Turpentining quality in pines and lunar terms
Wisconsins forest products laboratory notes that repeated turpentine tapping does not reduce pine strength or resin content since resin comes from living sapwood cells while heartwood holds no sap. The lunar phases describe the dark moon as four days around new moon and the rest as the light moon, with informal phrasing not precisely defined.
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Forest Products Laboratory of
Wisconsin
Scientific American
Amusement Mania Warns of Civilizational Decline
A critical essay warns that the current craze for amusements mirrors ancient collapses. It argues crowding toward the Beach of Frivolity erodes life’s serious work as populations grow and commercial interests push ever more forms of entertainment. The piece laments decay across generations and calls for restraint.
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Greece
Rome
Amusement Mania Criticizes Screen Morals and Reform
Reverend Matthews denounces widespread spending on entertainment as a moral illness. He praises William Hays for efforts to close theaters with immoral films and urges Christian support to reform amusements and protect youth.
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William H. Hays
Moving Picture Studios
Humanity and the burden we bear in modern life
A reflective piece on human folly and resilience. The speaker laments moral failings, pandering to vice, and collective self-deception while urging self correction. It argues troubles stem from within and we must recover the rudder of restraint to steer clearer.
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Blessin
Lickskillet Items From The Bloomington Star
Ed Bivins brings home a large turtle from White river and makes soup which a seventh day observer calls contaminated. Zeb Hawkins quits the sawmill for home chores and dishes. Aunt Sally Hawkins hosts the preacher daily for luncheon. The pastor says barefoot worship is fine if feet are washed.
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Ed Bivins
White River
Zeb Hawkins
Zeb
Arminta Jones
Minta
Sally Hawkins
Squire Hansford
Gosport
Sullivan Indiana Postoffice Advertised Letters 1922
List of unclaimed letters at Sullivan Indiana postoffice dated August 16 1922 including ladies and gents names and a foreign section. Letters must be called for within two weeks or sent to the Dead Letter Office. Advertised letters should be requested by saying Advertised with the date.
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Sullivan, Ind
Real estate transfers list with multiple deeds and conveyances
A sequence of property deeds and transfers detailing buyers and sellers such as Dugger Alexander Hiatt to W H Barcroft for $1000 on lots 87 88, Maret A Palmer to W W and Isa Belle Smith for $ is 59 ft lot 9, and numerous other parcels in various townships with prices ranging from $1 to $7350, including easements and partition lands.
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Alexander Hiatt
Wm. H. Barcroft
Dugger & Neal C. Co
Maret
A. Palmer
Isabelle Smith
Floyd Comb
Fletie S
Francis M. Steiner
Curry
R. B. Douglas
Harry Douglas
Nancy E. Harris
N. H. Ring
Baldridge
G. J. R. Haris
Rural Carrier Civil Service Test Planned in Sullivan
A civil service examination for a rural carrier position at Merom will be held in Sullivan on September 9. Applicants may obtain the forms at the Sullivan or Merom post offices.
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Sullivan
Merom
No new domestic animals developed in last 2000 years
A claim that no new domestic animals have emerged in the last two millennia is presented without supporting details in the text. The statement contrasts with known domestication events and ongoing breed diversification.
Notice to Bidders for County Infirmary Supplies
Sullivan County Indiana Board of Commissioners invites sealed bids for infirmary supplies for the ensuing quarter. Bids due at 12 noon on Monday September 4 1922. Requisition on file in County Auditor’s office. Attest Frank M Daniels Auditor. 1st insertion Aug 9 1922-3t.
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Board OF Commissioners
Sullivan County
Indiana
Curry
Jackson
Curry and
Jackson Townships
Board of County Commissioners
John Scott
Percy Wolfe
F. Springer
Office of the Auditor
Turman Township
Said Township
Range
York and Graysville
Wabash River
Said
Board of Commissioners of
Frank M. Daniels
Haddon Township
C. F. Springer
Water capacity aboard liner detailed in ballast and drinking supplies
A liner of 12 000 tons carries about 1 740 tons of water in the hull. Drinking water provision totals 550 tons while 530 tons of sea water are carried for ballast.
Honest crook and parson with a poker habit
A narrator contrasts two figures, a man who boasts of his corruption and a deacon who gambles drinks and scolds his family before church on Sunday. The piece weighs flawed morality with provocative humor and satire.
Aviator Sees Rose Colored Atmosphere at 33000 Feet
An unnamed French aviator reported that from 33 000 feet the entire atmosphere appeared a lovely rose color, a startling observation noted at Rose Colored Heights.
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Toronto
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Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co
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T. St
Toledo
Detroit
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Put-in- Bay
Cedar Point
Ohio
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Indianapolis
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MA. Matthews
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Riggs Clay Product Company
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Geo. Cammles
Richard
Irvin
Wilbur
Lyton
Edwin E. Willis
Lee
Cory
Giovani
Schroeder & Price
Olson
West Side Square
D. N. Hamrick
Nancy Hamrick
Haddon
J. T. Akin
Engle Cem. Assn. Tr
Sarah E. Hilderbrand
Rob’t Tarwater
Cairy A. Geiger
Sinclair
Routt
Douth
Sarah S. Linkenhaker
Sull. Turman
Jas. H. Bates
Carl Johnson
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