Odd Names in England and America Create Legal Names
A survey of unusual baby names shows children bearing Pepper Salt Nothing and Something in England and similar oddities in the United States. The piece notes legal issues, joking uses, and cases like Ten Million and family name changes, highlighting parents’ failure to choose conventional names and a bond to numbers and clever wordplay.
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England
Robert New
Nothing
Mixer
Mr. Peel
Mr. Codd
Pepper
Sait
Mr Ware
China
Mr. Gentile
Langer
Tian
Black
I G
Gurney
M Noof Gregoon
Washington
Una
Tina
Ten
Ten Lo
Ten Million
In Kansas City
Chivalry Tested As Jealous Wife Intervenes
A New Rochelle girl accepted a lift from a young married man after a roadside invitation in Resi Gence park. Soon the man ordered her to alight and revealed his motive while a jealous wife watched from a cross street.
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New Rochelle
Resi Gence Park
Gaillant
New York Sun and Globe
Getting In First Licks
A short moral tale recalls Katherine who admits hitting her sister Margaret after Margaret struck first. The tale, cited by the Argonaut via Gren, frames retaliation and justification in a child’s quarrel, contrasting imperial aggression with a child's excuse.
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Katherine
Margaret
Sad tale of two boxers after long delayed bouts
Two boxers finally fought after months of waiting and both were beaten. They compare notes with rueful humor, one quipping he can barely get about, the other lamenting he fears he may never get around again. The piece carries a moral on fame and fortune.
Progression and taxes echo in profit growth debate
A Washington Star passage quotes Dustin Stax musing that greater profits spur demands to sustain growth for income tax reasons. The exchange frames the tension between wealth accumulation and tax obligations in a concise, ironic streetwise tone.
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Dustin Stax
Washington Star
Kenilworth-Why's Rattle Trap Ride Sparks Wife’s Silence
In Glencoe, Kenilworth-Why endures a noisy machine that drowns his wife's words as observers question the folly of such a transport choice.
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Kenilworth
Glencoe
Hawk Snatches Pigeon in City Sighting at Greeley Square
A hawk circling above Greeley Square dropped on a pigeon feeding on oats from horse feed bags. The captured bird dangled from the talons as the hawk carried it to the top of a large electric sign and later flew off westward, leaving scattered feathers as evidence.
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Greeley Square
Httle
New York Sun and Globe
Daughters in Law in China: Duties and Obedience
The Chinese education of girls centers on the duties of daughters in law. Obedience and self-nega tion require vast self-control as a young wife submits to her mother in law, ensures her husband’s schooling, shares poverty, and treats co-wives and stepchildren with kindness. In widowhood fidelity defines virtue and extreme love may demand self sacrifice.
Short Names for Children and Practical Parenting
The article argues parents should avoid long or complex names for children. It cites Epaphroditus Bartholomew Holcombe-Smith Jr and May Day as examples of impractical names. Parents are urged to give daughters a single given name and preserve the family name after marriage. A name is a key identifier that affects life, and children face questions and mispronunciations because of it.
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Epaphroditus Bartholomew Holcombe-Simith, Jr
May Day
Namre
Inabel
Scribner's Magazine
Bride Tug War Among Bai Tribespeople in Uganda
Detroit News reports on Bai tribes in central Africa where a bride is seized by her husband in a ritual tug of war with her family. If the husband cannot overpower the family the ritual ends with the bridegroom declared victorious. The bride then moves to her mother in law’s home as she weeps for eight days straight.
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Uganda
Central
Afric
Detroit News
Clog Dancer Arrested After Dance Hall Antics
William 8 Brooks danced in a Portland dance hall ignoring pleas to stop. Officers took him to headquarters where he performed clogs for jailers and prisoners through the night. An acting judge remanded him to county jail for a mental examination.
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William 8. Brooks
Portland
Ore
Brooks
The Juggler’s Lakeside Lesson Causes Giggles
A veranda guest peers at the lake with binoculars and asks about Hoffy. The host explains Hoffy is teaching the ladies to swim and, in effect, juggling two girls at once as he paces back and forth trying to keep them afloat.
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Hoffy
New Year Reflections From Comanche Leaders
President Coolidge urges appraisal of moral, spiritual and material progress as the year ends. Comanche's editor laments gambling among youth, calls for stricter enforcement and better facilities, notes a gas franchise and plans for a glass factory, and envisions fuller communal unity and prosperity in the coming year.
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President Coolidge
Comarcce Weveld
Evangelis
Snday
Comanche
Gamhling
Jesse James
John Wesley Hardins
Manche
Indian Creek
Fort Wayne man cites Foley Pile sleep aid
The fragment notes Con Thich of Fort Wayne Indiana describes Foley Pile as a stimulant aiding sleep. It mentions taking a cone and finding improved rest after hours, claiming the product helped him sleep better.
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Con Thich
Celatmbia Sr
Fort Wayne
Hidiana
Foley
White Cream Vernifaxe for child worm treatment
An advert claims White Cream Vernifaxe expels worms from children without harm. It is sold by SOP Smith under the name Prive 33e.
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SOP Simith
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