Memorial at Perry homestead honors two naval heroes
A Wakefield Rhode Island memorial opening as a patriotic shrine will spotlight the Perry family naval legacy. Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew Calbraith Perry led Navy exploits from Lake Erie to Japan diplomacy, with their mother guiding their education and service. The piece chronicles Christopher Perry’s Revolutionary War service, the brothers’ naval careers, and Oliver Hazard Perry’s famed Lake Erie victory and dispatch. It also notes Matthew Perry’s 1854 expedition to Japan and its opening of relations, tying both men to a single commemorative site.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Perry
Wakefield
St. 1
Oliver Hazard Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry
Christopher Perry
Kingston Reds
Continental Army
We Fiext
Mifflin
Jersey
Trumbull
James Nicholson
Watt
Newry
Ireland
Sarah Alexander
Scotland
Christopher
America
Benjamin Rush
Philadelphia
Rhode Island
Navy
Oliver Hazard
Raymond WH. J
Matthew Calbraith
James Alexander
Nathaneal Hazard
Puntry
George W. Rodgers
William Butler
Commodore Perry
France
Preble
Tripoli
Wuatehwill
Naval Board of
England
Newport Harbor
Detroit
Northwest
George Rogers Clark
Lake Erie
Nelson
Harrison
Presque Isle
Erie
Daniel Dobbins
Buffalo
Ohio
Clarrison
Congress
Java
Decatur
Mediterranean
West Indies
Port Spain
Trinidad
Newport
Africa
Mexico
Rr United States Naval
North Carolina
John Randolph
Egypt
Naples
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Europe
Vera Cruz
Scott
Newfoundland
Japan
United States
Yiddish Language Emerges From Germanic Roots
The text traces Yiddish origins from Germanic and Slavic influences. It explains that Jews spoke Hebrew and Aramaic along with local Germanic roots. Over centuries Hebrew, Aramaic, and Slavic words blended, shaping a distinct Yiddish dialect by the sixteenth century and later gaining literary status in the nineteenth century.
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Germany
Bohemia
Poland
Galicia
Lithuania
Family finds charm in country life on summer farm
A family with small children spent summer on a farm for their first rural experience. The children were especially drawn to the country life and its many new discoveries.
Jersey calf or cow halter debate heard at home
A mother recalls a conversation where a man asserts a jersey is a cow while a child argues it's a halter meaning halfway between a cow and a calf. The exchange centers on a disputed animal description and parental clarification.
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Daddy
West of Scotland marks Boyne anniversary with Orangemen rally
About sixty thousand Orangemen joined celebrations in the West of Scotland to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, amid large crowds and public events.
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West of Scotland
Battle of the Boyne
Gotham Vault Holds America's Largest Pure Silver Hoard
New York reports the Spruce street vault houses the nation's biggest store of pure silver. The facility, guarded and linked to global markets, moves bars by armored transport and electric elevators. The vault boasts minimal losses and high purity, with sterling standards above 999 1000.
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New York
United States
Spruce Street
Europe
China
India
London
New New York
Faculty of 22 in School With Nine Pupils
An auditor’s check reveals the Jesse W. Lilienthal school staff totals 22 with 16 attendants, a principal, and five teachers for nine boy students. The correctional institute, taken over by the city, has seen staff cuts and reduced teaching.
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San Francisco
Jesse W. Lilienthal
Michael Roche
Village on Roof of Old St Peter's Rome
One of the world s oddest villages sits on the roof of St Peter s in the Vatican state. Small cottages house several residents. The view across the Eternal City and the Campagna is described as unequaled.
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Rome
St. Peter's
New
Vatican State
Massachusetts Town Has More Cars Than Homes
Hudson Massachusetts reports 1,810 registered automobiles to about 1,620 houses, a gap of nearly 200, per the board of assessors. Last year the town counted 1,291 power vehicles in total.
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Massachusetts
Hudson
Mass
Board of Assessors
Plague Slays 500 in The Hague Netherlands
A mysterious plague in Java claimed 322 lives in September and 178 in August, pushing the total death toll to 500. The outbreak raises concern across the region as health officials monitor the spread and implement precautions.
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The
Hague
Holland
Java
Old Dobbin Again Moves to Back Seat Sale Report
Winchester Kansas article notes at Mike Hoffman public sale five miles east of town farmers bid on a tractor and a motor car supplanting a mule with Old Dobbin. A mule sold for 1.50, horses brought 2.50 each, and a span of work mares sold for 12.50 apiece.
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Winchester
Kan
Mike Hoffman
Here
Fossil Folk and the First Families of Man
A survey of human origins and fossil candidates from Cro-Magnon to Pithecanthropus erectus. The piece discusses Neanderthal, Grimaldi, Heidelberg, Piltdown, and other early humans, comparing anatomy and lineage while pondering who led to modern humanity and the place of the four great apes among our relatives.
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Peru
Egypt
Wales
France
Earth
B. C
Heidelberg
Mahn
Piltdown
Dubois
Java
Melisa
Jack Dempsey
Africa
Nike Arms
George A. Dorsey
When Food at Ours
When Food at Ours Lots of folks who think they have indigestion have only an acid condition which could be corrected in five or ten minutes. An effective anti acid like Phillips Milk of Magnesia restores digestion to normal. It neutralizes acid and prevents distress after meals.
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Phillips
Mexico Grows Tea From Private Oaxaca Experiments
The Mexican ministry of Industry Commerce and Labor reports Mexico is producing oriental tea in small but commercial quantities. A private planter near Cubatacion Oaxaca has experimented for years and the good quality tea may lessen reliance on oriental tea and its monopoly prices.
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Mexico
Mexican Ministry of Industry
Comerce
Mexico City
Cubcatiun
Oaxaca
Burglar in Winchester targets new money and silverware
A fastidious thief in Winchester Virginia preferred new currency and valuable silverware. He smashed a jeweler window with a brick, took only new bills and discarded old notes as well as some silverware.
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Winchester
Mrs Gearrypn Burts Praises Vegetable Compound
In Mt Carmel Pennsylvania Mrs Gearrypn Burts describes using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after childbirth and her husband's illness and death. She reports renewed strength and energy for housework and dressmaking and offers to answer letters about the remedy.
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Gearrypn Burts
Market
Mt, Carmel, Pa
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Teen “A Heroes
Iver Hazard Perry
Barres
Lare Erie
Perry Hoplestead
Gotham
Dobbin
Phillips Milk of
Magnesia
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Arkansas State Farm
K-R-O
K-R-O Co
Springfield
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