Merom Social News Highlights Local Visits
Merom residents and relatives frequent visits across towns. Clara Boone and others spent time in Sullivan and Effingham. families hosted picnics and surprise dinners. visitors from Terre Haute Washington and Sullivan joined in. An ice cream supper at the M E church funded church repairs.
Local social notes from Shelburn and nearby towns
Mrs Hosea Weaver and ren spent Saturday night with theweis at Shelburn. Virgil Bennett and family hosted relatives Sunday. Wilma Head visited Ovai Heras. Lon Taft and daughter Dorothy joined Mr and Mrs Ivai Taft and Helen for Sunday. Vernon Clouse family visited Floyd Taylor and Ray. Hud Hill called on Lex Robbins at Sullivan. Dora Taylor shopped in Terre Haute with Marie. Will Jewell hosted Mary Lane family in Terre Haute. Levi Jewell and son Barnett Jr visited Will Jewell and Barnett Jewell Sr. Oral Harris family visited Charles May near Merom. Alvin Hood daughters attended Douglas Chapel and dinner with Will Hux family. Dudley Hayworth family visited Will Reed near Farmersburg.
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Hosea Weaver
Ren Apent
Shelburn
Virgil Bennett
Will Benett
Wilma Head
Ovai Heras
Lon Taft
Dorothy
Ivai Taft
Helen
Vernon Clouse
Floyd Tayior
Ray
Hud Hill
Lex Robbins
Sullivan
Dora Taylor
Marie
Terre Haute
Will Jewell
Mary Lane
Levi Jewell
Barnett, Jr
Barnett Jewell
Oral Harris
Charles May
Merom
Alvin Hood
Douglas Chapel
Will Hux
Dudley Hayworth
Will Reed
Farmersburg
Local News Notes From Big Springs and Surrounding Areas
Doyne Watson visits his aunt in Lawrenceville Illinois while Mary Mann spends time in Sullivan. G W Nowlin and Stuart Hunt travel between Sullivan and Terre Haute areas. Chisler remains ill. Rey Sparks family in Merom. Pearl Duffer recovering from illness. Newton Haines dies Friday and is buried at Mann cemetery. survivors include wife, son Osie, daughters Josie Arnett and Bertha Corder. Relatives from Annapolis attend. Tom Mann visits Sullivan. Will Watson and son Ralph drive to Mt Carmel.
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Mary Mann
Sullivan
G. W. Nowlin
Stuart Hunt
Terre Haute
Warren Wattson
Mr. Chisler
Rey Sparks
Merom
Pearl Duffer
Newton Haines
Mann Cemetery
Osie
Josie Arnett
Bertha Corder
Annapolis
Ills
Tom Mann
Will Watson
Ralph
Mt. Carmel
Ill
Dignified Costa Rican Village Gala Day
A Costa Rican family visits the village for a gala day with a morning mass and afternoon visits. Women and children travel together while the man lingers at the store or post office, occasionally treating himself to evaporated milk through a nail hole as a luxury.
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Costa Rica
Lightest of Liquids Hydrogen density compared to water
Experiments show liquid hydrogen is the lightest liquid with a density about one fourteenth that of water, mirroring the gaseous density ratio to air. Historically the lightest liquid was squefied marsh gas at roughly two fifths the density of water.
Hali's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement
Catarrh cure promotes relief with an ointment and a tonic taken internally. The product claims to act through the bloodstream on mucous surfaces to combat catarrh and has been sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio for over forty years.
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HALI
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Language evolves beyond rigid rules says Hardy
A Hardy quote argues against purism asserting language precedes grammar and that strict grammar or vocabulary presumes ignorance. He defends living language with past and future relevance, noting that language develops before formal rules.
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Thomas Hardy
Graysville Notes on Winter Fuel and Local Happenings
The community reports funeral attendance for Newt Haines and visits by H C Owens and Nathan Brown. A postponed homecoming due to pastors’ engagements is noted. Frank Badger improves and attended Hutsonville. Threshing likely ends this week with rain delaying work. Ross Ransford visited Terre Haute to see a Coleman, possibly linked to a strike.
