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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
3
In Virginia the process of processioning renewed landmarks and settled disputed lines between Easter and Whitsuntide, turning neighbors into a pleasant aay party. In New England the practice was known as perambulating the hounds with perambulators or houndsgoers leading surveyors.
The article recounts folklore about a gigantic snake under Niagara Falls that harms nearby towns by swallowing people and tainting springs. It also describes a vast leech in the Hiwassee area and a deadly rock ledge amid low water. Tales place Thunder Spirit beneath Talula Falls and Dead Mountain housing ghosts near Death Valley.
The Chilean girl’s purpose is marriage and women’s place is the home. Old maids struggle and most do not marry. few careers exist for unwed women. Women journalists or professionals are rare. at Santiago College for Girls piano and crafts dominate while needlework and china painting prevail.
The article profiles George F. Root born 1820 in Massachusetts. It notes his career as a Chicago music publisher during and after the Civil War and his shift to composing war songs. It highlights Tramp Tramp Tramp and The Battle Cry of Freedom as his best known works.
A fragment describes Japanese fishermen using geese and cormorant birds trained to dive for fish. Birds are guided by their owner, carry fish in their beaks, and wear throat rings to prevent swallowing.
The article recounts Silas Herring of Shrewsbury Vermont who built and refined Salamander safes famed for fire resistance. It notes his shift from grocery work to lotteries and wholesale, a failed fire event, and his safes that withstood attempts to breach. It contrasts old square safes with modern round designs and notes Herring's death in 1881.
The text explains sucrose as common sugar and lists other sugars such as glucose lactose fructose and malt sugar found in honey corn syrup maple syrup and fruits. It notes all sugars are energy foods with high food value and rapid energy production for the body.
A quotation from William Henry Seward declares our task as a rising nation in the age of revolution. It stresses leading with republicanism and bearing the cross of courage, moderation, and magnanimity to uplift future followers through sacrifice.
The late Professor Munsterberg of Harvard argued that women's sensory nerves work faster than men's. He used wires as an illustration to show women transmit signals to the brain more quickly and react to fainter currents, producing distinct comprehension. The Chicago Examiner notes his controversial view.
A dinner in New York revealed the lingering thirteen superstition as 18 guests were present. The remark stirred the traveler who traced origins and noted Turks have largely eliminated the digit from their speech.
In a wartime editorial voice, the piece extols four aces as the unbeatable force for peace led by Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Orlando, while denouncing kings and autocrats. It also urges renewed War Department action to catch deserters during demobilization, stressing discipline and patriotic duty.
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