Miss Edgar Teaches English in Chekiang Amid Revolutionary Change
Miss Edgar, teaching English and direct method, works in a Chekiang academy with 800 boys and many married students. The revolution changes attitudes, gender roles, and schooling, with English rising in importance for commerce and contact with the occidental world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lea ¢ Edegar
Edgar
Chekiang
Talka
H. Leng
China
Young
Ninhwa
Arban Educa
Dalton
Isne
Ely
Rinhwal
Essay Prize Winners and a Moral on Tobacco Use
The report highlights W C U prize winners Margaret Penny and Helen Sallis for essays on tobacco dangers and healthy living. It recounts a tale of a sick father and a boy who learns tobacco harms from a doctor. A second story features a king honoring a girl who promotes smoking and tea avoidance with simple health rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Tue
AD Pinckney
Margaret ‘Enny
Prada
Helen. Saliséssay
Pee York School
Aton
Memorial to Mothers of the World Planned for U S Capital
Washington AP reports Capt. JG Calhoun and wife envision a grand Memorial to the Mothers of the World on his Braemar Forest estate. A generous donor provides limestone. Harry Hake may design. Estimated cost 4 to 5 million dollars, completion targeted for 1932. The design features a double colonnade with 100 women representing nations, state columns, and a hall of fame for arts and women’s achievements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mothers of the World
U. S
Washington
JG. G. Calhoun
Captain Calhoun
Braemar Forest
Harry Hake
Duke
North
Cov Catholn
Caroline
Calhoun
Women in Washington Washington picnic scene described
An AP brief notes women in Washington during picnic season, mentioning ants on tables and baskets. The fragment suggests casual social scene observations without concrete events or names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
President's picnic basket aids stranded radio crew
Unclear text describes guests and House secret service at a picnic in Virginia mountains. A radio team from National Broadcasting, lost on a mountain road near the president's summer camp, was aided as a White House secretary returned with the presidential lunch basket and transport to the camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E House
Secret Service
Joy the Hoover
Hoover
Washington
Virginia Mountains
Status of U S Women Sought in Governmental Studies
Washington AP views national shifts in women’s roles as industrial work grows. The Women’s Bureau, with 40 research specialists, conducts in depth field studies on 9,000,000 working women. Key findings include laundry workers, store staff, and rising black and foreign born women joining industries, with necessity driving most to work.
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Washington
Woan
Women's Bureau
Department
Labor
Akien
United States
Women’s Bureau
vThe Laundry S
Ilass
Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley
Fach
Andre
Bureau
Uses for Old Linen In Everyday Households
A fragment discusses repurposing worn linen tablecloths into usable items. It notes that a linen piece too worn for table use can yield border fabric for napkins and trimmings, suggesting edge material sufficient to create practical, daily cloths and coverings.
Fragmentary OCR Phrase Reflects Ambiguity in Copy
The readable portion presents a garbled sequence of words asking about what else may save much or imply a comparison. Details are insufficient to establish a clear event or context for a proper news item.
Handkerchief Fashion Expands With Size and Style
The article notes women flaunting oversized handkerchiefs, not as tokens of family ties but as fashion statements. It describes large wisps of georgette and lace, formal georgette pieces with lace trimming, white linen with bright color splotches, and crinkled chiffon squares with scalloped embroidery. It highlights how these items suit both street and formal wear and are popular gift choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becaus
Jace
Lawyer Mother RS in St Louis Makes Law History
Mrs. Thomas Walter Hardy, an attorney and mother of three, was the only woman among fifty three graduates at Washington University Law School this year. She balanced household duties including husband and three sons with training, plans to practice law if opportunity arises, and comes from the Tillman line in Nashville. Her Normandy Missouri home anchors her daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TVW. T
St. Louis
Thomas Walter Hardy
Washington University
Snd
Lote
George Newton Tillman
Nashville
Tenn
Flowers Shrubs Trees A Garden Compost Pile Instructions
A guide from Victor Lumsden on building a garden compost pile. It covers materials such as weeds leaves grass clippings and kitchen scraps, layering with soil, inoculation with animal manure if available, piling to four to five feet, turning for mixing, watering for moisture, and allowing decomposition to produce a soil like amendment for beds lawns and frames. It emphasizes location away from view and avoiding unsuited materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Lumsden
Department of
Manure Demand Drives Urban Garden Fertility Tactics
Fragmentary passage notes manure scarcity in urban and suburban areas. It argues burning vegetation is wasteful and decayed growth can be used to maintain garden fertility. The text mentions disease and infestation but centers on using plant decay to sustain soils.
Sunset Molded Dessert and Salad Recipe Bundle
A vintage recipe clipping describes a Sunset Mold Luncheon Fruit Salad with crackers and cheese, plus a Sunset Maid molded orange gelatin dessert. It provides ingredients like pineapple, peaches, cherries, cantaloupe, cheese, celery, salt, mayonnaise, and a gelatin orange mold with whipped cream. Directions cover layering, chilling, and garnishing with pecans, pimento, and mint leaves.
