May Day Traditions Rooted in English Past
The piece traces May Day from its Elizabethan English festival origins with Maypoles, morris dancers, and pageantry, through Puritan suppression and Restoration revival, noting English customs and symbols such as the hawthorn pole, May baskets, and the sweeps’ dance accompanied by village rites and rival parades.
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Stow
London
St. Mary-le-Strand
James II
Duke of York
St. Mary's
The
Strand
Wanstead Park
Essex
Isaac Newton
Royal Society
St. Andrew's Undershaft
Leadenhall Street
England
St. Andrew's
Walter Scott
Robin Hood
Lincoln Green
Little John
Will Scarlet
Maid Marian
Man Plunges From Sutter Hotel Toward Harborside Hospital
A man identified as stock salesman George A Gamble from Los Angeles leaped from the third floor of the Sutter hotel at Sutter and Kearny, causing a near panic. He was taken to Harbor Emergency hospital with a broken leg chest injuries and other severe internal injuries.
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San Francisco
Sutter and
Kearney
Sutter Hotel
George A. Gamble
Los Angeles
Gamble
Harbor Emergency Hospital
Painted mustache snare in milk wagon holdup
Detectives tracked a robber after a milk wagon hold up on Union Street. Leo Levy, eighteen, used a grease paint mustache and fake gun to seize $84.80 from Samuel Fleischman and $195 in a broader daylight robbery. Levy was arraigned at Flatbush court.
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New York
William Pope
Sheffield Farm Milk Company
Martin Cannon
Frank Ryan
Union Street
Cannon
Troy Avenue
Eastern Parkway
Leo Levy
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Samuel Fleischman
Lincoln Place
Fleischman
Levy
Pope
Flatbush Court
Mongrel Bites Mistress. Saves Family From Fire
A mongrel dog in Elkhorn Wisconsin known as Jack woke the Bolton family during a house fire by pulling at bedclothes. He bit Mrs. Bolton when trying to wake the children, allowing the family to escape with the dog coughing in the snow beside them. Mrs. Bolton later asked for a new name and a new blanket for Jack.
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Elkhorn
Wis
Jack
Robert Bolton
Boltons
Mrs. Bolton
Boys Play With Stolen Dynamite Endanger Town
Several youths in Mount Carmel stole a large quantity of dynamite from Reliance coal and carried it about town. The blasts damaged buildings as the youths exploded the material. Edward Ziarkowski Paul Ziarkowski Edward Kapunskski received 30 day prison terms. Frank Krajowski Victor Moleski sent to juvenile court for theft.
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Mount Carmel
Reliance Coal Corporation
J. J. Dropesky
Edward
Paul Ziarkowski
Edward Kapunskski
Frank Krajowski
Victor Moleski
Student misplaces car after cinema outing at Missouri
Columbia report says Max Greenspon believes Missouri students ignore details. After a picture show he parked nearby, his car disappeared two hours later and a student later found it had been mixed up with Greenspon’s vehicle.
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Columbia
Max Greenspon
University of Missouri
Greenspon
Miser Hangs Himself and Cash Found in Hat
Police report in Braintree England details the suicide of seventy eight year old William Chopping. Officers discovered several hundred pounds in cash in the home including forty eight pounds in his hat.
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Braintree
Eagland
William Chopping
Chopping
Doctor Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Free Trial Offer
A vintage ad promotes Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a family laxative. It claims the blend of herbs and senna starts muscular action to relieve constipation gently and effectively. Readers are invited to request a free trial bottle by mail.
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Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
Monticello
Children take lead at St Michael's Church in Bournemouth
Children of Bournemouth replace Sunday school with an afternoon service at St Michael's Church. They provide readers, choir, organist, and wardens. Kew church also opens a small chapel for children under eight. Homesick line adds a light家庭 note about Ann who says her stomach wants to go home.
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Own Church
Bournemouth
England
St. Michael's Church
Kew
Ann
Shutting the Shutter
A brief Montreal Star quip features Willie arguing with his mother over a stuck shutter. The tale hinges on a child's stubborn insistence that the shutter cannot be shut, prompting a light moment of domestic error and humor.
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Willie
Montreal Star
The Stiller the Better and Mrs Chatterton-Love
A playful exchange on marriage and affection contrasts wit and humor as a speaker declares a preference for partnership and notes a pretty woman lacking sense is like a flower without fragrance.
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Mrs. Chatterton
Fish resemble dogs in Parana River catch
In Brazil's Parana River, Knight notes fierce fish that bite anything and bark like dogs when landed on deck, describing them in his Cruise of the Falcon. The observation emphasizes unusual animal behavior observed during the voyage.
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Parana
Brazil
The
Falcon
B. F. Knight
Quote on money and borrowing by Southey
A compact reflection notes that wealth enables borrowings and that initial appearances may deceive. The line suggests skepticism toward taking at face value while acknowledging practical finance. It presents a proverb like view on profit, credit, and perception.
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Endanger Town
Miser
Robert Southey
Rinso
Ringo
U. S
Superior Building
Cleveland
Ohio
Gilcrest Rabbitry Farmersville
Missouri
Smith Brothers’ Hatcheries
Mexico
Capuchinas No
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Stone Mountain
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Farmers Exchange
Pare. Ga
Reading
Whalen
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Bowling Green
W.N. U
Cincinnati
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