude Stout
Gossett
Wo Bournee
Ola
M W
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Pike County
Ed. Caruthers
Ashdown
Joe D. Conway
R. A. Highsmith
Oko Ona
Willie Bost c
Malvern
Assii
Mo City
A.M. Wilsworth
Kansas
Nevada County
Guthri
Brainton
Methodist Sunday School
Esterly
Prescott’s Progressive Drug Store
A. E. Shankle
Scandinavia
Christiania
the Palace
Jack and
Johny Su
Southwest Arkansas
Telephone Go
A. H. Smith
Magnolia
W. B. Waller
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