Saint Patrick's Day Origins and Shamrock Lore Explored
Elmo Scott Watson surveys St. Patrick's Day origins, the feast day versus birthday, possible birth and death dates, and national roots. He traces the shamrock symbol to Patrick's teaching, notes competing plant candidates, and recounts a Brigid and Patrick legend linking Ireland’s saints to its culture.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Scotland
England
France
Caleld Kilpatrick
Dumbarton
Clyde
St. Patrick
Rome
Church of
God
God the Father
Holy Ghost
Europe
United States
New York World
Britannica
Dublin
Ireland
St. Brigid
James Stephens
New York Times
Brigid
Mary of the
Broom Industry in United States Declines in 1927
The 1927 bulletin from the Department of Commerce shows broom making fell 15.1 percent from 1925. Total broom corn products value dropped from 21 714 194 to 17 934 418, with plants shrinking from 421 to 304 and employment dropping from 4 725 to 4 450. Production totals include 8 124 963 dozen brooms, 485 649 dozen whisk brooms, and 1 504 street-sweeping machine brooms.
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United States
Department of Commerce
The Oldest Girl Keeps Working at One Hundred Seven
A Kansas woman aged 107 lists herself as a working girl and sews daily. The snippet then shifts to a joke about trimming expenses and a salesman highlighting car initials, provoking the wife to warn about the initial cost.
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Kansas
John
Pastor Asked to Preach Funeral Then Kills Self
James Jennings, an elderly Caney Valley resident near Tazewell, told Rev Rose he would kill himself and asked him to preach his funeral. Jennings showed a concealed bottle. the minister dismissed it as a joke. Later that day Jennings drank poison and died. the minister preached his funeral the next day.
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Siva
Brigid
Christ
Mary
St. Patrick
Ireland
Heaven
Patrick
Connemara
Dingle Peninsula
Ben of Gulbain
Sean O’cagey
St. Brigid
Rhadamanthus
Hell
Tazewell, Fenn
James Jennings
Caney Valley
Jennings
Girl Falls 150 Feet to Death in Oregon Gorge
In Bend Oregon Rose Larkin eleven daughter of Mr and Mrs B O Larkin of Opal Springs tumbled from a swing line 150 feet above the Crooked river gorge. The tragedy occurred near dusk as a power house cable moved toward her basket during construction of a new plant by the water district.
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Rose
Larkin
Opal Springs
Crooked River Gorge
Water District
Tanning Saves Boy Nine Burned in Toronto Fire
Nine year old Morris Klianman survived severe burns after a Toronto hospital used tannic acid spray to toughen remaining skin and continuous intravenous saline to counter shock. Surgeons performed skin grafts as his condition allowed and expect full recovery with only minor scarring.
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Toronto
Morris Klianman
St. Michael’s Hospital
Morris
Atwater Kent Radio Promises Simple Dependable Service
A radio ad touts the Atwater Kent brand as a durable family instrument. It claims 222 tests per set and notes the maker’s large scale with one eighth of workers as testers. The ad emphasizes reliability, right tone and volume, and customer trust built by over two million owners.
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Itc
Atwater Kent Radio
Atwater Kent
Twin-Brother Doctors Kill Selves in Poverty
London report about Dr. Arthur B. Smith and Dr. Sydney McKendrick Smith, twenty-nine, Edinburgh-born cancer researchers. Found dead from razor cuts, one with possible poison. A note on their door declares their life in cancer research led to poverty and despair.
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London
Arthur B. Smith
Sydney McKendrick Smith
Edinburgh
Needle Kills Bull at Santa Rosa Show
Grand champion short horn bull Needle, bred on the Prince of Wales ranch in Calgary, Alberta, died in Santa Rosa after swallowing a sacking needle that punctured his heart. The needle had fallen into hay.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
Princeton
Prince of Wales
Calgary
Alberta
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Rockies
Atwater Kent Mfg. Co
Pres
Wissahickon Ave
Philadelphia, Pa
Ompres! Outfit
Koch Bros. Mfg. Co
Nelson St
Dept
Chicago
Touriss Campe
the Weat
California
Europa
Atti
Charles Schneider
Philadelphia
U. 8
Nat's Traders Journal
Los Angeles
New Mexico
Ford & Company
Roswell
N. M
Acioto Glad Gardens
Robinson Ave
Portamouth
Ohio
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Portage
Dahlia Wera
Adrian Smith
Miller St
Utica
K. W. Buchana
Manitou
Cincinnati
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