Strange Facts and Notable Oddities From then and Now
A Colier's condensed look at curious notions about Adam’s Day and Sabbath origins, chameleon fighting tempo, aging movie attendance decline, and the Royal Enclosure at Ascot excluding many aristocrats for debt and scandal. Names and dates are drawn from Col lier's social notes.
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Mohammed
Adam
Paradise
Britain
Royal Enclosure
Ascot
England
Collier’s
Flowered Hat Came To Do Double Duty
A young matron juggling many engagements wears a sober outfit and carries a flow ered hat in a box to fit both a funeral service and a garden party. Her plan collapses as the hat ends up resting on the coffin wreaths during the service.
Unbleached Muslin Aprons Inspire Home Sewing Plans
The article promotes inexpensive unbleached muslin for aprons and crafts. It suggests group cutting sessions, exchange of trimmings, and provides a diagram for a plain apron skirt, waist shaping, bibless belt options, and 4 inch wide ties. Readers are invited to request Mrs. Spears sewing booklet with 10 cents.
General Knowledge Quiz Questions Set
A list of trivia prompts covering biology geography language electricity and history. Includes Adam's Needle and Peak meanings arts terms racing gear weights Dutch colonial origins Vim example and Venice foundation types.
Smallest States Monaco and San Marino Compared
Monaco covers eight square miles while San Marino spans thirty eight in area. The note lists a geometrical figure a small river and defines the ampere named after Andre Ampere. Dr Rossiter Johnson argues the idiom if worse comes to worst is correct as written. The reference ends with New York and a remark that most items are piles.
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Adam
Europe
New Amsterdam
Venice
Italy
Monaco
San Marino
Ampere
Andre Ampere
Rossiter Johnson
New York
Yucca Species, Peak, and Jockey Outfits
The notes list several items including yucca plant species, a mountain peak in Ceylon, and gardening. It notes wells were first sunk in Artois France. It states a jockeys outfit rarely exceeds 30 ounces in weight.
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Ceylon
Artois
Artesium
France
Name Changes and Rebrands Across Regions
Siam has renamed itself Muang-Thai, the land of the free. Towns also change names, with Pennsylvania dropping Frugality, Colorado losing Graft, Kentucky losing Coin, and Arkansas losing Truth. Love, Arkansas becomes Ash Flat, reflecting local shifts and sentiment.
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Siam
U. S
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Kentucky
Arkansas
Love
Household Questions and Tips From a Past Era
Tighten curtain roller springs with pincers. Wrap silver and gold scarfs in black paper to prevent tarnish. A pinch of soda preserves spinach color during boiling. Add cinnamon and cloves to cookies for a flavorful change. Maidenhair ferns need rest after growth. repot and water sparingly then resume normal care. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription touted as a long standing tonic for women.
Spare the Absent Let No One Speak Ill of the Absent
Latin epigraphic line notes the virtue of silence about those not present. It warns against speaking ill of the absent and urges restraint in commentary. Public decorum and tact are emphasized in the terse maxim.
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Propertius
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Congress
America
W. J. Ditter
F. B. Kieff
Wisconsin
Rep
J. Rowland Kinzer
Legion Conclave
American Legion
Chicago
Stephen Chadwick
Henry Ford
the Legion
Man Mountain Dean
Buford, Ga
Hurt
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
Charles Delps
St. Paul
Lillian
Germany
Baltic Sea
Lithuania
Prussia
Hungary
Rumania
Poland
Russia
Reich
San
Vistula
Warsaw
Lwow
Brest
Litovsk
Wilno
Duke Steps
Duke of Windsor
London War Office
Wilma Birth
S. S. Volendam
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Dr. Pierce
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