Meeting of Wives Sparks Navy Memoir at Dinner
In a dinner recollection, Austin Halstead explains how he first met his wife Halatesa during a naval assignment in New York. A wax museum prank by Tom Anderson and a 16 year old onlooker sparked the tale of early naval life and romance.
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Austin Halstead
Flalstead
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York
Eden Musee
Tom Anderson
Tom
Mufti
Wax figure romance ends in marriage after prank
A narrator recounts fooling a girl with a wax admiral Farragut figure at a school study scene. She suspects the figure might be real, touches the wax cheek, and flees in shock. Three years later at a ball on a flagship, she recognizes him and they marry, despite the earlier deception.
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Admiral Farragut
Mademoisele
Hoosierisms and Local Vignettes From Indiana News
Short items describe Hiram Sims's cow with 23 calves since 1893 and recent births, a Franklin Star report on cherry crops, Anthony Campbell seeking a divorce from Anna over temper and household disputes, political chit chat about Indiana's municipal elections, an Anderson merchant advertising 10 000 bills found in a courthouse waste box, snakes in southern Indiana eyed for canning to beat the beef trust, a Kokomo wedding witnessed by kin and a squinting clergyman, and a Motor World quip contrasting optimist and pessimist dreams of autos.
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Hiram Sims
Odon
Court House
Boy jailed for picking flowers at arsenal guardhouse
Wallace Shilline, 12, climbed over an arsenal fence to reach a scented shrub. He was held in the guardhouse for about an hour before Maj. Shaler released him at the Michigan street entrance with a caution that future trespass would bring harsher discipline. Regular yard patrols and a family scare followed the episode.
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Arsenal
Stephen Shilling
Ving
Tenth St
Wallace Shilline
Wallace
Uncle Sam
Snaler
Jace
Boston
Maj. Shaler
Michigan St
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