The Inner Circle and the Great Winter Journey Lesson
A contemplative meditation uses Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow as a stark symbol of spiritual danger. It contrasts the inner circle near warmth with the outer circle in peril, urging closeness to Jesus Christ for safety and journeying toward a heavenly home. The piece then shifts to a mythic tale from China about beginnings, floods, and a moral about cooperation and survival. It closes with a light anecdote about insuring coal yards and a wartime railroad joke.
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Napoleon
Germany
Russia
Moscow
France
Jesus Christ
Proved That Courtesy Pays in Retail Growth Story
A shopkeeper from Syston, Wertheimer, details how courteous service expanded his business to five New York department stores. He highlights early experiences with a hesitant mother and baby carriage customers, showing how courteous acts attracted families. He notes tailoring staff to assist mothers and children boosted sales.
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An Syston
Leopard Wertheimer
New York City
Putsie
Wexan
Ukely
New York
Waltzing Mouse Going and the Whimsy of Extinction
The article notes a decline and potential extinction of the waltzing mouse due to age, shifting fashions, and war losses. It cites Ed Hoory of the bird and fwh man, suggesting any remaining creatures may only survive in Japan, while in the country they are remembered as memories of childhood.
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ALlmentali# Journal
Ed Hoory
Japan
Third Eyeid in Animals Claims by Sir John Bland-Sutton
Animale with Third Eyetta asserts that all animals save humans and monkeys have a third eyelid. Turkey’s eye moves via muscles and is often blinking. In some birds and animals the third lid is transparent. Described hazards include trains and desert winds as protective purposes in certain species.
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John Bland-Sutton
Keon
Middlesex Hospital Medical School
London
Turkey
Caspian
Proof Positive and the City Shoes
A twelve year old, Ted, moves to town and grapples with unfamiliar ways. He admires his schoolteacher, who lets the boys walk parts of the way home. Ted observes her fatigue and questions if she could even tie her own shoes, revealing his impression of adult limits.
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Ted
Dome
Invaluable Relics Unearthed From Greek Excavations
Relics brought to Heht after excavations in Greek Macoflonia for allied military reorganization uncover neolithic tools and vessels of diverse forms. The collection includes ancient jewels emeralds and gold, with tombs dating to the sixth century before Onelet. Finds establish Macellocka’s ancient civilization beside broader Greece. Now under the Greek curator of antiquities.
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Enat
Greece
Thanksgiving Tale Of Turkeys And Ancient Voyagers
The piece recalls Pilgrim harvests and early New England wildlife, noting vast turkeys and wild fowl legends from John Smith, William Hilton, Thomas Morton, John Josselyn, and William Wood. It contrasts abundance with later decline, urging moderation this Thanksgiving, and adds unrelated notes about Mars, fire safety, a church bulletin, and a traveling salesman anecdote.
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John Smith
William Hilton
Thomas Morton
Merrymount Fame
Boston
John Josselyn
William Wood
Lynn
Northampton
Massachusetts
Hartford
Connecticut
Massachusetts Bay
Newfoundland
Damariscove Island
Plymouth Rock
Mount Tom
The Value of Being Chilled and Waiting for Fruit
A reflection on how cold-season dormancy fuels growth. Trees store starch as food and require chilling for enzymes to convert it to sugar, enabling fruit. Experiments with greenhouse exposure prove cold prompts blossoming, while warmth yields nothing. Lessons apply to human lives, where hardship sustains future achievements.
The Dead Engine Parable of Duty and Unity
A freight train with a dead big engine struggles up a grade while the small engine tows it. The pedestrian sees this as a parable of shared burdens, responsibility, and faith, urging workers to stand with Christ and not shirk duties in life and in the kingdom.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Christ
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Mey
Qnit
Esau, Jones
Mike
Weary Rhodes
Fletcher
Astoria
Chile
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Earth
Children Cry
Castoria
WC Riely
Riely W. C.riely & Son
Poland
W. C. Riely & Son
Charles Town
W. VA
Pelephone
COAI
Alpha Petters Cement
W. HL "Knode
Spot Siding
We .Ai
Blackford
Shenandoah Junction
Asaler
Staunton
Ben Davis
Register Office
Shepherdstown
W. V
Miss Loud
Mann’s
W. Vo
Diehl & Bro
Eggs
Benj. Hartzell
M. D
E. D Suman
Keedysville, MD
MO. H. Schoppert
The
Fancy Grocer
Main Street
Gov't
Carhon
Empire Type Foundry
Beaman
International Stocking Mills
Norristown
English Publishing Co
Evanston
Ilinsis
Ie Films
Geo. M. Beltzhoover
Geo. M. Beltzhoover, Jr
Eppolormment
E. Douglas Davis
North Potomac Street
Hagerstown
Roy S. Proctor
Martinsourg, W. Va
Calle
S. M. Langford
Martinsburg, Wes1
Carl Owens’ Drug Store
Harrison Schley General Insurance
Jefferson Security Bank
Sunding
Shepherdstown, W. Va
DR. Fahrney
Hagerstown, Maryland
Diagnostician
Falmers
H. C. Marten
Gleason
V. Va
Reginar
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