Daisy the Kokomo Mail Horse Still Delivers After 21 Years
Daisy, a 23 year old mare in Kokomo Indiana, has hauled a rural mail cart since age two. She has seen trains, planes, and motor vehicles evolve around her route and has twice saved her owner Ben Boughman at grade crossings. After 21 years in service she takes a summer vacation, returning each fall to the same daily circuit.
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Kokomo
Ind
Daisy
New York
Chicago
Ben Boughman
Main Street
Evangeline’s Eden Flooded by Atchafalaya In Deep Waters
Washington reports the sixth Great Lake called the Lake of the Mississippi has breached the Atchafalaya dikes flooding Evangeline country from St. Martin to St. Landry parishes. Acadian refugees’ fate mirrors Longfellow, with Cajun heritage deep in Opelousas, St. Martinsville, and the Teche region as the flood swirls into Cajun lands and legends.
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Washington
United States
Lake of the Mississippi
Ontario
Erie
Atchafalaya
St. Martin
St. Landry
National Geographic Society
Nova Scotia
Massachusetts
Detroit
Corsica
Cayenne
New Orleans
Bayou Teche
Longfellow
Tasil
Etienne de Bore
Atchafalaya Valley
Louisiana
Evangeline
Baton Rouge
Atcafalaya
Opelousas
St. Martinsville
France
San Domingan
PAL MEETS LINDY
Harry Smith a bosom friend and air-mail pilot of Colonel Lindbergh is chosen by President Coolidge as one of two pilots to greet Lindbergh on his arrival in Washington.
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Washington Monument
Coolidge
Colonel Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Col
Charles Lindbergh
Capitol Plaza
Washington Monument Grounds
Harry ©. Smith
Bosom
President Coolidge
Washington
Harris & Ewing
White House
Evangeline Lindbergh
Waxwork museum figures from paraffin pickling
At the American Museum of Natural History, G. K. Noble and M. E. B. Jaeckle preserve reptiles and amphibians by soaking them in melted paraffin after removing water. The specimens become life like wax figures with preserved color, requiring only occasional eye touch ups with gold paint.
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Dee
Alice
American Museum of Natural History
G. K. Noble
M. EB. Jaeckle
Four-Part Music With Ancient Violin Bow
Virtuoso Herman Barkowski demonstrates a deeply curved violin bow that allows four-part playing on one instrument. The process loosens strings and mirrors medieval crotta bows, enabling performance of early scores once deemed impossible with a straight bow.
Civil War in China Boosts Chop Suey
London's exclusive set patronizes Chinese restaurants as upheaval in China makes chop suey joints fashionable. An after-theater tour of the Strand reveals the best people now seek Far Eastern atmosphere and street-side Chinese dining.
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London
China
Pilccadilly Circus
The
Strand
Woman Finds Relief After Taking Vegetable Compound
In a midwestern town a discouraged woman, Mrs Daugherty, could not work or leave home. A booklet of testimonials led her to Lydia B Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After three bottles she found relief and by eleven bottles no longer had the prior trouble, sharing her experience to help others.
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Middle West
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mus
Daveauerty
Orchard Ave
Muscatine
Iowa
The Selfish Uplifter Aldine Utley Defies Reform Motives
Aldine Utley, known as the girl evangelist, tells a New York reporter that male reformers often act from selfish motives. She parries claims of uplift with a quip about a man warning that girls should not ponder as it could arouse wives suspicion.
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Aldine Utley
New York
Refined likeness stirs debate on imitation and hate
A short exchange turns to a broader claim about moral alignment, noting how appearances can mask lineage of vice. The dialogue hints at artistic duplicity and the danger of copying destructive traits, echoed by a classical quotation on choosing vices to imitate or reject.
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Lindy
Eden
Plaquemine
Emmerline Labiche
Cajans
Gabriel
Louis Arconeaux
Emmerline
Maryland
Louis
St Martinsville
Mmerline
J. A. Hoover
Pal
Cnarres
Pasus
Hubbard
Langley
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paraffin
Dr Scholls Zino-pads
F. B. John
Thiensville
Hank
Bill
Montaigne
G. G. Green, Inc
Woodbury, WN. J
Mars
Winslow
AtAll Druggists
Mitchell
Direc
Hall & Ruckel
Waverly Place
Dr. Peery
Houston
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