Mayflower Women Memorial and the Flapper Contrast
The article praises the DAR memorial to the Mayflower women featuring The Pilgrim Maid while noting the era’s flapper, drawing parallels between 17th century Puritan virtues and 1920s social changes. It highlights witchcraft cases, sea voyage hardships, pumpkin pie origins, and Thanksgiving, acknowledging Puritan and Pilgrim women’s impact on American history.
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Plymouth Rock
Plimoth Plantation
Priscilla Mullins
John Alden
Miles Standish
John
Julia O'Grady
Sir Hubert
Duxbury
Maid
Plymouth
Captain Standish
Priscilla
Providence
United States of America
Earth
Salem
Boston
Dinah Sylvester
Mrs. Holmes
Mayflower
Cape Cod
Interlurded Proposal At Luncheon Table
An English man proposes to his beloved during a luncheon, asking the waitress for cold beef for two and declaring affection. He asserts she is indispensable, requests various foods, and urges her to say yes to become his wife, while ordering rolls and meals.
Obliging Mackerel Around South Portland Waterways
The mackerel near South Portland Maine are unusually cooperative. They are so accommodating that they threaten to put local fishermen out of business as boats sail roughly 20 miles offshore.
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South
Portland
Maine
Mackerel School Invades Can Factory Wharf
In a curious scene a large school of mackerel swam through the breakwater toward the canning factory wharfs and were netted quickly. By the time fishermen returned, the catch had already been salted in barrels. A South African scientist used a microphone on an apple to hear worms gnawing inside the fruit.
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Texas
Diamond Dyes Color Things New
Diamond Dyes offer simple directions for tinting soft delicate shades or dyeing rich permanent colors in lingerie silks ribbons skirts waists dresses coats stockings draperies and coverings. Each 15 cent pack instructs whether material is wool or silk or linen cotton or mixed goods.
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Clear Complexion
Ad promotes Cuticura Soap for daily use with Ointment for skin relief and a fragrant Cuticura Talcum. It claims clearer complexion, cleaner scalp, and softer hands, presenting the trio as a complete beauty regimen.
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Peterson
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John Dickinson Sherman
Florida
California
George
Texas Water
United States
North Carolina
West
Oklahoma
Brownwood Bulletin
Brown County
Turkey
East Texas
TLD
Woolley
Prisley
Yale
Bayer
Natural History
Beecham
W. C. Staub
Bethlehem
B. F. Allen Co
Canal St
New York Bay
Pitts
Wintersmith Chemical Co
Louisville
Uncle Jim
Billie
Nell
Najel
Nujol
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