davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-16

J. S. Croteau, is employed at the
Lewiston Rubber Company.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Halloween and
Mrs. Nathan Halloween OF South
China were in the city, Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-16

The Last Minute Gift Sale, Mrs.
LeClair's 1872 Water street, all this
week. Prices low. dec15d5t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-16

Frances Pishon is at home from
Bradford Academy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-16

Joseph Rainville of Lewiston, was
n Augusta, Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-16
AUGUSTA LOCALS

DIR. E. p. Goodrich Of Lewiston was
n Augusta on business, Tuesday.
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TIE Ase Of FIRST 0anzoAele G7sMsh A5@ 1875

considered scholarly version. No per
feet copy Is known to be extant.
Much of the lettering of the illus
trations can be read. The upside
down scroll in connection with Adam
and Eve and the serpent in the Garden
of Eden reads:
"In what daye so ever thou eatest
thereof thou shalt dye"
Note the wv" which is used for wv"
lettering In old English and were
practically interchangeable; hence W
was literally double-u. The seven
teenth verse of the second chapter of
Genesis in the King James version
reads:
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of 1t:
for in the day thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die"
A significant piece of decoration on
this title page is that at the bottom
between the two scrolls. 1t quite
evidently represents King Henry VIII.
to whom the translation was deds-
Gated by Myles Coverdale. presenting
this first complete English Bible to
church and civil dignitaries. Henry
VIII (1491-1547)-Bluff King Hattie
king of many wives-procured in 1884
the passage Of the Act of Supremacy
which severed the connection of the
English church with Rome and ap-
pointed the king and his successors
the protector and only supreme head
|, of the church and clergy of England
So 1t was quite in order for him to
bring out a new version Of the Billie.
An odd bit of decoration for the IL.
tie page of Bible Is the sugges-
ton of the Order of the Garter, with
its famous motto This is the high
est order of knighthood in Great Brit
ain, and its membership is about 80,
including the sovereign, the Prince
of Wales and "a knights compan-
ions. 1t was established by Edward
III (1312-77) about 1345. The legend
of It is that at state ball the
Countess of Salisbury lost her garter.
which Edward picked up and placed
on his own knee. His courtiers there
upon snickered, whereupon the king
exclaimed Gas we now write it) "Honi
soft qui NAL Y pense" This literally
means: "Shamed be he who thinks
evil of It." We now translate it I:
EVIL to him who evil thinks"
Suppose we put the kings utterance
conversely thus: "Good to him who
good thinks" That is not so very
far from peace on earth to men of
good WILL" as the Roman Catholic
Douay version Of the Bible translates
the Christmas message.
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Science Beats Silk
Worm at Own Game

