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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1923
Page
8
The column comments on social mores and gender roles with humorous bits about fashion, behavior, language, and local life. It references vulgar slang, cigarettes, coin phrases, and public manners in a playful, observational tone.
A letter from Andrew Fletcher of Salton to Montrose and Rothes records his remark that one man could write all the ballads but could not make the laws of a nation.
The Latin discus evolved into dish in English and eis in French and became dais. Italians formed desco yielding desk. Scientists coined disc from the original Latin. Four descendants trace from the same Latin root.
Twelve species of mint grow in America led by spearmint used in sauces and gum flavoring, peppermint for candy, pennyroyal for medicine, and bergamot whose lemony oil furnishes fragrance for perfumes.
Indian Lodge Tales recounts a creation legend of Rain Gods in Hunafatolla and the Breasts of the World. Invaders from the north destroy prosperity, forcing survivors into canyons while a newer winged people teach hunting and survival. The tale notes partial authentication and tribal variations among Hopi Santa Clara and Navajo.
Mr and Mrs Gage aging on the farm reflect on cherished belongings from fifty five years of married life. A broker offers small sums for their heirlooms, but their memories resist sale and they choose to keep the blue china pewter sideboard and four poster bed. They realize the value of family and home outweighs money, finding comfort in each other.
Sir Fielding Clarke, during a tour of Fiji mountain districts, enters a village hungry and finds a warm welcome in a large, well-lit house. He recalls an abundant feast of boiled fowl and roasted bread fruit with yangona and song. The locals explain the welcoming house as the jali.
The New York Sun quotes Crawford praising a man as of the utmost probity. Crabshaw concurs saying you can be level with what he says over the phone.
A brief saying notes that hard luck often arises from laziness and poor judgment in many cases. The line hints at personal responsibility and common sentiments about success and failure.
Two brothers Poe and Andrew Poe pursue a fleeing band of Indians in a riverbank clash. After a fierce struggle the Wyandot chief is killed by Andrew and Adam Poe arrives to rescue his brother and end the threat. The tale closes with a notice about T. H. Star and Union subscriptions.
Feature on Sacagawea known as the Bird Woman, famed guide for Lewis and Clark. Highlights her role in the expedition, resourcefulness, and lasting impact on American exploration narrative.
Portland park displays Sacagawea statue honoring the Shoshone guide who aided Lewis and Clark on the expedition. The Bird Woman crossed rivers to save instruments, guided the party home, and spent her final years on the Wind River reservation, dying in 1894.
The article notes no exact origin of hats and cites a first modern hat made in Paris in 1404 by a Swiss maker. It explains that only 49 years later did the French begin wearing any head covering.
The Theatre Francais in Place du Palais Royal, the home of Comedie Francaise, was built in 1782 and destroyed by fire in 1900, then immediately rebuilt to resume performances.
Greenland is a land of ice where interior accumulation has occurred since ancient times. Current estimates place ice fields covering about 600000 square miles with an average thickness of roughly one and a half miles.
The piece argues that the belief in green’s bad luck stems from the forest’s dangers in ancient times. It notes that forests housed wild beasts, shaping the view of green as ominous.
Soybeans of Hollybrook variety available for sale. Contact Emerson Burroughs or Farmers' Elevator in Merom Indiana for details.
Irel A Liston will sell at public auction a general farm sale at his residence two miles east of Middletown on February 22 1923.
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