Iris a Queen of Gardens and Mythic Allure
Royal Bloom loves the iris as a mysterious and beautiful flower. The piece traces the iris from ancient Greek reverence to French Fleur de Lis, notes many varieties from white Florentine to yellow Provencal, and recounts a Japanese anecdote of blossoms on roof gardens after a famine.
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Iris
Wilich Lady
London Answers
Ruskin
France
Louis VII
Louis VII of
Tusser
Flower de Luce
Gerade
Mistral
Spenser
Japan
England
Air Mall Succeeds Across Continental Letter Route
Last year twenty planes carried half a million letters daily between New York and San Francisco. Flights avoided Sundays and holidays. Night relays used fast trains. Forty pilots made 7000 flights across 16 division points. 300 delays from 3000 stormy or foggy flights. Rockies climbs to 12000 feet to beat gales and snow. Abandonments rare due to mechanical trouble. Crossing time dropped from 100 to 80 hours.
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New York
San Francisco
Rockies
Time-Saving Stock Feeding Reel Introduced
A new dual spool stock feeding reel keeps punch presses moving. The reels load alternately with one empty spool while the other feeds stock. Adjustable arms fit various stock widths and core diameters, and a knuckle joint locks them for loading. Each side has an adjustable brake to apply suitable tension.
Old Ozark hunter recalls deer, turkeys tale of clever plan
A Missouri storyteller from the Ozarks shares a wild hunting anecdote told by Billy Green. The old man describes waking before dawn to a buck and nine turkeys perched on a limb, choosing to shoot the turkeys, knocking down the buck, and tying the birds around his neck while a misadventure with his breeches brings a rabbit to its end.
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Ozarks
Missouri
Billy Green
Kansas City
Old Pull
Old Bill
Dudley Malone Quotes Pipes at Paris Shops and Club
New York lawyer Dudley Field Malone recalls Paris jewelry shops displaying pipes for women and witnesses a fashionable scene with women smoking pipes at Vail lard's Ritz and Armenonville. He recounts a club anecdote about a man offering a plug and his wife’s pipe habit prompting masculine posturing.
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Dudley Field Malone
New York
Rue de la Paix
Paris
Vaillard's
Ritz
Armenonville
Bil’t
Bill
Life of a Government Policeman in Frontier Life
A compact portrait of government hunters as fearless, adaptable figures drawn from cowboys, trappers, guides and frontiersmen. The piece highlights prairie and mountain policing as a made to order career for sharpshooters ready to pursue dangerous wildlife and outlaws, blending romance with adventure.
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Montreal Family Herald
Foot Pedal Music Page Turner Patented for Performers
An inventor patents a foot operated lever system mounted on a music stand. The device turns pages with a pedal press, freeing the hands for performance. It can flip single leaves and move to chosen positions in a fraction of a second, enabling hands free musical execution.
Kissing Bugs Resurface In Historical Bomberage
Historical note recalls kissing bugs from summers in the early 1800s. Described as cone-nosed Reduviidae, known as dent bed bugs in the South, these fierce bite insects with wings were said to prey on hed beings and ranchers during fever outbreaks.
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United States
Hedbings
Roncher
Beaufort Mayor Sentenced to a Year in Atlanta Prison
KR V Bray Jr the Beaufort South Carolina mayor was sentenced to twelve months in the Atlanta federal penitentiary for striking a U S Internal Revenue inspector during estate investigations involving his father in law George Waterhouse Bray will serve as mayor from prison with a mayor pro tem active Bray appealed the verdict and sought clemency from President Harding prior to his transfer Say he will return to lead after serving his term
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Atlanta
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
United States Internal Revenue Department
KR. V. Bray
Beaufort
S. C
Bray
Harding
H. A. H. Smith
United States District Court
Charleston
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Harold Smith
Federal Revenue
George Waterhouse
Waterhouse
Smith
Inspector Smith
Mr. Bray
United States
N. B. Deal
South Carolina
Thomas McLeod
Denby
Navy Department
Baby Two Years Old Knows the Alphabet
West Bend Wisconsin report on William Feterelsen Jr son of Mr and Mrs William Feterelsen who at age two and a half demonstrates remarkable mental development. He learned the alphabet before turning two after receiving an ABC book and can recite letters and verses. He enjoys tools and can explain their uses and even fixed a toy car with a patch for a boy in need.
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West Bend
Wis
William Feterelsen, Jr
William Feterelsen
Billy
Turtle With 1773 Mark of Capt. Cook Found
A turtle left in the Tonga islands by Capt. James Cook in 1773 was found there last month by Capt. E. T. Pollock governor of American Samoa. The aged reptile showed signs of extreme age, Pollock said, adding it was gentle and cried like an ox cart.
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Washington
Tonga Islands
James Cook
E. T. Pollock
American Samoa
Navy Department
Pollock
Annexation ordinance Adds Plummer's Addition to Greencastle
The Greencastle city council passes an ordinance annexing a tract known as Plummer's Addition to Putnam County. The description places the parcel along the city boundary from Section 21, Township 14 North, Range 4 West, with railroad center line and surrounding streets included. Adopted July 24, 1923.
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Greencastle
Indiana
Pennsylvania Railroad
Putnam County
Ted
Charles F, Zeis
Gwinn Ensign
Charles F. Zeis
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Air Mall
U. S
Board of Trade
Chamber of Commerce
Cook
Tory
the Herald
Eresting
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