Bristol Grammar School Holds Midyear Graduation
The Bristol Grammar School held mid year graduation exercises at 2 30 this afternoon in the John Post Reynolds school auditorium. Forty graduates included 20 girls and 20 boys. Rev Frederick Lee Maryon addressed the class and diplomas were presented by Rev Anson B Howard. Class officers were Ellsworth Munro president Henry Miranda vice president Josephine Cicerchin secretary Mary Charton treasurer. A class banquet followed with toastmaster Ellsworth Munro and speakers on class history prophecy and last will and testament. Supervising officials included Superintendent William C Hobbs and new principal Herbert Clish.
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Bristol Grammar School
John Post Reynolds
Frederick Lee Maryon
Trinity Church
Anson B Howard
William C Hobbs
Herbert Clish
Miner Nailed by Stage Managed Cash Buyout
An old Klondike prospector, after years of danger, rejects a $100,000 offer in Seattle. Operators lure him to a dark office, show him $10,000 in gold, and pressure him to sign a deed, the tale from the Portland Oregonian.
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Portland Oregonian
First exclusive mail train speeds mail from New York to Chicago
The first exclusive mail train began on Sept 18 1875 leaving New York and arriving in Chicago the next day after twenty six hours. By 1899 the New York to San Francisco mail used fast trains and Chicago to Omaha trips topped ten hours. The service included mail bugs catching without stopping the trains aiding small towns.
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Chicago
Mall
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Omaha
Detroit News
Blueberry Rapture and The New England Berry
A lyrical celebration of New England blueberries praising their beauty bushes and fruit. The text likens berries to nectar woodsy flavor and perfume, comparing blueberry savor to a bellike Woodthrush note and noting the aesthetic habitat and sensations.
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New England
Buston Transcript
Alma Mater Caricature Appears in College Week
In his first week at college a young man visits a stationer to buy a fountain pen and asks the clerk to inscribe Alma Mater on a sheet of paper. He writes with flourishes in an old hand repeating the phrase eight or nine times while the clerk bemusedly suggests letting the recipient try it herself.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Swallows Migrate 5000 Miles From England to South Africa
A Berkshire man in 1921 marked a swallow and released it. The bird was captured about five months later in Jansen ville, South Africa. Other marked swallows released in England reached Natal, Orange Free State, Cape Province and the Transvaal, confirming long distance migration.
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South Africa
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My Father's Money Grammar Lesson
A teacher explains tense to students as she quotes a dialogue. Grace responds with a pun noting that saying has money would be present tense, joking that it is pretense.
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International Boy Scout Conference in Paris Shapes World Role
The Paris gathering drew 140 delegates from 80 countries, affirming the boy scout movement as a force for character, citizenship, and peace. A permanent nine member committee was created to govern the International Bureau, steer future conferences, and supervise administration, with Baden-Powell as chair.
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Berkeley Names First Deaf and Dumb Eagle Scout Edwin Wilson
Edwin Wilson of Troop 11 is Berkeley’s first deaf and mute Eagle Scout. Scout master Carol Land is also deaf and mute.
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Scouts Save Two Drowning Men On Weekend Lake Rescue
While on a week end camping trip three Seattle scouts from Troop 280 saw two men struggling in a lake near an overturned canoe. The scouts launched two boats despite an oar breaking and pulled both men to safety. They revived them on shore.
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Troop 280
Fort Nonsense Guarded Detroit During 1806 1807 Fort Shelby Outpost
Historical note from Detroit News describes a circular earthwork fort built east of Washington Boulevard to defend settlers after the 1796 occupation. Fort Nonsense name arose from lack of action, as guards patrolled to deter cattle thieves from Fort Shelby. Rev. George Duffield later owned the land, with streets George and Duffield named nearby. The fort was razed as the area was developed.
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Detroit News
Snow house care tricks from Arctic explorer
Eskimo snow huts adjust roof thickness to maintain interior warmth. Vilhjalmur Stefansson notes blocks kept at low temperatures, inside maintained around 60 F to neutralize latent cold. If heat rises, the roof is shaved 2 to 4 inches to let outside cold reenter and keep temperature from rising.
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Cnld
Arctic dog tale with naval officer quip
A Washington naval officer with Arctic experience recounts an expedition where his dogs failed at a critical moment. A listener remarks on tireless Eskimo dogs, and the officer replies in a culinary sense, wearing a gloomy smile.
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Arctic
Philadelphia Ledger
Vastly Different
A club member finishes a long swim in the basement tank and argues with the instructor about breathing and muscle use. The instructor compares swimming to sawing wood, while the swimmer jokes that sawing uses different muscles.
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Merenber
Buffalo livestock boom triggers slaughter and pemmican plan
Census reports buffaloes at the Federal game park in Wainwright Alberta have risen beyond the carrying capacity. Authorities order slaughter of older animals and sale of carcasses to northern traders to make pemmican for Arctic communities. Hides will be kept by the Dominion government.
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Dominion
Counter for Golfers Wristwatch Style Stroke Counter
An illustration in Popular Mechanics describes a wristwatch like instrument for golfers. It keeps a tally of strokes between holes with a dial pointer moved after each stroke.
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Popular Mechanics
Eminent Lawyer Defends Bootlegger in Reversal
In the Birmingham Age-Herald a remark notes the lawyer who once defended a bootlegger now represents the bootlegger's client. The exchange underscores a turnabout in legal loyalties and patronage within the era.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
What is a city book for a small town
An outline based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Making Towns Fit to Live In proposes a civic primer for a medium sized town. It lists essential functions from smithy to jail and suggests criteria like health beauty virtue public spirit and administrative efficiency to judge town prosperity.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Century Magazine
Zoning Ordinance Urged to Protect Kansas City Homes
Kansas City Kansas building inspector Roy R. Hosford argues that lasting protection for homes and boulevards requires a city zoning ordinance. He notes the ad hoc restrictions by neighborhood groups are temporary, and cites benefits of uniform setbacks, shop placement limits, and fence rules for property values and aesthetics.
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Kansas City
Kan
Roy R. Hosford
Hosford
Windows and shutters improve house façades with grouped panes
The article argues that windows should be grouped for visual appeal, favoring casement leaded windows over double hung types. It notes small panes offer more charm though harder to clean, and highlights battended shutters with decorative pierced openings or family crests to personalize the exterior.
Dangered Flapper Roars Through Downtown Soda Bar
A noon rush scene at a well known downtown drug store ends with a flapper attempting to order caramel ice cream. The soda fountain clerk responds with a spray of soda sending the embarrassed customer fleeing as shoppers roar with laughter.
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F Street
Washington Star
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