Buried Alive in a Maine Paper Mill Harrowing Escape
In Lisbon Falls Maine 16 year old Ed Meister buried under falling wood chips in a pulp mill a landslide trapped his head and body as sulphuric acid vats waited below Foreman Wallace Fowler alerted helpers and workers freed Ed who quit on the spot saying he would not risk two deaths for $10 a week This dramatic episode contrasts buried alive with a feared second fate and highlights a youth facing extreme danger in industrial work.
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Edward V. Meister
Ed Meister
Africa
India
Lisbon Falls
Maine
Wallace Fowler
Wallace
Eda
Cycads prominent in ancient ages across geological eras
A Los Angeles Times writer notes cycads dominated plant life in the late Mesozoic era, known as the Age of Cycads, with Cycad species spread across tropical and subtropical Western Hemisphere regions. The Creta ceous period followed in the sequence of life, with Australia hosting cycads and kangaroos.
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Los Angeles Times
Australia
Tropics
Subtropics
Westero Hemisphere
Vina del Mar’s origins in Chile’s port city history
The text traces Vina del Mar six miles from Valparaiso Chile’s key port. It notes a left bank river once named Malga Malga for its gold laden sands. Around 1560 Alonso Riveras found the sands suitable for grape growing and named the site Vina de Mar the Vineyard of the Sea.
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Vina del Mar
Valparaiso
Chile
Malga-Malga
Alonso Riveras
Vina de Mar
You Must Govern Self Before You Can Guide Your Offspring
Parents' Magazine argues that a child's temperament and attitudes reflect the parent. Psychological expert Helen Sargent stresses that divorces, illnesses, and family discord shape children's maladjustments. She cites patterns of parental behavior and urges self-scrutiny before trying to guide a child.
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Parents’ Magazine
Helen Sargent
Psychological Clinic
Northwestern University
Miss Sargent
Lenny
Cain
Dorothy
Mother
Prayer Lesson and Breakfast Bargain
A teacher asks Tommy about grace and his father’s breakfast warning. Tommy notes bacon costs 45 cents a pound. Daily dialogue mocks old gendered wedding customs with Aspasia and Dierdre discussing tears at weddings.
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Tommy
Grace
Dierdre
Aspasia
Rural Philologist Comments On Farming Speech
Farmer Curntessel notes a shift from saying farmin to agriculture highlighting similar conversation and meaning, and questions the difference between the two terms in rural talk.
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Curntessel
Water Helps The Pretty Clean Kid
A kind old gentleman speaks to a muddy sidewalk girl making mud pies. He notes her dirt while she cheerfully insists she is pretty clean despite the mess.
Glittery Buttons Add Luxury Touch Pattern 2499
Young soft line frock for social hours features glittery metal or crystal buttons at the yoke and cuffs. Available in sizes 14 to 42 with 35 yards of fabric for size 16. Illustrated instructions included. Send fifteen cents to Pattern Dept New York.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
Seventeenth St
New York City
Greatest Tree Engineers Confirm General Sherman Largest
After examining the biggest Sequoia National Park trees, engineers conclude the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park has the greatest trunk bulk among living trees, containing more than 500000 board feet of lumber.
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Sequoia
General Grant National Parks
California
Sequoia Park
Pony is 49 oldest horse in England
A Shetland pony named Pony, living in a paddock at Harby Notts, is believed to be the oldest horse in England. Dot, belonging to the Gibbs family, is recorded at least forty nine years old and may be older.
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Harby
Notts
England
Dot
Gibbs
Self-Made Man Learns from Wife in Hidden Romance
A playful exchange reveals a wife who claims she taught her husband to dance golf and bridge, suggesting his rise was guided by her. A school visitor notes a geography book as the only one large enough to hide a detective story, underscoring light cultural humor.
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Floyd Gibbons
Hopper
OUR Comic
Little
Osborne
Western Newspaper Union
Finney
Ted O'Loughlin
Oy Women Nesrpaper Unks
You N' Neil
Schmaltz
Wrigley's
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