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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
4
Readable fragments describe mound construction with layered earth and stone, burial practices including burnt remains and skeletons, and the interpretation of top graves from a historical survey. It notes artifacts and bones showing decomposition and possible captive sacrifice. Also mentions airship Napoli and other miscellany.
A vivid travel sketch describes the Neapolitan landscape from fertile plains to a desolate ash filled region near Vesuvius. The author Maraine De Stuel notes flowering Lacryma Christiaiae beside devastated Java land as ash and smoke erase life, leaving a grim, desolate realm where even insects are scarce.
A historical overview claims Armenia as an Aryan nation that adopted Christianity early, notes its Indo European language, and traces invasions by Assyrians Greeks Romans Persians and Turks. It highlights centuries of Turkish rule, Armenian efforts for freedom, and America’s interest due to sympathy with a long upheld Christian civilization in the Near East.
A fragment notes Cenebrus echinatus in Cube with barbed spikelets that ensnare night and day, piercing wings and trapping victims. Large beetles perish while two species, Orhalus and an earwig, escape. Minute insects slip free. Found in the West Indies and southern Florida.
A public citizen, Joseph Shattuck, funded a Magsta to raise funds for a flagstaff in Lawrence Massachusetts. The city accepted and now boasts one of the world's Bowen flagstaffs on its common.
Ad fragment proclaims children cry for Fletcher's Castoria and mentions a subscription offer by mail through the Register with yearly, half year, and quarter year rates. The wording reflects a vintage pharmaceutical promotion and distribution detail.
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