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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1920
Page
3
The article recounts Chan Chan as an ancient Peruvian city built by the Chimú, later conquered by the Incas and then the Spanish. It notes moon worship, sea protection, and temples, with ruins including palaces and burial mounds. A Spanish adventurer reportedly obtained vast gold and silver from a mound.
Letters from 1447 by Antonia Malfante reveal Genoese Jewish traders in northwest Africa handling a vast Sahara to Niger network. Timbuktu and Ouatt trade wheat and barley for gold and salt, with Touat an oasis hub of 150 to 200 villages, each under a chief, as Timbuktu and Gao conducted censuses amid large scale commerce.
New York University possesses an original photograph of its first janitor. He wore a vinieh and carried a gong and stick used to ring for classes before building electrics. The early campus relied on students gathering in the back of the eft hall as funds and staff managed reception duties.
The arctic sea cow vanished about a century after its discovery by wile men. Adults weighed up to 8000 pounds and roamed river mouths in herds while feeding. The tame animals allowed strokes to their hides, yet human actions led to their decline and eventual extinction.
A sick pupil, Wille Charles, returns to his former classroom amid confusion and sympathy. The teacher notices the frail boy hesitantly seeking his place among unfamiliar classmates, uttering a quavering plea about not finding his body and identity in the crowded room.
A long anecdote recounts a two month old white kitten that bonded with a Mymouth Rock hen named Biddy. They spent most days together in the chicken yard, sharing space, rubbing, and walking as a pair while Thiddy the hen foraged. Their bond lasted until a farm sale forced separation.
A condensed aphorism from Ralph Waldo Emerson on individuality and originality. It argues that greatness comes from personal talent and inner guidance, not imitation, urging readers to follow their own gifts and conscience to create uniquely.
Dr Walter B Swift of Boston presents a paper at the National Society meeting on early stammering treatment. He cites nervous stress fright and imitation as common causes in toddlers and notes home remedy training can stop stammering in about two weeks with calm talk and supportive care.
Fragmentary prose extols strenuous effort and self discipline as paths to great victories. It contrasts visionaries who seek hard challenges with ordinary minds, claiming toil and sacrifice forge strength and future rewards.
Excerpt discusses absolutism as practiced in historical regimes like Catherine and Napoleon. It argues that once constitutions arise, absolutism appears magnified by contrast. decadence and a centralized state create fear rather than strength, as Thayer notes in The Awe and Times of Gavour.
Washington July 2 A War Risk Insurance Bureau ruling sets reinstatement requirements for lapsed or cancelled policies. Applications within 18 months of discharge before 1921 need two months premiums and a health statement. After 1921 a medical exam may be required depending on lapse date with two months premiums always due.
Ten members of the Knights of Pythias visited Shoshone Thursday evening to present the silver loving cup won by their lodge from Twin Falls at the district No. 6 contest in Gooding last March. J. A. Waters gave the presentation speech, followed by a banquet.
The Seieenas who attended the event included J. A. Waters L. B. Ayotte W. A. Nixon W. W. Parish C. C. Stegins W. A. Minnick Robert Hampton J. J. Kerr J. O. Blackstone and P. J. Grossman as part of the organizing effort for the visit.
Mrs Martha R Drake 52 wife of E A Drake of Victor Idaho died in a local hospital after a lingering illness. The body lies at Grossman undertaking parlors pending shipment to Victor for interment.
CHANCE FOR TWIN FALLS NEW YORK July 2 The war department has available a quantity of condemned guns mortars and howitzers for donation to municipal corporations posts of the G A R and soldiers' monument associations Col. W A Marsh ordnance officer of the eastern department announced today.
Women members of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet today in the high school auditorium at 2:30 PM. Attendance urged by unit officials.
Rogerson Hotel Pharmacy offers sodas and cigars with drugstore service listed. Phone 161 noted for contact. Local listing presents a compact hotel shopfront with amenities in one spot.
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