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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1921
Page
7
A faded tale recalls an antique frame on a fireplace wall where the Old Fashioned Little Girl awakens when twelve tolls ring. Dolls gather to talk and play until daylight reveals the frame empty, ending the magic as the girl’s caretaker saves the ruined scene.
A Little Girl enters a china doll display, muttering about a door and a boy named Betty. Toys hold their breath as Jumpert the Little Girl leaps from a shelf to the floor, landing safely while she boasts of past stunts. The Girl comments on a fancy dress as a toy named Betty speaks.
A brief note explains cats do not see in complete darkness but use their eye structure to maximize light. Cats’ pupils dilate rapidly, letting in more light and enabling quicker sight after bright exposure, unlike humans who adjust more slowly.
A fragmented tale describes a clock striking midnight and toys staring at an empty wall place hoping a fixed frame would not trap Oll-Fashioned Little Girl inside at night. French Doll laments preferring the old manner of play to the new.
Mary Marshall Duffee discusses proper conduct for ocean travelers after long wartime journeys. The piece covers using ship stationery for notes, initiating polite conversations with strangers, and how to handle a desire for solitude while at sea. It advises greeting fellow passengers, accepting friendly advances, and easing into casual introductions by the second day aboard.
The piece traces Priscilla from Latin origins to Puritan England and early American fame through Longfellow and romantic tales. It notes limited popularity outside Britain and America, with cultural echoes in poetry, legends of the amethyst, and symbolic links to virtue, sobriety, and maidenly simplicity.
A drunken narrator describes getting fired after repeatedly breaking his alarm clock to avoid work. He schemes to fake illness and use a broken timepiece to dodge the boss, then proclaims his own cleverness while asking for the reader’s verdict on his plan.
EbOYS in Logansport Indiana show a busy year with many service acts. One hundred scouts logged HM hours at Kiwanis festival duties including working gates, check room, and patrols while another troop donated four days to distributing items and aiding Salvation Army building projects. Fifty scouts contributed 12 hours at the American Legion Fourth of July, and twelve lives were saved from drowning in six months. Additional groups such as Camp Fire Guardians Petite Howith Nurses Kyworth league and the Maxons participated in various civic efforts.
Robert Reed, a star scout from troop Ni 1 Oak Park Al, earned the unusual Merit badge in smithing after completing high school related training. The badge requires forging and welding tasks such as a hook, chain hook, bolt, links, ring, straight tap weld, cold chisel, tempering a rock drill, and an explanation of hardening and tempering.
Five scouts participated in Roosevelt pilgrimage and memorial events. The troop organized All American mass meeting tickets while distributing circulars for Serbian relief. They hosted hospital drives, cleaned vacant lots, aided Salvation Army drives, and a member rescued a drowning boy. Advancement included one life, one star, two Eagles, with a member earning first class and others progressing in rank.
The Syreoke Herald reports a yearly relay trophy for Boy Scout troops in Herald parish. Last year Pershing sent a message to Governor Smith, this year Persient Thirding to Governor Miller carried the message from Auburn to the fair grounds over 2016 miles in 2 hours 10 minutes 10 seconds. Fastest individual was Howat Mover with a 2:10 half mile.
A Mt Peasant scoutmaster reports nine percent of the city population in scouting and that the town backs the movement. The group is active and outdoor focus draws interest. A summer trip covered 400 miles to Brace Canyon with 176 participants, including 110 scouts and accompanying fathers and supporters.
Mayor Barley issues proclamation urging Denver citizens to support the local Boy Scouts as indispensable to city welfare. Scouts will join Saturday cleanups for rubb ish removal citywide while Boston trained Miles City scouts gain fire department training and certificates from the fire commissioner.
The St Louis Globe Democrat named Kurt Mune Matterson of Pine Bluff Ark the United States beautiful girl in its beauty contest. She receives a grand prize of 2500 dollars and an additional 1000 dollars for being the district’s most beautiful girl.
These women of the Orient have joined the International group in Washington for the arms session. They are Mrs Yen Teching and Mrs LT Tyan, wives of Chinese technical experts.
Thomas Kane, a stocky Irish American living in New York, holds the world record for transfusions. He has given blood 44 times to men and women at death's door over the past seven years, donating from a pint to nearly a quart each time while working as a special officer in the Pennsylvania terminal and available to several New York physicians.
Pueblo telegraph operator J. H. Weisgarber narrates an exciting encounter with a blue racer on his auto tour. A five and a half foot snake crawled into the vehicle and bit the tire. Though the car was stopped, the snake eluded discovery until finally found in the dust pan and killed.
Tokyo commander Yamamoto, aide to Crown Prince Hirohito, recalls a Paris subway episode during the prince’s tour. The prince allegedly avoided showing a ticket, prompting a wicket officer to urge him to display it, while the prince mused on being scolded for the first time in his life.
A train hit a cow at the Blackwood crossing near Gow, killing it. Several bystanders gathered and cut off large chunks of meat to take home. Local authorities advised residents to return any contraband portions found.
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