China Inland Mission notes amid chaos in Hankow area
A fragment from a 1920 dispatch describes attacks by Chang Gui Yao’s men on Yochow residents and the crowded, perilous conditions in Hankow. It notes American observers, soldiers guarding compounds, and officials distributing rice to starving civilians while detailing personal peril and the fragile transport links to Hankow and Yochow.
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Goocatved
Mankow
Marion
Chikimgehan
Yochow
China
Inghouse
Tuna
Hankow
Chikungshan
Hangsha
Southfernets
Chan Gin Yao
Hapsoldier
Biridier
Rue
Henry Wylie postpones decision to stay or return home
A Wylie family dilemma unfolds as Henry debates whether to leave his wife Mrs Reimert and their children in America or to come back. Sven and Mrs Reimert say the issue is resolved, and the speaker believes their own concern may be settled as well.
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Reimert
America
Sven
Holliston Elms Honored in American Forestry Hall
Famous Holliston Elms planted around 177 have been placed in the Hall of Fame of the American Forestry Association in Holliston Massachusetts. They may have had a circumference during Washington's era.
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Holliston
Mass
American Forestry Association
Ygton
Washington
The Hacker of the Show Com Plains About Cake
The speaker jokes that the hacker on the show complained his cake was dough and suggests the star implied angel cake is typically that result. The remark plays on miscommunication and cake symbolism within the performance setting.
May Night Roman Festival and Witch Lore Amid Ancient Traditions
The article describes a May night festival in Rome with superstitions about witches and broom rituals. It notes salt and broom protections, long nights in May, and a May 24 gathering near St. John Lateran with dancing, flowers, and rustic entertainments. It mentions a legendary wolf on Capitoline and the historic springtime rite linked to Romulus and Remus. Ruth Shepley to lead in Wild Cherry stage production.
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Broomette
John the Baptist
Capitol
Moving Day in Old Brooklyn Towns and Tenements
Henry Van Dake recalls Brooklyn’s moving day era when leases ended households emptied trunks and furniture into wagons. Men and women watched long streets swell with goods as little houses shed belongings for new leases, a fixed yearly migration before moving vans and tractors entered Nebraska’s market tests.
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Brooklyn
Wises
Wade “Wood
Wits Pabinary
New Yoel
Governor's
Manhattan
New Jersey
Staten Island
New England
Beecher
Storrs
Anehin
Benz
Forten Temple
Walt Whitman
Prield
Pein
Don Tell A New Comedy Presentation In New York
James Whitcomb Riley quotes frame a tale of patience and self contentment as a moral. A new comedy by Graham Moffet, famed for Bunty Pulls the Strings, will open in New York early fall under William Morris.
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Graham Moffet
Bunty
New York
William Morris
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Wylie
J. Wyllé
Priefeld
Capital
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The.ity’ of Churches
Nebraska
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Gelghbor
Ivonllus
James Whitcomb Riley
StruzentTown
Frederick
City Garage
W. P
Mountain
Pearl Bargain
Central Trust Company OF Maryland
Frederick, MD
Rockville
Dufour & Tillford
Federated Woman's Clubs
Montgomery County
Prescription Store
Telephone
Market St
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