Hawaiian Adoption Custom Sparks Amusing Family Tales
The long vanished yet lingering Hawaiian practice of legally adopting children creates comic and curious outcomes. When a child is "spoken for" by a relative or friend, the infant is given to the foster mother as a sacred trust. One woman in a Youth's Companion tale raised eight children, seven adopted by friends, saying she feared harm if she refused. A native princess reportedly gave her baby to her mother, making the girl legally the grandmother's daughter.
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Hawaiian Islands
Embarrassing Moment Sparks Uneasy Dinner Date
A narrator recalls walking with her boyfriend past new flowers on the avenue. She singles out one as homely and receives no response. About a week later she learns she will be moving to their new home, and she laments never dating him again. The tale ends with a moral about soft words and soft people.
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Alfy
World unrest and a socialist lecturer’s traveling vow
Amid steel and coal strikes and worldwide discontent Fred Warren, ex editor of the Appeal to Reason, travels with a bag to fill a speaking engagement. Mrs Warren quips on saving the world for fifteen years and the Fort Scott Tribune notes the stop. The column ends with a biting joke from London Tit-Bits.
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Fred Warren
Appeal To Reason
Girard, Kan
Mrs. Warren
Fort Scott Tribune
What is an ultimate consumer in wartime
A father explains to his son that an ultimate consumer is the man who buys after high prices war taxes and charitable contributions reduce purchasing power. The remark contrasts with a daughter’s realization that mothers often know less about life than expected at eighteen.
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Europe
Road Contract Uses Cost Plus System In Union County
Union county road commission announces a half million dollar program with a cost plus ten percent formula. If actual costs exceed estimates the extra is shared 50 50. if costs are less the gain is shared equally. First project is Jackson highway from Monroe to Andrew Jackson birthplace linking with Charlotte Savannah highway.
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Monroe
Union County Road Commission
Union County
Waxhaw
Andrew Jackson
Charlotte-Savannah
Veteran Firemen Quilt Asheville Indignation Meeting Resign
After Fire Commissioner Fitzpatrick dismissed Fireman Ernest Davis and Chief Wood resigned, 25 volunteer firefighters held an indignation meeting and offered resignations. All but two of the department’s volunteers followed the chief’s lead, including many veterans of large fires and state tournament participants from 18 years.
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Asheville
Ernest Davis
Fitzpatrick
Wood
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