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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1929
Page
3
Capt. Francois de Vigny narrates serving with Maximilian in Mexico as a plotting group of officers discuss La Anita who rumors say lures French officers to death or desertion. Maximilian summons Vigny to deliver a message to La Anita and explain the situation.
Captain Vigny tracks a murder plot at La Anita's mansion as Colonel Lopez and Senor Madrella scheme around Colonel Lopez's loyalty. In a tense duel with Madrella, Vigny learns the loaded swords test the courage of France and a perilous romance with La Anita unfolds amid political intrigue.
The article traces tree worship across tribes and nations, linking sacred trees to idolatry and idols. It notes May pole wine ceremonies, English oak reverence from shipbuilding, the holy status of mistletoe, and the Christmas tree origin in Egypt tied to winter solstice symbolism.
Dean Farrar recalls a Chinese sage Mengtsen as a child. His mother left two homes upon seeing him indifferent to animal suffering and later imitate funeral rites, the first near a slaughterhouse and the second beside a graveyard.
The soubriquet Farmer George was applied to George III for his bucolic tastes. The label echoed his image as a monarch with rustic inclinations and homegrown manners in contemporary discourse.
In Kingston Missouri a woman says she weighed 100 pounds and could not work before taking four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She reports restored health and strength and notes her sister-in-law also improved after using it post childbirth.
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