Man Finds New Purpose After Retirement Dream Fails
Cyrus Markham, a longtime mail carrier, retires to run a six acre chicken farm with his daughter Etta and son-in-law Joe Cook. The venture drains finances and health, ends in friction, and Cyrus finally seeks a new role delivering milk, returning to a sense of vocation.
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Cyrus Markham
Cyrus
Minnie Brown
Minnie
Etta
Etta Markham
Joe Cook
Joe
Pottery
Johnnie
Wealth and benevolence among American givers
Abraham Epstein notes that vast wealth and many millionaires coexist with a small number of major donors. He cites Carnegie Rockefeller Harkness Rosenwald and others as shaping philanthropy, stating that gifts from Rockefellers and Carnegie alone constitute about three quarters of the roughly one billion dollars in existing funds.
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United States
Carnegie
Rockefellers
Harkness
Rosenwald
Andrew Carnegie
Abraham Epstein
American Mercury
Emblem of Freedom and the Phrygian Cap
The Liberty cap traces to the Phrygian cap of ancient Greece and Rome once worn by galley slaves who won their freedom.
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Greece
Rome
Luck in Turning the Mining Wheel and Gold's Shifting Favor
The San Francisco Chronicle piece traces California mining fads from Shasta copper to Keswick gold, noting copper and zinc booms, then a return to gold. It recounts a Klamath mountains mine that yielded $40,000 bricks via a boiler purchase, and how wartime costs altered fortunes, ending with the boiler motif as a cautionary tale about mining’s elusive treasure.
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California
Shasté County
Bully Hill
Keswick
Kennett
Coram
Shasta
Gossan
Klamath Mountains
San Francisco Chronicle
Forest influence on humidity found in cut and uncut forests
Tests by the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station show moisture and humidity shift with tree removal. In Douglas fir areas humidity fell below 85 percent far fewer hours when forested, but rose to near open-air levels after cutting. Removal increased hours under 35 percent humidity by about 2.5 times. A Buckeye Lake artifact story notes an arrowhead from Indian manufacture on display in Buckley Michigan.
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Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Recalling Solomon and Sheba's Queen
A New York Times piece reflects on the Queen of Sheba's visit, Ethiopian crowns and gifts, and the early Christian baptism linked to Queen Candace. It notes Abyssinia's modern independence and a line from Philip the Evangelist about baptism on the road to Gaza.
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Sheba
Abyssinia
Solomon
Duke of Gloucester
Candace
Philip
Gaza
St. George’s
Addis Ababa
Jerusalem
Ethiopia
New York Times
Deer intrudes Bangor professor home through rear screen
A deer darted into Prof. John J. Martin's Bangor Theological Seminary home through a rear screen. It raided several downstairs rooms including the study before a family member forced it outside by one leg.
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John J. Martin
Bangor
Maine
Doctor Martin
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