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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1926
Page
4
The excerpt describes Tarkington in casual attire on a Kennebunkport balcony in summer and a winter workshop in Indianapolis. It adds a sardonic line about avoiding communism and public scrutiny, suggesting a shift from private to public airing of personal matters.
The Secretary of Agriculture approved changes to game seasons on certain game birds. In South Carolina the mourning dove season shifted from September 1 to December 16 to October 16 to January 31, with the reforms approved by the President on April 22.
An eminent educator in a recent address argues that women promised to show results after equal rights were granted but, in his view, society and the world have not observed the expected effects. He notes global objections and asserts the United States hires agents to influence moral governance.
The Asheboro area and Wellesley College freshman Elizabeth Parks present a legend that Marshal Ney, Napoleon’s famed general, survived exile and died as a North Carolina schoolmaster. Her essay cites inscriptions, Martiny and Wellington histories, and a ship voyage to Charleston supported by a Dayton clipping.
Miss Elizabeth Parks argues that Peter Stewart Ney, buried in Third Creek churchyard, was Napoleon's Marshal Michel Ney living 31 years after his supposed death. She cites signatures, bones, memoirs, and verses, linking the NC schoolmaster to the famed general while facing controversy over documentation.
A 1900s style note describes the ambassador's wife in England enjoying special privileges such as private mailbags immune from customs, debt protection, and formal address as Your Excellency. It adds a casual tidbit about a cigar store fire quickly quelled by a clerk using a box of cigars.
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