Picnic Planned For Foreign Students At SIU
Foreign students at Southern Illinois University will join SIU families for a July 8 picnic at the Campus Lake. Forty three Carbondale families have offered hospitality and will help with arrangements led by Mrs. Malcolm Gillespie and Mrs. Mary Wakeland.
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Southern Ilinois University
Operation Friendship
SIU
Carbondale
Malcolm Gillespie
Mary Wakeland
John Canedy
Remarks That Foreigners Get Tired Of By Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle writes from New York on June 29 about the weariness of foreigners toward familiar regional remarks. He notes common misunderstandings and humor in intercultural banter as people travel or live abroad, urging more sensitivity and patience in speaking across cultures.
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Hal Boyle
New York
American tourists mock foreigners in odd postcard dialogue
A humorous stitched collection of traveler snatches pokes at foreign customs and famous sites. The piece features mistaken impressions of the cathedral, the Aeolian piano, Laura Keene, and famous artworks, with playful jabs about language and photography.
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Mildred
East Rochester
Washington
Lincoln
Piano Corp
Laura Keene
Joe
Water well turns into Lovingston system for 20 subscribers
Joseph H. Kilmarton moved to Lovingston to practice pharmacy but found a deeper need. After widening his well from 75 to 66 feet, water rose near the surface, leading him to create a two well water system with three electric pumps a 100000 gallon tank and 142 miles of pipe serving 20 subscribers and seven fire hydrants. The community notes he prefers quiet pride over public bragging.
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Lovingston
Joseph H. Kilmarton
Mrs Jerusha Harper Rites Set Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs Jerusha Harper 74 Grand Tower will be held at 1 p m Saturday from Bethel AME Church Murphysboro with Rev Charles Williams officiating. She died Tuesday in Jackson County Nursing Home where she had lived about a month after weeks of ill health Born May 21 1887 in Jackson County a lifelong county resident she was a Bethel AME Church member She leaves sister Mrs Mary Wilson Grand Tower her husband Samuel Harper died 1955 Friends may call at Jackson Funeral Home Carbondale after 5 p m Friday burial in Walker Hill Cemetery Grand Tower
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Jerusha Harper
Jerus Sha Harper
Grand Tower
Bethel Ame
Murphysboro
Charles Will
Harper
Bethel Ame Church
Mary Wilson
Samuel Harper
Jackson
Carbondale
Walker Hill
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Delmonte Tuna
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Delto Pak
California
Doz
Realemon
Lyan
Kelly
Snemaerds
Birds Eye French
Supreme
Fredman
Illingis
Sunsuit
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