Customs of Blossom Land Described From Japan
Palmer Tennant writes from Kyoto about two months in Japan detailing courtesy and industry, daily bowing, babies on backs, gardens and stunted trees prized by wealthy locals, extensive bicycle use, cheap electricity, noisy transport, and grand coronation festivities with processions, lanterns, and palace access for foreigners. He notes architecture, markets, and art, with observations on cities Osaka Tokyo Yokohama and rural life, while describing food and fashion during the imperial celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coimcebooy
Denlist
Osaka
Kyoto
Kobe
Nagoya
Tokyo
Yokohama
Toyko
State Department
Imperial Palace
Kyoto Imperial Palace
Japan
Far East Travel Notes Show Fuji View and Kyoto Temples
A diary passage recounts a Fuji view from Miya Noshita and a Sukiaki dinner in Kyoto with Geisha entertainment. It notes Kyoto’s 69 temples, silk crafts, and language quirks, and mentions plans to sail via Kobe to China while reflecting on Hagerstown life and encounters with scholars in Japan.
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Miya Noshita
Fujiyama
Kyoto
Far East
India
Red Sea
Hagerstown
George W. Schillinger
Japan
Aldine Lakin
Hangerstown
Williamsport
Kobe
Yellow Sea
China
Night Seeker with Lanterns Echoes a Phrase
A fragment suggests a night watchman or storyteller naming Yasami Nagai while moving with a paper lantern and knocking two sticks together as part of his rounds.
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Yasami Nagai
Teachers Pension May Increase Tax in Maryland
Governor Ritchie said higher state tax rates for fiscal years starting October 1, 1929 and 1930 are linked to the new teachers retirement act. He noted an extensive survey shows potential tax relief is blocked by the retirement act, with rates in 1927 and 1928 at 25.64 and 25.74 cents. The text also mentions Julia Holzapfel of Hood College planning holidays at Oak Hill.
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Ritchie
Largest hogs killed in county total over 600 pounds
Harry Marteney of Funkstown led a hog drive Saturday, producing the county’s largest hogs to date. Hogs weighed 671, 655, and 651 pounds, respectively, with seventeen cans of lard made. Rodger Sinison of Boonsboro acted as head butcher. the hogs were just over a year old. A dinner followed for a long list of locals and friends as money from two confiscated slot machines, seven dollars and twenty five cents in nickels, was distributed yesterday.
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Harry Marteney
Funkstown
Rodger Sinison
Boonsboro
Will Bickle
Charlie Cubert
John Harbaugh
Charlie Duble
Dick Wilson
Wilbur Pomeroy
Charles, Potts
Maurice Schlotterbeck
William Shrader
George Rankin
Fred Marteney
Lowman
C. J. Beecher
L. F. Reecher
Harry Diebert
Frank Potts
Florence Hebb
Mildred Dietrich
Florence Stickler
Betty Jane Potts
Nancy Jane Reecher
Helen Marteney
Margaret Marteney
Local Salvation Army Mendicant Case In City Brief
Deputy Sheriff Joseph B. Davis serves orders from Sheriff Scott McClellan Kline regarding an incident involving Otho Jones, a blind colored mendicant, in the city near the Salvation Army, with actions carried out by local authorities.
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Joseph’ B. Davis
Scott McClellan Kline
Otho, Jones
Salvation Army
Taplin awards contract for Pittsburgh to Connellsville link
Pittsburgh officials announced a contract in excess of 3 million dollars for masonry and concrete construction on the first ten miles of the Pittsburgh to Connellsville extension. The Taplin route will connect with the Western Maryland Railroad and establish a through line from the Great Lakes to Baltimore via Hagerstown. J Boyd Henri of the Dagmar company received the award amid a Pittsburgh ceremony.
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Pittsburgh
Connellsville
Taplink
Western Maryland Railroad
Great Lakes
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Pitsburgh and West Virginia Railroad
J. Boyd Henri
Dai Dagmar
Wang Construction Company
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Tennant
Old
The
Washington Restaurant (Incorporated
Jonatha Jereet
Bole Bee Fo Follansbee Forge
Best Roofin Danzer Metal Works
Hoffman Chevrolet Sales (Incorporated
Washington St
University Clothes Inc
Public Square
Garver Furniture Co
N. Potormac St
BON Ton
N. Potomac St
Prince George
Bermuda
Prince George of
England
New York
Buckingham Palace
Durban
Hudson River
Potomac-Edison
Iad
Cuthura
Misa L. Mae Sims
Villa Rica
Ervey
Andreas
Sogdeurs Laboratories
Dept. H
Maldeh
Maan
Maryland
Hagerstown Tire Co
Conkey
Howard
Baltimore St
Sport Watches
Mowen
S. Jon, St Opp
Courthouse
Peoples Store
Hoffman, Barnhart and Clopper
Julia Holzapfel
Hood Cllege, Frederick
Oak Hill
Taplin
Lesa
Commercial Service & Credit Co
Edgar C. Jones
Mer
Sound Advic
Kirk Silver
R. Bruce Carson
Reo
Flying Cloud
Janet
REO Motor Car CO
Lansing
Michigan
Wood Auto Service
Pennsylvania Avenue
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