Getting Civilized. A Chinatown marriage tale 1924
A satirical tale follows Honeyblossom and Cheng Yung, a Chinese couple married by mission rites. Neighbors challenge their cultural shift, suspect immorality, and push for separation. Years later a return visit reveals a modest tenement life, decked with Irish stew, two infants, and ordinary room scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chinatown
Cheng Yung
Wimpole
Patterbuck
Miss Wimpole
America
Honeyblossom
Yang
Mr. Clatterbuck
Yungs
Vanity Fair as Pilgrim Tale and Thackeray Reference
The passage describes Vanity Fair as a yearly fair in a town named Doran created by Belzebub Apollyon’s faction to sell worldly gains. Christian and Faithful face peril there, Faithful is burned, Christian escapes, and the text notes Thackeray’s novel titled Vanity Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunyan
Doran Five Sh
Belzebub
Apollyon 3Gion
Vanity Fair
Thackeray
Learned to Say No and Manners as Mirrors
A fragment discusses saying no as a sign of strength, contrasts three types of men retrograde stationary progressive, and notes Norwegian servant girls hiring yearly through a registry office and contract talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ares
Norway
Sale of Carriage Shop Property in Frederick County Va
Public auction of the Siets McVicar Carriage Shop property in Frederick County Virginia, joining McVicar and Martinsburg Turnpike, to be held July 26, 1924, at 10 a.m. in front of the Winchester courthouse. One third cash, balance in two annual installments secured by purchaser bonds and deed of trust, with buildings insured. Robt. M. Ward, Trustee. A. G. Swanson, Auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Es Court House
Winchester
Frederick
County
Robert McVicar
Martinsburg Turnpike
Baltimore’ & Ohio
Siets McVicar Carriage Shop
Robt
M. Ward
A. G. Swanson
Hegeman Laboratory Dedicated To Fight Tuberculosis
The dedication of the Hegeman Memorial Laboratory near Saratoga Springs North Carolina marks progress in tuberculosis research. The $300 000 lab is part of the Metropolitan Life Sanatorium complex serving 30 000 staff and patients and honors John Rogers Hegeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hegeman Memorial Laboratory
Kate MecGregor
Saratoga
Springs
N.C
Metropollitan Life Insurance Company
John Rogers Hegeman
Pasteur
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. Jos. Sullivan
Va. Va
Huda
Toneau
Joseph Hodg
C. B. Smalls
Balto
Urean
W.& H. Walker, Inc
Ss Puisburshe Pa
Forent
Apply Star Office
Haddox
T. W. Russell
Boosher
Braddock
Walter Barr
Fairmont Ave
Water ‘St
S. Main St
Madison
Madison Mills
Broadway
New York
Stet
H. J. Mowrey
Frank Gearing
East Piccadilly Street
Palm Beach
Little Joe’s
Morris Schultz
Western Meowspaper Union
Hegeman Laboratory
Ial
Haley Fiske
Edward R. Baldwin
Trudeau Sanatorium
Saranac Lake
Father P. Aan Waggett
Paige
Detroit
Paige Phaeton
D.W. Mellwee
Mgr
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