Dangerous cargos scare sailors and a dust tickles a throat
Cargoes like sugar, coffee, cotton and acids pose hidden perils on ships with sweet musty odors and chemical fumes. Acetylene and calcium carbide release dangerous gas, and a leaking drum incident at Falkland Islands shows the risk. In a cinema scene an elderly couple jokes about dust tickling a throat during a parched round up.
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Min
Falkland Islands
Japan
Annie
Ephriam
Marshville Items Chronicle Camp Meeting and Local Visitors
Marshville notes list visitors and residents during a busy week including Mrs. John Kaat and children visiting Concord relatives, Miss Zelda Fitzgerald in Hoffman, Rev. Whitley assisting Baptist revival, and motor trips to Badin and High Point. A G. M. Little mule incident, plus schoolboy military fun in New Salem and a World War era humor piece, accompany local social life and regional anecdotes.
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Marshville
John Kaat
Concord
Mr. Long
Margaret Montieth
Charlotte
Henry Griffin
Ellen Williams
Lucile Chaney
Wingate
Kate Morgan
Otis Marsh
Edna Burns
Oakboro
G. B. Nance
Monroe
Marshal Newsome
Zelda Fitzgerald
Hoffman
Beecher Harrill
Lottie Harrill
Beemer Harrill
Churchland
Salisbury
Kate Bailey
Jack Smith
T. J. Crowell
R. D. Marsh
Rutherfordton
Lloyd Green
Emma Austin
Badinland High Point
C. B. Covington
Jim Harrill
W. C. Harrill
Waxhaw
G. M. Little
Kate
Eleanor Lee
Lanes Creek
Ernest Barrett
Franie Morgan
Charlie Myers
The
Baptist Church
Mr. Whitley
Gastonia
Black
Iron Age origins and early iron use across cultures
The piece surveys early iron use and the emergence of the Iron Age across Asia Minor Nippur Babylon India and China with dates from 2500 to 2040 B C. It cites J B Wilson in the Princeton Theological Review and notes the broad spread of iron before 2000 B C alongside a history of social issues in religious press.
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J. B. Wilson
Princeton Theological Review
Asia Minor
Nippur
Babylon
India
Christian Herald
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