Interesting Facts About Our Flag From Philadelphia Reflections
A nostalgic piece explores the Betsy Ross flag, its simple design, and a call to Americans in Philadelphia to display the flag at home. It notes Department of Commerce plans to standardize flag dimensions, while recalling John Adams and Washington on the flag’s symbolism and the 13 stripes and 48 stars. It urges households to own or make a flag as a symbol of American life and home.
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Philadelphia
Vow
London
Thames
Haelor Whield
Department of Commerce
United States
Fine
John Adams
Betsy Ross
American Congress
Washington
Heaven
Co operative Marketing Gains Ground Across Georgia
Georgia embraces cooperative marketing as a progressive method for cotton watermelons and peanuts. Peanuts in Cochran recently sold as high as 107 dollars per ton. California leads with twenty five state wide associations and more are forming. The movement promises prosperity through organized agricultural product marketing.
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Georgia
Cochran
California
Adrian Nobles Reformation and a Town Romance
A penniless former drinker Adrian Noble is taken in by Abner and Mary Vance after an injury. He helps run the Palace photo playhouse in Malden, falls for Helen Vance, reforms after a temperance pledge, and receives a lease for a hall as a sign of his new life and love.
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Abner
Mary
Mrs. Vance
Vances
Helen
South
Mr. Vance
Malden
Adrian Noble
Abner Vance
Playhouse
Noble
Old Bill Hamilton and the icy duel with an Englishman
William T. Hamilton known as Old Bill, a famed Western mountain man, challenged an English rival to a duel in which both sat in water up to their shoulders through ice holes. Old Bill endured the cold and won as the Briton fled to a nearby house. Hamilton later settled at Fort Benton and served as sheriff and marshal while recounting his frontier exploits. He died in 1908 at eighty six, proud to have been a U S Army scout with the Stars and Stripes flying over his log cabin home.
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William T. Hamilton
Old Bill
Hamilton
Montana
Yellowstone
Bill
Lie
Fort Benton
Mont
Choteau County
United States
Gros Ventre
Old Bi
United States Army
Dodd Bridge Community Club Presents Delightful Program
The Dodd Bridge Community Club met with Mrs Emma Ward for an instructive program including opening song Bless Be the Tie That Binds and 23rd Psalm. Readings by Emma Ward and Ruth Brown were followed by a Victrola guessing contest. Refreshments were served. next meeting planned with Mrs Mae Barnes on February 16.
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Dodd Bridge Community Club
Emma Ward
Hattie Strain
Inez Reich
Ruth Brown
Granrers
Mesdames Hattie Strain
Mae Barnes
Nettie Hayden
Mamie Clark
Cora Eno
Hallie Wisener
Eva Wisener
Marie Kendrick
Elsie Thorne
Emma Brown
Pearl Clark
Richard Thorne
Bobby Brown
Weather of a Week in Farmersburg
Miss Glenn Yeager reports the weekly weather for Farmersburg for Jan 15 to 21. Days were mostly clear or cloudy with temperatures ranging from 22 to 57 degrees and rainfall totaling .49 inches over two days, including .14 on the 20th and .35 on the 21st.
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Farmersburg
Glenn Yeager
The Wise Man and the Fool Exchange Reflections
A saying contrasts the wise man who balances future expectations with present joy and past pleasures, with the fool whose life is entirely directed toward the future. The note highlights prudent anticipation without dependence.
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the Peoples State Bank
Kere
Sullivan County
Sullivan, Indiana
Ook
Aren
George R. Dutton
Charles F. Batey
Ward Hawkins
Will H. Hays
E. D. Davis
James M. Sinclair
James J. Durham
W. T. Mellett
H. C. Hays
W. N. Thompson
R. W. Akin
Loyd Jones
Emile Coué
Nancy
U. S
Co-operative
Lozz
Western Newspaper Union
Old Bill Hamilton
Ees Ccenan
ACA
Citizens Trust
Sullivan
Indiana
Muehler
Boothe
Mrs. Rails
D. N. Railsback
Deeem
Uncle John
Mary Liza
Orest
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