terial constituting the cell walls of
plants. could be manufactured into
rayOn on large scale.
Many processes are used. but in all
some type of cellulose Is reduced to
a jellylike mass and pumped through
glass nozzles in which there are fine
capillary tubes so small as to be in
visible to the naked eye. This pro
duces endless threads which are
pumped into chemical baths to harden
and bleach them. From this stage.
the fbers are spun and handled like
silk.
The silklike sheen which rayon I'M
parts to cotton fabric when woven
into 1t within the last few months has
resulted in large demand from the
cotton mills of the South and has
greatly stimulated the sale Of cotton
goods throughout the country.
Covers Phone Wires.
Rayon also is used for covering tele-
phone wires and electro magnets,
trimming and beading tire fabrics. for
dolls hair, artificial flowers. shoe
Iaces, suspenders, garter Innings and
in knit goods.
In statement issued by the Bah
son statistical organization 1t was es
timated that the domestic production
of rayon was approximately 100000
pounds in 1924, as compared with
100000 pounds in 1920 and 2,4500O0
In 1914.
This years output will approximate
100000 pounds. One hundred and
forty million pounds was the total of
the worlds production last year, with
the United States leading all other
countries.
The competition between silk and
rayon is reflected in prices. In 1920
raw silk dropped from $1S pound to
So, while rayon of the unbleaehed $50
dernier grade was cut from $3.50 to
So q pound.
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tant undertaking is shown by the adj
dress to King James of the translators,
of which the beginning and fourth
paragraph are as follows:
To the Most High and Mighty Prince
James, by the Grace of God, King of
Great Britain, France and Ireland, De-
fender of the Faith, &c. the Translators
of the Bible wish Grace, Mercy and
Peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord
There are infinite arguments of this
right Christian and religious affection
in Your Majesty, but none is more
forcible to declare 1t to others than the
vehement and perpetuated desire of ac-
complishing and publishing of this
work, which now with all humility we
present unto Your Majesty. For when
Your Highness had once out of deep
judgment apprehended how convenient
II was, that out of the Original Sacred
Tongues, together with comparing of
the labours, both in our own, and other
foreign Languages, of many worthy
men who went before us, there should
be one more exact Translation of the
holy Scriptures into the English
Tongue; Your Majesty did never desist
to urge and to excite those to whom 1t
was commended that the work might
be FASTENED, and that the business
ner, as matter of such Importance
might justly require.
This James (1566-1625) was the son
of Lord Darnley and Mary Queen of
Scots. In 1867 he became James vi
of Scotland and in 1903 succeeded
Queen Elizabeth as James /, king of
England, Scotland and Ireland. He
was said by his contemporaries to be
the "wisest fool in Europe"
The King James version Is by no
means the first English Bible. That
honor probably belongs to a manu-
script translation of about 1880 by
John Wycliffe, the famous preacher
from the Latin Vulgate. Incident
ally, it Is of interest to note that in
his preface Wycliffe wrote, THE Bible
is for the government of the people
by the people and for the people,
which Is suggestively similar to Lin.
coins famous utterance In his Gettys.
burg Address. How many manu-.
script copies of Wycliffe's translation
were made is not known; eight Of his
time are still in existence. 1t Is
known, however, that these manu-
script copies were in semi-secret cir
culation in England down to the emo
Of the Fifteenth century.
Now we come to the first complete
English Bible, the title page Of which
is herewith reproduced. It's date IL
MDXXXv-1535-as the fac simile
shows. 1t was not translation from
original Greek and Hebrew texts
from the ''Douche, and Latyn," as the
title page sets forth. The names o.
translator and printer are not SCI
forth But they are known. The
translator was Miles Coverdale CLASS
1859, and the printing was done IL
Switzerland, probably in Zurich. 1t Il
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Thousands of Game Birds
Victims of Cruel Malady

= Klamath Falls, Ore.-Thousands of
ducks and geese lie dead in Tule lake
as a result of strange malady, be
lieved induced either by alkali water
or by rank, stagnant ponds. To cope
with the situation the United States
biological survey has been notified, and
will conduct an examination to de-
termine what is the cause of the whole
sale deaths in the ranks of thousands
Of game birds.
Game Warden Barnes will send sew
eral dead birds to the biological sur
vey research Office in Portland, where
vital organs Of the BIRDS will be an
aIyzed to determine the cause of death.
A similar problem with deer faced
game authorities last year. Scores of
mule-tail deer died in Modoc county
from consuming wet mud In dried-up
spring.
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HONOR WIFE OF
BUILDER OF WALL
Chinese Erect Temple to Wom-
ans Memory.

