Winifred Finivred and the Welsh Saint Winifred Tale
A compact note on the name Winifred, its Welsh origins through Gwentrewi, and its spread as a Saintly figure named Winifred in Wales. It mentions the healing well, the red-veined stones, talismanic beryl, and Friday as a lucky day with a favored number.
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Finivred
Gwentrewi
Caradeo
Winifred
Wenefred
Wales
Gwenfredi
Winfrith
Friend of Peace
Hongland
Winnie
America
British Isles
Freda
Germain Frieda
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
Why Wood Alcohol Is Fatal and Hard to Distinguish
The article explains wood alcohol differs chemically from grain alcohol and remains long in the body. It forms formic acid and formaldehyde, poisons that attack the brain, causing blindness or death even in tiny doses. Chemists note no nonpoisonous version can be produced.
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Wheeler ‘Syndicate, Inc
Smile and Hustle Motto by Will Maupin
A short poem encourages resilience after setbacks. The speaker urges readers to smile and hustle, brace for adversity, and begin anew with steady purpose. It promotes courage and grit, rejecting dwelling on bad luck.
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Wil M.maupin
The Friendly Path Against City Sin and Small-Town Truths
An editorial argues that community virtue defines morality more than place and density. Honest, churchgoing citizens anywhere should uphold the right path, as cities tempt with amusements while small towns can harm through hidden misconduct.
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Cea
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
Home style luncheon dishes from pantry to oven
The article lists inexpensive luncheon ideas including ham and noodles baked casserole and baked rice with pork sausages. It describes steps for baked eggs with cheese pimiento and cheese roast and a layered sponge cake with jam and whipped cream.
Graham Gems
A short recipe note instructs to mix sour milk graham flour soda salt and sugar with an egg and shortening. Batter is baked in greased gem pans until done, yielding small your gem-sized morsels.
Memoir Snippet Shows Crown Prince’s Wry Exchange
An 1822 Western Newspaper Union excerpt reproduces remarks from the crown prince’s memoirs. Bethmann-Hollweg quips to Herr Hallin that he wishes to be dead, and Hallin replies that a coffin would suit him as he watches others toil.
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von Bethmann-Hollwegg
Herr Hallin
Honest or dishonest a man’s character judged by actions
A commentary by John Blake argues honesty is total and consistent. The piece distinguishes big and small thieves by opportunity and courage, urging self examination and cutting ties with cheaters to avoid moral compromise.
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John Blake
Lift from Shadows through Faith and Effort
A reflective piece urges readers to seek inner light through hard work, high thinking, and charity. It notes despair yields to confidence with faith guiding the way to higher ground, while acknowledging struggles and the need for personal striving to write a better life record.
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Earth
Elysium
McClure Newapaper
Golden Eagle's Rise Amid Highland Steppes
In old and fading lore the golden eagle once common across England and Wales is scarce due to hunts. Now numbers slowly grow again as Scottish slopes host more pairs. Nests cling to cliff ledges with bluish eggs, and fledglings learn to soar under watchful parents.
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Alva
England
Wales
Eyrie
London
Prehistoric Venus Drawing Found in Ain Caves
New Aurignacian era art from Co lombiere caves in Ain reveals a mammoth bone fragment with a two figure scene. A hair covered man stands over a kneeling headless female torso, described by Dr. Lucien Mayer as an unusually refined and Greek recalling figure.
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Colombiere
Ain
Lucien Mayer
Lyons University
H. G. Well
London Times
No Preacher Shortage in Stevens County Colored Settlement
In Stevens County a small yet remarkable colored settlement founded in the early 1880s houses many families on independent homesteads. The area grows maize broom corn and watermelons with about sixty families and roughly twenty preachers serving the community amid modest religious life recorded by the Hugoton Hermes.
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Stevens County
Hugoton Hermes
Bela Vozenyi the Viennese Born Banker Dies
Bela Vozenyi a Budapest banker dies after a life marked by wealth and extraordinary appetite. He was known as a self described eater, once weighing over four hundred pounds and consuming large meals daily including twenty four sausages and eight pounds of foie gras for breakfast.
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Bela Vozenyi
Budapest
M. Verenyl
Grillon du Foyer
Irish Visitor Tweaks Time in London By Big Ben
An Irish visitor in London notes Big Ben, adjusts his watch to it, then finds the timepiece five minutes fast the next day. He glares at the tower and leaves muttering a humorous insult about the clock and fate.
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London
Parliament
Big Ben
Big Boy
Arman
Toledo Goldfish Hatchery Claims World Largest Facility
Toledo Ohio boasts the largest goldfish hatchery in the world. Last year the firm controlling the hatchery shipped twenty five carloads of gold fish and twenty carloads of fish globes.
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Toledo
Ohio
Community notices and visiting relatives update
Local residents and visitors are noted returning home from holidays and resuming studies at Morningside College and State Teachers College. Revival meetings at Plover Presbyterian Church run nightly through Jan 10 with strong attendance. drug store promotes wide stock and upcoming low-price wallpaper plans.
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Chijith
Ruthven
Dorothy Shaw
Nock
Rraestley
Dee
Elmer
Allbee
Mabel Webb
Bradgate
Jas
Webb
Esther Allbee
Mallard
G. S. Shaw
Fan
Sioux City
Dorothy Shawn
Zola Bucher
Morningside ‘College
Evangeline Ward
Cedar Falls
State Teachers’ College
J. M. Bush
Carl Segérson
Segerson
Segersor
Luelly Wiese
John Damborg
Rolfe Ligit & Power Co
Chester Bireh
Presbyterian Church
Plover
Rolfe Drug
Plover Drug Store
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