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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1912
Page
5
A patchwork of social club meetings and Halloween parties across LaSalle Eaton Evans and surrounding areas including Kensington Kensington club meetings Hallo ween events and a debate on invention versus discovery. Readers learn about hostesses chairs and plans for Christmas events with a lively survey of local society activity.
A string of community notices recounts social events and club meetings across Milliken Windsor Auburn Keota Nov. 5 7. Highlights include the Ladies club entertaining husbands at Redman home a leap year dance at Camfield hall and St Albans Guild chicken supper to fund a church. other items mention Mothers and Progress clubs meetings and a quiet wedding in Sterling.
Mrs Timmerman of El Reno shot acid at Miss Clara Robinson in front of the Southern hotel after learning the rival sought to separate her husband from the Timmerman family. Robinson, a cigar girl, suffered facial injuries and fainted, aided by a baggage man before reaching a doctor. Mrs Timmerman presented her version, detailing a long history of jealousy and letters from the rival.
Windsor hosts P E O and B I L initiations with Halloween feasts at Mrs C E B Evans home and Mrs J A Foltz party delighting about fifty guests. In Erie a October wedding couple Thomas W Kirby and Margueritte G Zimmerman celebrate at home. Ault holds 350 guest Halloween program with militia drills and music. Evans recounts J O F ghosts and Odd Fellows party.
Harry A Franck recounts a perilous night journey in the Basque country as he faces a solitary figure on a cliff edge. A fragmentary inscription hints at a memorial, followed by notes on ancient Babylonian chronology and a quip about a woman's unhappy lot from the Chicago Record.
Katherine M Thomas explains in Joe Chapple's News Letter the complex etiquette governing salutes and honors aboard United States naval ships. Officers and men must salute the national ensign on reaching or leaving the quarter deck and stand at attention when the Star Spangled Banner plays. Foreign ships trigger mutual salutes and flag hoists, while US vessels do not salute unrecognized nations.
Youth's Companion describes a cob house style campfire constructed with five sticks forming a frame and roof. The method uses dry wood for the roof, green sticks allowed, and a built in opening for feeding kindling while the roof sheds rain. The camper watches, cooks, and feeds fuel as the fire progresses.
A rigger notes many flagpoles are ruined by halyards drawn too tight after raising a flag. Dry weather followed by wet causes halyards to shrink and bend the pole, potentially permanent. Halyards should be fastened with slight slack when 20 flags lie down.
W. H. Rideing recalls the late Earl of Kimberley as a wonderful, fascinating man who knew much yet paused at times. He quotes a boy asking what a man who talks a lot is called and answers that a woman who talks a lot is a nuisance.
A Life magazine quip features Tommy telling his mother he washed only one hand while the other did not need washing, capturing a humorous moment about hygiene and parental dialogue.
A fragmentary excerpt presents a dialog where Geraltine asks Pa e Anewer for marriage and Gerald responds with a playful travel talk. The exchange evokes Shakespearean tone and fractured dialogue.
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