Unusual Marriage Sparks Flight To Los Angeles
Winston Phillips, nineteen, and Mrs. Phillips, a fort Ys, wed in Shelbyville after eloping from Louisville. Phillips claimed he moved from courting Susan Gaines to marrying her mother for love, despite family opposition. The couple, now in Chicago, plan to pursue real estate in Los Angeles.
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Winston Phillips
Tuella Gaines
Phillips
Gaines
Mrs. Phillips
Julia
Helen
Babe
Shelbyville
Los Angeles
Aurora rejects barber as mayor candidate Groshans
In Aurora Illinois mayoral results Townsend wins the primary with 4142 votes and Col Green 3311 while barber candidate Illiam Groshans trails with 357. Groshans runs full page ad touting diverse wonders and claims to seek better government.
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Arora
Ill
Aurora
Wilson A. Groshans
Charles A. Townsend
Charles Green
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry
Townsend
Col. Green
Chicago
Wisconsin extortion plot targets Mrs Schlesinger family
Milwaukee police reveal an extortion bid demanding fifty thousand dollars from Mrs. A Schlesinger, reputedly Wisconsin s wealthiest woman, with threats against her sons Armin and Henry and bombs at their Lafayette Place home. A suspect was arrested then released. Ferdinand A Schlesinger died recently in Albuquerque while en route to California.
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Ilwaukee
Wis
A. Schlesinger
Wisconsin
Schlesinger
Lafayette Place
Eighteenth
Vilet Streets
Armin
Henry
Ferdinand A. Schlesinger
Albuquerque
California
Harold learns about women from her on campus
On the Northwestern campus Harold Mac Kinzie frets over betrothal contract provisions while Miss Elsie Nye, a senior, returns his engagement ring and moves to another date. The scene ends with Nye asserting women are not chattels and Harold’s realizations about gender dynamics.
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Vanston
Ill
Harold MacKinzie
Northwestern University
Elsie Nye
Harold
Nye
John Newcomer
Miss Nye
Ribbons and Girdles Dominate Spring Cap and Dress Styles
The article explores ribbon and lace trends in spring headwear and garments. It notes caps featuring ribbons, lace trims, wired lace brims, and crochet joins, plus girdles as key decorative elements. Two toned satin ribbons create looping hip accents, with ribbon flowers and picot edges finishing sashes and crushed girdles.
Sports skirts inspire versatile blouses for street wear
The review notes that sport skirts extend beyond athletics to daily wear and pair with simple, tailored blouses in taffeta pongee crepe de chine and satin. Many blouses feature lingerie collars vestees and detachable trimmings, with slip on necklines and three quarter sleeves.
Easy Way of Making Dress Ruffles For Summer Styles
Ruffles wide and narrow will be used on summer dresses made from organdie dimity voile tissue lawn and heavy ginghams. The home dressmaker faces a problem in producing an even ruffle and uneven or no ruffler on machines can be adjusted by loosening tension lengthening stitch and stitching the fabric. then pull up under-thread to adjust fullness.
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Noi Ag
Cape and Dolman Wrap Extends Through Spring Reports Say
Reports from Paris and advance models show the cape and cape dolman wrap continuing into the spring season. The fashion notes describe ongoing use and styling cues across upcoming collections.
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Paris
Three wanderers in the jungle and their fates
Harry L Foster describes three archetypes he meets in the Amazon wilderness. Lloyd a Oxford graduate living alone among orange groves, Crawford a rubber baron turned recluse, and Palmer who settles with an Indian squaw and a secret gold source.
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Tropics
Harry. L. Foster
Leslie
Lima
Amazon
Andes
T. T
Lloyd
Oxford University
Pichis
Crawford
Palmer
The Story of Our States and New York's Early Role
A historical overview traces New York from Verrazano's 1524 voyage to Hudson, the Dutch era, purchase of Manhattan for beads, and its rise in the U S Constitution and presidential elections. It notes New York’s size 49,204 square miles and its 45 presidential electors as the largest in any state.
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Hestory
New York
Henry Hudson
Verrazano
France
New York Bay
Hudson
Dutch West’ India ‘Company
America
New Netherlands
New Amsterdam
Manhattan Island
New York City
Charles II
Duke of York
James I
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Long Necked Sea Lizard of Ancient Seas
The plesiosaurus known as dolichodeirus or long necked sea lizard stood about 60 feet long, with a cigar shaped body a duck bill head and four flippers. Its tooth alone measured a foot, and jaws could snap through a 36 inch tree. it hunted sea life and fought fierce battles as fossils show torn vertebrae.
Dance at the sorority formal ends with a playful line
A shy man attends a sorority dance urged by his companion. As he relaxes on the floor he declares he could dance forever with her, while she replies that even a sidewalk wears out sometime.
Good Timber Cabinet Quip Cited by Courier Journal
A brief quotation from the Louisville Courier Journal notes a president-elect asked if he should form a cabinet. The exchange highlights reluctance to accept office or offer advice, with a humorous jab about cabinet appointments already made.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
North Carolina's Founding and Namesake Origins
A concise history of the state's early settlement by Raleigh's colonists on Roanoke Island, Virginia Dare, and later migrations by Huguenots and Germans. It covers population growth, Revolution status, electoral votes, area, ratification of the Constitution in 1789, and the Carolina name origin from Carolus.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
Queen Elizabeth
America
Roanoke Island
Virginia Dare
Virgin Queen
England
Spain
Virginia
France
Palatinate
Newburn
Carolina
South Carolina
Carolus
Charles
Charles IX
Charles II
Old North State
Poison pistol promises silent deadly force
A French inventor claims a poison pistol can discharge a gas fluid through a hidden needle when pressed. The device resembles a regular gun but contains no bullets or cartridges and would kill instantly.
The Reason. Doctors do not discriminate in their business
The quip suggests medical practitioners claim to avoid bias, arguing patients are always selected by need or circumstance, highlighting a satire on equity in care and the inevitability of choices in medical practice.
October in the old calendar and Saxon naming
The month October is described as the tenth month but the eighth in the old Roman calendar. Saxon ancestors called it Wynemonth the wine month, with notes on wine importation, and some calendars show a farmer sowing winter grain to mark the season.
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