Vast Colonial Furnishings At Boston Museum Exhibit
A museum collection showcases late 17th to early 19th century items including an Andrew and Mary cabinet, portraits by unnamed artists, embroidered pieces by Alexander Hamilton era artisans, and a Miles family silver display. Highlights feature a black shawl once owned by Mrs Abraham Lincoln, items attributed to colonial veteran artisans, plus rare hooked rugs, quilts, coverlets, and delicate glassware in cabinets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Milesish
Muuseum
Abraham
Oln
J. Ei. Cook
Chica
Pacific Coast
Scarf Hats Made By Milliner For Fashion Mirth
A fragmentary item notes a milliner can fashion a scarf or silk into a fashionable hat. It mentions a girl seeking stylish headwear and a beige piece used to shape the soft hat, with advice on selecting unique fabric to avoid common looks. The language is garbled but indicates custom millinery work and wearer choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Millinex
Debating Prohibition and Effects on Youth
A Chicago university voice argues against Prohibition, claiming it has not curbed drinking and may worsen youth behavior. He cites personal observations from years near Lake Park and factory neighborhoods, urging honest enforcement and recognizing widespread interest in the country’s youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Chicago
Hiaig
Lake Park
Philadelphia Artist Visits Sister A Kansas Native and Painter
Fern I. Coppedge of Philadelphia, born in Decatur Illinois, former University of Kansas student, revisits sister Mrs. Margaret Sharp in Lawrence. She is a landscape painter with works in Boston, Philadelphia, and Texas museums, holds a Boston one woman show, and has been honored by the Plastic Club and Kansas City Art Institute with multiple prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fern
Philadelphia
Margaret Sharp
New Hampshire Street
Fern I. Cophedge
Lawrence
Coppedge
Decatur
Coppede
University of Kansas
Robert W. Coppedge
Fst Nsti
Chicago Art Tute
William M. Chase
Art Students League of New York
Lumberville
Penn
Delaware River
Kansas City." Yart. Institute
Bae
Plastic Club of
Pineapple and Prune Salad Recipe Involves Pineapple Mayonnaise
A fragment describes a fruit salad method: pit thirty prunes, drain crushed pineapple, fill prunes with pineapple, chill, arrange on lettuce with cream and garnish with maraschino cherries. Mayonnaise dressing uses drained pineapple, mayonnaise, and whipped cream.
Cabbage Pineapple Salad Recipe By Bessie Purcell
A recipe for Cabbage Pineapple Salad serving six outlines ingredients including cabbage pineapple marshmallows English walnuts and mayonnaise dressing. Instructions describe shredding cabbage and chopping pineapple and walnuts then mixing with the other ingredients. Source shows Bessie Purcell Route 7 as the contributor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Purcell
Historic Kansas Trees Tell Tales Of Treaties And Towns
Legacy trees across Kansas mark pivotal moments from the Council Oak at Council Grove, tied to the 1806 Santa Fe Trail treaty, to Topeka and Olathe giants protected amid 1905 sidewalk plans. The article notes the Vermont colony maple that inspired Mapleton, and laments old groves felled or saved, preserving a mapped landscape of early settlement and memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ory
W. D. Fowles
Lawrence Flower
Council Grove
Council Oak
United States
Great Plains
George C. Sibley
Big John Walker
Olathe
Jennie Baker
Huntoon
Clay Streets
Shun-gan-nun-ga Creek
Kaw River
Topeka
Central Park School
Kansas
Little Osage
Bourbon County
Vermont Colony
Mapleton
Ithe
United
Lawrence Trees Amid Prairie Fires Preserve Pioneer Shade
A feature on Kansas trees near the Osage and Neosho rivers highlights remarkable specimens in Lawrence. It recalls Captain Gunnison's 1853 sight of eastern Kansas timber and explains how prairie fires shaped the landscape, with old maples, cottonwoods, and walnuts surviving to link present residents with pioneer history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osage
Kansas
Neosho
I. D. Graham
Topeka
Gold Hills
Nong
Amon
Bkiler
Sival
Kansan
Altho
Lawrence
Mary
Stevens
Toby
St John
Bismarck Grove
Fred Morris
Eighth
Ohio
Morris
Simmons Hospital
Jas
Hird
Bickerton
Peter Emery
Quantrell
J. W. Gunnison
Congress
Missouri River
Pacific Ocean
Mount Oread
Kaw
Miler
Haskell Avenue
Nineteenth Street
South Lawrence
Boston Woman Becomes First Female Head of Botanical Society
Margaret A. Ferguson of Wellesley College is named the first woman president of the American Botanical Society. A long-time botany head, her work spans plant physiology, comparative morphology, and cytology, with notable pine studies cited by Reginald Buller. Her tenure reflects decades of reform and upgraded facilities at Wellesley College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellesley, Mass
Botanical Society ‘of America
Margaret A. Ferguson
Wellesley College
Ferguson
Society
Washington Academy of Science
Reginald Buller
University of Manitoba
Botanical Society
Association For
Zoological Station
Naples
Wellesley
Fersa
Vinlam High School Notes Seeks Quarantine and Graduation Reform
Vinland High School notes report health improvements among scarlet fever cases and an upcoming dramatic program on March 29. The Board of Education raises graduation standards, assigning point values to grades A through D, with 16 points required to graduate. changes include a substitute for a quarantined teacher and a temporary replacement.
