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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1921
Page
8
Frances Lester Warner recalls childhood visits to her grandmother and grandfather. A night walk home under street lamps shows shifting shadows and a North Star guiding memories, a recurring image tied to family and a bright memory that endures.
A Boston landlady demanded silence as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson tested two early telephone models. A wire connected their rooms, prompting threats to move out. The pair rejected a $100000 offer from Western Union and toured the country, funding their work with lecture proceeds. Today telephones reach nine Americans and Bell’s lines span over 24 million miles.
The article notes long descended land holdings in America. William Douglas, born in Scotland, arrived in 1625 and settled near New London Connecticut, with his homestead passing to descendants. Gardiner's Island on Long Island Sound remains owned by Lion Gardiner’s successors since 1638, with the present Gardiner home built in 1774 and little altered since.
The Osage orange wood, not an orange, is the toughest American wood. Tests by the U.S. Forest Service show a 30 inch by 2 inch block breaks at 13 600 pounds with a 100 pound hammer impact yielding 15 620 pounds. Indians called it the bow tree for its superior strength.
A reflective note on the value of literature and the pleasure of reading. The writer emphasizes learning what is good, shaping intellect, and the joy of books as dear friends, contrasting them with power or wealth.
For Sale four Chesterwhite shoots by A E Schultz of Dalton Ohio contact phone 2 on 70. Also listing of 300 barred rock day old chicks to deliver June 14 priced 12 cents each with quantity options by John Cunningham of Dalton. Building now occupied as Smedley’s blacksmith shop to inquire John P Timmel Dalton. WANTED young men and women to learn Bond Business lectures and correspondence free. Union Bond Co 212 Engineers Bldg Cleveland Ohio.
D Kirchhofer offers woven fence wire steel posts gates staples brace wire and barb wire in stock at low prices. located 3 miles south west of Dalton Ohio near Sonnenberg station. contact Kidron phone 16 2.
The Norman root healme gave helmet and a diminutive form. Healmers in medieval England were helmet makers, and the surname Homer derives from this lineage. The French shift from i to a long o sound produced later variants such as henaume.
The piece notes people born January 20 to February 19 under Aquarius are adept at judging honesty, social mixers, enjoy public events, absorb information widely, and excel in mercantile or political work. It highlights mimicry, humor, and broad insight as key traits for these natives.
A quotation from J Ogden Armour urges making oneself dependable to become indispensable to an employer. The note comments on Veard's Meaning Chanted and explores etymology of the Saxon root for hill and descent, tracing shifts in the word dun from up to down over time.
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