Pleasant Sunday Notes and Local Happenings in Cortland
District .8 recounts a quiet weekend with visits from John Jensen and Mrs Ed Wood to Leban for a sick father. Local families attend Frank Tucker funeral in Cortland, hog losses from heat, newborns, hospital visits, and haying season progress. Camp closes after a week of games and good weather with visitors from nearby towns.
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Ed Wood
Leban
John Summers
Scandia
Albin Isaacsons
Frank Tucker
Cortland Snday
Chas Hohimans
Walter Anderson
Ed Woods
Hugh Etter
Concordia
Joe
Senator Burton’s Dedication and Odd Anecdotes
A collection of anecdotes about Senator Theodore Burton highlights his devotion to study and children. Tales cover late hours of work, a Taft telephone call mishap, and his antiantirace suicide stance. The piece notes his conservation work and service on the Inland Waterways and Tiger Ways commissions. It ends with a quip about British finance and farthings.
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Theodore ¥. Burton
High Schdor
Aa Normal School
Burton
Taft
Senator Burton
Rochambeau Exchange
United States
President Taft
England
Mr. Burton
White House
Senate
Roosevelt
Inland Waterways Commission
National Tiger Ways Commission
D Burton
Roosevelt consulted by leaders during his presidency
Theodore Roosevelt frequently sought advice from notable figures and leaders of his era, reflecting an active consultative approach to policy and decision making during his time in the White House.
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Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore E
Plain As Day Sunset Sparks Young Love
In a Washington Star snippet, Josh is seen as in love by his mother. Each clear evening when skies are fair he steps to the back porch and notes the sunset, saying a girl is refining him as surely as day. Farmer Corntossel comments on Josh's romantic certainty.
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Josh
Farmer Corntossel
Washington Star
Old Superstition Uprooted in Coastal Tale
The Richmond Times Dispatch excerpt references removing a superstition about seeing a white horse and notes a wife described as with red hair, illustrating local folklore contrasts within a brief newspaper fragment.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Bee Natural and the Six-Person Self View
Holmes argues six people are present in any meeting: the real A and B, how each sees themselves, and how the other sees them. In street life people project images to influence how others judge them, adjusting their appearance with age and ambition like clothing.
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Flolmes
Be natural survive or perish urged by editor in NY Globe
A New York Globe editorial urges young men to be natural and true to themselves amid pressure. It frames life as a fight to survive and thrive, emphasizing authenticity as a path through peril.
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New York Globe
Primrose praised for hardy bloom amid harsh climes
London Notes and Quiries reflects on the primrose, loved by poets for its symbolism yet noted as a tough plant that grows where few flowers survive. It is found on European and Asian fountain heights and even high ranges of the Thrathelayas, with Disraeli noting its color in breakfast imagery.
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Shakespeare
Phoebus
Spencer
Milton
Europe
Asia
Disraeli
London
Man rushes asylum door crying to be admitted
A man bursts into the asylum entrance at night pleading to be let in claiming he has suddenly gone insane. The keeper, awakened, shouts from a first story window that the intruder must be crazy and to come back in the daytime.
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Brooklyn Kagte
Armuiateur Photographer’s Bold Proposal in Rural Exchange
In a rustic exchange, the photographer asks to take the farmer’s daughter as she is. Farmer Green consents with a practical grin while Sal watches, and the scene moves toward a parson for the formal vows.
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Armuiateur
Farmer Green
Sal
Landen Mail
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St. Louis
Mr. B
He Was Right
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