Easter Parade Sparks Atlantic City Fashion Fete
Atlantic City prepares for Easter Parade with 140000 visitors in 540 hotels and more arriving to fill the boardwalk. The event features a white breakfast with white attire for women and white lapels for men, white silk lotus bouquets, and a morning musical headlined by Mme Gadski after the breakfast.
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Dame Fashion
Shelbourne
Rudolf
New York
Mme Gadski
No Bathing Suits at Ocean Park This Sunday
Easter Sunday parade at Ocean Park will not include bathing suit girls after ministerial opposition sparked by Rev. J. W. Boyd's sermon. Along the Santa Monica to Venice promenade, participants planned colorful bathing outfits and a post parade dinner with prizes for best costumes.
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Santa Monica
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Oecean Park
J. W. Boyd
California
Venice
Coney Island
China Grove Man Tries Suicide at Home
Salisbury April 22 Paul Saffrit about 30 and married lies unconscious in a sanitarium after a self inflicted head wound from a 32 calibre pistol at his China Grove home. He was rushed to Salisbury by Dr Edwards of Lasdiss.
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Salisbury
Paul Saffrit
China Grove
Saffit
Edwards
Lasdiss
Button on William Penn statue set to be secured
Philadelphia authorities hire steeplejacks after a loose 50 pound bronze button atop the city hall statue and several large rosettes at the base threaten to fall. The note mentions danger to pedestrians and quips that Philadelphia girls would not want such a floral bouquet shower.
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Philadelphia
William Penn
City Hall
Drake Relay Meet Draws Big Crowd With 100 Teams
The seventh annual Drake relay meet unfolds at the Des Moines stadium with about 7,000 spectators. Nearly 100 teams from Chicago, South Dakota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Ohio State, Southern California, Indiana, Washington, Notre Dame, Iowa State College, and Kansas Agricultural College participate.
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Chicago
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Ilinois
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Colorad
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Northwestern
Perdue
Ohio State
Southern California
Indiana
Washington
Notre Dame
Iowa State College
Kansas Agricultural College
Grissom Urges Poll Tax Payment in North Carolina
Local Republicans champion Grissom urging Republicans to pay poll tax by May 1 and denounce Democratic tax laws as a trap. He explains ballot basics and registration while praising what the Republican party stands for. Continues with remarks from Uncle Joe Wood and Matt Hedgecock mocking Democrat measures and tax burdens.
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Mr. Grissom
Joe’ Wood
Grant
Mike Shiplett
Matt Hedgecock
Mr. Hedgecock
Matt
British Protest Against Great Waste of Paper
London readers on April 22 accuse government departments of wasteful paper use amid import restrictions. Critics cite huge blue books from the Royal Commission on the Treatment of Sewage, noting a 40 pound, 2938 page report costing about 50,000 pounds. The piece also mentions Backhouse’s forthcoming Chinese dictionary as a notable scholarly event.
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London
Daily Mail
Royal Commission On the
Two New Homes Rising on Montlieu Street
Two new residences under construction on Montlieu Street near Barbee Heights. W G Munyan builds a two story eight room steam heated dwelling costing no less than 84 4) thousand dollars and Mrs John Munyan adds a seven room house about 3000. Mr Mungan also erects a $100 garage on his lot.
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Montlieu Street
Barbee Heights
W. G. Munyan
John Munyan
Mungan
English scholar to leave China after twenty years work
Edmund Backhouse, the English scholar who has spent two decades on an Anglo-Chinese dictionary, will depart China this month and never return. His dictionary project will be three times as voluminous as Giles.
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Peking
Edmund Backhouse
China
Hollister Named as Pence’s Successor for DNC Secretary
Washington reports the Democratic National Committee confirms W. R. Hollister of Missouri as secretary to succeed the late Thomas J. Pence. Pence, at his deathbed, designated Hollister to act during illness. The move follows Pence’s wishes. Representative Webb is elected vice chairman of the Democratic congressional committee.
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Democratic National Committee
W. R. Hollister
Missouri
Thomas J. Pence
Tom Pence
Webb
Democrat Rational Congressional Committee
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G. A. Pollock, JR
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