Birthday party and family visits in Glen Morgan WV
The notice recounts Miss Glendola Doniles turning fourteen on August 16 at a birthday party, visits by Miss Nell Hall from Earling and Miss Jean Griffith from Amherstdale, and plans for Anna Hall to visit Oak Hill with relatives. It notes Sunday school attendance, a marshmallow toast by the Young People class, and various relatives visiting or traveling between Glen Morgan Logan County Huntington and Oak Hill. A separate anecdote mentions two young women sipping corn whiskey from an ancient jar, its inscription unreadable, and probing whether Prohibition authorities would react. The piece ties to mound builder lore in the Ohio Valley through Kentucky and Tennessee traces.
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Sadie
Irene Harrah
Jumping Branch
Glendola Doniles
Nell Hall
Earling
Logan County
Jean Griffith
Amherstdale
Aaron Hall
Charley Chambers
Bardgie Lawson
Sherley Lilly
Handley
Kentucky
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Liquid Relic Hints At Ancient Mound Distillers In Kentucky
Two Bell County youths explore a secluded hill country cave near Molus and uncover an earthen vessel. They report a delicious aroma and taste liquid contents believed to be from ancient distilling practices, suggesting mound builders may have been early distillers in America.
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America
Middlesboro
Molus
Bell County
Four Thousand Year Old Trees Outlive Humans
The piece compares longevity of trees and humans using mortality tables. It notes about 5 percent of trees reach maturity in a forest stand, while 95 percent of trees die before 80. Humans have higher survival to ages 10 to 50, and Methuselah and Noah outlived many, but no person or nation surpasses the giant sequoias which reach about 4,000 years.
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Methuselah
Noah
Best Books for Children Top 25 List by Librarian Groups
The American Library Association and the National Educational Association name 25 top books for grades one through eight. Louise M AIlcott leads with Little Women, followed by Alice in Wonderland and Robinson Crusoe. Stevenson has two titles, The Childs Garden of Verses and Treasure Island, on the list.
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Louise M. Ailcott
New England
American Library Association
National Educational Association
Lewis Carrol
Defoe
Mark Twain
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
Nicholas
Abraham Lincoln
Kipling
Anderson
Aesop
Pyle
Robin Hood
Lamb
Malory
van Loon
Wiggin
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Burton E. Holmes
Dickens
Irving
Rip van Winkle
Dodge
Hans Brinkler
Hagedorn
Theodore Roosevelt
Hawthorne
Sexton
Spryl
Heidi
Riis
Baldwin
Eggleston
David Copperfield
Grimm
Wyss
One Long Spree Attributed To Former Bartender
Rose Detering told a Brooklyn magistrate that her husband August Detering became an alcoholic the day prohibition started and has remained drunk since. She said he had never touched liquor before prohibition.
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August Detering
Rose
Brooklyn, N. Y
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