Path to greatness through diligent study and courage
The author urges sincere effort to gain knowledge and build a solid life work. It praises seeking wise counsel and studying instructive books, noting today’s great leaders started with hard work, discipline, and persistence despite hardship. Envy often greets those who choose courage and front line effort.
Time as Treasure and Traps in Daily Life
The passage argues time cannot be hoarded like money and warns against idle or wasted hours. It urges counting hours, assigning each to productive or profitable recreation, and suggests even late-life people can achieve great things if they convert time to value. It uses Shakespeare and metaphor of water to stress irreversible loss and future happiness depends on disciplined use.
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Shakespeare
June Time Song of Rose and Moon
Roz SIX Will M Maupin presents a verse about June as the rosiest month. Children hum and whistle through sunlit days as violets bloom, meadows cool, and streams purl by. The poem contrasts June’s beauty with a quiet evening moon and a man in an arm chair enjoying the silver glow.
Mother’s Cook Book Cites Olive Oil Dressing for Dandelions
An Arabian proverb links growth to example as the text advises a dressing of olive oil whipped to cream for served dandelions, noting children learn from demonstration and first instruction.
Horsemen's Aural Cues Compared Across Lands in 1922
A traveled observer notes how horsemen from Britain, Norway, Arabia, and Naples urge their steeds. The British click tongues, Norwegians kiss sound, Arabs roll a long r, and Neapolitan coaches bark like dogs in training and drive.
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Giddap
Fresh Dandelion Salad and Spring Greens Guide
OW urges gathering early greens such as watercress dandelion dock and milkweed shoots for spring meals. The article details bleached dandelion heart salad with green onion and French dressing and methods to prepare dandelion greens either fresh or cooked with a garlic salt paprika orange juice dressing.
The Law of Compensation In Life’s Payments
The piece warns that every person must pay for happiness and that conscience and law act as inevitable collectors. It urges parents to teach youths to be honest and fair, or face future regret as the law of compensation proves inexorable.
Nebraska items mix crime reward, honors and events
A Nebraska news roundup notes a $100 reward offered for the arrest of Douglas county oil station shooters, honors for Dr Ulysses S Conn, plans for a Fremont Sunday school convention, and retirements in the Fremont post office. It also covers a major school pageant at St Edwards, state fair track hopes, a critical medical condition, lightning damage in Wauela, bird day records, and various local developments from across the state.
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Douglas County
Charles FE. Sidken
Robert
Omaha
McKelvie
Ulysses S. Conn
Nebraska
Fremont
Dward Benson
City Delivery
Benson
St. Edwards School
Frank J. Turner
Harvard
John W. Wann
Wauela
Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union
Lincoln
Joe Garner
Callaway
Garner
National Association of Parent-Teachers
Alts
G. H. Wentz
Ie Stewart & Smith Garnee
Verdon
Nebraska Supreme Court Revises Compensation Scope
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that owners whose primary business is selling junk and renting property are not covered by the Workmen's Compensation Act for labor performed in repairs to their buildings. If a contractor hires workers, the contractor bears obligation to compensate injured workers. The decision affects carpenters, painters, electricians and similar trades doing owner repairs. For details contact the state Compensation Commissioner in Lincoln or Omaha Court House.
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Nebraska Supreme Court
Kaplan
Gaskill
Douglas County
Supreme Court
Nebraska
State House
Court House
Omaha
Market Review: Best Beef Steers in Demand as Sheep Weaken
Market notes show best beef steers in strong demand with prices 10 to 15 cents higher than a week ago. Sheep eased with most classes 50 to 75 cents lower. yearling wethers sold at 11 dollars on Omaha. feeding lambs in good demand and advancing 15 to 25 cents. Wheat and corn declined amid large receipts. visible wheat at 25,828,000 bushels and corn 27,917,000 bushels. potatoes and butter mixed with ample cold storage. Local poultry and eggs steady to lower as receipts shift. storage stocks and market activity vary across regions.
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Mille Lacs
Jakes
Brainerd
Ayile Lacs
Paul
Harry
Charles Hager
Alliance
Nemaha
Nebraska School of Irrigation
State University
Fll
Shubert School Board
Mo Osalary
Nebraska
Midland
Tex
Sand Hill
C. Kozak
Virginia
Beatrice
Lewellen
Lee French
State College of Agriculture
Lincoln
Coleridge
Burlington
Wavelock
Friend
Robert Shepard
Falls City
Irene Cleveland Buell
Ashland
Central City High School
University of Nebraska
B. Benjamin Millinery
Allerton
Morrill County
Jerry J. Postle
Lawrence Fork Creek
Redington
William B. Hecker
Cary Ott
Mound City
Charles EK. Siefken
Robert
Nicholas Oil Corporation
Omaha
Chicago
Detective remembers forger after twenty years
A reader recalls a detective who, after twenty years, remembered a forger’s face and arrested him when the crime had nearly faded from memory. The remark implies that recalling truth is preferable to recalling deceitful appearance.
Admonition on Temper and Tongue in Social Circles
A Boston Transcript quip urges caution in private thoughts in the home and temper within the family, tongue in public, and adds a rule for crowds to mind your watch as well. The saying emphasizes self control across personal, family, social, and crowd settings.
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Boston Transcript
Bell summons gods in Chinese temples
In China temples hang a bell at the entrance and worshipers pull the rope to ring it. This signals the gods to be notified and ready to hear prayers as worshipers enter.
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China
Apollo Belvedere statue found in Vatican vaults
The Apollo Belvedere, carved around 279 BC, was discovered in 1503, purchased by Julius II, and placed in the Vatican. The sculptor remains unknown, and the statue’s marble is likely a copy of a bronze original.
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Julius II
Vatican
A Safe Wage Parade and the Curious Circumstance
A quip notes the proverb that nothing is certain except death and taxes, yet the writer jokes that a circus parade led by a plesiosaur would likely never appear. The piece blends wit about improbable spectacles with themes of inevitability and humor.
Asphalt lake near Trinidad mined to lower surface
The Brighton area lake, about 120 acres, lies 12 miles west of San Fernando and 27 miles south of Port of Spain near the Gulf of Paria. Originally 137% feet above sea level, mining reduced the surface to about 130 feet by 1918.
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Trinidad
Brighton
San Fernando
Port of Spain
Gulf of Paria
If you are fond o f giving good adv ice be twice as fond
A compact aphorism urging practice of advice, suggesting the value of heeding guidance twice as much as giving it. The phrasing implies a general lesson rather than a specific event or person.
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