Mardi Gras Arrives in New Orleans With Pageant Riches
New Orleans gears up for a grand Mardi Gras described as a festival beyond belief. The city celebrates 33 days of revelry led by secret krewes and the Rex parade, with lavish floats, costumes, and ball traditions fueling a carnival economy tied to Governor Leche investment and a festive mood across the region.
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Louisiane
Richard W. Leche
Little
New
New Orleans
Rex
Mardi Gras Origins and Early Krewe History in New Orleans
A reflective piece traces Mardi Gras roots to pagan spring rites, notes its 1837 New World debut by Paris-educated students, and describes the rise of key krewe traditions. It chronicles Comus, Rex, and Twelfth Night celebrations, royal courts, daylight parades, and the 1872 Louisiana holiday law shaping the festival.
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New Orleans
New World
Paris
Grand Duke
Alexis
Russia
Grand Duke Alexis
Buffalo
Texas
Zibald
Comus
Anc
John Mitton
Tright Revelars
Rex
Comus Sill
Cole
Terpsichore
Louisiana
Steady Center of Population: Historic Prophesy Reconsidered
A noted geographer predicted in 1872 that the U S population center would move toward a point 30 miles east of St. Louis and then stabilize. Census estimates since 1630 show westward shifts, with the latest figures placing the center near Indianapolis area, and movements through the decades tracing a path along the thirty ninth parallel.
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Washington, D. C
United States
St. Louis
Census Bureau
Pexton
Ind
J. D. Hilgard
Ste
Linton
Stockton Township
Greene County
Es Ie Merts
Wes
Parellel Bilgard
Baltimore
If Her Hat's Crazy Get a Load of This
A 1920s humor piece reports Miss Marion McKenzie testing hats on Hollywood Boulevards. She wears a lampshade with a rubber bend and improvised decorations to deter men estimates, attracting little attention. A laundry truck driver remarks the hat’s strength compared with his wife’s purchase.
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Hollywood
Marion McKenzie
New York
Siti
Britain Opens Fattening School for Its Recruits
Britain will start a fattening school in Canterbury for recruits after success at Aldershot. The Aldershot depot began with 200 undernourished men who gained about six pounds and one inch in chest in six weeks on fruit milk barley sugar air and exercise, and now turns out readied men at about one a day.
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Britain
London
Canterbury
Aldershot
Spinning Wheel Brings Living to Rushmore Family
Mrs Mertha Odens, who began carding poems, cards for a living in Rushmore. She earns two living for herself and children by carding and spinning. Her market reaches as far as Illinois. Last year she sold wool work including 12 ecoreforters 118 petits of mittens and 18 sweaters all knit by her. In spare time she crochets lace and insertions for pilew cases and fancy trims for sofa throws. Odens learned from her grandmother in Germany and uses a spinning wheel bought 21 years after her first wheel.
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Rushmore
Mins
Mertha Odens
Llinois
Odens
Fist Ator
Germany
First Alchemist Lived in Japan 2160 Years Ago
A study reported to the American Chemical Society cites Jofuku as the earliest alchemist who lived in Japan over 2,160 years ago. The tale places him with Emperor Ch in Saih Hrang Ti's era directing an expedition to three mythical immortals lands. His tomb near Shingu Wakayama is a pilgrimage site with offerings for long life.
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Japan
New York
Jofuku
American Chemical Society
Re Xuro Nekeseko
Tokyo
Tenney L. Davis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ch'in Saih Hrang Ti
Jou
Shih Chi
Ssu-Ma Chien
Jofzku
Shingu
Wakayama Prefecture
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Snow Ball
Elmora
L. E. Kiernan
New Jersey State Cat Club
Atlantic Cat Club
Washington
Mooreleid
W. Va
Mooredeidis
Clarksburg
Parkersburg
Columbus
Travis
Cecil Travis
Washington Senators
Riverdale
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