G A Goodwin to Wed Ruth Cheney in Hartford May
Miss Ruth Cheney daughter of Mrs J W Cheney of Manchester and Charles A Goodwin Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1910 announce their engagement in Hartford. Goodwin son of the Rev Francis Goodwin and partner in the firm Goodwin & Bens. a prominent Hart County figure and ex Republican town committee chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Ruth Cheney
Jank W. Cheney
Manchester
Charles A. Goodwin
Republican Town Committee
Hart
Goodwin
Francis Goodwin
Goodwin & Ben
M. Toscan
Signs of Rural Gender Expectations and Social Roles
The passage argues that rural communities show male social dominance and women's ungregarious behavior, noting signs like “Please loaf in the back room” and “Loaf not appreciated” as reflecting men’s desire to enjoy themselves without women. It contrasts male sociability with women’s supposed lack of interest in female company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lim
Woman's Companion
Fmn
Opta Tion
Villawe
Keeping Warm in the Spring Destruction Parade
A Richmond Times-Dispatch item quips about extreme improvisation to stay warm as a family scavenges for household items from sofas to kettles after a storm melts snow and leaves them with little beyond dining room furniture and debts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipling
Richmond Times
Criticism and Clarity In Writing Allegory
Dr. Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia recounts a rhetoric instructor warning that every sentence should be so clear the most ignorant reader can understand it. A student asks which part was unclear, highlighting the challenge of plain writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
Smith
Popular Magazine
Yale Society Lockout Ends Dormitory Siege by Seniors
Yale senior societies faced a midnight lockout as nonmember seniors surrounded Vanderbilt hall. The gates were sealed with glue as a bonfire burned furniture and bedding, while fraternity members clambered ladders or climbed over the blue gate to reenter. Dean Jones urged restraint but the demonstration continued into the early morning with pajama-clad participants and a growing crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Yale
Vanderbilt Hall
Scrolliana Keys
Dean Jones
University
Ask
Memorial Day Orator Chosen for Seaside Park Exercises
Rev. A C Thompson of Elias Howe Jr post G A R will give the Memorial Day address at Seaside Park. About 800 children will parade, including 100 girls singing. Lincoln Gettysburg speech may be read, with Major John A Logans order read here by Adjutant General W P Bryan. Bands from C A C Moose Olympic Italian Lincoln school and more will march. Past Commander John H Neff serves as grand marshal with Capt. Charles G Burkhardt as adjutant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Thompson
Elias Howe, Jr
Post
Seaside Park
Thompson
Immanuel Baptist Church
John A Logan
W. P. Bryan
Lincoln
Chilren
Moose
John J. Broadbrook
Lincoln School Boys
Bridgeport
South Norwalk
St. Aloysius T. A. & B
Drum Corps of
Derby
Derby Fife and Drum Corp
John H. Neff
Capt
Charles G. Burkhardt
Memorial Day Exercises for I O F and Rebekah Lodges
Memorial Day services will be held Tuesday June 11 1912 by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges in Connecticut. Grand Master Frederick B Burrows urges public services to honor deceased members and reflect on life and mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge of
Co New Land
Rebekah
Connecticut
Grim Reaper
Students Of B HS Elect Kosena To Criterion Board
In a close contest among Misses Bessie O Neil Nellie Alling and Mr William Kosena the Junior Commercial class elected Kosena as their representative on the Criterion board for next year Meetings of other classes for elections were held this morning Freshmen organized in the Assembly hall The cooking class girls learned to make gelatine jellies pudding and fried foods A light luncheon followed The electric tape that triggers bells caused no recess today The B H S baseball team with eight straight wins plays New Haven High tomorrow The Commercial team meets St Charles The Chemistry class endures strong odors and tears The Junior Commercial class plans a class hymn Seniors photographs are being compared A fourth period English class challenges a fifth period class to a Panama Canal fortification debate next Wednesday in the Assembly hall
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie
O'Neil
Nellie Alling
William Kosena
Criterion Board
Assembly Hall
New Haven
St. Charles
Panama Canal
Benjamin Gil
Eskimo Bulletins and a Wedding March Mystery
The passage notes a bachelor mishearing Mendelssohn’s Wedding March at a concert, then discusses annual Eskimo news sheets. It mentions the Eskimo Bulletin near Cape Prince of Wales and an 1862 Greenland printing office producing Atnagagdlintit a reading for entertaining accounts.
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Mendelssohn
Cincinnati Enquirer
North Polar Circle
Eskimo Bulletin
Cape Prince of Wales
Bering Strait
Godthaab
Greenland
New York Herald
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Alice E. Weldon
Fairfield Avenue
Cearew Hoviand
G. A. Goodwin
Miss Cheney
Mystic
Mr. Younghubby
Norfolk
C. F
Frederick B. Burrows
William 8. Hutchison
THE
Golden Hill ST
B. HS
Man
Joseph Hurley
William Yates
Agnes Marsh
Bernard Gardner
Seldon Tracy
Press OF the Arctic
Ronkers Statesman
Union Pacific Tea Company
Main Street
East Main Street
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