Death by own action volcano survivor climbs out from Mount Hikaru
Motomura, 25, on Oma island in Japan, ill with tuberculosis and in financial straits, recounts how he hurled himself into Mount Hikaru, the death by own action volcano. He fell about eighty feet, endured dense sulfur smoke, and crawled and clawed back to safety after three hours, claiming he was the only one to return.
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Motomura
Omaha Island
Japan
Yo Okai
Hikaru
Quits Mountain Climbing to Collect Old Clocks
Pacatuck Connecticut resident Howard Palmer, once famed for mountain climbing, now gathers wooden mechanism clocks. Over six years he has built a noted collection, with sixty two clocks in one room, featuring white oak cases and cherry wheels, dating from 1816 to 1840.
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Pacatuck
Conn
Howard Palmer
Alpine Club
Palmer
Miner Harry Carrol Keeps No Lost-Time Record at 88
Steubenville Ohio man Harry Carrol eighty eight earns honors from the All-Ohio Safety Congress for seventy eight years in the mines with no lost-time accident. He began mining at age ten and vows to work as long as he can wield a shovel despite a swollen thumb from a March injury.
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Steubenville, O
Harry Carrol
Wolf Run
United States
Carrol
All-Ohio Safety Congress
Jon
Debutante Fiancee Wins River Rescue Amid Rural Welcome
Minetta faces judgment from Jim's family at a farmhouse gathering. When Jim drowns after diving, she calmly acts to save him using her swimming skills learned in competition, revealing his sham and solidifying her role as his wife material in the rural setting.
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Jim
Minetta
Albertina Schneider
Albertina
Frieda
Bertha
Bert
Miss Timm
Gillfred
England's Tiny Churches Claim Record Smallest Church
England claims some of the smallest churches in the country with Cullome on Exmoor described as 30 feet by 12 feet, challenging Dorset’s 23 by 14 feet church. Upleatham in Yorkshire remains only a fragment of the original structure.
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England
Cullone
Exmoor
Dorset
Upleatham
Yorkshire
Poisoned Hearts and Redemption in Prairie Ville
Doctor Jim Paulson rushes to aid Millie Frink after she pretends to poison herself to force George Frink to move with her. Millie confesses she did not take poison and vows to reform, while George grapples with the truth and his feelings. The scene ends with Millie’s sobering realization and a cautious shift in their relationship.
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Jim
Millie Frink
Millie
George
Rachel
Doc
Valentine Day Cards Push Maisie to Break with Jim
Maisie King loses her temper in a Valentine shop scene, snapping at Jim after a quarrel. She later sabotages a box for Lou Ryder, fearing loss of her romance. A note left by Jim reveals his forgiveness as winter closes in on their tense relationship.
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Valentine Department
Miss King
Mr. Lane
Maisie King
Miss. King
Maisie
Valentines
Jim
O. K
Valentine
Lou Ryder
Lou
Lou —Ryder
Soreene
Penny wins Zakopane resort for a penny
A Polish nobleman bid against non Polish rivals to buy the famous Zakopane resort as part of a vast estate. He offered a penny more each time a non Polish bidder raised the bid, ultimately securing the property for just one penny more than the highest offer.
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Zakopane
True Hospitality And The Boys At The Swimming Hole
A spinster recounts an incident at a rural swimming hole where boys bathed without clothes. A girl notes the lack of attire and a boy, Senand, replies that Jimmy’s father is a policeman, allowing them to proceed.
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Senand
Jimmy
Child Lives With an Oversized Heart in Norwalk
Six years ago doctors told Mary Cocchia then thirteen would die within two years after discovering a heart five times normal size on the right side of her body. Diagnosed with cardiobovia, a condition that usually limits life to five or six years, she now helps around the house and plays with neighbors.
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Norwalk
Conn
Mary Cocchia
Mary
Opal superstition shifts from luck to misfortune
The public once believed opals brought luck up to 1829 but then view shifted. Collier's Weekly notes that a Sir Walter Scott character in Anne of Geierstein sparked belief the gem attracts misfortune.
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Collier's
Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein
Monroe Doctrine Origins and Later Intervention Meaning
The passage notes that John Quincy Adams helped shape Monroe's December 2 1823 message. It explains how South and Central American republics spurred fears of European interference and defines the doctrine as two world spheres divided by the Atlantic and European powers kept out of American affairs, with later implied US police power.
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Monroe
John Quincy Adams
South
Central America
Atlantic Ocean
United States
Birth on Saint Helena Defies Exile Ban
Mme Bertrand wife of a French general gave birth on Saint Helena and presented the child to Napoleon as the first French visitor to enter the island without British permission, despite strict orders banning French visitors.
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Napoleon
St. Helena
Mme
Bertrand
Abandoned Hungarian Couple Left in City Square
In Szeged a peasant cart delivered Andras Rozsa aged ninety six and his wife aged ninety one to the main square. Police assisted them to the alms house after their children, who had marked their seventy fifth wedding anniversary, abandoned them. Later the same day a ninety year old man was left in the square under similar terms.
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Szeged
Hungary
Andras Rozsa
Heavy Water Origins and Composition
Heavy water is water in which hydrogen is replaced by deuterium, making it chemically indistinguishable from ordinary water though heavier. It is present at about one part in 6,000 and was first produced by electrolysis at the Bureau of Standards soon after the discovery of deuterium.
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Bureau of Standards
Teacher Walter Emerick Transferred to Bakersfield High
Local announcement confirms Walter BE Emerick moves from Shafter High School to Bakersfield High School as an assistant. Arthur Johnson of Turlock will assume Emerick duties and relocate with his wife to Shafter on August first. Johnson, a graduate of Davis Agricultural College, taught agriculture at Turlock High School last year.
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Walter BE. Emerick
Shafter High School
Bakersfield High School
Arthur Johnson
Turlock
Emrick
Shafter
Davis Agricultural College
Johnson
Turlock High School
Mist Shrouds Town While Pollutants Lurk In Vapors
Foggy mist sweeps town and countryside under suitable weather. In cities the haze traps dust and soot from factories and home chimneys, dimming visibility and settling over streets and neighborhoods.
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Kern County
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H. G. Comfort
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River
Jim Paulson
Rachel Baxton
Prairieville
George Frink
Doctor Jim
Bakersfield
Cleanser
Bakers
del Monte
Safeway
Lifebuoy
Stokleys
Stokelys
Church's
Martinelli
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