In Love on Deck A Weatherby Yacht Caper
Mrs Weatherby and her husband plot to separate their daughter June from her chauffeur Jim Nevins by a yacht cruise with the Sparkwells. June and Charlie Sparkwell secretly wed during the voyage, while June and Jim share a staged love affair that ends with a cheeky confessional on board.
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June
Mr. Weather
Rascal
Weatherby
Jim Nevins
Mr Weatherby
Jim
Wille
France
Jane
Mrs. Weatherby
Charlie Sparkwell
Sparkwells
Charlie
Willie Weatherby
Saxton Sparkwell
Atlantic
Wille Weatherby
Hoyle
Willie
Witte Weatherby
Mrs. Sparkwell
June l
The
Five and Ten
Danzig Fortress and Port Under Hohenzollern Fortification
Danzig and surrounding district host about 150,000 residents with the city fortified by modern batteries under Hohenzollern rule. The Neufahrwasser port lies at the Vistula mouth with warehouses on an island, reflecting a past peak in Polish trade and shipbuilding. Supplies reported for January 1.
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Danzig
Vistula
Early to bed and rise prove no universal rule
Herbert Corey quotes a renowned 40 year early riser who, despite wealth and health, admits a temper that could erode copper. A successful business leader with 50 000 employees stresses daily discipline, but laments sacrificing theater, concerts, and social life. He fears the rhyme of maxims is too cheerful to be true.
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Herbert Corey
Laughs at Ancient Saying About Rusted Time and Leisure
An elderly speaker, at about seventy five, rejects the idea that quitting work leads to rust. He has not worked in four years yet feels no rust and doubts the claim that people never return to work. He argues that he has earned rest after fifty years of hard labor and expects decades more of leisure if he lives long.
Hundreds of Fig Varieties Across the Moraceae Family
Botanists catalog more than 600 fig species, mostly tropical evergreens, often large climbers. Ficus carter grows in Egypt but is of little value, while Ficus sycomorus is eaten by Egyptians. Ficus roxbhurii bears very large fruit but low quality, and Picus pseudocaries in northeast Africa yields small dark fruits. The cultivated fig’s origin mirrors the olive.
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Ficus Carter
Egypt
Aso Flews Sycomorus
Fleus Roxburghii
Himmalaya
India
Africa
California
Karakul Fur and Its Turkestan Roots
Karakul wool comes from Bokhara Turkestan where Persian lambs from the Kara kul breed are raised. Before the war most skins were dyed and processed at Lespste, with two houses handling about 750,000 skins yearly valued around 2.7 million dollars. The breed thrives in vast Bokhara deserts, with lambs born covered in dense fleece that remains curled if skinned within three days.
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Bokhara
Turkestan
Lespste
Naples church ball dance during Easter customs
The Beasts of Foul era church youths in Naples held a ritual Easter dance with a ball game. Boys danced, sang, and chased the ball, then later at private events tossed balls while whirling to musical tones. The practice described as a long-standing, odd dancing party known as a ball.
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Deen
Naples
Deported man caught with fake basilica credential in Newark
Iskaac George, 40, detained on a fake Assyrian bishop letter and forged credentials bought in Newark for 1. He allegedly collected relief funds in Waterloo only for his own pockets, arrested last October on a complaint by Misa Ada Palmer. He carried 1500 in greenbacks sewn into his shirt and had testimonials from state officers and clergymen. The article notes a national drive to raise 250,000 for a France Marne river monument, with Iowa’s $5,000 quota set for April 6 to 11 under Gov. Harding. George Cosson chairs the national gift effort in Iowa with John Blair as treasurer.
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Newark
N. J
Iskaac George
Waterloo
Waa
Misa Ada Palmer
Official Board of Censors
Chambers of Commerce
France
New York Harbor
America
W. L. Harding
Washington
Iowa
George Cosson
John Blair
Iowa National Bank of Des Moines
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Withhe Weatherby
Boaten Transcript
Peters
Finany
MR. Farmer
Alexander
Lininger Implement Co
Omaha, Nebr
Western Distributors
United States
Marne River
F. W. Kelley
North Side Square
Glenwood, Iowa
Bertie
Alec
Anus
Glenwood Tire and Vulcanizing Co
Teg
Glenwood, Towa
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