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Lexington High Girls Claim Tie Over Winthrop High
Lexington High School athletic director Fred C. Ball disputes Winthrop High School’s claim to a shared state title with Lexington’s girls field hockey team after both beat Arlington High. Lexington, except for one loss to Arlington, went undefeated, including a 1 0 victory at Winthrop last Monday. Winthrop seeks a neutral, return game, but weather would force it to Lexington, where the field is snowbound.
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Arlington High School
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Spy Pond
Lexington
Lexington Girls
Arlington
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Connecticut Woman Invents Sanitary Baking Board and Rolling Pin
A Connecticut woman has invented a waxed paper baking board and a waxed paper rolling pin with a cardboard core. The design allows the waxed coverings to be discarded and replaced after sorting to promote sanitary baking practices.
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Connecticut
Maine "coon-cat" belief puzzles locals and biologists
The text describes a Maine belief that a cross between a cat and a raccoon produces a "coon-cat." Natives claim the creature has a raccoon tail, short forelegs, a pointed snout, and long hair, while biologists dismiss the idea as myth.
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Maine
Evolution of the Almond into the Peach
The piece explains how almonds evolved through selection and cultivation into a luscious fruit, the peach. It notes the almond’s green leathery pulp outside the shell and contrasts it with the edible peach, highlighting historical modification of the nut into a fruit.
Tempering Your Temper Says Sage
A sage advises holding your temper and measuring expression. Being reticent prompts others to underestimate you while guessing at hidden depth, often to your advantage in social or professional settings.
Do Not Dread Tomorrow
A brief motivational note urges workers to stay hopeful and perform with honesty. It stresses that today’s missteps should not dictate tomorrow and encourages gratitude to improve contentment and competence for future opportunities.
Cure for Catarrh Promoted as Constitutional Remedy
An advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated as a blood or constitutional disease. It promotes a product called Serene Cure, described as developed by esteemed physicians, acting on mucous surfaces and purporting to purify the blood.
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Hall
Substitutes from Seaweed and Giraffe Neck Facts
A seaweed found in the Philippines serves as a gelatine substitute. Giraffes have seven neck joints despite long necks. Fire proofed seaweed pads line walls to dampen sound. A baby beetle could consume 50 to 100 pounds of food daily. Balsam wood, the lightest known, grows in Central America and northern South America.
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Central America
South America
Words of Wise Men and Timely Thoughts
A collection of maxims on civilization, women, effort, honesty, time, humility, experience and happiness. The sayings urge encouragement, humble progress, action over reflection, and resilience through sun and storm.
Not One Word From Hubby Poker Tale Tells All
A Washington hotel lobby poker chat recalls Jim Smith hosting bachelor friends with cigars and bottles. When a friend asks what would happen if Mrs Smith walked in, Smith replies that all the talking would be done by Mrs Smith, a quip cited by the Philadelphia Telegraph.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Richard W. Austin
Tennessee
Jim Smith
Smith
Limbs Support Device Tested At Local Hospital
A new limb support tested in a country hospital proves highly satisfactory and a Red Cross unit will send one device to Bance with build specs available. The hammock like sling hangs from a steel arm attachable to bed or chair and allows free movement. It can be raised or lowered by rope and pulleys and swings from side to side for patient comfort.
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Red Crossy
Popular Mechanics
Aerial Mail Service Expands Across Nations
Mail by Airplane gains support as Sweden and England form an aerial mail company. Another company runs Turin to Rome with special stamps. In the United States the advisory aeronautics commission proposed an air mail link from Washington to Norfolk, and post offices consider it.
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England
Turin
Rome
Italy
National Advisory Commission For Aeronautics
Post Office Department
Washington
Norfolk
Silence and marriage rights and wartime notes from 1913 to 1917
Brief collection of varied items: teachers in Philadelphia may marry while teaching, 1913 sugar exports reach 28 000 tons and 1916 reach 704 000 tons, US ethnic groups totals, a New Mexico dog chase ends with three boys’ help, 1913 immigration exclusion and deportations, 1857 patent for antiphotographic green ink, a $100000 gift toward Methodist headquarters in Petrograd and Bucharest, English League of Honor vows, Bangor musician stones producing tones.
Hawaii Pineapple Led By Sugar Output In State Trade
Hawaii yields a large pineapple crop second only to its sugar production. Grocers nationwide incur over 75 million dollars in annual retail delivery expenses. In 1914 only five firms produced aniline dyes. now eighty operate in the field. A Punta Arenas Chile shoe factory will disrupt U S exports. The Indian cashew tree provides insect repellent gum, indelible ink juice, and three oils for edible use and fishing nets.
