On Fashion's Highway A Dialogue of Love and Marriage
In a July scene on fashion's highway Godfrey Boyne and Lady Annandale converse about love, marriage, and youth. He proposes a renewed union while she tests resolve, revealing her power to elevate the wife’s role and the enduring pull of aristocratic romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godfrey Boyne
Fashion
Audrey
Annandale
Victoria
Godfrey
Lady Annandale
Love
Cupid
Ceylon
Lon
May Upset President's Reform
A Washington lawyer reports that President Roosevelt’s simplified spelling program may violate a decades-old law. Congress once passed a joint resolution approving Webster’s Unabridged as the government standard, a law that may remain in effect. Supreme Court records reportedly affirm the resolution.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Teeth as Weapons for Apes and Humans
The article argues that among old world apes the chief defense is still the formidable teeth, especially canines, not for eating but as weapons of war. It asserts jaw strength and muscle leverage define prowess, linking ancient prehuman success to evolution while noting modern social complexity alters methods of conflict.
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Demuscles
When He Looks for Work He Seems So Happy
A witty exchange notes a man’s paradoxical cheer while seeking employment. The speaker contrasts his apparent energy with the common view of laziness, suggesting happiness arises from the quest rather than the status of having work.
Washington debutantes sparkle in a bustling season
Washington society gears up for a vibrant debutante season with at least 40 planned presentations including the Bache ors and the Sixty Couple dances. Notables include Miss Zaidee Gaff and the Jennings sisters, along with daughters tied to the Panama canal commission and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, shaping a lively social calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Miss Postlethwaite
Erma Shaw
Elizabeth Rosen
North Shore
Army
Navy
Katherine Jennings
Hennen Jennings
A. C. Barney
Rhode Island Avenue
Zaidee Gaff
Panama Canal Commission
Theodore P. Shonts
Theodora
Marguerite
London
Interesting figures about salt and Old Ironsides
The article notes U S salt consumption at 26,872,700 barrels yearly with home production rising to 63.5 percent in 1880 and 95.7 percent domestically. it traces tariff shifts, major producing states Michigan and New York, and domestic use in meat packing and dairy. It also covers a renewed bid to rebuild Old Ironsides in Boston under U S Daughters of 1812, with original plans unearthed in Salem and public opposition to destroying the Constitution.
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United States
Michigan
New York
Boston
Massachusetts State Society
United States Daughters of 1812
East Indian Marine Museum
Salem
Mass
Bonaparte
New
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Navy Department
Boston Navy Yard
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Joseph B. Bowles
Cey
Cope
Philadelphia
Liverpool
Charles M. Cramp
John Randolph
Roanoke
Russia
Jackson
Thomas P. Cope
Capital
Margaret Shints
Ironsides
Ice
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