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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
5
A village project features a kindly squire rewarding children for guessing proverbs. He performs actions representing Union is strength, then asks for guesses. A boy shouts Let sleeping dogs lie, ending the playful scene with a humorous twist.
A somber tramp enters a worker shanty and threatens self harm with a powder can. He locks the can in the stove causing a panic and then disappears along with others possessions, leaving the scene empty.
The article describes the primary technique used by American aborigines at Columbus's arrival. A slender drill and hearth create heat by palm twisting to ignite powdered wood. Some tribes used flint and pyrites, possibly via European or Asian contact.
The article notes Plains Indians favored buffalo meat and pemmican, with wild plums and berries. It cites a belief that "a man is what he eats" and says men avoided wild turkey, fearing cowardice, while fish was rarely eaten and meat remained a man’s staple.
The deepest gold excavation reached 4 200 feet about three quarters of a mile at New Chums in Australia. This milestone marks the greatest depth yet achieved in mining gold from the earth.
The fort in New York known as Fort Ticonderoga was built in 1755 by the French and called Carillon or Chimes in reference to the waterfall at the outlet of Lake George nearby.
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