Blessed to Give. A Christmas Tragedy and Rescue
Bill Clark, a jovial night shift reporter, waits as a wreck news scoop nears. A sleeper car derailment and fire claim the Clark family's lives, but Bat Pierce arrives with a last minute copy that saves the story and reunites Bill with his three sons and wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Clark
Bil Clark
Clark
Associated Press
Bugle
Bill
Bat” Pierce
Bat
Sherburne
Jim Acton
Texas Ranges
Arizona
Chain
Dakota
Clarks
Jimmy
Lst
Stone Age Horse Skull Found with Embedded Dagger in Sweden
Archaeologist J A Sjogren discovers a two year old horse skull in Ultorpsa near Ingelstad now housed at Ystad museum. Doctors Leche and Lundgren confirm its age as Stone Age and note a flat dagger, broken off, lodged in the skull between the cones and crown, likely driven in with great force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fust Daeg
Sweden
J. A. Sjogren
Ultorpsa
Ingelstad
Gunner Andersson
Ystad
Leche and
Lundgren
Stockholm
Novel Wedding Custom Sparks Token Gifts Tradition
A bride adds small tokens with wedding acknowledgments, each not e including a silver bodkin or umbrella tag engraved with the recipient’s name. The practice offers a novel profit for original givers, though it adds expense to the celebration.
Jamestown 1607 Memorial Urges National Park Purchase
A memorial urges Congress to purchase Jamestown island as a national park to preserve the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. It notes the 1607 landing on the James River, later fortifications, and ruins slowly sunk by the river, with the Governor’s House and the old church tower as surviving landmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Americk
Jamestown
James River
Virginia
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Congress of the
Jamestown Island
United States of America
Powhattan
America
Jamesstown
Governors House
Roanoke Island
Mexico
Jamestown ruins and historic churches contrasted with preservation urges
The piece chronicles Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement with its ancient church ruins now exposed by relic hunters. It notes surviving church sites near Nashville and the Hermitage, Jackson’s estate, with calls to preserve Jamestown’s tower and early colonial history for future generations. It also mentions a Jamaica Plain minister and a Nevada senator's canal alternative plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seema OE Lee
Colonies
Jamestown
Association For the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities
Congress
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CLYDE
Daily Story Ree
Maine
Box
Jim Valley
Old Virginia
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Walla
Gordon
Jamaica Plain
Stewart
Great Road
Nevada
Chespeake Bay
San Francisco
Magnetic Starch Mfg. CO
Omama
Neb
Orstamst
Tor
London
Porren
Besse
Saless
Oer Town
la Weeks
E.werrrard & CO
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