Spoon ing permits and other oddities in Lynn high school
A Kingman Star item surveys Lynn high school rules on spo oning requiring parental permits, jokes about a Spooners' Union, then moves through diverse topics from opera language to Marconi and African communication, a tuberculosis note, suffrage hat burning questions, a New York hotel barroom panic, and a Denver professor’s college critique.
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Noah Webster
Lynn
The
Boston Globe
Mary
Margaret
Estelle
Paul
Henry
Oswald
Spooners’ Union No. 1
Building for American homes by editor Radford
Editor William A. Radford discusses affordable, practical American house design. He argues the exterior should suit interior flow, promotes square or simple plans for efficiency, and warns against incongruent add ons while noting cost-saving strategies and heating considerations. The piece ends with a brief historical note on Blackbird, the Maha leader.
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Willam A. Radford
William A. Radford
West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
Build Your Own Tomato Can Target for Baseball Practice
A 1912 design explains making a backyard target that can be used for archery air rifle or baseball pitching drills. It uses a box, tomato cans as scoring pockets, wooden spacers and tin flaps to reveal scores, with two post supports for erection.
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A. Neely Hall
Mock turtle soup mix up at family hotel
A new waitress at a hilltop family hotel asks diners for mocking bird soup provoking a protest from an Audubon society member. The woman vows not to return, the husband defends trying it, and the waitress confesses the error saying it was mock turtle soup.
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The
Audubon Society
St. Paul Dispatch
Lamps in hats light up fashion talk
In a witty exchange a husband remarks that artificial flowers with tiny lamps powered by a hat battery illuminate the wearer’s age, while his wife modestly notes she has none of those accessories to begin with.
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Titefist
Absurd Olympian Drags Myth into Earthworm Festival
In a mythic Cleveland Plain Dealer piece, Jupiter reacts as earthworms stage a festival of young men in black gowns and maidens in white bearing flowers. A student speaker denounces "The Absurd Olympian God Myth Retarded the Dawn of a Higher Civilization," provoking thunderbolts and uproar before calm returns.
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Hybra
Olympus
Venus
Hebe
Jupiter
Ganymede
Vulcan
Thessalian
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bristow Golf Tall Tale Recalled by Kansas Senator
Sam Blythe of the Saturday Evening Post notes Senator Bristow of Kansas is so tall he uses clubs a foot longer than normal and hits the ball far. A Bristow anecdote recalls his early attempt at golf and a near miss on a distant hole.
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Sam Blythe
Saturday Evening Post
Senator Bristow
Kansas
Bristow
Kentucky
Kansas City Times
Prescription for Colds Promises Quick Relief
An ad touts two ounces glycerine and half an ounce Globe Pine Compound mixed into a half pint whiskey. Take one to two teaspoons after meals and at bed time, with smaller doses for children. Claims to be the quickest cough and cold cure known to the medical profession. urges buying genuine Globe Pine Compound and notes high demand for six years.
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Globe Pharmaceutical Laboratories of
Chicago
Disgraced Dining Echoes Through Dinner Table
A wry fragment depicts a family dinner where a father’s behavior is described as disgraceful. The scene notes the guests’ surprise at the father’s conduct and ends with a humorous image of utensils left unused.
Shopper's Cramp Talk By Simeon Ford At New York Dinner
Simeon Ford joked at a hotel men’s dinner in New York about a supposed new disease named shopper’s cramp. He claimed it starts in December and peaks mid month before ending on December 24, with women feeling it in their limbs while husbands feel it in the pocket.
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Simeon Ford
New York
Bank of England Fire Suspected at Old Building
A blaze within the Bank of England in London damaged flooring and joists in the southeast section. Bank authorities detected and subdued it in three minutes with their own fireservices. A lieutenant and twelve Irish Guards on duty helped police hold back the crowd.
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Bank of England
London
Toledo Mayor Brand Whitlock Voices Discontent
Mayor Brand Whitlock emphasizes discontent as a driving force for national greatness. He cites dialogue with a skeptical farmer about contentment and land ownership, illustrating public sentiment on progress and possessions.
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Brand Whitlock
Toledo
Candlemaker’s Double Identity Brightens Trade
A candlemaker blends two extremes in his craft becoming both cereous and light in business. The pun hints at a shop offering traditional wax wares and luminous offerings. Local patrons note the playful branding and steady sales.
To Her Incredible, Otherwise
A humorous aside about a brother who earns far more than he can spend prompts the question of his workplace and a playful jab about his earnings.
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Mint
Spinsters lament lack of husbands to tend them
A small note reports that some spinsters express unhappiness due to not having a man nearby to worry and care for them.
Old Experience Teaches Grape-Nuts as Breakfast Aid
A South Dakota woman touts Grape-Nuts as the best breakfast food for digestion and nerve strength. She describes relief from indigestion after switching to the cereal, credits Postum Co. with the endorsement, and encourages others to try it, noting the ad claims.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Adv
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