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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1937
Page
3
A penned letter from the late colonial era reveals life on Nantucket near Starbuck Plantation and a young writer describing daily tasks, weaving, and cheerfulness under Aunt Content. It notes Nathaniel Starbuck Jr. returning from China with tea and gifts, a ship captain visiting, and a community tea gathering that puzzled Aunt Content over serving methods.
Puzzle cues include hog thigh cure and seaweed and many scattered terms. A long Nantucket tea anecdote follows detailing Aunt Content brewing a bell kettle tea for guests, its effects, and a dinner scene with Aunt Esther Lydia Macy Captain Norris and a cousin narrator.
A girl recalls family ties to the Miles Standish of Nantucket and a jovial Captain Norris. She plans to marry and sail away with him aboard his ship, insisting the union hinges on love, bloodlines, and a shared taste for tea. Family consent hangs on her father's reply as she sends tea and crepe as part of her departure preparations.
Miss Opal Jayne Kennedy principal of Pinckney school will join the Shawnee Institute faculty next week the announcement came from Miss Maude Snyder Shawnee county superintendent of public instruction Also named to the faculty are Miss Elsie Thrasher from Emporia Teachers College and Dr H E Bradford from the University of Nebraska education department Their presence marks a notable expansion of the annual event.
Topeka reports show upright pianos rose from 73 531 to 76 804 last year while grand pianos fell sharply to 4 042. Radios up 12 728 and tractors increased 5 926 to 68 776. In Winfield lightning hit a barn on the J G Schantz farm destroying the building hay oats and a calf amid 30 inch rainfall.
Milford Conn Aug 12 Searchers combed Long Island waters for Charlotte Lieberum 35 Bridgeport school teacher missing after George Wallace Thorpe New Haven said he tied her to an oyster stake when she grew exhausted and swam ashore eight hours after their 17 foot sailboat capsized near Stratford Their dory with jib and main sail sank in a squall the stake location was described as far from shore and an oil tanker towed the capsized craft to New Haven Thorpe collapsed after recounting the ordeal to residents police could not determine how far the stake was from shore
In response to Ottawa commissioners demanding a bus station for three lines to ease street congestion a Santa Fe Trailways district agent attended a commission meeting and urged rejection of the ordinance proposing an alternative.
The text notes that the bus should be allowed to park parallel to the curb to prevent blocking traffic and that commissioners are considering the case.
Northwest winds known as mistrals suddenly lower temperatures along the south coast of France during certain seasons. The phenomenon significantly affects coastal weather, bringing dry, cool air and clear skies to regions facing the Mediterranean.
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