Quays of the Seine evoke Parisian memory and charm
An exploration of the Seine quays from the Legion of Honor to Pont-Neuf reveals how workers artists and travelers nurture a living memory. Des Garets writes of bookstores along the river, the historic sites of Voltaire Voltaire’s house Conti and Lamartine, and the enduring allure of Paris’s riverfront past and present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anatole Vrance
Seine
L. A. Des Garets du
la France
Paris
Mimi Pinson
Louvre
Towers of
Notre Dame
Palais Bourbon
Legion of Honor
Suenos Bietel
Cercle Constitutionnel
Napoleon
Mme
Cecile Sorel
Voltaire
Cellmene
Louis XIV
Gres
Theatins
France
Italy
Mazarin
Rue de Beaune
Institute
Saint Chapelle
St. Germain d'Auxerrois
Conciergerie
Palais de Justice
Pont-Neuf
Henry II
Quetus
Frame
Teers
Tabarin
Prince of
Quai Conti
Lamartine
Victor Hugo
Sainte Beauve
Alfred de Musset
Jardin Des Plantes
Maurice Barres
Leon Bourgeois
Raoul Ponchon
Floating yellow fields drift toward Sargasso Sea
The scene shows a vast yellow weed spread like a moving prairie near the Sargasso, with wind shaped lines miles long and only 20 feet wide at times. On deck, one imagines a ship perched amid a living field teeming with crabs shrimps water fleas and worms among tangled fronds and corallines. The warm sun drives fish to cooler depths below the algae.
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Sargasso Sea
Bobby and the Grace Question at Dinner
A family joke at dinner centers on grace. Father often led long prayers, mother kept brief ones for good behavior, and six year old Bobby asks if the father will skip grace since he is home, causing a humorous moment about tradition and hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby
Father
Fred Cicken
Pather
Paradoxical Fact About Soaring Prices of Ovierte
A garbled note asks if ovierte shear will rise in price and become scarce this summer. It ponders what women might do to preserve it and suggests preserves may be in a pickle as a result.
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U. S
War impacts international marriage market in letters
A reader notes the war disrupts the international marriage market and complicates securing good titles, observing widespread effects across many countries. The exchange reflects concern over how wartime conditions shape social and personal alliances abroad.
Swansea Happenings Of The Past Week
Fine rains boosted crops in Swansea with good stand in stubble lands and hopes for a fine June hay crop. Farmers report fallen squares from various causes and urge burning to curb the holl weevil. Bank of Swansea bookkeeper H L Derrick recovering from appendicitis in Columbia. Rhoden sisters visiting relatives. Elma Smith from Columbia visiting the Smiths. Swansea baseball team won four of ten games, plus 11 to 10 over Gaston. Swansea Ice Mfg Co chartered with 12000 capital, promoters Rast brothers. New post office on Railroad Ave to be completed with modern conveniences. Col T C Gallison seen in town.
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Swansea
H. L. Derrick
Bank of Swansea
Columbia
A. P. Jackson
Jamiy
Georgia
Rhoden
Ellen
Sybie
Lila Mae
Eloise
Elma Smith
B. Smith
North
Swantea
Swan
Sea
Orangeburg Mill
Orangeburg
Orageburg
Gaston
W. B. Courtney
Megr
Swansea Ice Mfg. Co
Messrs. L
W. C
Fx. J. Rast
Railroad Ave
New Peoples Bank
T. C. Gallison
The Origin of You All Usage in Southern Speech
A brief note argues the phrase you all originates from Southern speech and cites Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians as biblical authority for its plural you all. The author asserts the Bible supports the term and claims southern usage holds ultimate authority.
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Paul
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Saran
Familles
Bank of the Seine
Sendy
Hilly
U.S. Nobby
U. 5
Usco
Royal Cords
Edwin G. Dreher
South Carolina
Lexington
Cleveland
CHAPIN/AUTO CO
Chapin, 8. C
ON Auto CO
8. C
Lliams Hardware CO
Swansea, S. C
U.S
United States
Gilbert Motor Sales CO
Gilbert
C. Hook Bros
New Brookland
J. R. Kirkley
Spring Hill
S.C
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