Dining On Shipboard Through The Ages At Sea
A reminiscence traces dining evolution from Dickens era ships with a single head table to modern yachts featuring hotellike dining rooms. It notes wireless menu synchronization, private tables, and cold storage transforming ocean voyages into year round luxury with New York ice cream arriving far afield.
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America
New Y
Ocean
New York
San Francisco
Harold Christie
Leslie’sa
Robing the Bride and Ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum
A historical note discusses bridal white garments and color symbols of blue for constancy and green for youth. It contrasts Pompeii buried in ashes with Herculaneum preserved by lava, noting ongoing excavations with limited prospects for major new finds.
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Herculaneum
Pompeii
Herculaneun
Hiva
New York American
Fragmentary letter hints at dark mood and love's blindness
A damaged excerpt reads that the writer felt darkness in a letter about someone’s actions. The speaker muses that truth may be present and that love is blind, suggesting uncertainty about the person’s honesty.
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Amonn Ft. Te Sivs
Navy seeks volunteers for citizen reserve amid reform plan
Secretary Daniels outlines a program to attract college men and youths 17 to 35 by creating a volunteer citizen reserve. The plan envisions cruises for vacation travel, shore leave in Mediterranean ports, and quick mobilization to fill Navy vacancies, aiming to broaden enlistment beyond current levels.
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United States Navy
Navy Department
Daniels
Mediterranean
Paniolus Ise
Rational marriage views and census history discussed in Cleveland lecture
A eugenics expert in Cleveland favors a rational view of marriage for modern youth. He cites a dialogue about enduring love. The article traces census origins from ancient Egypt and Greece to Rome and notes its revival in the eighteenth century.
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Cleveland
New York Tribune
Amasis
Egypt
Christ
Soion
Servius Julius
Rome
Rich Kansan Henry Mulline Resides at Sedgewick Home
Henry Mulline, one of the nation's wealthiest men, aged ninety nine and a Kansan since 1868, lives at the Sedgewick charitable institution. He can pay his way but chooses the home to be with old men, saying the new way of living is too fast and hypocritical for him.
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Henry Mulline
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Mulline
Forgiveness and Faults Across Two Papers
A compact wartime style exchange quotes Louisvile Courier-Journal on forgiving enemies and a bite of social humor from Pill and London Opinion. The fragment hints at personal trust issues and marriage talks with witty lines about deception and acceptance.
Poorly Printed Stationery Lingers in Letterhead Appeal
A classified note discusses how a classy letter head can set a pleasant frame of mind for the letter beneath and promotes printing services that offer to print such stationery. It emphasizes readiness to print customers' stationery needs.
Turkish Names Humour in a Visiting List
The writer lists fanciful Turkish given names such as Hyacinth Tulip Appletree Nightingales Sweetmeat Diamond and Mother Eve Miss May She Laugh and notes they are not surnames. He explains distinguishing Hyacinth by her man’s name and adding her father’s name for men, reflecting on Turkish naming practices via a curious anecdote.
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Hyacinth
H. G. Dwight
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