Furry Day Fete of Helstone Town Legend
In Helstone Cornwall a long kept Furry Day fete commemorates a legendary struggle over a granite stone once at the town door. Dances known as furry or faddy dance mark the day with a Robin Hood tune. Villagers once opened doors and rode offenders on rails to the river. the day ends with a ball.
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Helstone
Cornwall
England
Literary Digest
Hell
St. Michael
Michael
Furry
Robin Hood
Little John
Several Indian Tribes Once Owned Part of Ohio
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Ohio was home to many tribes. In 1817 a treaty at Fort Meigs with U S commissioners reduced tribal holdings in the state. Early Ohio tribes included the Erie, Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees, and Miamis with smaller groups of Mohegans Serpens Tuscarawas Ottawas and others.
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Ohio
Cleveland Plain Dealer
United States
Cass
Territory of
Michigan
Duncan McArthur
Spe
Fort Meigs
Erie
Lake
Scioto
Miami
Indiana
Mythic Greek Muse Names Adopted for New Orleans Streets
Street names Polynimia Euterpe and Terpsichore in New Orleans reflect Greek myth reverence. The trio, linked to sublime thought memory music joy and chorus dance, ties local nomenclature to classical muses and Bacchus cultural associations.
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Jayful
New Orleans
Polynimia
Euterpe
Terpsichore
Joey
Pleasure
Baccbus
Verpsichere
Wailing Wall in Jerusalem Revered as Ancient Shrine
The Wailing Wall near the Mosque of Omar rises 59 feet high and is said to house stones from Solomon's temple. Jews gather weekly on Fridays to lament and pray at this sacred site believed built 3,000 years ago by Solomon to protect his temple and made sacred since Titus destroyed the temple in 63 A.D.
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Jerusalem
Omar
Titus
Medical Men Loved Music and Billroth’s Vienna Evenings
Hygeia notes the famous surgeon and pathologist Billroth as an avid music lover and close Brahms friend. His Vienna home hosted frequent musical evenings where Brahms quartets duets and vocal works were first heard.
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Billroth
Johannes Brahms
Hygeia
The
Health Magazine
Vienna
Brahms
Fatigue Duties in the Army Defined
The term fatigue duties in the army covers tasks unrelated to carrying arms. It includes policing of camps and quarters and similar non combat chores.
The World's Largest Snakes Pythons and Anacondas
A description of the largest snakes, noting the python as the largest and the anaconda as second. It covers size estimates up to 30 feet, coloration, habitat, and diet of birds and small animals, with mentions of reproduction and native perceptions.
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Asia
Indo- China
Malay Archipelago
Tit-Bits Magazine
Dutch Wooden Shoes A Dutch Institution In Holland
The klomp, a wooden shoe from poplar wood, serves many roles in Holland beyond foot protection. On Marken the shoes are decorative, yet practical. they withstand quarrels like fists, and worn out pairs are repurposed into toy boats for canal children. A canal lock-keeper even uses a klomp to drop tolls into a boat.
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Holland
Marken
Boston Globe
Rhode Island Capitals Shift From Newport to Providence
A historical note describes Rhode Island moving its capital sessions as towns grew and the assembly met in multiple towns. Newport hosted early sessions with annual meetings in May and short adjournments to Providence for longer sessions. Since 1900 the legislature has met in Providence and the constitution was amended to end the Newport sessions.
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Rhode Island
General Assembly
Philadelphia Inquirer
Newport
Providence
Wisconsin 1849 mansion tied to Capt Enos Drummond rumor
A 40 room hilltop house near New London Wisconsin preserves the tale of Capt Enos Drummond who built the mansion in 1849 and was slain before carrying out a slaveholding scheme despite Wisconsin’s ban. Harper's Weekly cites plans to import 40 slaves to live as plantation gentry.
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New London
Wis
Capt
Enos Drummond
Harper's Weekly
Wisconsin
Drummond
Ravenously Hungry Phrase Explored by Literary Digest
The Literary Digest explains ravenous as to eat voraciously or prey upon, noting it does not always imply hunger. It argues the expression ravenously hungry is permissible for indicating an extreme, voracious appetite.
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Literary Digest
Wood consumption per person reaches 300 trees
Collier's Weekly notes the typical person uses vast amounts of wood in life from cradle to coffin, including in houses, furniture, paper, vehicles, and many other items, estimating at least 300 trees per person.
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Collier’s Weekly
Earth and Moon Size Compared by Cleveland Writer
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the earth axis length about 7,900 miles and the moon diameter about 2,160 miles. It states earth surface area is roughly 13 percent larger than the moon, volume near 50 times greater, and mass about 81 times larger due to higher density.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Earth
Odor Description System Sought by Researchers
Dr. Ernest O C Crocker of the Arthur D. Little laboratories argues that odor experience is not easily described by words. He proposes an independent odor description system tied to individual perception to convey the original sensation accurately. Smelling and tasting are closely linked as chemical senses and smell is far more sensitive than tasting.
