New Year's party ideas for children and four seasons luncheon
A guide to planning kid friendly New Year festivities with storytellers singers and treasure hunts. It details a New Year hunt party a watch party and a four seasons luncheon using themed rooms and decorations with specific menus and place card ideas.
From Stokehole to Director of Police in Philadelphia
Robert J. McKenty rises from stokehole worker and detective to director of public safety in Philadelphia. He built a career on honest policing, led major cases, reformed the House of Correction, and now promises a nonpolitical, efficient police administration with open doors and decisive action.
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Robert J. McKenty
Philadelphia
McKenty
Weaver
Col
Sheldon Potter
Bob
Smith
Williams. Stokley
Stuart
James I. Donaghy
Roy Wilson White
Danz-Hussey
McKinley
Roosevelt
Department of Public Safety
Flo
Miner and badger reveal rich Nevada gold vein discovery
Santa Fe yardmaster N. H. George took a three week layoff to explore a Nevada gold claim. He helped a luckless miner stake adjoining claims and, while chasing a badger, uncovered a quartz vein with ore worth about ten thousand dollars. The vein extends through all three mines and Mr. George’s group.
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Santa Fe
Nevada
Wellington Mail
Mr. George
Lobby Fable and the Perennial Washington Lobby
A New York supplement piece surveys the enduring myth of a Washington lobby and tells of past tales from the Capitol. It recalls legendary bribes and the notion of big interests steering Congress, noting the persistence of these yarns across eras and regions.
The Flower Maiden and Moral Warning
A fragmentary verse tale notes that flowers made a wife for a mortal, shaping eyes from violets and blossoms from oak broom and meadow sweet while forgetting the soul and mother earth’s rekindling coal. An accompanying snippet reflects on trust and broken promises in Houston Post opinion rhetoric.
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Ernest Rhys
Harper’s Magazine
Hero of the Castaways and the Crimson Flag
A retired ship captain recalls the 1871 Maria Art wreck in the South Pacific. Stranded seven days with six men and one woman, they used a blood stained red petticoat on a pole as a distress signal after the husband tore scarlet from his wife’s garment, saving them. The captain ends as a reluctant hero, now a store bookkeeper in Warren Street with no medal.
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Baltimore News
Baltimore
Fred
People’s Lobby
Washington
Capitol
Washington Monument
Smithsonian Institution
Botanical Gardens
United States
Congress
John Chamberlain
Pacific Railroad
Pacific
Cup
Lily
Theodora
New York
South Sea
Cam
Warren Street
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Edith A. Brown
The
Chicago Record-Herald
Mendelssohn
Maud White
Joseph B. Bowles
Stokehole
Director OF Police
Bob’? McKenty
M’kenty
Mayor Weaver
the Flower Maiden
Houston Post