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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1925
Page
3
A whimsical tale narrates a band of small snowflakes marching to earth and attempting to whitewash a hill. Mr Sunman emerges from behind a cloud, melts the bold flakes, and teaches a lesson about waiting for all relatives before action. The next day the snowflakes return with their kin and blanket the landscape.
The article traces the name Aurora from myth to modern use across Europe and America. It notes Aurora as the dawn goddess linked to Eos, and explains the golden light imagery and linguistic roots from aurum. It mentions Renaissance fashion spreading Aurora to French noblewomen.
A 1925 column traces eggshell superstitions across Europe and America, from burning shells to breakage rituals, linked to witchcraft fears cited by Pliny and old beliefs about necromancers. It recounts lunar journeys of witches using fragile eggshell boats and the idea that pulverized shells cure the ague, then shifts to a humorous note on an accident involving Lysander John Appleton and his ailing wife huom.
The article traces Aurora’s use as a name across Europe, noting variants in Germany and Slyria, and explains her Latin mythic origin. It highlights poetic appeal, with Keats and Longfellow referencing her, and describes the chrysolite jewel as her symbol and its supposed powers. It also mentions her lucky day Monday and mystic number five.
A column fragment recounts Daysey Mayme Appleton’s wistful gaze at motherless children of a widower and notes two weeks of storms in the Appleton home. Chauncey Devere Appleton reportedly avoids regular churchgoers yet shows credit in pie crust conscience. Mrs Lysander John Appleton imagines wealth by writing on pasteboard labels like 1 pint or 1 quart and debates keeping a cow.
Green's August Flower is touted as a long standing remedy with a record of fifty eight years of excellence. The advertisement claims it aids nervous dyspepsia sour stomach constipation indigestion torpid liver dizziness wind in the stomach and related symptoms. It notes its wide usage in millions of households worldwide and promotes 30 and 90 cent bottle sizes.
Ludger Eastein of the Huron tribe becomes the first Indian elected to the Quebec legislature after winning a by election for the Conservatives in Quebec county over Liberal I Bedard. He runs a Lorelte tannery, hails from a wealthy family, once won $300,000 in a privy council damages case against Quebec city water interference, and serves as a director of several enterprises.
Advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum as a complete line for face skin baby and dusting powder needs. Recommends Cuticura Talcum at 25 cents and claims it renders other perfumes unnecessary as part of toilet requisites.
A description from Outing magazine notes the preferred ice fishing bait chub minnows. It specifies an inch and a half length, tapered thick to the tail, and highly active. Shiner minnows are warned as tender and poor for lures, while the chub is praised for liveliness and duration.
The text explains that miles differ by country with Spanish Polish and Dutch miles being three and a half times the Inglish mile, and the German mile four times as long. It notes even within a country a single day’s last mile can be longer than the first.
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