High School Recital Opens Friday with Wide Program
The High School Music and Expression pupils present a Friday 4 30 recital in the school auditorium during the Parent Teacher meeting. Performers include Mabel Stith Juanita Carr Elmer Brown Dorothy Huie Rebecca McBride Adel Hackel Katherine Joiner and others with pieces ranging from Love Song and Gunga Din to Moonlit Meadows and Narcissus. A Nevin recital follows on Tuesday May 23 with a second program in the school auditorium.
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Teela
Mabel Stith
Juanita Carr
Eugene Field
Elmer Brown
Dorothy Huie
Nevin
Juanita Thompson
Kipling Dude
Rebecca McBride
Pfefferkorn
Blanche McElveen
Alice Adams
Nevin Elizabeth Shufflebarger
Moonlit Meadows
Czibulka Girls Glee Club
McCartney Leroy Meadows
Valse Mignonne
Tourneur
Adel Hackel
Katherine Joiner
Ves
Epee Bachmann
Ethel Rockett
W. Service
Lucy Poe
Chanunade
Ruth Wilson
Sinding Juanita Carr
Pestalozza Girls Glee Club
William
Hindoo
Annie Rosansky
Thadlenee
Gottschalk
Mary Cantrell
Blanche McEilveen
Ethelbert Nevin
Man confesses plan to fake death for life insurance
A man explains to an accomplice his idea to kill or injure himself to collect life insurance money. He considers using a gun and discusses carrying a gun, the insurance agent, and the risks of dying versus living. He outlines possible payouts of ten thousand or five thousand dollars and questions the practicality.
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Guissep
USA
The Fugitive Lurks Beyond the Hedge
A reflective poem narrator confronts Old Age as a lurking foe along a road. The shade grows darker over crimsoned bushes while leaves sigh and whisper that Old Age awaits. The quest to outrun time keeps moving onward, toward eternity, as life and youth fade.
Tiger Boxes Protect Indian Railworkers From Tigers
In Madras area huts with iron gates shield pointsmen from tigers roaming jungles. Each hut holds water and a rough bank as protection. Elsewhere in East Africa monkeys on high posts warn of lions, with a Uganda line operator reporting lions near a station prompting a relief locomotive.
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Madras
India
East Africa
Uganda
Farm Animals Puzzle Japs
In Tokyo I saw a British war worker feeding pigs while a clerk mistook them for sheep. The essay contrasts Western livestock based farming with Japan’s rice focus and visits a government stock farm near Sapporo showing cows pigs sheep self binders and a skilled dairymaid with collies.
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Tokyo
West
Japan
Sapporo
Hokkaido
J. W. Robertson Scott
London Daily Telegraph
Counting By Fingers: A Primitive Ten Based System
A Cantor noted a South American tribe counting with three men showing fingers for units tens and hundreds to reach 999. The fourth man records the total. The piece ends with a joke about washing ashore on a cake of soap.
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Cantor
Cleveland News-Leader
Lightning Strike Injures Ontario Couple at Home
During a thunderstorm in Ontario a farmer and his wife were shocked while closing windows. Lightning struck from an upper window as the pair acted at opposite ends of a stairway. The man recovered. his wife lay unconscious requiring effort to revive.
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Ontario
Pauper’s Burial Sought for Baron Dagalmar de Linden
The former Russian chamberlain Baron Dagalmar de Linden died in Marseilles and requested burial in a potter's field with less than $400 of his fortune remaining.
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Dagalmar de Linden
Nicholas
Marseilles
Coal Dust Bricks Pave Russian Streets
Coal dust bricks are used for paving in Russia. The article notes the material's novelty and practical use in urban surfaces.
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Russia
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