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Newt Haines
H. C. Owens
Terre Haute
Nathan Brown
Frank Badger
Hutsonville
Ross Ransford
Coleman
H. M. Raines
Sullivan
Forming Habits Advice by Epictetus
Daily habit practice shapes character. Embrace routines you want to master and avoid repeated actions you wish to stop, guiding yourself toward disciplined choices and steady self mastery.
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Epictetus
Miss Lily Greene Receives Johns Hopkins PhD Note
Miss Lily Dexter Greene of La hore India visits cousins in town at the Presbyterian parsonage. A longtime missionary with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society she earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Sanskrit drama and lyric poetry and will sail for India in October.
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Lahore
India
W. E. Gray
McCullough
Presbyterian Parsonage
Miss Greene
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Methodist Church
United States
Graduate School
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Mrs A M Getty Leaves for Stillwater to Aid Ill Mother
Mrs A M Getty travels to Stillwater Oklahoma to assist her mother Mrs Kessler who is ill, following a family emergency.
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A. M. Getty
Stillwater, Okla
Kessler
Princess Mollie and the Country Drive Dream
Mollie overhears praise for herself and debates a grasp at royalty. A dream sequence with Prince Alberto de Grazia leads to a morning awakening and a return to sleep.
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Mollie
Prince de Grazia
Alberto
Princess Mollie
Dairy Cows Return Profit Says USDA Study
The United States Department of Agriculture explains that high producing dairy cows are usually economical. Purebred cows often yield more milk and butter fat per feed than grades, but not always. Records show cows producing 10 000 pounds of milk yearly use only 55 percent more feed than 5 000 pound cows, and 7 500 pound cows use 21 percent more.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Deal Squarely With the Boy Sayings by Franklin K Lane
A quotation from Franklin K. Lane stresses giving every boy a square deal to foster national welfare. It emphasizes honest support for youths as a first class contribution to society and the nation’s future.
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Franklin K. Lane
Quotes on breeding hens and flies provoke debate
An exchange in the Boston Transcript riffs on breeding outcomes. A line the speaker calls a wish compares teaching a hen to lay as many eggs as a fly, and a fly to lay as few as a hen, as a witty paradox.
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Boston Transcript
Two Great Secrets in Dairying from Oklahoma Expert
A&M professor A. Baer attests two key secrets for dairy success: proper feeding and proper cow care. He urges farmers to grow most feed on site, promote ensilage, and use a grain mix of oats, bran, kafir, and cottonseed meal while feeding cows individually to match milk production. Regular cleaning and shelter improve health and profitability.
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Baer
Dairy Husbandry Department
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College
Oklahoma
Grain Boosted Milk Flow in Blue Earth County Herds
Twenty one dairy herds in the Blue Earth County Cow Testing association averaged 7120 pounds of milk and 285 pounds of butterfat per cow in 1920. Nineteen herds averaged 8500 pounds of milk and 345 pounds of butterfat per cow in 1921. Milk gain was 19.3 percent and butterfat 21 percent. improved care and year round grain feeding are credited with sustaining production through late summer.
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Blue Earth County Cow Testing Association
University Farm
Value of Boarder Cow for Beef Profit Idea
The note argues a border cow yields roughly 55 to 60 dollars in saved feed plus the dressed meat value, potentially netting about a hundred dollars, suggesting the cow is not worth keeping alive.
Get Cow Into Shape Calving Diet Advice
A correspondent suggests feeding linseed oil to cows ahead of calving. One quart per dose is advised to clean the digestive tract and improve overall condition for the upcoming birth.
The Alhambra Palace of Spain and its legends
The Alhambra, built around 1250 by a Moorish king and expanded by later rulers, is famed for arches, mosaics, halls and courts. The Court of Lions is its most renowned feature, and the Hall of the Ambassadors is long said to be where Columbus presented his plan to Ferdinand and Isabella.
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Alhambra
Spain
Liogs
Columbus
Ferdinand and
Isabella
Tea Drinking in Tartary Central Asia
The savage Tartary tribe in Central Asia boils tea leaves in soda, then seasons them with butter and salt before eating.
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Tartary
Central Asia
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