Gurley M E Church Inaugurated and New Building Planned
The Gurley Methodist church celebrates its inauguration on May 2 with Dr John F St Clair directing. A new high grade brick building with a full basement and a parsonage is planned, estimated at least twenty two thousand dollars, reflecting strong community effort and a growing Epworth League and Sunday School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gurley
Great Wheat
R. S. McCutchen
Epworth League
Church En
John F. St. Clair
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Kansas
M. E. Church
Canadian Aborigines Population and Life on Reserves
The article notes about 109000 indigenous people in Canada with 106000 Indians and just over 3000 Eskimos. It traces ancestry to precolonial inhabitants and early explorers, then describes a shift as southern Canada loses roaming communities. Indians now live on reserves and adopt farming, fishing, lumber work, and trades in white society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Cabot
Labrador
Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence
Census and weather notes on early 20th century enumeration
Airplanes aided census takers in Florida island areas while snowshoes aided northern and Alaska regions. An Oswego New York enumerator found a sick farm head, finished chores, cleared paths, and then resumed travel. Tobacco crop values rose sharply, with Kentucky bunmey district tobacco expected at 75 million in 1919, far surpassing Cripple Creek gold yields and nearing national gold mine values.
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Florida
States
Alaska
Oswego
N. Y
Cripple Creek
Colorado
Bunmey
Kentucky
United States
Very Old Superstition Examined for Root of Touching Wood
An investigation notes that touching wood as protection against boasting traces to ancient superstition. Authorities say the practice dates to when sacred trees like oak ash rowan and mountain ash were revered by heathen gods.
Definition of centuries in the twentieth century
The text explains century boundaries from the first century through the twentieth, detailing inclusive year ranges. It defines the twentieth century as starting in 1901 and extending to 2001, clarifying the method for counting centuries.
Savage Fishermen and the Lundrones Proas Described
A historical account praises the Sandwich Islanders and Lundrones as fearless divers and fishers. It notes their practice of deep water fishing in 13 fathoms and using light canoes called proas with a single sail. The passage suggests Malay influences in their canoe construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandwich
Leather-Stocking Reappears in Cooper's The Prairie
Leather-Stocking is Natty Bumppo, a famed Cooper character, a half savage Christian chevalier of American frontier life. He reappears and closes his career in Cooper's tale The Prairie, marking the end of his long wild life and legend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natty Bumppo
James Fenimore Cooper
hall-Christian Chevalier
Almoast
Cooper
The Cynic and the Perfection of a World
A Cynic appears as a self styled reformer who imagines a flawless world by fixing minor faults. The piece critiques his certainty and hints at the impracticality of perfecting society through selective corrections.
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S. S. Boughton
Union Central Life
Sidney, Nebraska
Sidney
Grandma Gay
Grandpa Gain
M. E
H. A. Stover
W. M. Kimpston
Newbauer Bldg
Sidney, Nebr
S. H. Snyder
Sidney, Nebe
Burlington
Towner
Kiowa County
Tribune
Greeley County
Fundingsland Investment Company
Burlington, Colo
Columbias and Records
Sidney, Hesr
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