Multiple Local Notices Sweep St Johnsbury Community
Social updates list residents visiting, illnesses, and travels around St Johnsbury including Mrs Isaac Flint at St Johnsbury bury Center on business Tuesday and Mrs Charles Howe ill at 27 Pearl Street. Community events note Elks meeting Friday at four and Adventist district conference at Pleasant Street beginning this evening. The Colonial Theatre announces Royld Woolfolk in Vanity Fair Friday Feb 21 with other local notices about church socials, honors, and birthdays including Mrs Elvira Wadleigh celebrating 80th birthday with family in attendance.
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Isaac Flint
St. Johnsbury Center
Elks
Adventist Church
Pleasant Street
Colonial Theatre
St. Johnsbury
Royld Woolfolk
New York
Montreal
Charles Choate
Lesley Thornton
West Barnet
South Church
Glenn Perry
Barre
J. P Hickster
Poole
South Park
Carolyn Wells
Zane Grey
William MacHarg
Benjamin Coryet
Lake Michigan
Cape Cod
The
Athenaeum
Edna W. Underwood
Elizabeth
Hmphrey Ward
William J. Locke
Richard Baldock
Archibald Marshall
Elvira Wadleigh
Elmer Wadleigh
Mountain Avenue
Mary Smith
Pike N. H
Eugene Wadleigh
Concord
N. H
George Chase
East St. Johnsbury
Scots Love of Dogs Recalled at Edinburgh Landmarks
The piece notes Scotland’s affection for dogs, mentioning a burial plot for soldiers’ dogs at a castle in Edinburgh and a skullandstone monument near St Giles to Robbie the Skye Terrier who refused to leave his master’s grave and died beside it.
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Beotland
Ife
Edinburgh
San Giles
Saime
Robbie
Makers of Heroes Echo Emerson on Heroism and Courage
Emerson notes times of heroism arise in terror and test character. He suggests latent courage lies dormant until a great challenge arouses it. The piece compares national mobilization to a sleeping giant awakening to meet a drumbeat and expose unworthy foes.
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Emerson
Straightening Wire Tips for Reusing Copper
Straighten stray copper wire by hand to remove bends and kinks. Anchor one end, grip in a vise if needed, loop the other end around a hammer handle, and pull to straighten the length. Retest and repeat as necessary. soft copper may stretch slightly to improve work.
Contagion Prevention Efforts in Schools and Communities
Dorothy Roy outlines how medical inspection in cities like New York examines children for adenoids and dental issues with city funding for poor families. Vaccination requirements, quarantine rules, and board of health actions aim to stop disease spread, with federal meat and food inspections and army medical efforts noted.
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New York
Board of Health
State Board of Health
Ellis Island
Congress
United States Army
Well Called Devil's Belt
Long Island Sound in New York was once known as the Devil's Belt before the Revolution and perhaps afterward, as shown on Sauthier's map of New York in the Revolution Era. It featured Hell Gate at one end and the Race at the other, noted for its tumultuous waters.
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Long Island Sound
New York
Sauthier
Hell Gate
Tools to Make a Rifle
The article notes that manufacturing a modern rifle needs 997 cutting tools with the twist drill among the busiest. It states 1,000,000 rifles require 94,000,900 holes drilled and lists shrapnel torpedoes and weapons like Reguns biplanes and anti aircraft guns needing about 700,000 holes each.
Why is it when a man goes to a butcher shop
A facetious remark from a seller questions how price prompts thoughts of flesh and the devil. A reader in Indianapolis cites the joke as a quip about consumer psychology and temptation at a butcher shop.
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Indianapolis
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Coats
Leach & Waterman
Adolph Blaris
Avenue
Jemima
Hersepital
Evening Caledonian
Amner Rutledge From
Charles Howe
Pearl Street
Raymond Worthen
Newbury
Archie Wilcomb
Drs. Leonard and
Cheney
Lyndonville
Harry Wakefield
Charles Green
Cascara E
Quinine
Ernest Quimby
Kirby Waste
Armory
Co. G
Henry W. Ellis
George W. Hinman
American Observation Balloon Service
Francis A. Poole
Hinman
Round Table
Henry Kistemaeckers
June Mathis
Albert Capellani
Nazimova Productions
Metro Pictures Corporation
Roscoe
Fatty” Arbuckle
Hearst International
Georgette
Berry-Ball Dry Goods CO
Dorothy Roy
Paramount
Artcraft
Dorothy Gish
George Fawcett
Paramount-Bray
Pathe News
Army & Navy
U. S. Army & Navy Tablet CO
West Broadway, N.Y
E. N. Randall & CO
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