Winter Sports in Summerland
Chicago writer T A Kean surveys Caribbean and West Indian winter sports. He highlights diving feats by Bridgetown natives, a 200 foot underground pool in Gaspares Trinidad, Havana jai alai, and water polo and golf in Bermuda. He notes Port au Prince soccer excitement and Jamaica and Curaçao athletic life under warm conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Kean
Chicago
Tropics
West Indies
Bridgeton
Barbados
Canadian Pacific
Montroyal
Bahamas
Gaspares
Trinidad
Havana
Bermudas
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Jamaica
Caracao
Dutch West Indies
Bobbed Hair Girls Ousted by Lungau Village
Reports from Lungau in Munich describe a small uprising over bobbed hair. Two Viennese women and their husbands were escorted from the Alpine village by locals after their hats were removed and bobbed. The innkeeper was warned against hosting such visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Germany
Lungau
Prince Henry Meets "Double" for First Time
London reports Prince Henry met his lookalike for the first time after hearing of the double for a year. Lieut James Ford of the guards, husband of Princess Marie Bariatinsky, appeared as the possible double and offered to shave his mustache. Henry joked he would handle shaving himself if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Prince Henry
James Ford
Brigade of Guards
Marie Bariatinsky
Henry
Luque’s Way Havana Baseball Feud Ends with Police Intercession
A spectator accused Senor Adolfo Luque of Havana and Cincinnati of throwing a game. Luque confronted the heckler from the grandstand and was restrained by police after a brief chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Adolfo Luque
Cincinnati
A Little Experience in Bohemia
Dorothy Lane, rich and curious about New York life, visits the cabaret Richelieu with Sanford. She meets a charming but dangerous suitor and is drawn into a whirl of nightlife. A trap set by detectives unfolds, but Sanford intervenes, rescuing her from danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohemia
Miss Lane
Sanford
Dorothy Lane
Dorothy
New York
Cabaret
Richelieu
St. Clair
Dolf
Wise Collie Brought to English Country Hospital
A large collie limped into a country hospital in England with a broken left foreleg. A doctor set the fracture and splinted it. The dog stayed, was cared for, and after a night as patient it went to the kitchen for breakfast. No owner was found, and the dog was kept. It may have wandered in by chance seeking aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Wives Split Into Two Types Says The Lancer
A witty exchange at an Ebell club meeting features Harry Carr arguing that domestic life suffers from lack of variety among wives. The Lancer clarifies he means there are two types: those who expect things from husbands and those who suspect things.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebell Club
Harry Carr
the Lancer
Los Angeles Times
Jeffersons 1784 plan for northwest states names
Thomas Jefferson proposed in 1784 that the northwest territory be carved into states two degrees wide intersected by two meridians one through the Falls of the Ohio and the mouth of the Kanawha. Proposed names include Chersonesus Assenisipia Sylvania Pelisipia Illinois Polyptoma Washington Mesopotamia and Michigantia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jefferson
Northwest Territory
Falls
Ohio River
Kanawha River
Chersonesus
Assenisipia
Sylvania
Pelisipia
IlHnoia
Polyptoma
Washington
Mesopotamia
Michigantia
Smithsonian Institution and Congress Funding Roles
The Smithsonian operates with private income for its pioneering science, while Congress has not granted funds to the institution itself though it has funded its offshoots as public necessities. The government serves as a guard ian rather than a creator of Smithsonian funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithsonian Institution
Congress
Smithsonian
The
Also Mentioned on This Page
Reuben Bland
Robersonville, N. Y
United States
President Coolidge
Mrs. Bland
Luque’s
San Diego
Calif
George L. Hathaway
Cincinnati General Hospital
Cambridge
Mass
Spain
Riverside
Hathaway
W G. Chapman
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!