Pioneer Mother honored in bronze monuments across the West
May Day tributes mark Mother’s Day as Elmo Scott Watson notes two bronze monuments. Oklahoma oilman B W Marland sponsors a public vote on a “Pioneer Woman” statue for the Cherokee Strip with models by twelve top American sculptors. Kansas City plans a memorial by Proctor in Penn Valley Park honoring pioneer mothers who faced frontier perils and helped build a nation.
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Elmo Scott
America
B. W. Marland
Oklahoma
Cherokee Strip
Oklaoma
Middle West
Marland
Manne
Penn Valley Park
Kansas City
A. Phimister Procetor
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Portland
Ore
Howard Vanderslice
Kentucky
Kansas
Proctor
Calfornia
Oregon
Washington
Butt
Bow Details Lead Fashion in Spring 1927 Styles
Fashion notes from Milady s Apparel highlight the bow as the season s standout detail. From waistlines to necklines and one sided drape, bows accompany the Vionnet neckline and revived nose veil as Paris approves.
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New York Herald- Tribune
Premet
Madeleine Vionnet
Rivera
Paris
The Prairie Mother
A tribute to the prairie woman who founded the Northwest by hard labor and sacrifice. She left Maine and Ohio facing droughts and loneliness, bore and buried children, cooked without comforts, and “mothered MEN” in a stark pioneer life as Herbert Kaufman noted in the Minneapolis Tribune.
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Appalachian Mountains
Ohio Valley
Kentucky
Anthony” Wayne
Northwest
Mississippi Valley
Bryant
William’ Sycamore
Benet
Maine
Ohio
Killarney
Calico
Linsey Woolsey
Herbert Kaufman
Minneapolis (Minn
Tribune
Child’s Naughty Question Sparks Playful Revelation
Six year old Bobby faces a spanking for misbehavior. Jane, starting Sunday school, expresses shock at his quick recovery and asks if Bobby doubts he was bad. Bobby retorts about God knowing, then wonders aloud if God has a radio too.
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Bobby
Jane
Cook
Babies Should Organize Livery Says Women Home Table Rules
A fragment discusses behavior at meals with guidance from The Woman's Home Companion. It notes that children should not leave the table to play or read between courses, emphasizing decorum and manners in domestic settings.
If you can't give them this relief set a kitchen table
The speaker urges practical aid by preparing a warm meal in the kitchen, noting it as the heart of the home filled with inviting spicy aromas. The tone combines compassion with a suggestion of immediate comfort through food and gathering.
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Langin
Paris
Height of Quietude in London’s Royal Bar Hospital
A new London hospital room offers near perfect sound proofing enabling tests of deafness. In it the heartbeat and eyelid blink are audible when the eye is opened and closed. The feature highlights the room’s unique acoustic isolation for medical testing.
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Royal Bar Hospital
London
Advice to young women to start Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedy now
A St Paul reader quotes a letter praising Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for young women's health. The writer describes prior fear and isolation, then relief after using the product, noting improved well being and happier home life. She urges others to consider the remedy for long term health.
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St. Paul, Minn
Mia
Jack Lorberter
Dellwood Plate
Lydia
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lydia HB
Pinkham
Lydia BH. Pinkham
Rice Aerial Sowing Plan For Manitoba Marshes
A Winnipeg dispatch says Science and Invention reports a new rice sowing method using aircraft to spread seed over Manitoba marshes. The plan envisions planes in flight broadcasting rice across the wetlands.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Objection Cites Family Heritage in Intriguing Snippet
A Sydney Bulletin remark contrasts a suitor’s lineage with his character as a daughter pleads for approval. The exchange centers on a fine old family tree versus doubts about its shady side.
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Sydney Bulletin
Easy Going Mr Gump Shoelaces Near Bedtime
A clipped dialogue notes Mr Gump and Mr Layzee discussing shoestrings and a habit of avoiding them after supper as bedtime approaches. The tone is casual and humorous with playful wordplay on lay and layzee.
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Mr. Gump
Mr. Layzee
Losses Prompt Poker Exit and Social Strain
A brief exchange shows a player quitting poker amid financial loss. The dialogue hints at monetary strain and social fallout as motives for stepping away from the game.
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Watson
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Hannah Dustin Cor Dustan
Massachusetts
Mississippi
West
Procter
Great Plains
Tradsas City
Keystore
Milady
Vionnet
Drecoll
The
Dave
Haarlem
Mitchell
Coe
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