Meals of Elephants Feet Whale Blubber or Monkey Meals
A traveler documents a whimsical index of foods from whaleblubber to monkey meat, recounting meals aboard ships and in distant lands. Cards note whale flesh, porpoise brains, elephant foot, kangaroo, wallaby, kelp greens, coconuts, and even worms with vivid, period voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Cape Lisburne
Arctic Ocean
Mick Healey
Bear
Healey
Ing
Morris Enery
Commodore Morris
Azores
Africa
Zambeal
Parahyha
Board of Trade
Tristan d'Agantha
Betery Green
Cape
Learn to Swim: Lessons From a Potomac Summer Drowning Trend
An instructional piece urges safe swimming as drownings rise this summer in the Potomac area. It emphasizes youth learn-to-swim, proper breathing, and correct strokes, warning against panic and improper exits, while detailing floating, diving, rolling, treading water, and breaststroke techniques with practical steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac
Sey
Movermant
Memorial honoring Herzl marks second anniversary in Washington
Across the United States Hebrew synagogues and Zionist societies collected funds to buy land in Palestine for Jewish colonies. In Washington, prayers and eulogies were held at Adag Israel and Ober Schulom, with money to be sent to London for Palestine land purchases. A mass meeting planned in Washington was postponed to July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
Theodors Herzl
Bernicea
Washington
Adag Israel
Ober Schulom
Dr. Herzli
United States
Federation of American Zionists
National Fund
Zionists’ Getlows Committee
London
Colonial Trust
Tasuington
E’nal Zion
Zion
Herzl
Whales Ain't Fish Says Skipper In Wild Tale
Skipper Bill Spinks of the Gussie recounts a wild yarn about a giant school of whales off the Jersey coast near the Frying Pan shoals. He riffs on whales as fish, hopes to herd them to Summer hotels, and conceives a scheme involving hotels, stock, and whaling profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sala
Bill Spinks
Gussie
Liberty
Gussia
New Bedford
Jersey
Delaware Breakwater
Nor’ward
Flah
Battery
Denny Lind
Coney
Jerney Shore
Sean
Elao
Jonah
William the Conqueror
Arew
Uttle
Manhattan
Soho
Ang
Florida
West Indies
Hotala
Whatea
Wall Streat
Pasis
Combine
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Burke and Wills
Continent
Cooper's Creek
Jower Queensland
Great
Southland
Nevada
Sierras
Lake Tahos
Winnemuccas
Tavons
Tunis
Meridlang
Biel
Schlitz Beer
Schlitz
Lanvord
Jos
Schlitz Brewing Co
D. Bt
W. Washington
Pope Manufacturing Co
T ‘Mobile
Pope Manufacturing, Co
Washington Branch
Fourteenth St
Royal Pilsen Beer
Gage ‘Phono West
Aatle Abner-Drury Brewing Co
Seu
Ang Td Winder
Famsade Tojadles
Ie - Marvel, CO
New York
O'Donnell
C. Ew
Classified Business Directory
Hanks
National Bank
Rans
Jehn
Onle
I7th
Drivice
Cohen
Panies
Fenoy — Grucorles
Suropean
N. J. Aye
Op. B. & O. Depot
St. James
Ps. Ave
Tip St
Handarme New
Tobby
Europear
Ann Denk
Bore ‘Dorcas
Remedy Co
Masonic Temple
Chenge
Uhlet & CO
B.S
Blacey
Pathet
Washington, D.C
Brintera
Brea
J S
Wmonowipe
Pra and Cafae
Apater Howe
Brery
Birge
N.Y. Ave
Retal Estate
Iorarance
W. G
Harrison . Street
Anacostiz
St. ‘O
Meqigae
Reed
Witney
Tadisa
Twelfth Street
N. Ww
Shade
Rhade
Fisk Elgin
Seaton
W. F. Baldus
Speciatlat
Leatherman
Suashingtows
Howe
Msl
Howe Medicine Company
Phin
Éare
Stevens
Williams
Sth
Fata
Evans
THY Peoqplai
A. Pharmacy
Ita
Hood Co
Hood
Sarsapariila
Lowell
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