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Libertyville Independent, 7 Apr 1927, p. 13

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----*~~' OF INDIAN FACTORY All was now ready for the oficial epening. The. chief director of the company turned on the compressed air, Add the Diese! engine made its Orsat Cencles of American newspapers is their readiness to die an early death. The Times of London was founded in 1785 and seems still in the prime of life, but there are few in the United States to compare with it. To be sure, there are still alive today that Connecticut pair, the Hart-- ford Courant--and the New Hares Journal Couriler, founded in 1764 and 1706. Like so many venerable papers, the latter has absorbed many a less ceremony. The men took a coconut, broke it over the fiywheel of the en-- gine, sprinkled red powder over the moving parts and on certain machines in the department, cheered vigorously and capped their hands. Coconut and sugar were next distributed, and the en daubed their foreheads with red Four Parsi priests arrived> at the works vrery eariy in the morning and commenced their prayers, --"It will take them two hour$ to go through the ceremony," Cowasii-- told me. Meantime Mabadeo, my foreman, had Informed me that his, men, who were, like him, not Parsis but Hindus/ wanted to make puja before the en-- gine started. Cowasi}l said this puja, or worship, was most important.. If it were not carried out, the men would have no faith in the machinery and any future acctdent would be set down to the omission, * : So I told Mahadeo to get on with the founded in 1301, remains our one big-- city suryivor from the early dayse --ot the last century ; and even that is un-- When there is so much to-- read, there is little time for conversation ; nor is there leisure for another pas-- Ume of the ancient Aresides, called reading --aloud. The Usteners, who m'hnothtyloohlhbth'wflo chimney place, saw there pass in stately procession --the events and the grand persons of history, were kindied with the delights of travel, touched by the romance of true love, or made restliess by tales of> adventure--the hearth became a sort of magic stone that could transport those who sat by umwwmflm as as the book was opened and the reader began, af a winter's night «----Chartes Dudley Warner. changed is its manner.----World's Work. *_Women in English Pulpits Vanilla Flavor Leads ¥anillia is by far the most popular lee cream favor. --Manufecturers--rep resenting an aunual proeduction o nearly 84,000,000 gallong report that 36 per cent of the output is vanilia, 10 per ceut chocolate, nearly & per cent strawberry and nearly 27 per cent of other fAavors. . More than 88 per cent of the lce cream is 1010 in buik, not quite 12 per cent in brick form, Contrary to general belief drug stores sell about half as rmuch ice Rev, Joyce Daplyn, secretary of thet Union of Women Voters, is the young est of British women preachers, labd now has ten fully quailfied wom en ministers in the Baptist, Congrega-- tienal <and Unitartan churches,, the only denominations which so far ad mit women to their ministry, In addt tion there are #ix women who hare not formally qualified as ministers but are in charge o¢ churches.--Indianap privacy were violated by one of alien cream as do confectionery stores, Cowas}i, my assistant, I took to be a typical modern Parsi--clever and intel-- ligent. He viewed rather induigently the superstitions of the Hindu work-- men and was almost apologetic when telling me of certain caste rules that must be observed. But I struck the eastern note when he began to explain the Parsi_invocation ceremony "which would take place before the formal opening of the works. *"No person who is not a Parst must witness the proceedings," he said ; and T gathered that the beneficial effect of the ceremony would be destroyed if its olls News. Bombay. Now'I had reached the stage when the works was practically com lands of fowers in preparation for the opening ceremony, consulted .the . astrologers and an auspicious day has been appointed for the opening ceremony, Henry R. Band writes, in Asia Magazine. i 'Mmmwt-n!n;d-' wheel--by a privileged oftcial, an in auguration rite must be carrled out, and this isz the more important ol servance of the two. I had come out from England to or-- ganize and run a modern bleach and . The starting up of a works or fac-- tory in India is by no means the mat-- ter--of--fact business it is in the West. The engine must. not make its fArst rerolntion until the. masters, be they Mindd, Mobammedan or Paral, hare Imposing Ceramonies to Sat-- Oune of the most disconcerting ten Conductor----Where : to? Jimmy--Can't tell you, it's a sor isfy W orkmen. present name only eighty O "I think we had better notify the police !"--New --York Bun. P line v k **"What. do you think we'd better do?"* asked the first policeman: after thoss bandits had robbed them of their shilelds, guns and ready cash. Mary, essentially dancers, contracted awith William Leingston--{or the~thea-- ter, Some=yedtrs before, in 1665,: the tourt in Virginia acted as play cen-- sor also, havring pasked jJudgment on a performancee of "Ye Buare and Ye and oil leases found in bis effects and reported 'to the probate Judge that the estate was worthless with the excep tion of personal belongings worth $19 and insurance policies totallng $2.682,-- Cub" to satisfy a complaint that the eostumes -- were. objectionable. x The caurt found -- nothing . oebjectionable, howerer, ° * o > z. covs business man, who died last 'Aogust, left an estate valued at more than . Aécording to a writer in the Path:! _ _~ _ _Irnwsflingness to Act theater in the United States"was to--| _ H&#ttancy in the last months of fits cated in Williamaburg, Va. 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"How is the earth. dividdd?" asked a pompous exraminer, who had already worn out tha --patience of the clase. _ "By earthquakes," repiled_the boy. have crushed --bhim had he pursued dil-- Igentiy, or hbe might have crossed into Italy 'and won Back the*peninsula. Instead, he followed Caesar leisuroly, and. the --decisive battie did not come «ntil Caesar had bhad time to raily his forces and to choose--the battliefleld: Pompéy was drtven in fiight at Phar-- ualila, --fled to 'Egypt and there was Areacherousiz.s}ain by one of his own Oficers.--Kansas City Star. °; ---- anrd ItlH be a success.--Collier's warily besitating. to "attr@ck, though Pompey bad so many'more men it is d'Mcu't to account 'for his Jlack of enetgy.> Finally~the clash came and Pompey's troops won the day. = Caesat wA Specter to the Good E a trg # * a * 1 J z: To § F P J f ; P -- Lo Y [3« I w¥ , H es <l> % J his & . * t M & % g t : 4 o xd * 4 o $ + < a 3 WOnagpmrncanam ap repmpyorrs & 6 M [3 4 4 > se t a 4 M 644 3# : ; a k #» "iyd _ Jerry--What makes you think Dave is a practical joker? you try a joke on hiw, Mre, Casey--I could. forgivre Better If I could just swat Rim. 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