The Lantern and the Delafield Weekend
Jane Barnes faces nerves and romance at Castle Manor as she plans a fashionable weekend with Mrs. Follette and Delafield, while Adelaide hints at Ricky Towne’s past loves. The scene shifts between upstairs intimacy and garden social life, foreshadowing a tension over Jane’s future with Towne and the Laramores.
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Mrs. Follette
Mary
Jane
Delafield Simms
Jane Barnes
Evans
Mrs.Follette
Rose
Lucy Feeds Pigs in Odd Country House Scene
Lucy, in white organdie with a velvet collar, declares she and Del feed the pigs at Frederick Towne’s sprawling estate. The pair handle bottles for ten piglets whose mother died, with Del carrying a metal bottle holder as the squealing pigs react adorably.
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Lucy
Eloise Harper
Frederick Towne
Del
Eloise
Boulder Glacial Water Supply Powers City Jest
Boulder Colorado claims unique status as the only city in America owning a glacier for its water supply. The Arapahoe glacier and five smaller ice bodies feed nine high altitude lakes holding over a billion gallons of drinking water. Water descends 18 miles via four 12 inch pipes to reservoirs, providing near 100 psi fire hydrant pressure and minimal treatment due to germ free high altitude source. Geologists note Arapahoe glacier moves 12 to 27 feet yearly.
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Boulder
Colorado
America
University of Colorado
Denver
Colorado Rockies
United States
Arapahoe Peaks
Roosevelt National Forest
Arapahoe
Greenwich Village History Name Change to Greenwich
The settlement of Greenwich Village was first named Bossen Bouwerie. After English control, the name changed in 1721 to Greenwich, meaning green village.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich
Green Village
Strange Facts About Adam Day and Aristocratic Exclusions
A collage of curiosities notes Friday as Adam’s day of creation and resurrection, then describes chameleons as slow fighters with rage changing skin color. It cites aging movie attendance dropping sharply from 50 percent at forty to 98 percent at eighty, and concludes with aristocrats excluded from Ascot over bankruptcy, divorce, debts, or court presentation.
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Britain
Ascot
England
Collier’s
New Fall Pattern Book Offers 100 Garment Designs
The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept. promotes a Fall Pattern Book with a hundred patterns for all shapes and sizes. It includes practical patterns No. 1830 and No. 1829 with yardage guidance, two apron styles, beginner sew charts, and a 15 cent price per pattern. Order to The Sewing Circle, Room 1324, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Pattern request for 1% inch alphabet stitches
An ad invites readers to send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept at 82 Eighth Ave New York NY for a pattern featuring a personality with initials and an illustration of stitches.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Name changes Siam to Muang-Thai the land of the free
The article notes Siam renaming itself Muang-Thai and cites a wider trend of name changes. It highlights towns altering names as well, contrasting past and present labels in the U S Postal Guide. It mentions Pennsylvania frugality, Colorado graft, Kentucky Cain, and Arkansas Truth, with Love, Arkansas becoming Ash Fiat.
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Siam
U. S
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Cain
Kentucky
Truth
Arkansas
Love
Flowered Hat Came To Do Double Duty
A young matron faced a busy day with a funeral service and a garden party. She wore smart sober clothes and carried a flowered hat in a hat box, placing it in the vestry during the service. Her satisfaction faded when the hat rested on the coffin’s wreaths as it was carried in.
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Evans
Jane
Towne
Eloise
Del
Delafield
Lucy
Lucy Logan
Edith
Adelaide
Baldy
Benny
Ricky
Short Quiz Answers From a World of Facts
A set of general knowledge questions covering botany geography taxonomy electricity idioms history and architecture. This item lists ten quick prompts including Adam's needle, Adam's peak and professions arid wells and gnomons plus a Rome Venice foundation query.
Treaty Language in Multinational Agreements
Collier's notes that French remains the language of treaties among multiple powers and is used in the third copy of two country agreements, the French translation deciding any interpretation disputes in case other texts diverge.
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Collier’s
Varied Quiz Items From Old Notebook
A miscellany lists items including yucca species, a Ceylon mountain peak, gardening notes, and basic facts about wells in Artois France, jockey outfits, Monaco and San Marino sizes, a geometric figure, a small river, the ampere's namesake, a language note from Dr. Rossiter Johnson, New York, and a remark on common pile constructions.
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Ceylon
Artois
Artesium
France
Monaco
San Marino
An Ampere
Andre Ampere
Rossiter Johnson
New York
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Temple Bailey
Castle Manor
Ompan
Sherwood
Sophy
Follette
Hallam
Glacier
Adam
Mohammed
Paradise
Adam's Needle
Adam's Peak
Europe
New Amsterdam
Venice
Italy
Treaty
Cibat
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