Moveable breakfast feasts and the dawn of flexible meals
One traveler returns from France praising lighter continental routines of coffee and rolls, with a later informal second breakfast. The piece argues for flexible breakfast times to fit family needs, guests, and work schedules, noting fruit and cereals keep, eggs reheated, and coffee kept in a percolator. It concludes that fashion does not dictate breakfast time, and farming kin often rise earlier than city folk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
France Has Chess Prodigy in Paris Teen Master
Aristide Gromer, a thirteen year old schoolboy, defeated fifteen and drew four of twenty Paris players in a master level simultaneous display. He lost one game signaling a rising talent in the city chess scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Aristide Gromer
Shorter Flag Proposed for Artistic Balance by Commission
The Fine Arts commission, with officials, recommends reducing flag length by 12.1 percent to achieve a 1.67 to 1 ratio rather than 1.90 to 1. Tests with flags at Arlington amphitheater determined the new proportion, yielding a flag about two thirds longer than its width.
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Washington
Fine Arts Commission
Arlington Amphitheater
Decorations and medals spark urban kid mockery in 1917
A World War I era officer, awaiting his wife outside a New York department store, endures curious street urchins asking about his ribbons. He explains each medal for Spain, the Philippines, and China, but the kids deride him, declaring he only earned them for visiting places.
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New York
France
China
Philippines
Two Editors Duel in Paris Over Rival Papers
A philanthropist invited the Razor and the Scorpion editors to dine to end their feud. One melancholy man arrived and claimed to be both editors, shocking the host with the revelation that he authors both sides. The tale ends with the host realizing the ruse.
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Paris
Razor
Scorpion
The
Sheffield
Eng
Telegraph
Last Postal Employee Returns From Coblenz
Walter B. Wiseley, U S agent at Coblenz and the last American postal worker to leave Germany, has arrived in Washington to file his final report on the A E F postal service. He left the U S postal service five years and two months ago and remained until the last American departed.
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Post Office Department
Walter B. Wiseley
United States
Coblenz
Germany
Washington
A. E. F. Postal Service
Wiseley
Postal Service
The Name Sarah Its History and Variants Through Ages
The piece traces the name Sarah from Sarai through biblical and cultural evolutions. It notes meanings fighting ruling and echoes in Sarai Sallie Sally and Sirra forms, with origins in English, Irish and French usage. It mentions Sarah in poetry, symbols like the beryl gem and Saturday as a lucky day.
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Sarah
Confession at a Party Over Mother’s Cake
An embarrassed narrator recalls planning a party at a house where an elderly woman baked a cake. The cake is eaten in private, prompting a child to demand sharing, turning a pleasant event into a mortifying moment. The Chicago Tribune notes the incident.
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Chicago Tribune
Snappy Comeback In Family Moment
May visits grandmother’s home and finds a statue on the mantel. Her aunt tells her to return it to its place, and May replies that she can because the dust reveals its original position.
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May
After Marriage Questioned in Light Hearted Exchange
A humorous exchange between two characters from Stanford Chaparral features a bride asking if she will be treated well after marriage and her fiancé replying he will be kind but not as often as before. The dialogue captures light Southern humor about marital expectations.
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Stanford
Capital Museum to receive Philadelphia Mint Coin Collection
The Philadelphia mint’s 1688 coin collection will be moved to the National Museum in Washington. It includes coins from 1651 to 1877 and items from Britain, France, Greece, and other nations, plus rare gold and silver pieces with notable inscriptions and early U S coins.
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Philadelphia
National Museum
Washington
United States
New England
Boston
Benjamin Franklin
New York
James Jarvis
Congress
Ephraim Brasher
Great Britain
France
Greece
Belgium
Norway
Sweden
Augsburg
Bremen
Germany
Science and Industry
Uni
States of America
Desperate doll rescue as fire tears Tuckahoe home
Fourteen year old Mary O Shaughnessy braves smoke to save her dolls in a blaze at her father James O Shaughnessy executive secretary of the American Association of Advertising Agencies home at McHenry street and White Plains road Tuckahoe New York. She is saved by her father who drags her from the burning room as sisters Bride and Jane lament over their ruined toys and firemen discard remaining dolls from the upper story.
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Mary O'Shaughnessy
McHenry Street
White Plains Road
Tuckahoe
N. Y
Mary
James O'Shaughnessy
American Association of Advertising Agencies
Bride
Jane
Town Pests and the Gent of Leisure Stirs a Paper Office
A satirical note mocks a meddling Gent of Leisure invading a busy newspaper office. The writer condemns pests who bother hard working editors and hopes they encounter lamps in mashed potatoes as a humorous jab at intruders and critics.
Woman Dies After Finger Bite Fight Over Rent
Mrs. Josephine Curcuro of Brooklyn accused tenant Rocco Artest a barber of biting her little finger nearly off. She died of blood poisoning and Artest is under arrest charged with manslaughter. A rent dispute sparked the fight and he was jailed on felonious assault with $1,000 bail.
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Beemer
Josephine Curcuro
Brooklyn
Rocco Artest
Artest
Fixing the Blame in Marital Strains
A columnist remarks that one in three marriages ends in divorce and argues that excuses over approximate figures fuel relationship trouble, prompting a discussion on fault and accountability in domestic disputes.
Fragmented verse note from a historical newspaper
Poem-like fragment criticizes taxes and debt payment, referencing Tomorrow and the Easy Miners Newspaper Syndicate with unclear attribution. The legible lines warn against sorrowful days spent paying bills by forcing beg, steal, or borrow while invoking primrose imagery.
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Neers Newspaper Syndicate
The Vacation Thrill of a Lifetime in Glacier Region
In the Northern Rockies fifteen hundred square miles offer forests streams lakes and peaks. Visitors find rustic inns chalets and outdoor options for fishing hiking riding boating and camping. Burlington service offers direct travel with possible extensions to the Pacific Northwest Yellowstone and Colorado.
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Rockies
Burlington
Pacific Northwest
Yellowstone
Colorado
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Marshall Duffee
Inside Page
OF Journalism
Abraham
Sarai
Tobias
Sara Beauchamp
Sarrota de Multon
England
Sally
Saddbm
Sorcha
Saraid
Sarette
Sallie
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
ECON
Uae
John Kendrick Bangs
Colman House
Cr. Tiistman
Mgr. Diller
Nebraska
Jefferson Co
First National Bank
Fairbury
O.C. Diehl
Diller
Nebr
Seweler
Glacier National Park
Glacier
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