Tassels on garters stir golf fashion debates
The Reno Gazette notes English golfers may wear red tassels on garters though Scotland and the West reject impractical decor. It recalls how male players resisted bright plus fours before embracing them, and questions the feasibility of tasselled garters for miners and clubmen amid evolving styles.
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Sandwich
England
Reno
Nevada
United States
Scotland
West Tonopah
Class elections show link between character and success
The Sunday World notes Princeton seniors chosen by peers as most likely to succeed end up in top roles in magazines finance and retail, implying character, not brains, drives lasting achievement. Wall Street partners say class vote signals deserving leaders, shaping hiring instincts.
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Sunday
New York World
Princeton
New York Stock Exchange
the World
Wall Street
Kings Mountains Battlefield Park Planned Across Carolina Line
Congress appropriated 1000 dollars for a survey of the Kings Mountains region on the North Carolina South Carolina boundary. The plan envisions a government protected battlefield park once the site is preserved, with official actions to follow.
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Kings Mountains
North
South Carolina
Congress
Noted Battle Battlefield Remains of Frontier Victory
A Chicago Tribune excerpt reflects on a North Carolina battlefield tied to the Revolutionary War. It recalls Ferguson’s Troy regiment and the mounted riflemen who checked Cornwallis’ Southern campaign. The piece notes monuments and graves, honoring frontier fighters and their enduring legacy.
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Ture
Chicago Tribune
Cornwallis
North Carolina
Ferguson
Troy
What's What in Washington by Charles P. Stewart
Washington diary lists presidential possibilities from both parties dated from June 12 1927 as conventions approach. It catalogs Republicans and Democrats with names such as Hoover Hughes Longworth Dawes and many governors and senators, noting some as future contenders and several as potential veep candidates. It also mentions business and labor leaders and a San Diego real estate man who floated a boom that faded.
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Washington
William E. Borah
Ralph O. Brewster
Maine
Nicholas Murray Butler
Arthur Capper
Coolidge
Charles Curtis
Dawes
Charles S. Deneen
Simeon D. Fess
John S. Fisher
Pennsylvania
Allan T. Fuller
Massachusetts
Guy D. Goff
Herbert Hoover
Alanson B. Houghton
London
Charles Evans Hughes
Hiram W. Johnson
W. S.ian
Iowa
Nicholas Longworth
Frank 0. Lowden
Andrew W. Mellon
Dwight W. Morrow
Mexico
George W. Norris
Gifford Pinchot
Gen. Pershing
Harlan F. Stone
John Q. Tilson
Connecticut
James E. Watson
Frank B. Willis
W. H. Adams
Colorado
W. A. Ayers
Kansas
Newton D. Baker
Alben W. Barkley
J. C. W. Beckman
Kentucky
W. W. Brandon
Alabama
Charles W. Bryan
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Josephus Daniels
Vic Donahey
Ohio
Louis H. Francisco
San Diego
Walter F. George
Carter Glass
Pat Harrison
J. Thomas Heflin
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Nebraska
Secretary of the Treasury
Cordell
Okey
Peter's Adventures in Ostrich Tales
Florence Vincent narrates Peter's Adventures where Oliver Ostrich boasts speed and flightless birds ride him. The Bobolinks Bobolink and wife, Sonny Bunney, and Mrs Gray Rabbit witness tricks and a journey claimed as fifteen miles away in a playful tale about courage and novelty of travel without wings.
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Oliver Ostrich
Africa
South America
Wifie
Ostrick
Bobolink
Sonny Bunney
Bob
Robert O'Lincoln
Gray Rabbit
Sonny Bunny
Peter
Bobolinks
Time Heals Slowly Yet Comforts In Quiet Pace
A reader asks Mrs. Lee whether a broken heart from a sudden break with a boyfriend can mend quickly. The columnist notes time’s calm passage helps heal, while urging clear communication and self-respect, and weighs if a lover truly in love would end a relationship so abrupt.
New York Diary Details Busy Lower Broadway Shops
A diary entry sketches a bustling Lower Broadway barber shop offering shoe repair hat cleaning and in-house services while a commuter works. It recalls a playful Carnegie Hall concert with Borah Minevitch and a gaggle of improvised instruments amid Prohibition era antics and a Kentucky mother’s concerned letter.
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New York
Lower Broadway
New York Symphony
Carnegie Hall
Borah Minevitch
Untold Advice on Dating Rules From Local Journal Notes
A cautionary note warns girls against riding with unfamiliar boys without parental sanction. It hints the boy may favor the girl if he visits regularly and urges firmness toward boys who are too forward. The tone reflects teen guidance from a period newspaper column.
Diet and Health Correspondence on Backsliders and Weight Loss
A reader shares illness, weight loss, and adherence to the L. H. P. method. Weighing 175 pounds at 5 ft 4 in, the writer reports a 30 pound loss in three months and asks for exercises to reduce abdominal sag. The note ends with optimism and a promise to write again.
Warren high school commence ment exercises draw 1500 plus at first presbyterian
A Warren audience of more than 1500 attended the Warren High School commencement at the First Presbyterian Church Friday night. Chamber of Commerce plans to buy Schofield property on Liberty Street for a community center and market house were endorsed at a Chamber meeting. E C G Cook reported the first home grown strawberries picked, two quarts. A touring woman with a painted pack visited Warren. George Seitz on Clough farm escaped injury after an attack by a bull. New sesqui centennial two cent stamps went on sale at the Warren post office. Rev R F E Doverspike was elected president of the Warren County Sunday School association. Bible school attendance reached 275 with 60 new enrollments today.
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Warren High School
First Presbyterian Church
E. C G. Cook
Chamber of Commerce
Schofield
Liberty Street
E. C. Cook
The
Warren Post-Office
R. F E. Doverspike
Clarendon Evangelical Church
Warren County Sunday School Association
Pathfinders Probe Airplane Vote Signals
Senator Sorghum notes the aviator vote is not yet large enough to matter, while the Pathfinder panel observes crowd direction and interest in airplanes. The exchange frames political leadership as knowing where the crowd goes and whether niche groups influence outcomes.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington
Ftir
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Pete Nerbeck
South Dakota
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr
Jimmie Wadsworth
George L. Berry
International Printing Pressmen’s Union
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Jim Ham Lewis
Chicago
Dan Moody
Texas
James D. Phelan
California
Summerall
Lawrence D. Tyson
Tennessee
Peter's Adventures
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Virginia Lee
Edgar A. Guest
Mrs. Lée
Rose Marie
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Ole
Yale
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New Yorker
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Daily Vacation Bible School
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