Telephone girl prevents Kentucky bank robbery
Missi Lonelli Dye, a telephone operator at Houstonville, notified citizens when burglars busted into the Houstonville Peoples Bank cellar. Armed residents rushed the scene, the bandits fled in a car after a rain of bullets. No loot was taken.
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Lexington
Missi Lonelli Dye
Houstonville
Houstonville Peoples Bank
Miss Dye
Kentucky
Winchville
Shelby County
Brussels Council Sets July 20 Meeting For League Talks
Paris June 29 The Brussels financial conference will be held July 20 as the League of Nations council decided. It will review Spa conference reparations proposals for Germany and refer them to Brussels with recommendations on an international loan to regulate exchange. Leon Bourgeois said the council believes Germany and allies’ obligations and the former central powers’ financials must be clarified before negotiations proceed and Germans may be invited to Brussels.
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Paris
Brussels
Council of the
League of Nations
Spa
Germany
Council of the League
Supreme Council
Leon Bourgeois
Council of the Leagué
M. Bourgeois
League Council
Gooding College Notes Announces 1920 21 Faculty Changes
The 1920 21 catalogs for Gooding College are in press and will be mailed to prospective students and other interested parties. New teachers include Edith Barrett with a master's from the University of Oregon and Chester L Buckner A M from the University of Denver as physical director and athletic coach. Miss Mabel Gray joins the summer school force in commercial work. Blanche Chester reports strong prospects from the southeastern state area. Lectures and events include High Wilburn in Wendell and Warren Roberts in Boise. An Espworth Teague institute will be held July 1925 with speakers from Chicago Helena and Boise. Rhodes scholarship prospects noted with Warren Ewing of Boise and Professor Aydelotte cited. scholarship details and eligibility explained.
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Gooding College
Edith Barrett
University of Oregon
Chester L. Buckner
University of Denver
Mabel Gray
St. Theresa’s, Bolse
Gray
Leni Gray
Blanche Chester
Madge Verryman
Te Jurley
Country
Espwort Teague Institute
Fooding College
Charles &. Guthrie
Chicago
George W. Barnes
Iupert
S Trker
Gooding
Mer Grant Keith
Bois
Mekeen I) Morton
Bole
Rhodes
Wrant Aydelotte
Massachusetts
Nogoly
Gooding Reithie
Amenes
North Korea's Hy tine Natives Shielded From World
Native Koreans in the north remain largely unseen by whites, living in hillside sanctuaries and venerating rocks and trees. Since 1904 foreigners have explored further, but central north borders remain nearly unknown, with IStusan city’s walls and palace ruins drawing rare Western visitors. Koreans hold animal bones and teeth, esp tiger parts, as talismans for bravery before battles and dangerous tasks.
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Korea
National Geographic Society
Yalu
Istusan
Etiquette at Fiji Public Dinner Sparks Fatal Alarms
A London Answers writer warns public dining in Fiji can be deadly if manners fail. The Fiji banquet features vast heaps of taro yams seeds yakalo tofu and multiple courses including baked turtles and hogs. A guest who eats without sharing sparks a massacre, while other tales tell of fatal family slights over a fish tail fragment.
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London
Fiji
Pitcher Plant Leaves Curious in Swamps
A Brooklyn Eagle note describes pitcher plants found in swamps of India and China. Leaves show a prolonged mid-rib forming a true blade and ending in a singular pitcher with a lid. The pitcher contains plant fluid rich in potash that traps insects, aiding nourishment.
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Indin S
China
Brooklyn Hagle
Soldier Monuments of Napoleon and Les Invalides
The piece notes the Arc de Triomphe and the Carrousel arches as monument to Napoleon’s military supremacy and the tomb at Les Invalides, intended as a home for veterans but turned by Parisians into a vast museum of his trophies and personal effects, housing the emperor's body near the Seine with his imagined kin.
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Napoleon
L’arc de Triomphe
Ware du Carrousel
Les Invalides
Seine
Royal Needlework Exhibit At South Kensington
The Stoyil School of Art Needlework in South Kensington, London, preserves for exhibit a magnificent early rose point lace said to come from Maury Queen of Scots and gifted to the Irish nuns of Ypres by J. Also on display are a pair of vestments of Italian brocade from the sixteenth century worn by the queen taablis daughter.
