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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1921
Page
3
An odd, error-laden account describes a daytime incident in a district near Mylorads with references to a theatrical Hermits show and a religious figure. The text shifts to a Methodist prospect and a prison mining project at Moundsville, with scattered dialogue about a pushcart and a brick tally at the state farm mine.
Fragmented OCR text reports a city tour with rail wagon sights near San Antonio, a war era building claim, and a guide's puzzled remark. It shifts to an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Medicine offering cures for deafness caused by catarrh, with a $100 reward for uncurable cases.
The article describes making cardboard spectacles with varied openings to alter vision. Disks wired to rims create holes or slits producing unusual depth and line visibility effects. Examples show pinholes and horizontal or vertical cuts yielding clearer distant objects or masking lines, plus commentary on exotic dream depictions and traveler notes.
Daily Gran Central scenes draw bystanders as handcuffed prisoners escorted by stern guards pass through the station. The correspondent recalls a grim routine of fear and control, with the condemned marching toward Sing Sing and the city’s vast metropolis looming beyond.
Authorities in a remote town draft aviation race rules for balloons tied to earth's curvature. Flyers must traverse latitude between the eleventh and sixtieth parallels and cover the longest distance to win. Artificial aids like balloons and free devices are eligible. The start is allowed at any Pont Ehey chore with one restart.
Ambiguously sourced text notes trade opportunities in China with references to figures and dates. Mentions potential pricing and policy shifts affecting markets, though details are obscured by OCR errors. Key entities appear as Avorn and various garbled indicators of economic terms and regional mentions.
A writer muses on how husbands choose friends and what binds their bonds, contrasting serenity, laughter, and idiosyncrasies with the narrator’s own perpetual curiosity about Mary and Rowe. The piece dwells on shared childhoods and the quiet, enduring pull of familiar companionships.
A London college debate questions how to name colonial realms and whether dominion fits the status. The discussion cites historic phrases about governance from sea to sea and to the mother country, noting differing views on future naming of colonies and their relationship to Britain.
Readable text notes a pageant titled The Fifty Venere tail directed by Miss Deloria, a young Dake Indian woman, staged before a convocation of the Episcopal church in the West. It praises Indian expressiveness and drna made ability, with mentions of participants and local figures involved in the event.
A reflective piece tracing the quiet impact of lesser known Christian figures and the idea that enduring influence kindles through patient effort. It highlights Morehouse and Moody as wider inspirations while posing that many unnamed workers shape ministry and faith across generations.
A Mennonite youth in South Dakota is sent with a load to Yankton and earns extra money from selling wheat. He pockets four dollars beyond his pay, buys a cage and a bird, and takes the bird home. His community punishes him for misusing funds, the bird escapes at night, and he loses the bird and his innocence in the wake of his actions.
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