Modern Ocean Liners and Social Events Recap
A social column notes the Kappa Zeta party at Meltzer's and several club meetings in Ames. It highlights Mrs. Holden’s Priscilla club gathering, a Daniel Boone chapter flag day event, and a Lutheran Aid visit. Also covered are a musical reception by Dr. and Mrs. Cox, a Country Cosmopolitan club meeting, and visitors from Columbus Ohio. An article on steel liner construction explains doubled hulls and automated safety measures for 50 000 ton ships and shipwreck safety improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. M. Budd
Etta Budd
P. G. Holden
C. M. Soper
Sun Dial
A. R
Daniel Boone
Boone
A. W. Cox
Lucilla
Esther Varella
Mary Klove
Ruth Miller
M. B. Cea
Cassier
Startled the Bishop A Royal Letter and Its Message
A royal courier wakes the bishop of Orleans with a dispatch from Louis XV asking for preserves. The handwritten note includes a drawn sedan chair but the king explains it means nothing. The bishop relays for preserves and sends them to the king, relieved by the postscript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orleans
Louis XV
Monsieur
Louis
Neorle
Thomas E. Watson
France
Football in Turkey Sparked Police Probe of a Club
A Turkish youth formed a mixed Greek Armenian football team. Police raided his home, a ball and uniforms were misread as evidence, and officials debated a grand conspiracy before deciding the case unlikely and no repeat offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Rechad Bey
Scutari
T Hey
T He Club
Hessp Stamboul
Yildiz
Harper’s Weekly
Unwritten Books and Lost Plans from Great Writers
Professor Brander Matthews surveys promised works that never reached publication. Moliere’s imagined L Homme de Cour, Sheridan’s Affectation, Hugo’s La Quanquengrogne, Daudet La Pentameron, and Dumas’s La Route de Thebes remained uncompleted or unpublished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brander Matthews
Matthews
Congress
Moliere
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Victor Hugo
Alphonse Daudet
Dumas
Thebes
Globe Trotters Plus and Travel Quips From Vesuvius
An American says Vesuvius resembles the infernal regions while a British traveler notes Americans travel. An English lady remarks on Americans’ journeys and a child’s sentence humorously misattributes inventions to Pendulum Franklin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe Trotters
Vesuvius
Lippincott’s
Glass uses and a doctor’s orders quip
The excerpt notes glass strength for various uses and safety under temperature changes. A cartoonish exchange features a wary customer asking if medicine is correctly mixed, with a druggist admitting uncertainty but claiming compliance with the doctor’s orders. A Confucius quote about virtue follows.
Roasting Eggs in Farmhouse Embers
A New York Press reminiscence recalls how children roasted eggs on live coals in old wood stoves or open fireplaces. Eggs were wrapped in damp paper for protection, then cooked five to fifteen minutes with a vent pin hole to prevent bursting and to keep meat juices inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
How It Got There Poacher Claims Pheasant Crawled Up Leg
A gamekeeper on a master's estate encounters a poacher with a bulging bat and a pheasant inside. The poacher denies knowledge, suggesting the bird climbed up his trousers leg, per a London Tit-Bits anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Love Letter of a Kaffir to Miss Naabeni
A fragment titled Love Letter of a Kaffir to Miss Naabeni presents a male voice named SAMBO addressing Miss E Naabeni. The text pledges affection and requests correspondence, displaying archaic phrasing and colonial-era biases in a brief, sensational style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss E. Naabeni
The Worm Turned in a Family Dispute
A Boston Transcript brief notes a domestic quarrel over marriage where a father blocks his daughter's match with a suitor who presses for an engagement. The exchange features sharp retorts about arranged ties and control of the daughter's fate.
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Boston Transcript
The Ruling Passion Rumor Sparks Neighborly Inquiry
A Life magazine note records a front door exchange about the rumored death of Mr. Greatman. The reporter asks for confirmation while the butler confirms but asserts there is nothing for publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Greatman
Butler
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kappa Zeta
Meltzer
Fourth Ward Civic Society
H. W. Squyers
Pike Avenue
Old Chautauqua Park
Edith Otto
Wilson
Cedar Falls
Priscilla Club
Lutheran Aid
Carrie Brandford
Martin Erickson
Seattle
Washington
Chas. Hollowell
W. F. Meiers
Belle Plaine
R. G. Kelly
Otto
Paxton
Nebraska
John and
Elizabeth McDonald
Nevada
Woman's Home Misoinary Society
M. KE. Church
J. G. Alexander
Douglass Avenue
Mesdames
Flint
Wasser
J. A. Campbell
Hambleton
L. G. Hardin
Muscatine
Country Cosmopolitan Club
Herb Nowlin
Gladys Dudgeon
Miss Murphy
Grace Cole
Frances George
Bernice Nowlin
Dr. Ghrist
Tong
Ghrist
8S. Slotnow
H C. Price
Tom
Betty
Columbus
Ohio
Martin
Prof. Price
F. S. Rexford
New York Life Bldg
Kansas City
Foley
Diogenes
Louisville Courier-Journal
Mens
Kaufmans
Paws
Ames, Lowa
Little Rachel
Pendulum Franklin
Confucius
Flore
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