New Year Promises and a Call to Duty in 1922
A lengthy 1922 New Year reflection urges Americans to view time as a bank and to spend it prudently. It honors John Sherman and his Puritan ethic, notes the era’s pressures, and calls for lawful conduct, personal improvement, and societal reform, emphasizing steady effort and duty.
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John Sherman
Dickinson Sherman
Bank of Time
Roger Sherman
W. T. Sherman
James 3. Sherman
Fire by friction and sun a scout’s legacy in press notes
The article recalls a physician lost in woods during a hunting trip who survived two weeks with a raw partridge, lacking matches. It praises boy scout skills for primitive fire making, navigation by sun, and shelter building, arguing scouts reduce future emergencies as reliance on matches fades.
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Lim
Salt Lake City
Boy Scout Organization
Boy Scout
Bankzers
Boy Scout Statue for Foch Honors From Manhattan Scouts
Lorillard Spencer, scout commissioner, presents a bronze Makenzie statue of Marshal Foch to the Boy Scouts in Manhattan along with gifts including a peace pipe and a war club given by Remington Schuyler of New Rochelle.
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Marshal Foch
Lorillard Spencer
Manhattan
Remington Schuyler
New Rochelle
Omaha Scouts Prevent Wreck With Quick Action
Two Omaha boy scouts, James Caldwell and Clarence Swingholm, spotted a large tree fallen across the Omaha Chicago train track as a passenger train neared. They waved a danger signal, stopping the train and likely saving many lives. Swingholm downplays praise, saying scouts simply did a good turn. The tree had been felled by bee hunters who fled in fear of the danger. The contrast between the boys and the men is noted as a point of pride.
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James Caldwell
Clarence Swingholm
Omaha
Blood Donation Saves Child in Tragic Local Tale
A misread OCR tale describes a community effort where volunteers and a child in peril receive blood to counter a dire condition. The report mentions a swift medical response, a nurse or volunteer, and a close local group rallying around the patient as help arrives.
Fragmented OCR Note in Foreign Language Segment
A garbled OCR passage presents a fragmented text with scattered proper nouns and terms. It appears to reference names or titles such as HL Chap and Dentin Liat Se Cie, but lacks coherent sentences or a clear event. The readable content is insufficient for a definitive summary.
Top Hotchers Only Pee Hal Viale
Pee Hal Viale leads a rugged field as hedge lines and vines dominate the scene. Minte and Keulee join the fray with a mix of sport and street quarrel amid a curious, cryptic report from the local note.
Lord Dollar Donation Story From Missouri
A Missouri youth collecting for a benevolent institution sought a dollar from an elderly man famed for thrift. After learning the youth was twenty five, the man, seventy five, declared he would reach the Lord sooner and would hand over the dollar himself, citing age as a reason.
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Missouri
Pittsburgh Dispatch
California Fig Syrup Ad Promotes Constipation Relief
A nostalgic advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a trusted remedy for children’s constipation. It claims a teaspoonful in hours clears bowels, restoring a playful, well child and urges mothers to demand the genuine product with proper directions on the bottle.
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California
Poetic Farewells and Language Echoes in Human Speech
The excerpt discusses Henry Van Dyke’s playful stance on goodbye phrases like so long and compares them to foreign equivalents such as adieu hasta la vista and wiedersehen. It reflects on how language evolves in daily chatter and urges reporters to observe ordinary conversations to tell clear, engaging stories without mystifying English.
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Henry van Dyke
London
Crosses Ocean 120 Times by W P Willis
W P Willis of New York, a business owner, reportedly crossed the Atlantic 180 times. The article hints at his view of the self as a mini universe and notes living by wits as an antifat remedy.
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Ocean
W. P. Willis
New York
Dice Long Known To The World In Antiquity
The article traces dice as an ancient gaming device found in monuments and tombs from Egypt to Thebes and Greece. It notes Palamedes as the inventor around 124 BC, though cube dice likely existed earlier. Dice governed gambling laws in many civilizations, with frequent mentions by ancient writers and many visual depictions of dice play.
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Thebes
Greece
Palamedes
Explain It Was A Simple Moral Tale In Class
A primary class was asked to illustrate a read story about three children riding a wood goat wagon as the sun set. Most pictures show the goat with horns pulling the wagon and a sunset. a girl’s drawing shows only a hill and grass. The teacher asked for meaning. Opal replied the goat and children had all gone home.
Bayer Aspirin Directions Ad Card For Safe Use
An advertisement urges taking aspirin only as directed by Bayer. It highlights the Bayer Cross symbol and notes aspirin has been prescribed by physicians for over twenty one years. The message emphasizes following the directions on each package for quick relief.
History as She is Quoted in a Chicago Journal Piece
A State Street department store scene features a woman shopping for a hat with two companions at the counter. The taller woman eyes a brown velvet tricorn, jokes about Napoleon, and a friend hails the look. The piece preserves a lively, period tone from the Chicago Journal.
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Napoleon
Chicago Journal
Shaw and the Tourist Tale in Stratford Humor
George Bernard Shaw relates a tale of a tourist asking a rustic if he is on the right track to Stratford on Avon. The yokel stays silent. The visitor presses that Stratford is Shakespeare’s town and the fundial poet. The rustic finally answers, yes.
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Shaw
George Berard Shaw
Swatforden Avon
Stratfort
Shakespeare
Fundias
Women in Sculpture Society Membership Update
Ten American women sculptors have been admitted with membership in the National Sculpture Society. Speed of Glaciers reports that studies of Alaskan glaciers show Muir glacier receded sixty miles over the last one hundred twenty seven years.
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Women In Sculpture Society
National Sculpture Society
W. & Cooper
Muir
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