Coronado Band Concert Delights Opera House Audience
The Coronado City Orchestra Concert Band performed at the Opera House Wednesday evening. The program featured several new selections and the Merry Widow airs were especially melodious. Soloist Müller on the xylophone received special praise as part of an unevenly fine ensemble. The house was crowded with an appreciative audience eager for a return engagement.
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Coronado
City Orchestra
Evenig
Progr
Corona
Muller
Transfer of Los Angeles Examiner Agency to Fred Wilkins
A longtime Los Angeles Examiner agent announces the transfer of agency to Fred Wilkins starting June 1. The former agent cites expanding photography work and newspaper duties and recommends Wilkins as a progressive local business man. All accounts up to June 1 are payable to the undersigned.
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Los Angeles Examiner
Fred Wilkins
Examiner
Wilkins
Core- Na
Eight Birthday Party For Little Ralph Riddell
Mrs Winnie Riddell hosted twenty of Ralph Riddell's playmates at Washburn Street home to celebrate his eighth birthday. Grace Shepherd assisted, serving strawberry sherbet, cake and refreshments on the lawn while gifts and well wishes flowed from friends including Adela Baird and Bessie Bortz.
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Ralph Riddell
Winnie Riddell
Washburn Street
Grimes
Bost
Riddell
Grace Shepherd
Uest
Masterghuddel
Adela Baird
Bessie Bortz
Mary Bennett
Erni
Ruth Brnuckman
Kathleen Cilia
Bernice Brown
Jennie Wileon
Michel Arbern
Fadia Gioulds
Chester
Edison the Victor and the Humbling of a Fast Telegraph Operator
A vivid reminiscence recalls Thomas Edison’s first Memphis telegraph job. He joined a short-handed St Louis wire desk and, amid a furious speed duel, produced flawless copperplate style copying. His calm, precise signal and sharp retort to the rival operator stunned the room and earned respect.
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Edison
Memphis
St. Louis
Francis Arthur Jones
Rafting Down Unmapped Glacial Rivers In Alaska
In September a party of explorers in Alaska built rafts to descend a swift unmapped river to reach settlements for food before ice trapped them. Robert Dunn narrates the perilous journey aboard the Mary Ann II and the Ethel May, detailing the thrilling sport of rafting through snaky canyon canyons.
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Alaska
Robert Dunn
Fred
Mary Ann IL
Ethel May
Spoiled the Prayer A West End Man Knelt in Shame
A West End man returning from a night with friends drank more than usual and feared his wife would know. He chose to kneel in prayer before bed but his wife quipped that his prayer would work better if he removed his silk hat. The remark arose from a lighthearted domestic moment reported by the St. Louis Republic.
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John
St. Louis Republic
Lack of Confidence On a Hill by London Punch
A humorous vignette from London Punch depicts a party returning home in a hired brougham with an intoxicated driver. The paterfamilias climbs to the box and, after a quip about the hill, takes the reins and confirms he has not previously drawn down the hill, prompting the coachman to declare they must walk.
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Brougham
He Wanted to Know Why You Are 680 Minutes Late
The Suburbanite explains two track wrecks caused the delay and the employer pressing for the identity of the other incident. It highlights punctuality and workplace accountability in a terse dialogue.
Partly True in Exchange Between Nix and Weary Well
A Philadelphia Inquirer exchange features Mr Nix denying parts of a story and Weary asserting a claim of nine years out of work as true as gospel. The dialogue highlights tension over credibility and personal employment history.
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Nix
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Cocoa Tree and Chocolate Making How It Is Made
The cocoa tree is an evergreen growing fifteen to twenty five feet with pink blossoms and pods on branches and trunks. Potent beans are fermented dried and shipped. roasted nibs are ground into chocolate liquor then pressed to yield cocoa butter and drinking cocoa. chocolate liquor becomes cooking chocolate with sugar and vanilla.
Traveler Law In Edinburgh Inn Opens Door To Comedy
A Scots law supposedly lets travelers drink in certain inns during prohibition hours. A weary Edinburgh traveler finds the village inn denial then, after retelling his origin, is admitted when he says he came from Leith, illustrating a local humor about travel status and eligibility.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Auld Reekie
Corstorphine
Origin of the Phrase Dixie and Its Roots
The New York American explains the term Dixie or Dixie's Land as arising from a kindly slave owner named Dixy on Manhattan Island in the late eighteenth century. Slaves cherished his plantation and sang of it when moved, and the idea traveled south as slavery spread, gradually losing the original memory of its source.
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Dixie
Dixy
Manhattan Island
New York American
Lighting Up for New York Hotels
A New York Sun remark notes hotel lobbies and front rooms glow each evening to keep appearances lively. The salesman explains some rooms show light to avoid the look of a graveyard, suggesting a staged bustle at upscale hotels.
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New York
New York Sun
Hottentot Women Compared Favorably in Africa
A London Spectator note says Hottentot married women hold strong position in society. The wife is described as mistress of the home with significant control over household food and milk, and generally they rank above the average in Africa among Negro races.
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Africa
London Spectator
Elopement of Misses and Cousin Passes Through Corona
Miss Edith Callahan Mary Callahan and cousin May Darkness of Los Angeles traveled through Corona on horseback last Wednesday en route to San Bernardino. They enjoyed the outing and planned a return trip via Rialto North Pomona Covina Azusa and Pasadelia.
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Edith
Mary Callahan
May
Los Angeles
Corona
San Bernardino
Rialto
Pomona
Covina
Azusa
Pasadelia
How to sod a small blue grass lawn and flowers
Grundy in Farm and Fireside for May explains placing blue grass sod in 2–3 inch squares spaced 12–18 inches apart on mellowed soil for rapid cover. Water in dry weather, avoid seeding, and mow lightly with a scythe first year. Also suggests sinking a tub with plants to keep roots from blue grass, achieving a tidy decorative touch.
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Adady
Minois
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Edison the Victor
Thrilling Sport
Milwaukee
Tropics
Dixie’s Land
Buster
Dren
A. Newton
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