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Royal
Stoyil School of Art
South Kensington
London
Eng
Maury
Ypres
Achess Taablis
Digression on solar energy and space radiation
The text cites Sir Oliver Lodge on how the sun outputs vast energy over billions of years, most of which remains unutilized in space. Earth is a tiny receiver, while space remains at near absolute zero. the ether carries radiation until matter absorbs or warms it, a process that hasn't measurably altered space’s level.
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Oliver Lodge
Scientific -American
Names Through Time Reveals Roots of English Places
In early human history names show who lived where as Celtic river and mountain names persist. English place names describe property or features, with endings like ton or ham. Humorous remnants survive, such as Starvacre for a sunken, starved district.
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England
Starvacre
Parisian Mementoes of Napoleon on Bridges and Louvre
A fragment describes a Napoleonic memory in Paris with a Henri of Navarre statue on the Pont Neuf cast from bronze of Napoleon’s toppled Vendome column. It notes Napoleon’s design of the Exchange bridge arches and Louvre district colonnades, and Corsican architectural influence.
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Napoleon
Henri of Navarre
Pont Neuf
Paris
Louvre
Bar
Corsica
Overcoming insomnia ancient home remedy guide
Insomnia is blamed on health loss worries bad habits poor air and sunlight. Early to bed helps though sleep may fail. A glass of hot milk crackers and a hot water bottle aid rest. A cold pack on the head and bromide drinks before bed are advised to induce eight hours of sleep.
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Land of Nod
Diamond thefts visible by fluoroscope in mines
A historical report discusses diamond thefts in the South and proposes using Coolidge X ray tubes mounted to illuminate the bodies of native miners. The method claims the glow and density of diamonds can be detected quickly even through thick bone, aiding prevention of robbery.
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Coolidge
Seconia
Revised war casualty figures for American aviators
Revised figures show 583 American aviators casualties in Europe during the war. Of these, 491 were with the A B AF and the remainder served with British French and Italian air forces. The record lists prisoners and killed in action among the totals, reflecting updated wartime losses.
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Europe
A. Baf
Briish
Ih ii Iti
Presence of the cross in true friendship
A reflective passage on enduring friendship and sacrifice, contrasting earthly separations with spiritual reunion. It cites Lucy Larcom on loyalty to the Highest, saying love remains indestructible when real, and true friends conquer by bearing one another's cross.
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Thia
Liucy Larcom
Many Asters Found Across North Eastern United States
The article notes about 120 native aster species in the United States with 54 in the northeast, most are purple or blue. It highlights the New England aster as a striking, hardy, eight foot stem plant with violet-purple to pinkish flowers in swamps. It also mentions British claims of native asters and garden cultivation with Michaelmas daisies, plus a Swiss purple water plant along New England highways in autumn, creating a purple and gold display.
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United States
America
Botan Jets
New England
Great Britain
Unconscious Humor From a Third Year English Class
A third year class teacher asked pupils to write original sentences with the word character. A girl wrote that all the teachers on the third floor have a good character, which humorously tars the other floors. A boy praised his teacher but joked she sometimes wears a bathrobe to school, an accidental theatre of manners.
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Wuch
Bhat
Startling News From Town Auction Sale in Cradle
A startling item from town notes a bargain sale in cradle, with eerie phrasing about kidnappers recently rounded up. Police headquarters is not involved in the tale, which reads as a curious local snippet from the era.
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Cradle
Rugs Made to Appear Old in Baghdad Market
An American visitor describes how genuine antique rugs are produced and aged for European and American buyers in Baghdad. He notes crowded tunnels under brick arches, heat, and filth as brokers transform bright new Persian rugs into convincing old pieces, with traders selling them through Baghdad for higher value.
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Bagdad
Anc
Persia
Dr Chas R Scott Announces Office Move to Central Bee
Dr Charles R Scott informs readers that his medical office has moved to the Central Bee building on The Togeery avenue. The notice directs patrons to update contact and visit details for future appointments and inquiries.
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Chas. R. Scott
Central Bee
Togeery
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