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Vinland High School
Carpenter
Garnett
Thelma McPheeters
Kansas City
Bridenstine
Manhattan
Simmons
Board of Education
Community notes and obituaries from Ulysses area
A digest of local life includes school district grades, a district tournament date, visits among neighbors, illness updates, a husking bee for Clarence Schick and neighbors, a death of Selby Schick, injuries from a mule incident, travel to Kansas City for funerals, and plans for local church and school improvements. Filled with caregiving, gatherings, and community notices from Lawrence to Vinland.
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Allison Andrews
Duana Dunn
le Loup
Mary Sturdy
Anna Andrews
Anna Deay
Vinland
D. Love
Lawrence
Frick
John Laughlin
John Harrisson
Ira Hird
Roy Jamison
Mrs. Watkins
Joe Wagner
Cyrus Jones
Lem Sturdy
Arthur Hammond
Gus Olson
Martin Holcom
Herman Smith
John Anderson
Sam Ramey
Len Jaison
Harold Roe
Selby Schick
Local social notes and church sale planned in Eudora
Community dinners guest lists and visits fill the week in Eudora with dinners hosted by Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Nemic, guests from Belton Stillwell and Lawrence. Altar Society plans a Catholic church food sale on Saturday March 30. Lions and PTA meetings noted. missionary Dr. Van Buskirk to speak at the Methodist church and ongoing class gatherings at the grade school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Elmer Wyrick
Richard, Erwin
Cecil
Lola Learnard
Esther Buell
Catharan Upchurch
Harry ‘Hagenbush
Kansas City
Frank Jar- Rensen
Emma Maul
Clyde, Smith
Maul
Bomes
St. Paul Evangelical Church
Eudora
Clyde Smith
Louise Keys
Jacv Abies
Johanna Moll
Fudora
Homer Gerstenberger
Hilda Helen
Lois Louiss
Gus Zlecon
Dimmer
Joward Berni
Orville Wilson
Posroe
Willard Fitzgerald
Grid Lay
Maude Fitzgerald
Thelma
Bryan
Fred
Claude Wyatt
Belton
Mabel Mullens
Stillwell
Ladies of the Altar Society of the Catholic Church
Harry Harenbush
Mildred White
Eva Mertz
Angela Sommers
Jessie Marley
Garnett Hughes
Charles Nemic
John Moody
John Everley
G. P. Sweet
Guy Grimes
James .McCabrin
Richard Erwin
Joe Zillner
Lawrence
Fred Zillner
W. A. Gale
Fred Schlegel
Allen Westerhouse
Miller of
Gardner
Joan Miller
William Carter
Frank Sommers
William Zimmerman
Wayne
Robert Brent
Harrisonville
Cane
W. W. Grist
William Trefsir
J.B. Miller
Ruth
Gerald
Ray Jones
Love and the Devil
Varsity
J.D. van Buskirk
Korea
Methodist Church
Parent-Teachers Association
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Central Park
Kentucky Street
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Oslo
International Federation of University Women
Mme, Curie
Dean Gildersleeve
Barnard College
New York
Cleo
Hill
Marilyn, Morgan
Pathe
Botanical
Vinlam and Vicinity
Ulysses
Uniley Way
Boybulle
Utilities
Your Gas CO
Home Service and
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Conn. St
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