Mrs Savage Discusses Western Literature at Club Meeting
The Women’s Club literary department met at 3 30 pm in the Y W C A with about half the members present Cyrus Hall presiding Mrs J D Hanna absent Mrs W R Carter elected to the nominating committee Mrs W L Savage gave a talk on Literature of the West detailing her summer trip to San Francisco Chicago and the Mississippi River impressions of Mark Twain Emerson Hough Joaquin Miller and Upton Sinclair were referenced Santa Fe and California pioneer life were described She contrasted old western life with modern travel and lamented some depictions while praising western writers and the grand canyon reading passages and noting the Bushes of new members added to the department Hall announced the next speaker Dr H Merrill and new members were listed
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Woman's Club
Y. W. CA
Mee
Cyrus Hall
J. D_ Hanna
General Club
W. R. Carter
W. L. Savage
West
San Francisco
California
Mrs. Savage
Chicago
Mark Twain
Hugh Finn
Tom Sawyer
Santa Fe
Ina
America
Sfor
Wen
Henry Wallace
Tia Inana
Mexico
Tia Juana
Club Stahnda
Gene Stratten Porter
Mr. Hughes
Herbert Kyle
Anna
Engine Staff Heroic in Steamboat Fire
The devotion of engine-room men to their duty amid a blaze saved six passengers and 18 crew of the coastal steamer Brand'Or as it burned from stem to stern near Sydney Nova Scotia. They brought all aboard safely to shore before the vessel broke into flames.
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Sydney
N.S
Eccentric Wigan man Edward Crasten dies in unusual coffin tale
London report recalls Edward Crasten, a local eccentric from Whelley, Wigan. His only fault, the tale says, was drinking beer, and a planned brass coffin was proposed but later withdrawn.
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London
Edward Crosten
Edward Py
Crasten
Whelley
Neue
Wigan
America Watches Pekin Meeting to Unify Nation
Jan 28 United States braces for the February Pekin conference as Chinese leaders including Chang Tso-lin Sun Yat-sen Feng Yu-hsiang and others seek to unify the country. Washington fears the military governors in the provinces and China’s bankrupt finances. The outcome could reshape China’s politics and its treaty relations with foreign powers amid Bolshevik influence.
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Lloyd Lewan
Washington
United States
Felin
China
Tuan ChirJul
Chang ‘So-Lin
Sun Ya Sen
Canton
Feng Yu-hsiang
Tsao Kun
Chang Tso-lim
Republic of China
Taao Kun
Feng
Anay
Unng
Pekin
Tsuo Kun
Wu Yen
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