Local social notes from Evening Caledonian
Mrs Pred Radford visits Canada while relatives are visited in town by Mra G B French of Concord. Numerous townsfolk and visitors from Boston White River Junction Whitefield and Newport spend weekends with friends and family. Deaths include Fred W Carr aged 64. marriages published Notre Dame church list.
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G. B. French
Concord
Jane Williamson
Beatrice Lemere
Boston
Mary Fitzgerald
EB. Daigle
Lyndonville
Felix Grenier
Harvey Wattium
Jeffersonville
Dale Donahue
East Burke
Frank Carr
Groveton
James McGill
Edward Caswell
Greenfield
Mass
John Roselam
Fred W. Carr
Newport
Julia Gilmore
John Tierney
Rock Taland
Luxury on Early Hudson River Beilers Safety Barges
A historical note recalls safety barges on the Hudson as the era's luxury travel. The boats offered grand decks, saloons, flowers, and Pullman like interiors while steamers towed them, with food delivered from the heat kitchen and a celebrated bar. Contemporary dispatches hint that floating oceanic caters may reappear when national tide shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beilers
Hudson River
Magmites
Thromite
Scientist Tells of Triumph by Wireless Ground Transmission
Prof. James R. Rogers describes a wireless system for underground and submarine transmission. He says experiments began six to seven years ago and intensified during the war with the audion bulb, enabling eight operators to receive from eight wires. Wires buried six feet deep on damp ground yielded best results, with tests in water 25 to 60 feet deep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
James R. Rogers
Europe
Navy Department
New Orleans
Belmar
N. Y
United States
Scientific American
Monkey as Labor Helper in Borneo Coconut Harvest
The Malays train a pig-tailed macaque to pick coconuts. A cord ties the monkey to the tree so it climbs and twists nuts free when ripe. The monkey responds to the master’s voice to determine fruit readiness. in some cases it works without the cord, guided by verbal cues from the owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Shelford
Borneo
Village of Pearl Fisher Women Dominates Japanese Community
In a Japanese village whose name translates to The Settlement of Nympha, women lead the fishing efforts while men stay home. The chief industry is pearl harvesting and the women are the primary fishers with men remaining ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nene
Shima
Japan
Grave and Gold on Santa Barbara Channel Islands Myth
Legends link Jean Cabrillo's voyage to San Miguel Island home to a hidden treasure. Tales say Cabrillo died there or was secretly buried, with fever or warrior violence as causes. The isle is tied to long rumored gold stash by Drake era marauders and later outlaws, attracting searches by locals and collectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Barbara Channel
Jean Cabrillo
California
San Miguel Island
J. P. Moore
Florida
Cabrillo
San Miguel
Channel Ixtands
Ian
Towtide
Isle
Francis Deake
Drake
Iklands
Kiev well worth a visit
Kiev houses about half a million people divided into four districts. Poilol the commercial district by the Dnieper, Lipki the leafy residential area, Kiev proper with St. Sophia Cathedral and theaters, hotels, and modern shops, and Petchersk with ancient caves and monasteries drawing around three hundred thousand pilgrims yearly.
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Kiev
Poilol
Dnieper
Lipki
Petrograd
Moscow
Petchersk
Less Crime and Carpets From India War Effect
The London Daily Mall notes crime drop in India due to wartime reductions in convict labor. finer carpets once produced by hand in Peon jail are scarcer. It cites a case of few convicts making carpets, linking crime trends to carpet supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
India
Peon
Distinguishing Love and the Bilious Attack in Elizabethan Thought
The writer notes that in Shakespeare's era the liver was believed to house love. They suggest Elizabethans may have been partly correct since love symptoms resemble a bilious attack, drawing a parallel between emotion and bodily illness.
Equal to the Occasion in a Provincial Hotel Tale
A traveler recalls a reformatted hotel manager incident in a provincial town. He reaches the hotel late, hears scampering under the bed, spots rats escaping, complains to the manager who responds with a promise to fix it and orders a cat to room 18.
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Horace Goodwin
Lois
Newbury
Donald Goxkelin
Fred Bennett
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Lewis Currier
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White ‘Er Junction
Walter Luduke and Son
Whitefield
Mr. Lemere
Gordon Weeks
Harriette
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Helena Brown
Annie Brown
Fred Clement
Frank Blossom
William Trainor
Montpelier
John Addy
Bert Blossom
North Hatley
Henry Massa
Alice Bowen
Springfield
George Morrill
C. L. Clark
Florence
Worcester
Lottie Parker
Wells River
Lake Fairlee
Notre Dame Church
Charles Prevost
May Bisson
Albert Beauregard
Donalda Dumas
Albert Lacourse
Andre Gervais
Albert Garand
Georgianna Crepeau
Alfred Dubuque
Dora Sevigny
Alice Harvey
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Ed. Harris
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