Look for Oranit for Good Investmen
Read guidance on prudent investing from The New Age Illustrated urging readers to investigate before investing in a town business. It argues many enterprises fail due to management or dishonesty but may rebound if they serve a good purpose. It also cites an example of a wealthy buyer investing when shares were depressed.
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Howe
Speh
Saya
The
New Age Illustrated
General Assembly of Illinois
Oscar E. Carlstrom
Princeton
Carlstrom
Fowls in Biblical Times and Ancient Use
The article notes partridges in the Old Testament and discusses the fatted fowl from I Kings as possibly goose or duck. It mentions cocks and hens from Persia two to three centuries BCE, a 200 BCE tomb at Marissa with a crowing cock, and sparrows used as food.
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Persia
Marissa
Jaywalking Tied to Five Percent of Auto Accidents
A fragment notes that five percent of the nation s auto accidents result from pedestrians who walk into moving cars and likens the risk to cars colliding with trains.
Italy credited as mother of spectacles by early scholars
A Baltimore Evening Sun correspondent notes Rome's University exhibition showcases Italy as the origin of spectacles. Professor Albertotti of Padua argues Venice first produced spectacles, citing 1201 Venice Codex penalties for fake glass and a portrait of Cardinal Hugh wearing glasses. The minister of education highlights an Umbrian painting of St Jerome with spectacles.
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Rome
Baltimore Evening Sun
Italy
Albertotti
University of Padua
Oculists
Isidore del Lungo
Alessandro Della Spina
Pisa
Venice
Capitolari Della Arti
Cardinal Hugh
Province
Thomas of
Modena
St. Nicholas
Treviso
Education
Signor Fedele
Niccolo Alanno
Jerome
No Dentist Needed
Sharks use multiple rows of replaceable teeth to stay sharp for hunting, with new teeth growing in as others break or are knocked out during prey battles. This natural dental strategy keeps sharks ready for feeding and survival.
Keys of Early Times Not Easy to Handle
Louise Gordon-Stables discusses the ancient human urge to guard valuables and the heavy wooden keys used in the Orient. She cites Old Testament imagery from Song of Solomon about myrrh scented hands on lock handles and notes keys for the House of David weighing as much as two feet in length.
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Louise Gordon-Stables
London Daily Telegraph
Their Work Never Done at the Eiffel Tower Paint Job
In Paris thirty painters hoist scaffolds to the top of the Eiffel Tower and descend painting every strut and girder. The year long operation repeats with scaffolds moved to the top again, continuing a never ending cycle of work.
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Paris
Eiffel Tower
Frog Raising boom in Japan drives breeding demand
Frog raising becomes a popular industry in Japan as legs gain food demand. Frogs for breeding fetch up to 48 dollars per pair and tadpoles sell for 48 cents each.
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Japan
Illinois Senate approves statewide primary bills for April
The Illinois Senate, in an emergency vote, passed two bills for a statewide and legislative April primary. The measures now go to the House. observers expect a decision on timing whether polls will be in spring or fall, with the session adjourned until February 7.
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General Assembly
Small
Senate
House
Assembly
Richard Meents
Ashkum
Supreme Court
Springfield
Governor Small
Ilinois Exposition
Middle West
State Department of Agriculture
S. J. Stanard
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Public Service Company OF
Northern Illinois
Ww. C. Dowdy, Dist
Mgr. Public Service Co
Illinois St
Chicago Heights
TL Telephone
United States Weather Bureau
Illinois
Clarence J. Root
St. Louis
Zion City
Lake County
Col. C. R. Miller
State Department of Public Works and Buildings
Frank T. Sheets
Stillman J. Stanard
Marion
Ilinois State Dairymen’s Association
Ilinois
Metropolis
Equality
Eldorado
Mt. Vernon
Herrin
State Board of Vocational Agricultural Instruction
Frank Makepeace
R. E. Caldwell
Milwaukee
W. S. O’hair
George Caven
Chicago
Chas. Foss
Freeport
neeCee
L. L. Emmerson
of Illinois
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