Bells post office appoints Susie Wells postmistress
Canaan Cullings notes Sunday services by Rev. W A Kirkpatrick and visits as farmers finish cotton picking. Wheat benefits from Sunday rain. Susie C Wells named Bells postmistress, praised as qualified. Local social rounds include visits among Nelsons, Ford of Elm Grove, Everheart in Trenton, Sears in town, and Garner family gatherings. Several illnesses and injuries noted with Hattie Taylor improving and Roy Coffman with a broken arm from a wagon fall.
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W. A. Kirkpatrick
W. L. White
Susie C. Wells
Bells Post Office
Albert Ford
Elm Grove
R. L. Nelson and
Mabel Everheart
Trenton
Gladys Marshall
Homer Sears
Susie Wells
Sherman
Geo. Garner
Ira Kirkpatrick
Whitewright
C. T. Williams
Bonham
Hattie Taylor
Roy Coffman
Will Coffman
Tom Bean
Death of Mrs Sarah T Dickerson at Bushong Kans
Mrs D S McMillin received notice of her mother Mrs Sarah T Dickersons death at her Bushong home at five oclock Wednesday morning after years of paralysis. The body was buried in the community burial ground near Bushong.
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D. S. McMillin
Sarah T. Dickerson
Bushong
MccMillin
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Strength
Invigorating tonic claims to drive out malaria enrich blood and build up the system for adults and children. A true general strengthening remedy priced at 60 cents.
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Grove
Debora's $50,000 marriage plan backfires
Debora laughs at an aunt's scheme to gift $50,000 to the first niece married. The family learns Larry McClure, Mrs Vandyke's nephew and Debora's fiancé, is not a mere chauffeur but a loved heir with a clear future. The couple embrace amid the reveal.
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Debora
Mother
Lucretia
Brother Jack
Rosemere
Father
Jack
Larry
Little Sister
Paragon
Flo
Vandyke
Mr. McClure
Sam Mr. McClure
Larry McClure
Iather
Wireless in War How Cruisers Use Wireless to Scout and Report
A Boston Transcript piece explains wireless telegraphy in naval warfare. It describes ships maintaining contact with fleets and shore stations, sharing sighted enemy movements by wireless, semaphore, and Morse lamp. It highlights the operator’s perilous, disciplined role inside the ship’s hidden wireless room and the fleet’s reliance on constant communications during reconissance and battle orders.
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Navy Department
Boston Transcript
Wasted Sympathy in a Life piece on talent and tact
A fragmentary scene depicts a professor and his wife discussing hard work and pay while a performer group called Tiana Mov er jokes about delivering coeds. The dialogue contrasts talent with tact in a social setting.
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Tiana Mover
Weather Pranks From Cloud Sheets to Fohn Winds
A compact survey from Youth's Companion details dramatic atmospheric phenomena. It explains how mountain uplift creates tablecloth clouds over Table Mountain and Cross Fell, helm winds carving the helm and bar, and coastal fogs like the painter and garua in Peru. It notes red fogs off northwest Africa, the foan wind in Alpine valleys causing rapid snowmelt and fires, and fohn sickness. The Chinook relates to fohn. a mysterious tire ship looms over the Bay of Chafer, portending storms. Andes lightning shows luminous discharges over Chilean peaks, with summits acting as giant lightning rods. The rosy alpen glow at day’s end, called recoloration or resurrection of Mont Blanc, marks the alpenzion.
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Table Mountain
Cape Town
Cross Fell
England
Callao
Peru
Africa
Canaries
Cape Verde Islands
Sabaru
Alps
United States
Bay of Chafeur
Canada
Andes
Chile
Mont Blanc
FourYearOld Defies Father Over Scissors Incident
In a quiet library scene Marjorie four ignores her father's call and refuses to report to her mother after using scissors on a polished table. The father directs her to confess, but she resists calling herself no tattletale in front of Judge.
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Marjorie
Siamese Royal Etiquette Enforces Sleep Rule
A long standing Siam court law bans anyone from sleeping in an apartment above the king. Violations have led to death penalties on several occasions, underscoring strict royal etiquette at the palace.
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Siam
Homemade Paste Paste Recipe From Woman's Home Companion
A simple paste using one small grated potato and boiling water creates a clear glue suitable for many pasting tasks. Boil five minutes for best results, claimed to outperform flour or cornstarch pastes.
Belief in Laughter and Distant Hopes
A short, reflective note quoting Groves on laughter love faith and distant hopes guiding us forward.
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Groves
Military Annihilation Explained In War Context
An analysis clarifies that annihilated or destroyed in war refer to the breakdown of fighting units such as regiments divisions or army corps rather than every soldier. It notes higher officer mortality, the need to recruit reofficer and reorganize after losses, and cites Buller’s 40 000 man army at the Angela river as an example of a defeated force becoming a mob before reorganization.
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Ue A
Buller
Angela River
Alligators of Panama One Man Eater Terrorizes Villages
Paul Drevy recounts in Wide World Magazine how a single alligator in the Tayra River region near Panama terrified two villages with thirty human victims in two months. After fruitless hunts, locals captured the monster with a baited hook and pig, describing it as nearly twenty four feet long and over a century old with moss and seaweed on its scales.
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Tayra
Gulf of Panama
Bartow
Paul Drevy
Wide World Magazine
Animals and Electricity
A leech on a copper plate atop zinc cannot crawl off due to weak electric action. Horses are troubled by small potential differences. An ox treated for rheumatism with electricity died from a current harmless to humans. We will pay 10c cash or 11e in trade for turkeys Friday and Saturday. W. M. Cox.
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W. M. Cox
Grove's General Tonic claims tonic and health benefits
Advertisement for Grove's tasteless chill tonic promoting quinine and iron as liver tonic blood builder. It drives out malaria enriches the blood and strengthens the system priced at 50 cents.
Miss Jessie Fogle Visits Greenville for Short Stay
Miss Jessie Fogle traveled to Greenville last Friday for a brief visit lasting several days. She planned local sightseeing and meetings with friends during her stay in the city.
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Jessie Fogle
Greenville
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Ruth
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Lois Spindle
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Lester Morgan of
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W. O. Morgan and Family
Dr. King
J. R. Watts
Floydale
Texas
T. J. Smith
Bill Stockton
Mangrum Bros
Edith Rathbun
Dallas
Dr. R. May
Farmers Restaurant
Bay of Chaleur
Panama
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