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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
2
A new Sunday school pupil asks Miss Jones if truth matters if no one ever knows. The teacher stresses honesty at all times, while the boy probes the moral boundary in this concise reflection from the Milwaukee Sentinel.
The New York Sun notes that Roger Bacon, cited as a leading thirteenth century philosopher, is discussed by Prof William Romaine Newbold of the University of Pennsylvania who claims to have unlocked a key to a remarkable book and found many alchemy references. It explains alchemy then as a science and warns of impostors who preyed on credulous seekers of gold.
The logbook of the frigate Constitution, missing fifteen years, was found at the Boston navy yard in Building 82. It contains entries by Captains Hull Bainbridge Stewart and Badger, detailing the ship's 1794 building, War of 1812 exploits, a 1844 46 day voyage, and European duties including a 1821 tour of Genoa and Gibraltar. The volume, though grime covered, is well preserved and legible, offering vivid sailorly accounts of historic cruises and incidents.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a belief in Tuberculosis verdicts and a patient praising Dr Hartman’s Remedy for Catarrhal conditions. Also included are scattered quotes about Satan and a Lord of misfortune, and a line ridiculing get-rich-quick schemes. The garbled text references a Harold W Schmidt and a Breese Illinois area.
The Calcutta Botanic Garden great banyan, famed for extraordinary care, is said to be dying. Tender roots are falling, each encased in bamboo, while the mother trunk weakens and outer growths form a ring around an empty circle. The article notes about fifteen aerial roots and a possible digit omission.
Gardiner in Long Island tells friend Johnson he will prove a point. A Belgian police dog runs to the station with an umbrella in its mouth and drops it at Gardiner, who explains the dog is trained to fetch the umbrella so he need not walk home in the rain.
A traveler asks if the train is an accommodation one and Mr. Crosslets replies that in truth it is technically so but in practice one of the most disobliging trains he has ridden.
An ad pitches Postum as a coffee substitute to avoid breakfast quarrels and thumb pains. It promotes two forms Instant Postum and Postum Cereal, claiming it helps sleep and nerves, and encourages readers to buy from grocers.
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