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Sunset Maid
An Old Fashioned Mother staged at Stull Fourth
The July 4 celebration at Stull featured the play An Old Fashioned Mother with a cast including Debora Underhill Katherine Brass Widder Bill Prindie Irma Burgert Miss Lowizy Loving Custard Opal Miller Isabel Sumpscot Alberta Stull Gloriana Perkins Sunice Brass Sukey Prindie Grace Walter John Underhill Clyde Wulfkuhle Brother Jonah Mackenbush Jeremiah Jerry Goslin Harold Houk Enoch Rowe Roland Kraft Juvitus Todd Claude Lewis and other villagers. Directed by Mrs Esther Boehringer. The synopsis follows three acts set in the Underhill farm house showing a progression of family love and moral themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stull
Debora Underhill
Katherine Brass
Widder Bill Prindie
Irma’ Burgert
Lowizy
Opal Miller
Isabel Sumpscot
Alberta Stull
Gloriana
Perkins
Sunice Brass
Sukey Prindie
Grace Walter
John , Underhill
Clyde Wulfkuhle
Jonah Mackenbush
Olin Kampschroder
Eremiah
Jerry
Naomi Hiklenbrand
Underhill Farm House
Esther Boehringer
Prank Bidinger
Orville Platt
Bobby Gene
Mike Murphy
O. A. Bidinger
Mary Lavin
Willie
W. F. Ite
Albert
George Anderson
Paul
Alice
McGuire
Big Springs
Jude Anderson
Frederic Lee
Gene Gibler
JJ Gibler
Rank
Bidinger
N. D. Messer
Raph
Rose
Pleasant Grove
Chris Kraft
Frank ‘Rath
Goldie
Donald
Elmont
D. A Bidinger
Katherine
George Houk
Roy Deskin
Lloyd Fally
Europa Wilson
Pal “Harvey
Roller
Harvey
Topeka
Mona
John Unger
Jake
Mrs. Unger
Helen Deskin
Bernita
Rachel Bidinger
Will Murphy
Clyde
Tatley
Nick
Eureva Wilson
Mary Williams
Orville Platz
Bobby
Gene and Mrs Bidin Verbal Exchange At Monde
Miss Gene and Mrs Frank Bidinnger Monde attended an afternoon gathering with Mrs Henry Stull. They spent an evening last week at John Stull’s home and Benita Bidinger visited Tuesday afternoon at William Murphy’s.
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Gene
Frank Bidinnger Monde
Brackett Social and Family Gatherings Mark July
Brackett community notes a series of Sunday visits and family occasions. Warren Ridley and others called on W. H. Martin. Mr and Mrs G A Preyer and Gracie vacationed in Kansas City. Mrs L B Bigsby celebrated her eighty third birthday with kin at Guy Bigsby’s home. The Pleasant Hour club met with Mrs. Davis and others, featuring Edgar Guest quotations, music, and a piano solo by Phyllis DeWitt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren’ Ridley
Alice-Maude Evans
Ernest Richard
Pauline
Robert Ridley
W. H. Martin
G. A. Preyer
Gracie
Car
McClung
Kansas City
Imo
Fat ‘Ryland Park
L.B. Bigsby
Guy
Bigsby
H. H. Kline
St. Joseph
B. F. Yoeman
Ralph and
Harris
Long Beach
Gal
California
R. We Yoeman
Washington, D. C
Pryijik DeWitt
DeWitt
Stella Lybarger
Brackett
H. B. Jordan
Lawrence
Yoeman
R. W. Yeeman
A. Fralick
Topeka
Pleasant Hour Club
W. F. Davis
Jerry Isyons
W. H. Weeks
Edgar Guest
Jerry Lyonsy
Raassing
Malindy
Margaret Kelsall
Phyllis
Tonia Rudiger
Mary
Hilen Miller
St. Louis
Chrider van Neste
de Ridder
Local Brackett group plans meetings and notable visits
Lois McClung Mrs Paris DeWitt and Miss Margaret Kelsall of Brackett prepare for the next meeting in two weeks at Mrs Paschells home with program Fame Women Influence of Women in Men's Achievements by Alfred Jehle. William Mearis visited Yoemans. Sam Kelsall recovering after Memorial hospital operation. Mary Ellen Miller from St. Louis stays with Margaret Kelsall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois McClung
Paris DeWitt
Margaret’ Kelsall
Brackett
Jack iKelsey
Fred Paschel
Paschell
Alfred Jehle
William Mearis
R. W. Yoeman
F. Yoeman
Mearrs
Long Beach
Cal. E
Sam Kelsall
Bert Harmon
Tonganoxie
Mary Ellen Miller
St. Louis
Margaret Kelsall
GA. Droll
French libraries urged for every French town
Paris AP committee of intellectuals calls for a public library in each French town of 16 000 or more to imitate the United States. They criticize France's scarce libraries and poor condition urging Parliament to act. The report notes French readers lag behind many nations.
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Paris
France
United States
Louis Thames
Thomas
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