Chinwangtao.-Where the Picking
Mukden railway pierces the great wall
| of China at Shanhaikwan is temple
erected to the memory of pious wife
whose husband perished In the build
| ing of the structure.
Chih Huang-ti, the emperor who
united all China, came to the throne In
246 B. G. 1t was Chih who built the
great wall to keep the country to-
gether.
A woman from the south, SO the
legend runs, brought cotton-wadded
clothes for her man, who had been
impressed by the emperor to help
build the wall. She was told that her
husband had died, and that she could
not have his body because it had been
thrown between the brick facings of
the wall and crushed there under tons
of rubble and earth
The woman persuaded comrade of
her husband to show her the stretch
of wall where the body of her husband
lay. Three days and three nights
thereafter she walked up and down
that length, until the compassion of
the divine power was excited by her
laments, and that part of the wall col
lapsed
The scandal came to the ears of the
emperor. who recognized, beneath his
tyranny, that the conduct of the wom-
an had been most orthodox. To regu-
larize the matter, he directed that she
be admitted to his household First,
however, he granted her prayer that
she be permitted to select the bones
of her husband for more deliberate
burial.
The woman gathered up her hus-
bands bones and walked to the end
of the wall, abutting on the sea, from
which. before the guards could stop
her. she cast the bones into the sea
and herself after them.
The image of the pious wife. In i'm
perial robes, stands In the temple near
the spot, while the breach in the wall
is now perpetual.
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Artificial Product Comes In
to Wider Use.

New York.-The silk worm. after
losing its secret, is giving way to the
competition of mans science and ma
chinery.
Rayon, an artificial textile fabric
closely resembling silk in appearance,
is used in the manufacture of hosiery,
which consumes one-ffth of the do
nestle production, and of ribbon. cot
ton and wooden goods Its tensile
strength is greater than cotton and
less than silk.
Count Hilaire de Chardonnet was
the first to produce rayon. and he
called it artificial silk when he intro
duced the fabric at the Paris exposi-
ton in 1864. His invention resulted
from study of the organic process
which takes place as the silk worm
produces silk.
Produces Vegetable Fiber.
Initiating this artificially, he pro-
duced vegetable fiber which organ
ically resembled cotton more than
silk. improvements were made in
the process until cellulose, the ma
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Now when Jesus was born In Beth
tehem of Judea in the days of Herod
the king, behold. there came wise men
from the east to Jerusalem
Saying. Where is he that Is born
King of the Jews? for we have seen
his star in the east, and are come to
worship him. =.
When they saw the star, they re-
joiced with exceeding great joy.
And when they were come into the
house. they saw the young child with
Mary his mother. and fell down, and
worshipped him: and when they had
opened their treasures, they presented
unto him gifts: gold and frankincense'
and myrrh.
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would mingle in the regular peniten-
tiaries.
One of the outstanding problems in
the administration of the prison sys-
tenn, in addition to the congestion ques-
ton, is that of providing suitable en-
ployment for all the prisoners. AT
present large numbers of able-bodied
prison inmates are in enforced idle
ness.
The whole theory of the federal pris-
ons is based on the conception that
a prison should be corrective rather
than purely punitive institution. 1t is
believed that many novices at law
breaking can be redeemed if trained in
useful trades, which would make 1t pos
sible for them to support themselves
honestly.
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Rheims Backward in
Recovering Its Status

Rheims.-Rheims is among the
few cities In France with empty
apartments and slumping in
dustrial real estate market. The
return of the population has not
kept pace with rebuilding and
restoration, as there are only
$4,000 inhabitants, as compared
with $4,000 before the war.
To the world, Rheims general
ly is associated first with cathe-
drals, and then champagne. Be
fore the war, however, it was an
important industrial city, where
wool weaving, spinning and
bleaching employed 10000 per-
sons, now reduced to about one
third of that number.
Land which at armistice time
sold for 10 to 80 francs the
square meter, when it was
thought the city would be itself
again in short time, is now Of
fered at from 5 to 10 francs.
The League for the Industri-
al, Commercial and Labor De
velopment of Rheims" has been
formed to come to the rescue.
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Tradition Of a Plant

