Uncle Buck Gillespie: seventy year old cotton picker in West Texas
Doctors warn they would starve if all were like R. F. Gillespie known as Uncle Buck who lives near Stamford. He has picked over 6000 pounds of cotton this fall at age seventy without a doctor prescribed medicine. A robust pioneer of West Texas, native Texan, he has lived in Jones county seventeen years and cooks for himself.
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R. F. Gillespie
Uncle Buck
Stamford
Buck
West Texas
Jones County
The Golden Princess to Be Alcove Feature
Paramount melodrama The Golden Princess stars Betty Bronson and promises rollicking romance. It will screen as the Alcove Theatre’s main feature next Monday and Tuesday.
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Paramount
Betty Bronson
Alcove Theatre
Standard Units In History Of Fractions And Time
The article traces early fraction handling from Egypt and Babylon. It explains the five as a symbol from Apis and the dozen as a base, while Babylonian sexagesimal uses 60 as the standard unit. It notes 60's value for subdividing, shaping time divisions of 60 minutes and 60 seconds.
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Apis
Night Wells of Western Australia Spark Scientific Curiosity
In western Australia deserts water holes in rock form carafe shapes with narrow necks and large reservoirs. A rare night well floods at night though dry by day, with rushing air heard as water flows. Studies show daytime gneiss expansion creates arches that retreat water into cavities at night releases air and water.
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Western Australia
Clarifying the term sand flea and its life cycle
The Department of Agriculture explains that true fleas require a blood host at some life stage. Sand fleas on beaches are crustaceans, not bloodsucking insects, and many people misname terrestrial fleas for these jumping creatures. Eggs hatch on the ground, larvae perish without food, and fleas can survive months without nourishment.
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Department of Agriculture
Hod Carrier’s Better Tomorrow Promise Echoes Tales
A Kansas City Star quip contrasts scientific management with a hod carrier’s reply. A boss mocks labor doubling schemes, while the carrier vows to improve. The exchange highlights stubborn efficiency myths and workers’ pragmatism in a concise joke.
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Lao
Kansas City Star
Massenet Encourages Yet Teaches Prodigy
A famed composer Massenet tells a youthful pianist that talent exists and with diligence could grow, but advises more learning and age. The prodigy asks how to compose and learns the older path, noting Massenet himself started young yet did not seek guidance.
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Massenet
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