Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers Entertaining Orchard Talk
In a playful scene from Young Folk's Corner Peter learns from Jenny Wren and others about Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers. The chatter covers hole making, drumming for happiness, and the birds’ carpentry skills with notes on tail patterns and a tin roof drum. Hairy’s larger size helps tell the birds apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rabbit
Downy
Mington
Peter
Jenny Wren
Petar
Jenny
Ehe
Hollimb
Brand
Hairy
Pater
Will coffee houses rise again as public forum in Brooklyn
The piece compares historic London coffee houses to future Brooklyn sites after July 1, noting their role as discussion forums for great questions, not taverns. It recalls notable figures like Johnson, Boswell, Burke, and Reynolds, highlights New York’s mixed reception, and traces coffee house origins to 1652 London with famed inn signs and sober appeals to drinkers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Barleycorn
London
James Farr
Kingdom
Johnson
Boswell
Jars Ellis
Royal Exchange
Burke
Bacon
Goldsmith
Reynolds
Garrick
New York
Brooklyn
Michael's Alley
Cornhill
Parr
England
Sir Henry Blount
the Exchange
Wwe
Lamb
Wifth Avenue
Broadway
Brooklyn Eagle
Stratford Schools Observe Flag Day Activities
Stratford on June 12 hosts Flag Day exercises at Franklin school lawn with dances drills and singing. Parents and friends expected. Mertha Hinckley donates 10 travel volumes to Franklin. Mrs George Meachem to entertain Foreign Missionary society at South Avenue home with Christmas offerings. Okenuck Tribe Red Men to hold semi annual roll call and Flag Day celebration Monday evening council fire 7 30 roll call 8 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Avenue
Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
League to Enforce Peace tax deduction ruling
New York June 12. Individuals who gave to the League to Enforce Peace may deduct contributions from gross income on tax returns. Commissioner Daniel C. Roper ruled the league qualifies as a corporation organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes. The ruling notes the league works to educate the public on its aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
League
Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revene
Taft
A. Lu Lawrence Lowell
League of Nations
Fordal Forfeits Bond in License Charge
Louis Fordal of New Haven forfeited a $25 bond after failing to appear in City court to answer a charge of operating a motor vehicle without a license. He was arrested on Middle street late Wednesday night while driving a machine he claimed to have borrowed from a local Elm City garage where he works as a repair man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fordal
Louis Fordal
New Haven
Middle Street
Elm City
Woman credits Lydia Pinkham remedy for relief
Mrs. A L DeVine of Los Angeles recounts years of female troubles and incapacity until six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health. The letter urges others with displacements inflammation irregularities backache headaches and nerves to try the remedy and seek advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Lydia Fr. Pinkham
Mrs. A. L. DeVine
St. Paul Avenue
Calif
Lydia BE
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
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Percy L. Crosby
Steir Siverout
Timmies
Percy
Ferdif
Timmie
Jazz
Crys
Erebe
Feadie
H. A. Macgill
Ferdie
Miy
MLL
George McManus
Maggie- Your, Srother
Nour
Palm Beach
Newport
Maggie
Sonos
Ial
By Allman
Ando
Muzzer
Young Folk’s Corner
uLany
the. Willard
Stratford
Roper
Wondermist
MEG. CO. Seaton, Mase
Ophelia
Veal
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sproviero
Palmer
Main St
Newfield
Bridgeport
Onn
Castile
Sar
Spain
Lockwood, Brackett & Co
Boston
Hartford
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