The little wild cranesbill known as
Herb Robert, and which flowers In the
hedges and bitches of the Old land
from April 20 onward, was of consid-
cradle consequence to our simple
minded ancestors. 1t cured rush, Ill
GERS, scrofula. govt, and repealed lice.
It figures In the most ancient herbals
under the name Sadroc. 1t is supposed
to have come into existence through
AIohammed spreading his shirt to dry
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But last week he forced the story from
her. He said nothing, but went to see
her parents.
He wanted them to know that
Wanda was alive and well and their
little granddaughter was strong and
sweet and happy. He wanted to ar
range a marriage.
Man 10 Stunned.
But he didn't tell Wanda about this
He didn't get much chance, for Wanda.
being afraid, Stunned him.
The other morning she locked her
self in her room and gave way to wall
Ing. Brannan remained in his OWE
room, thinking 1t best to leave her
alone. He heard her enter the bath
room. And a moment later he heard
her scream.
She had swallowed iodine. but he
didn't know that then.
She ran upstairs, while little Anna
May wept bitterly. And Oriel fol-
lowed. frantic.
She was flying toward the rim OF
the roof.
wanda, l love youi"
She was perched on the rim, ready
to jump. He was running toward her.
wanda, for Gods sake. Wanda
marry mel"
His hands reached out for her. They
almost reached her.
But she had jumped, her hands In
front of her tear-Wet ewes.
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Button Taken From Childps
Throat on Speeding Train

Acknowledgement of a three-cor
nered button from the windpipe of q
ive-year-old West Virginia girl while
on board Baltimore & Ohio railroad
train coming into Cincinnati marked
the successful termination of a race
with death begun at Park ersburg.
The child was Ellene Leven Sinnett.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. c. Sinnett
of Harrisville, W. Va.
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LEAPS TO DEATH
AS SWEETHEART
PROTESTS LOVE
Despondent Woman Takes
Fatal Plunge From Roof
of Tall Building.

New York-Wanda Twaska, twenty.
an unwed mother, jumped to her death
from the roof of building in Brook
Ign.
She leaped as her sweetheart, cali
ing wanda, 1 love you'll" tried to-
grasp her shoulders.
He still was calling her name as
her body thudded on the street.
1t was the end of tragic love story.
Wanda was only fifteen when she
became a mother, pretty brunette,
ignorant, romantic, duped. She dis
appeared, with her baby, Anna May.
And her parents and the neighborhood
of Twenty-third street and Second ave-
nue. knew her no more.
A year ago Wanda as Mrs. Bertha
Setter, widow" rented room for
herself and her child at the home of
Oriel Brannan, twenty-five. in Brook
Ign.
There she found peace. Mrs. Bran
nan, Oriel's mother, took care of Anna
May while Wanda and Oriel worked In
the factory. They labored side by
side.
Girl Finds Peave.
They loved each other They
planned to marry. The girl said moth
ing about her past. She hoped Orie1
never would know the truth. She
feared what it would mean to him.
And then. two months ago, the first
man "came back" He met Wanda on
the street. He followed her to her
refuge. He made her life miserable.
speaking of "his daughter"
Wanda kept to her room. Oriel
could hear her weeping in the night.
She could not tell him-not at first.
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S4s1N'

urban council. says the London Daily
News.
The police appealed for volunteers
TO rescue the sheep imprisoned on a
ledge 200 feet down. Among the vol
unteers was Thomas Williams. q
farmer.
Lowered on ropes after three hours
labor in the blazing sun Williams sue
ceeded in rescuing one lamb. The
other fell from the ledge over the
preclpice-like slope. Williams act was
risky one. as the descent is rocky
and dangerous
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-12-25
Cuts Wire, Saves Man

