Good Samaritan's Garden Party Reveals Rich Ventnor
Edith mocks Nancy for befriending a dull guest at a garden party. The guest turns out to be Richard Ventnor, war correspondent and son of a wealthy family. Nancy's fascination grows, leading to an engagement three months later.
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Edith Hall
Bobby
Nancy Barr
Innocent
Edith
Nancy
Fairmont
Miss. Locker
Mr. Ventnor
Tick
Hadith
Richard Ventnor
Ventnor
Nance
Miss Locker
North Shore
Ventnors
Hall House
Dick Ventnor
Nancy ‘Barr
Rich Ventnor
Taylor
Ex Queen Honored for Services Rendered in Tahiti
Former Tahiti sovereign Mme Marautaaroa Salmon is honored on a French-proposed claim for services reared the French cause. Related to Tahiti's Tevas chiefs, she married Pomare V and later divorced after abdication. She visited France in 1888 and was received at the Elysee by Felix Faure. Her family remains active for France with several in military uniform. Her three children include Princesses Teri and Takau Pomare and Ernest Salmon, a deputy magistrate in Bamako.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Marautaaroa Tepau A Tath
Joanna Salmon
Tahiti
Tati
Tevas
Papara
France
Pomare IV
Salmon
Pomare V
Tahitis
Mme. Marautaaroa-Salmon
le Petit Puristen
Kansas City Star
Ernest Salmon
Bamako
French West Africa
Robins Gather On Puget Sound Roost Threatening Cherry Crop
A Friday Harbor dispatch says thousands of robins roost on a rocky Puget Sound island four miles north, then disperse at daybreak to forage. Mild winter drew flocks from wide areas, raising fruit crop fears near SaConner Burlington and Bellingham. One visit from the roost could devastate many acres of cherry orchards if birds do not migrate soon.
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Friday Harbor
Wash
New York World
North Pacific
Puget Sound
Sa’ Conner
Burlington
Bellingham
Ear for music saves constable in alley clash
The Petunia tavern landlord recalls Constable Slackputter on a night patrol when two footpads leaped from an alley and attacked him. They knocked him down, stole his revolver, tore his coat, and beat him before he fought back and helped drag the culprits to jail. The constable’s ear for music helped him endure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slackputter
Petunia
Marguerite
Slack
Kansas City Star
American Plows in China Introduced by Nanking University
Shanghai reports that the University of Nanking is promoting American farm plows in China. Demonstrations have led to several plows being disposed of at cost to farmers who will report on success or failure to the university and Trade Commissioner C. C. Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Nanking
China
C. C. Howard
Shanghai
Independent salesman motto sparks wordplay
A witty exchange from the New York Sun jokes about a salesman who takes orders from no one, framing independence as the essence of the role in a humorous quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Pretty dress for small girl bonnet brims frame the face
A fashion feature on children's wear highlights designer skill in outfits for youths. It describes bonnets with bewitching brim frames, basket pockets, twinned with tangerine crepe de chine dresses, ribbons, lace inserts, and rainbow chiffon accents. Julia Bottomley notes trends from 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Milan
Julia Bottomley
Western Newspaper Union
Old Devil Sea Tale Ends In Tragic Vanishing
The Evelyn, a three masted schooner from St John s Newfoundland captained by E Nilson with eighteen crew and a bride on voyage to Pernambuco, sailed amid calm then faced fierce squalls. After seventy two days no wreckage or bodies were found. a British schooner sighted a broken vessel bearing the Eve lyn s name and Bridgewater Barbados as port of registry. The mystery of what happened to the crew remains.
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Eugene
O'Neill
Anna Christie
Evelyn
Pernambuco
St. John’s
N. B
Nilson
Evelyn S. John's
Bridgewater
Barbados
Qld
Lost silver mine claimed near St. Joe in Searcy county
In Arkansas a long rumored silver mine near Silver Hill, tied to Indian and Spanish mining legends, is said to have been found ten miles from St. Joe. The cave entrance was uncovered by a cow hunter's daughter, revealing corroded silver and ore deposits once guarded for decades.
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T, Joseph, Ark
Searcy County
St. Joe
Silver Hill
of. Tabor
Mark Boyd
Little Rock
Boyd
Texas
Hulse Tyler
Chicagoan escapes death thrice on five month world trek
Augustus L. Curtis of Curtis Lighting company Chicago returned after a five month world voyage marked by three near fatal incidents. In Algiers a mother baboon clung to his neck while he photographed a baby ape. In Ceylon an elephant gripped his foot with its trunk during an elephant roundup. In Hawaii Curtis and his English companion were rescued from the crater of Kilauea as lava and fumes roared around them.
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Chicago
Augustus LD. Curtis
Curtis Lighting Company
Jackson Boulevard
Algiers
Ceylon
Kilauea
Hawaii
Curtis
Adventurers
Chicago Athletic Association
Geoffrey H. Bushby
Peggy Hopkins Joyce Marries Count Morner in Sweden
Peggy Hopkins Joyce becomes Peggy Hopkins Joyce Morner countess de Morelane after a four week marriage in a Swedish Lutheran church. Her fourth husband, Count Cecil Gustaf Gustaf Morner, is a Swedish nobleman who has never married before and makes toothpaste in Chicago.
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Tlantic City
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Joyce Morner
Countess de Morelane
Peggy
Chicago
Count Cecil Gustaf Gusta Morner
Marguerite Upton
Berkely
Everett Archer
Denver
Sherburn Hopkins
Washington
Broadway
J. Stanley Joyce
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McClure
Robins
Elode
Fertwee
Old Devil Sea
Arkansas
Mir
Joyce Morne
He Letellier
P Lisher
Lou Tellegen
Jack Demp
Peter C. Merillon
Prince Lumirsky
Vario
Europe
United Stat
Gosta
Sweden
Moreoy
Sal Peggy
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