Entertaining the Fortunate Modern Bride in Showers
A Choteau Acantha feature outlines bridal showers from stockings and linen to book and flower events. It notes careful guest selection, unique ideas like turnover collar and shoe candy box favors, and a garden of rose petals as the bride transitions from single life to marriage.
A Game for Children Hunts Man Parlor Play
A pastime where players form a circle and elect a hunts man who assigns everyone articles like coat and hat. The hunter walks outside the circle naming items, players seize the person before them, a sudden call of bang leads to a seat rush and the last sitter becomes the hunter.
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Madame Merrill
Patchwork Daisy Sofa Pillow Embellished in Silk
A patchwork square sofa pillow features a daisy design in red, yellow, and green silks on black satin. The central petals are red silk with a yellow center, green stems and diamonds, all appliqued and finished with a large yellow and black cord.
Old Webb family of Kentucky and their Democratic roots
The article profiles the expansive Webb clan in Letcher County Kentucky. It notes a strong kin network tied by birth and marriage, a predominantly old school Democratic and hard shell Baptist stance, and political influence allowing a Republican son-in-law to win local office. It highlights three generations, many descendants, and Aunt Sally Webb’s long tenure in the family home.
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Cumberland Mountains
Letcher County
Tucky
Wiley Webb
Sally Webb
Myles Webb
Myles
Wise County
Adams
Daniel Boone
Webbs
Kentucky
Union
The Girl from the Circus
A scholar in his study hears of a circus girl visiting the schoolyard and, moved by Phyllis's kindness, invites her in. The tall, unusual visitor presents herself shyly with mismatched garments and a striking hat as the scholar contemplates her arrival.
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Phyllis
Oman
Cirous
Garden in the Harlem River shows impromptu midstream plots
Three men on the Madison Avenue bridge maintain two kitchen gardens built into a river breakwater. They grow lettuce onions cucumbers tomatoes celery and roses providing produce for themselves and neighbors. A scholar guides a local girl in a gentle encounter ending with roses and a promised visit.
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Harlem
Madison Avenue
Daniel Daly, Jr
W. B. Beidenbach
Thomas Chambers
Beached creature turns out to be man made sea monster
A strange seawork washed ashore at East Beach last Sunday resembling a horse with a lantern neck light. Captain Walter H. Davis of the life saving crew said the burned behemoth is a crafted float wreck, dubbed the skunkseaina, built from winter floats and lacking a tail.
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East Beach
United States Life Saving Station
Walter H. Davis
Capt
Davis
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