Soldier Furlong Escapes Guard at Fort Banks
Private George Furlong, awaiting court martial for desertion, bolted toward liberty while being escorted to the guard house at Fort Banks. Guards fired a volley, and an armed posse searched in rain and wind for two hours, stopping cars and trains. Around 11 30 p m a guard found Furlong near vacant houses by Short Beach. he surrendered without resisting.
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Furlong
Short Beach
Empress Marie’s Luxury Train Serves Imperial Visits
The London Observer details Empress Marie of Russia owning a grand royal train. Her travels involved a palatial locomotive stationed at Boulogne, ready to transport her across the continent on short notice, reflecting high expenses for royal journeys.
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Marie
Russia
Alexandra
London Observer
Boulogne
England
Demand for Imitation Leather Market in Venice Expands
A Venice correspondent notes rising demand for imitation leathers of specific grades and colors. Previously sought by art furniture imagers, transport limits and luxury restrictions have slowed art furniture trade, boosting manufacture and export activity of imitation leather.
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Venice
When Lost in Woods and How to Find Civilization
A psychologist lays out rules for being lost in the woods. If you wander downhill you reach a valley. Follow a stream to a house or town if no people are seen. In flat country follow the sun to determine compass direction toward habitation.
Real Estate Transfers Listed for Charlestown and Nearby Streets
Transfers shown include John E. Carleton and Mary A. Pimentel on Winthrop Street, Five-Cent Savings Bank mtgee with Heman N. Fish at 3350, Louisa F. Frederick to William F. Jones on Girdlestone Road, Nina M. O’Connell to John E. O’Connell on Wilshire Street, Otto Sharp to William G. Greenall on Revere Street, and Bathilda Tirrell to Charles H. Nelson on Main Street.
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Mary A. Pimentel
Winthrop Street
Charlestown
Five-Cent Savings Bank
Mtgee
The Lever Principle for Easier Carpeting
In laying carpets and rugs, heavy furniture can be raised with a bed slat or broom handle. Place one end under the furniture with a solid object beneath, then press down on the opposite end to lift with ease.
Peat Gas Powers Diesel Engines and Other Innovations
Danish engineers reveal a method to drive diesel engines with peat gas as a turbine powers a 1,000 horsepower dynamo in a German city. A garment hanger patent allows creased pants without extra effort. A Swiss dry battery for pocket lamps uses replaceable elements. Night fishing lamped float with storage battery lights when a fish pulls the hook. California club promotes education to save harmless snakes. French experts plan 15 mile antenna to test long waves.
Will Wear Off. Shoes with thick soles prompt remark
A visitor in a neighboring town tries on shoes and tells the clerk she dislikes them because the soles are too thick. The clerk quips that the objection will gradually wear off, implying the issue may fade with time.
Families by size dominate England population share
Families of three constitute 19 percent of the total, the largest group, followed by four person families at 18 percent, five person at 14 percent, and six person at 10 percent of the total population.
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England
Patriotic spending and personal responsibility mix in wartime creed
The excerpt urges economical patriotism and paying debts from past extravagances. It argues opportunity favors those who seize chances and that winning the war becomes a personal duty. It calls for blending creeds with deeds into a lovable, practical ethic.
Pointed Paragraphs Wit and Work in Daily Life
A collection of aphorisms on work politics love and fear from Chicago News. It notes sawing wood and coal as home industries and jokes about a calm wedding tour before trouble. It links fear light and leadership and remarks on glass blowers and women’s wit.
Great Munitions Plants in England View
In Obstacles of Peace S M McClure notes a three hour voyage revealing six large munitions factories near towns with no other factories. One plant employs 10 000 workers including 7000 women. A government explosives works spans twenty miles by four miles. Contracts will take five years to fulfill as England concentrates on war production.
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McClure
England
City Fare Talks and Civic Updates Across States
New York street railways discuss fare increases while the city arrests 1,485 auto speeders in a month. Poughkeepsie grows by 8,000 in seven years. Frankfort completes a fish hatchery. New York State 1918 tax budget stands at 240,796,119.44 dollars due to labor costs. University of Wisconsin reports German declines and French rises among students. A Brooklyn woman forms an Order of Godmothers to support soldiers with letters and gifts.
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New York
Brooklyn
N. Y
Keeping Pans Bright
Advice on maintaining bright pans by rubbing with dripping before use and washing with soapy water then drying with a soft duster. The method promises pans stay bright for weeks.
Britain’s 5 Million Working Women and Hawaii’s Dual Peaks
The report notes Britain has about five million women in the workforce while Hawaii is described with two notable mountains rising about fourteen thousand feet. The piece juxtaposes national labor figures with geographic features to illustrate regional contrasts.
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