Worthily Ranks Among Saints True Irishman in Life and Work
A reflective sketch praising St Patrick as a good man who spent his life helping others. It argues birth origin mattered little to greatness, highlights his connection to Ireland, and contrasts legends with his enduring moral influence and leadership among the Celts.
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St. Patrick
Spain
Green Isle
Lincoln
Moses
Untitled Reflection on a Kind, Wise Man’s Good Works
A reverent tribute describes a plainclothes man whose inner spirit lit a gentle gaze and whose words urged timely warnings and promises of contentment prosperity and happiness for all who lived rightly. The piece extols his great deeds toward others and his aim of peace and goodwill on earth.
The Shamrock Legend and Its Lucky Claims
The piece traces the shamrock as a national emblem to the white clover and discusses variants like two or four leaves. It notes beliefs about luck, dream magic, safe travel, protection from service, lunacy cures, and magical powers, including snakes' aversion and rare five leaf forms born of decay.
Patrick's Confessions Highlight Selfless Clergy Support
In a passage from his Confessions Patrick recalls traveling across Ireland and avoiding offerings from those he baptized. He questions receiving gifts, asserts he funded his own clerical work, and notes enduring perils to baptize ordain and confirm people.
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Patrick
Green Isle
Uncle Sam Thrift Stamps Drive Spurs Child Involvement
A post office advertising drive promotes thrift stamps as youth recruiting tools to fund war. It urges children to save pennies, exchange 16 stamps for a $5 certificate in 1923, and to view stamps as a future Liberty Bond path. Stamps cost 25 cents each and are available at post offices, carriers, and stores.
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Penny Savings Bank
E Noble Stamps for Sale in Shoshone
Stamp sale notice for E Noble lists venues in Shoshone including The Post Office First National Bank and Lincoln County National Bank for purchase. The listing implies local availability through these identified institutions and locations.
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First National Bank
Lincoln County National Bank
O R Bond Practice in Jail Release Story
In Indianapolis News, a judge grants an informal O R release to a man accused of assault and battery after the scene clarifies the bond concept. A peer requests bond similarly, noting the disparity between the rich and poor in securing release, with one prisoner offered an O B and a $500 bond that he cannot meet.
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Hiad
Indianapolis News
Differences in Trees at the Arnold Arboretum
The text discusses how observers may sense the natural processes at work among growing trees at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. It suggests that trees reveal preferences for care and growth conditions, offering insight even to amateurs into their needs and cultivation.
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Arnold Arboretum
Harvard University
Larks and Their Song Described by Irish and English Observers
A brief piece notes The song of the lark heard in England and Ireland, praising the birds for their beauty and singing. It mentions the lark’s notes as remarkable and valuable for insect control, urging protection of these songsters and their services.
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England
Ireland
Humaan
Ducult
Richmond Times Dispatch Says No Exceptions Among Pioneers
A curiously phrased quotation from the Richmond Times Dispatch remarks that every man who forged ahead as a pioneer faced scrutiny and no exceptions could be found. The note underscores the universal challenge faced by self made individuals in early enterprise.
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Richmond
Times-Dispatch
Mrs Henry Beech Needham Aids French Village Rebuilding Effort
Mrs Henry Beech Needham widow of a writer killed in a France air crash joins a group of about six American women rehabilitating French villages and rebuilding homes for residents.
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Henry Beech Needham
France
America
Internment In Switzerland Under Compulsory Labor
In Switzerland, internees with health considered fit for work face compulsory labor. Internees are sorted into six classes by physical ability, assessed by physicians. Workers earn wages proportional to labor, with portions directed to maintenance of prisoners, not for Swiss industrial competition.
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Switzerland
Exercise That Restes the Mind
The text discusses using one muscular exercise to test thinking by focusing attention on physical movements. It suggests relaxing the muscles involved in generating thought as a form of rest and notes that relaxation may be a better term for some types of rest.
Collie Name Likely From Collar Mark
A newspaper note suggests the collie’s name derives from the broad white neck collar seen on most dogs. The explanation rests on a simple observation of the dog’s distinctive marking.
Prolific Cause of Cancer Said by Mayo in Army Role
Dr William J Mayo of Rochester Minn now a major in the U S army told the national session of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America that 80 percent of cancers in civilized men are in the stomach and more common in men than women. He linked chronic ulceration of the stomach to many gastric cancers noting the habit of serving hot foods and coffee to men at the table while women eat second. He cited cultural patterns among Chinese as similar.
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William J. Mayo
Rochester
Wotan
Deetor Mayo
Seven Eclipses at Innar Mark Ancient Wars
A rotance of att wars might make much of a year that recorded seven eclipses so far at Innar. Eclipse counted for much in the dim years when fighting was men's most impor tant business. Yet no one who lived in those days would have known that there were seven eclipses, to perhispet the heavenly portents would have ex erted less than their due influence op human superstition.
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Innar
Heart and Circulation Facts From Monthly Health Notes
An explanatory passage notes the heart as a busy organ and describes how blood pumps through the circulatory system. It cites the resting blood weight about 29 pounds and explains how exercise and bodily stress increase heart rate to supply muscles and organs with blood.
Savoy neighbors in old feud over thrift and work
Desane the Saveyaris depicts Greo evese hating Savusants their hereditary foes. Contemptuous outsiders notice Savoys poor efficiency as women still toil in elias, as in earlier days. Fifteen minutes by motorcar from Geneva note Savoy.
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Desaine
Saveyaris
Pen
Atranger
Elias Ss
Good Recritters Coquette and the Recruiting Ser Geant
A fragment theme on recruitment and influence contrasts a coquette with a recruiting sergeant. The text stresses that every humble person can sway others for good or evil, urging caution and moral influence in social dynamics.
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