Hamburg, Pa.-Deliberately cutting
wire with voltage of 1900. which
Paul Reppert, aged thirty seven,
touched accidentally, Harry Hummel,
fellow workman. caused the former
70 fall from an electric pole distance
# 30 feet and saved his life. In fall.
ng Reppert struck wire reel He
escaped with burned left hand =
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over mallow plant. When the
prophet resumed the sacred garment
the mallow was gone and the Herb
Robert took its place. Some of local
names. such as "knife and fork" Lon
don pink, dogs toes, sailors knot, are
hard to account for
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Holiday-makers at yarmouth were
spectators of a thrilling attempted res
cue recently of two lambs which had
been stranded on the dangerous slope
of local quarry belonging to the
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"
fact that 1t is incomparably the
worlds "best seller" But 1t is espe-
cially "The Christmas Book" for it is
the very fount Of the Christmas in
spiration and Of the Christmas spirit.
Christianity is the driving power Of
the world. Skeptics may point to the
World war as evidence that Chris
tianity has failed. Churches and sects
may quarrel among themselves. Funda-
mentalists and modernists may fiercely
dispute about the authority of the
Bible. The Reds may predict the de-
cline and fall Of Christianity. Never
theless, Christianity, after nineteen
centuries still remains the driving
power of the world. And the central
fact Of Christianity is Jesus Christ
His life, His person, His teachings. So
the Bible is the Christian Book.
The four verses from ST. Matthews
account of the birth Of Christ are
given exactly as found in the modern
printing of the King James Bible,
which is still the accepted text with
many churchmen, notwithstanding the
many versions which the centuries
have brought. It is often called the
Authorized Bible" for the reason
that 1t had the sanction of both the
English king and of English scholars.
The King James translation had In
ceptlon in 1904 at conference at
Hampton court. 1t was then deter
mined that a translation should be
made which could be accepted as
fundamentally correct. Forty-seven
translators were named from the fore
most scholars Of England. The first
draft was completed in 1909. Two
years were devoted to revision. It
was printed in London in 1911 by Rob
ert Barker.
That this translation was an impor-
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COPPER IN COLLEGE

Elmer Carlson, senior at the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, is working his
way through the university by serving
as member of the Madison police
force.
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Sorry Now

Gowanda, N. Y.-Some sixteen r.
dian maids are sorry they had theii
hair bobbed. Because of their short
tresses a movie company would not
take them to Florida with 125 others
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BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

o GOES in part the story in
the King James Bible (161D
Of the birth Of Christ and the
alteration of the "Three
Kings Of the Orient"-Magi,
wise men-as told by st.
Matthew. The Bible is
"The Book" for every day in
the wear. as shown hv the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-10
RUSSIA TURNS
To PEASANTS
FOR AID
Communist Lecturers to Edu-
cate People to Cooperate
With SoViets
nv international News Service

BY International News service
MOSCOW, Sept. 1O.-Soviet Russia
is turning back to the villages and
the peasantry for renewed strength.
Heretofore the peasantry have not
been handled with any great
measure of consideration by the
Government made up largely OF city
jewellers.
The central committee OF the
Communist party has now changed
its policy and states that the de-
fects of our work in the villages APP
near now in a bright light"
1.-THE party regards it necessary
to bring about a definite change in
the method of managing the coun.
try population, continued the COM
mittee's statement. 1--WE shall be
able to Judge the work of our COM
rades in the villages in proportion
70 the growth of authority and m
fluence of the party among the
masses of the peasantry.
Communist lecturers nave peen
cent into the provinces to help eau
cate the peasant to cooperation
with the soviets.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-10
OPOSSUM SOUNDS CALL
FOR POLICE SQUAD

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Sept. TO-
When the burglar alarm connected
with his chicken coop went off and
kept up an incessant changing of
the bell in the bedroom, Harvey
Amey, proprietor of hotel near
the city water works. of course
surmised that thieves were raiding
the hennery. He summoned the
police.
An armed squad arrived in u few
minutes and made a search of the
premises, with the result that it
was discovered the thief" that had
set off the alarm was a big. fat
opossum. The animal was killed,
after having eaten several pullets.
The night before Amey had a pistol
battle with a pair of safecrackers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-10
MOTHERS LAXATIVE PROBLEM
FOR THE CHILDREN IS SOLVED

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-10

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vented by Washington man you can
keep lay-by-play score of games re-
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phone. One radio head phone and this
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-10

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