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New York Herald Tribune
Ernest OC. Crocker
Arthur D. Little Laboratories
Boston
Doctor Crocker
Macaroni as a Naples cab horse nickname explained
A Chicago Daily News writer notes in a historical piece that macaroni began as a Naples nickname for cab horses not food. Visitors tipping drivers hear the phrase and see horses adorned with flowers rosettes ribbons and a pheasant feather. In America Yankee Doodle used macaroni to name his horse. Italian pasta shapes vary by city Bologna ribbons Rome strips Sicily spirals.
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Naples
Italy
America
Chicago Daily News
Bologna
Rome
Sicily
The Algonquin Indians Historical Migration and Resettlement
The Algonquin tribe formed two separated groups in the seventeenth century living along the Cumberland and Savannah rivers. They moved east and north into Pennsylvania and drifted northwest across the Ohio uniting around 1750 in eastern Ohio. They fought the British or Americans until 1795 then aligned with Cherokee or Creek or migrated to Indiana Missouri and later Oklahoma.
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Cumberland River
Tennessee
Kentucky
Savannah River
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Texas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Sweat in Glass Vessels Explains Condensation
The text explains that sweating in glass vessels is not due to porosity or internal sources. Water vapor in warm air condenses upon cooler pipes or walls, since warm air holds more moisture than cold air, leading to deposition when cooled by contact with cold water pipes.
Chaucer’s Role in Shaping a National Language
Lounsbury argues Chaucer created a literary model that unified scattered English dialects into a vigorous national language. He credits Chaucer with lifting a dialect to prominence and inspiring a unified English literary tradition.
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Lounsbury
Chaucer
Formation of Natural Glass in Deserts and Craters
Natural glass forms when lightning fuses sand in deserts like Arabia, producing tribular friable material. A separate variety called tektites forms in meteoric craters and is known by names such as obsidian water chrysolite and Moldavite.
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Arabian
Deserts
Social Activities Open Season With Luncheon In Shafter
The Wednesday Afternoon Club opened its season with a twelve o'clock luncheon in Shafter. About fifty four seats were set and flowers decorated the tables. Joseph P Wasserburger of Los Angeles spoke as field representative of the Federal Housing Administration. New committee chairs were named for American home civic and garden, recreation, current events, courtesy and more. The next meeting is October 16 with hostesses J W Hester John Wilson and James L Berry.
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Mesdames
Shafter
Joseph P. Wasserburger
Los Angeles
Federal Housing Administration
I. J. Peters
San Diego Exposition
J. W. Hester
R. E. Gribble
S. A. Camp
Federation News
A. W. Eckman
Foundation Fund
C. A. Weidman
Marion Hitchcock
A. B. McKinley
C. P. Morgan
J. C. O’hanneson
P. L. Arnold
C. T. Oson
H. R. Janzen
F. F. Latta
John Wilson
James L. Berry
Herbert Anderson
Anderson
Bakersfield High School
J B. Henderson
Anna Bender Mettler
Lulu Scott
Glen Wood
Juanita Davis
W. W. Tannhill
Wm. Lachenmaier
H. G. Comfort
Errol Jones
C. F. Hansen
Glen Nay
Fern Emerick
J. H. Porterfield
Earl Crandall
Eleanor Kaap
Fire Prevention Week Focuses On Saving Energy And Lives
Fire Prevention Week runs October 6 to 12. The piece contrasts friendly fire as useful with unfriendly fire as a major threat, noting fires destroy property and lives. It emphasizes energy, employment, and social costs beyond financial losses due to fire waste.
Stupidity. Are you willing to do your part to minimize such hap penings in the future?
A Ventura Free Press letter questions public responsibility after a recent mishap. The writer urges readers and authorities to take steps to reduce similar incidents in the future in a concise critique.
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Ventura Free Press
Downy Woodpecker Chisels Winter Home Beyond Nest Hole
The downy woodpecker compounds its summer nest by carving a winter roost in a tree. This enables year round shelter as colder months approach.
Classified rates for ads in the department
The notice lists advertising rates for classified sections including For Sale Wanted For Rent Lost Found and explains pricing: one cent per word for a single insertion, two cents per word for three insertions, with a minimum 25 cents for one insertion and 50 cents for three insertions.
Buttonwillow booming with homes and business lots
Buttonwillow, the state’s fastest growing farming community, has every house rented with room for about ten more. Potential for a bakery, drug store, or general merchandise with a fine school and churches nearby. Residential lots run 250 to 600 dollars while business parcels go 350 to 750 dollars, offered by SONEER REALTY COMPANY H. M. Hillhouse at Buttonwillow or F. E. Manner at Shafter.
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Buttonwillow
Soneer Realty Company
H. M. Hillhouse
F. E. Manner
Shafter
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Auxiliary of the American Legion
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Emanel Henderson
Wilma Bell
R. Neufeld
Elizabeth Ingram
Grace Annis
Eunice Hansen
Lois Berry
Rose Zimmerman
Fidae
Alvina Pane
Emabel Henderson
Edna Annis
Gertrude Nay
Cecilia Rightmire
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Cooperative eTeet Fox
National Defense
Ann Janzen
Kern County
Wasco
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Oliver Sly
Lerdo
Kadel
Shafter Press
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Prince Albert Tobacco
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Stockton Potatoes
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