Social News and Engagements Highlight Community Gatherings
Mrs Fanny Grecian and Mrs Dora Grecian hosted a Thursday afternoon lawn gathering for the H. club. Officers were elected at a business meeting with Dora Grecian as president Mae Coon as vice president and Miss Mary Krotz as secretary. A lunch was served and plans for an ice cream social at Mrs John Firata's home on July 23 were announced. The Flight and Junior club met with sixteen members at the homes of Miss Blanche and Miss Helen Soukup for music luncheon. The next meeting is at Olive and Kula Mae Coon's home on July 24. A New York engagement notice in the Chicago Tribune announced Miss Erma Fulton to William Robert Cubbins Jr son of Dr and Mrs William K R Cubbins. Mr Cubbins a Dartmouth graduate 1924 and Miss Fulton recently studied abroad. Mr Cubbins has visited the area and his parents are known to Washington residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Grecian
Dora Grecian
Mae Coon
Mary Krotz
Hortens
Mra
John Firata
Blanche
Helen Soukep
Olive
Kula Mae Coon
Chicago Tribune
Erma Fulton
New York
Robert Edison Fulton
William Robert Cubbins, Jr
William KR. Cubbins
Diversey Parkway
Cubbins
Dartmouth
Fulton
Washington
Scopes Trial Facts and Figures From Dayton Case
The Scopes trial centers on John T. Scopes a 24 year old former Rhea County Tennessee science teacher accused of teaching evolution in public schools. The case emerged from Tennessee’s anti evolution law signed March 24 by Governor Austin Peay with Judge John N Neal presiding and Clarence Darrow among the defense team. Prominent churchmen and scientists testify as the legal battle unfolds in Rhea County Circuit Court at Dayton over two weeks to a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Scopes
Rhea County
Tennessee
University of Kentucky
Dayton
Venn
John T. Raulston
Walter White
A.T. Stewart
Eighteenth Tennessee Judicial District
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan, Jr
Sue K. Hicks
J. G. McKenzie
Wallace C. Haggard
Herbert BE. Hicks
John N. Neal
Clarence Darrow
Dudley Field Malone
Arthur Garfield Hays
Bainbridge Colby
Colby
John W. Butler
Macon County
Austin Peay
Scopes
Dayton Drug Store
George W Rappieyen
Plant care and room temperatures for houseplants
The text notes a retcon about keeping plants in sleeping rooms. It states a well ventilated room’s temperature is lower than needed for plants, with a night around 50 degrees and a day around 70 degrees.
Breaking Their Engagement
Frank Morton schemes to break his engagement with Nellie Blair by highlighting his flaws and pursuing Maud. On a walk to the railway, Nellie’s romantic needlework collides with Morton's cynicism until a child near the tracks draws him into a fatal last act of protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pas Morton
Maud
Nellie Blaire
Nellie
Frank Morton
Lancaster
Frank
Lueck
Bosh
Nellie Blair
The Fateful Epistle. A tale of love and fate.
Hugh and Clare seek happiness amid illness and hardship in a snowbound frontier town. Clare plans a future with Curly, but her love for Hugh persists. A fateful letter ends their hopes as Hugh faces a career opportunity and a painful choice about love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare
Baker Lowoe
Ellent
Usy
Hugh
Towse
Curly
Lonely Girls in England and a Baby Talk Scene
Excerpt discusses lonely women in provincial England including school mistresses and professional girls living in dreary lodgings. A Westminster Gazette piece contrasts freedom with lack of entertainment and suitors. Also included is a brief dialogue about babies coming from heaven and their crying after birth.
The Wind's Sleeping Palace Adventure
Tommy explores the Wind’s Sleeping Palace in a sunny hill field just beyond the woods. Two green clad Breeze Frothers guide him through a glittering hall to the Wardrobe Chief who shows Wind costumes. Wind and Tommy then ride to the Mountain Top as the Palace sways in a brave, windy voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Reyal
Sammy
Will Pleace Children Rooms Be Great For Stencils
The passage suggests children's rooms are ideal for stencil work with playful themes like windmills clowns flowers and domestic fowls. It recommends cheerful tight background colors and decoration in strong primary contrast colors to look best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilldren
If you can read this you are too close
A motorist on a country road eyes a spare tire message and, impatient, accelerates to read it. The uncovered text proclaims if you can see this you are too darned close for comfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurious
Fool's Gold Distinguishing Pyrite From Real Gold
The material called fool's gold is iron pyrite a sulphur and iron compound used in making sulphuric acid. Pyrite can be distinguished from gold by the sulfur odor released upon heating.
Checks Dominant in U S Banking System
A historical note states that more than nine-tenths of U S business is conducted with checks and drafts, a share higher than in England where banking and clearing house systems are older, reflecting the central role of checks in commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
America
Scope Seek Court Ruling on Jury and Indictment
The trial panel examined juror RL Gentry after defense objections while the state noted the juror had voiced views on guilt. The defense moved to quash the indictment, citing fourteen reasons including constitutional and vagueness challenges to the statute and its delegation of power to courts and juries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Moffitt
Let Baptist Church of Dayton
William G. Day
RL. Gentry
Stewart
Gentry
John Jt. Neal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Scopes’ Preat
Western Newspaper Union
Rihael Arare
Beth
Sid Clare
Mount Baler
Blugh
Clive
Dorothy
Clams
Mount Baker
Mary Graham
Doaner
the Wind's Costumes
Mevet
Tne Ariver
Sid
Scope
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