Primitive Love Story From Cherokee Woman
Washington-Childhood love and life in a primitive society are presented by a southern Cheyenne woman in an autobiographical account. Dr. Truman Southgonian of the Smithsonian collected the tale detailing doll play, warlike adventures, courtship, arranged marriage, and eight children amid nomadic camp life for a humane ethnographic record.
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Ritual pledge ends in tragedy within tribal mourning
A tribal mourner recalls a pledged sacrifice for health that ended with her husband’s death. She describes cutting her braids by an elder performing a ritual gesture to please spirits, receiving a blanket and dress, and the tepee’s pause in mourning as the community deals with loss.
Kidnapped Physician Held Captive for Month
Dr. Philip Mater of Beulah North Dakota told Kansas City police he was abducted in Aberdeen North Dakota by two men at pistol point and held for nearly a month. He displayed fresh burns and welts as proof of his torture before reporting the incident.
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Short Sea Cruise Boom As New York Joins Bermuda and Havana Runs
New York Harbor seethes as short haul cruise lines surge amid hard times. Tourists flock to four to sixteen day trips from New York to Nassau Havana Canal Zone, boosting winter passenger counts. Industry consensus expects cruise profits to rise about 50 percent, with some shifts from transatlantic travel as European trips grow unaffordable for many travelers.
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Ocean travel surges as Bermudas trips grow popular
Passenger data show a rise in cross Atlantic trips with 624,000 flying to pay and 1,298,680 crossing in 1080, while 1,100,910 completed journeys the prior year. Passport statistics up to June 80 reflect 80,828 renewals, with notable growth in short-haul ocean vacations as Bermudas and nearby ports attract many who previously avoided such trips.
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Bermudas
Household Tips on Cooking and Cleaning
A list of practical advice covers quick search for small items with a ribbon on scissors, using salt to prevent garbage cans from freezing, thicken soup with butter and flour per quart, softening dates in warm water to blend with ingredients, and creaming measuring cups to prevent sticking when measuring syrup or molasses.
As Good As His Neighbors
A country churchman Goodwin says his small church remains "as good as our neighbors" amid crowded village sects and strained finances. The downtown store run by Blake shows ordinary stock and service, with clerks bored and not aiming to be the town’s best salesman.
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Western Newspaper Union
Potted History of Clock Invention and Early Knowledge
The Chinese reportedly invented the clock about 2000 years before Christ but the art was lost and not known in Western civilization until the fourteenth century when Germans first produced timepieces. Monks in the same century aided greatly in developing the clock.
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Western Newspaper Union
Hoarded coins pay 1932 tax in Albany county clerk
A Linn county dog owner placed 200 pennies at the county clerk to satisfy the animal tax for 1932. The odd payment highlights hoarded money loosening in Albany Oregon.
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Linn County
Slim Crew Visitor Weighs Flat Nation Mood
In a casual comment, Slim Crew notes the country is largely flat, while hinting at distrust toward certain politicians without presenting concrete proof. The remark reflects everyday skepticism in a rural setting.
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