Birthday Party and Club Gatherings Highlight Local Society News
Francis Crone marked his eleventh birthday with twelve classmates as Miss Madeline Aiking and Miss Harriet Riddle hosted. Teachers formed a bridge club with two tables and gifted Mrs. George Pats with an electric toaster. Various social visits, dinners, and hostessing duties filled pages of neighborhood events and family connections.
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Priday
Francis Crone
Madeline Aiking
Harriet Riddle Weste
Mica Aikens
Francis
Misa Madeline Aikens
Miss Fiauret Riddle
George Pat
Bridge Club
Harvey Young
Rude Warfel
Mrs. Young
W. A. Gibson
Mrs. Gibson
Mayonnaise Bridge Debuts as New Diversion in Kansas City
John Hanley of Wellston notes a rising trend in card games with a new variant called mayonnaise. Players stack hands, deal five cards in stages, and bid on small and grand slams for up to 1 000 points. The piece highlights the playful shift from bridge to word puzzles and back, with commentary on social appeal and scoring twists.
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Kansas City Star
Mah Jonge
Gladstone
Missouri
Cary
Lub
Chile
de Hons
Escape from Libby Prison in Civil War era journal
L B Cocklin describes a daring February 1864 escape from Rebel Prison at Shreveport Louisiana with L B Hall and John Cary. They trek ten days on scarce rations through swamps bayous and pine ridges, relying on sympathetic locals for aid, evading Confederate camps and patrols, and finally moving toward Union lines while crossing flooded landscapes and fording rivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrevesport
L. B. Cocklin
L B. Cocklin
Ainsworth
al Cocklin
Washington
L. B. Hall
John Cary
Cary
Red River
Red
Sibine
Eva
Journey by Mississippi and rescue on the gunboat Signal
The narrator recounts fleeing through swamp and river from rebel forces, crossing the Atchafalaya on logs, starving and freezing, and seeking shelter until a gunboat crew rescues them. They are treated kindly aboard the Signal with warm meals, clean clothes, and a letter of welcome from the captain and his wife.
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Lita
Federal
Red River
Alexan
Chaneryville
Cary and Hall
Cary
Uncle Sam
Not applicable quote from Blake limits life unexpectedly
A fragment presents a philosophical idea about life and interdependence. The line suggests that every living thing sustains itself through connections with others rather than isolation.
War Debs and League of Nations Eyeing Solution
A speculative note questions how the League might handle emerging war issues. The piece remarks on alleged Turkish violence against Christians and compares it to crime levels in New York and Chicago. A child dialogue ends the fragment with a quiet domestic moment.
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League of Nations
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Helen Cunningham
P. BE. O
Ellen S$. White
Mason Cuy
Iowa
DeYa Lesek
Elizabeth McQuire
Kansas
Frank Embree
Misa Mary Krotz
Belle McCreedy
Orcar Carlson
Gunard Johnson
Davenport
Charles McKinstry
Olive Pfifer
Latelle Hotle
Eloise Kiser
Cecile Robertson
Alice Hotle
Wilbur Miler
Cedar Rapids
Earl Simmerman
Simmerman
Chicago
Pressey Frank
Waterloo
Charles Miller
Mt. Vernon
Cornell College
John Hanley
Wellston
West Chester
Oee
U.S. Pat
Southern Coasecore Co.,cin.o
John Shields & Sons
Libby
New Orleans
Dria
Lub Hall
Alexandria
Bayou Beth
C.ukgrove
Atchafalaya
Mississippi
Empire
Hall
Egain
Blake
New York
Joan
Sonal
Klothing Ko
Llome of
Hart-Schaffner & Marx Clothes
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