Ladies Hold Social at Cottage Park Yacht Club
The Cottage Park Yacht Club opened its new clubhouse on February 1 with an Indien night gathering attended by about 350 guests. Commodore Cook and the organizing committee welcomed visitors as McAdams Orchestra played in the upper hall and a grand march led by Commodore and Mrs Harry J Cook opened the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottage Park Yacht Club
Commodore Cook
Thomas Barber
Alfred Rogers
Thomas Bennett
Ecru
Yacht Club
McAdams
Commodore
Harry J. Cook
Harry E. Raymond
É.e
Harry
J. Cook
Mesdames Russell Gardner
Horace A. Magee
Alfred J. Rogers, Jr
Frederick J. Daggett
Walter Harry Williams
Louis A. Radell
Barn Dance At Surfside Lodge Draws 100 Guests
The Surfside Lodge Knights and Ladies of Honor hosted a barn dance at Constitution Hall on Friday night. The hall featured a horse stall theme with hay, an orchestra, and hay badge ushers led by Mrs. J. H. Leathem and others. Refreshments of ice cream and cake complemented the country atmosphere as over 100 attendees danced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surfside Lodge
Knights and Ladies of Honor
Constitution Hall
J. H. Leathem
R. Bennison
Nance O Neil Returns to Keith’s with Macbeth Sleep-walking
Keith's Theatre announces a return engagement next week headlined by Nance O Neil performing the sleep-walking scene from Macbeth. Willard Simms and Edith Conrad present Flinders Furnished Flat. Other acts include Clement De Lion billiard ball feats Barty and Hughes in The Soul and the Heel Emma Francis Arab tumblers Trocat Le Tung Foo Ben Beyer cycling and new Kinetograph pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nance O'Neil
Keith
Edith’ Conrad
Flinders
Simms
Subies
Clement de Lion
Barty
Hughes
Emma Francis
Trocat
le Tung Foo
Fanny
Ben Beyer
Brother
Washington Letter Special Correspondent
A marble Lincoln bust by Gutzon Borglum sits in the White House vestibule for leaders to view. The piece sparks interest as Roosevelt backs Arlington Confederate Monument plans. The column recalls Major Loeffler’s past heroism with Quanah Parker and recounts small Capitol odd jobs and irrigation woes in Nevada.
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Lincoln
Gutzon Borglum
White House
Colpessmen
Borpum
Seneral Sheridan
Massachusetts Avenue
Roosevelt
Arlington Confederate Monument Association
Arlington
Quanab Parker
United States
Charles Loeffler
Major Loetiler
Chief Parker
Oklahoma
Loeffler
Parker
Quanah Parker
The Old-Time Storekeeper’s Train Tales Remain
Chicago grocer J B McNeil recalls 35 years of rail travel totaling 756000 miles and contrasts old storekeeping with modern, more polished practices. He cites a village postmaster who mixed letters and goods, recounting a humorous clash over no letters for a rival shop.
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J. B. McNeil
Chicago
Mr. McNeil
Croydod
Kipling mocks smartness and Maine humor in a Boston Herald piece
The Washington correspodent reports Kipling’s attack on smartness to McGill students and a tale of a dry goods store owner who misheard a clerk’s remark. The Boston Herald notes Uncle Amos of Maine, famed for stories contrasting paradise with Maine’s peculiarities, drawing laughs from Washington colleagues.
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Rudyard Kipling
McGill University
Allen
Maine
Amos
Washington
Reed
Paradise
Washington Cor
Boston Herald
Various World Bits Include Immigrant Refusals and Alpine Autocrat
A rapid roundup reports 41 daily immigrant refusals at New York, a London press note on aluminium coinage, and a Norwich tale of a man burying a cellar to keep liquor selling. Reports mention Will Adams buried near Kokowaka, a Kansas City judge trying 436 cases, and a York mint update.
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Will Adams
Japan
Kokowaka
Kyle
Kansas City
Baptist State Commission
Lawton
Okla
New Baptist University
Philadelphia
Thoms Adams
Duchess of Fife
Norway
Princess Victoria
Queen Alexandra
London
Lemuel Andrews
Morocco
L. A. Leavitt
Oldtown
Uganda
Signor
Enrico Toselli
Montignoso
Saxony
Syracuse
South Africa
Pacific Coast
University of California
Transvaal
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Keith's Theatre
Major Loeffler
United States Army
Texas
Red River
Fitz-Hugh Lee
Humboldt Valley
Nevada
Bureau of Irrigation
Capitol
United States Capitol
House of Representatives
Carl Schofield
Gore
New York
William Kent
Kentfield
Cal
Mount Tamalpais
San Francisco
Muir Woods
John Muir
Menelik
Abyssinia
Giuseppi Maruzza
Venice
Germany
Edward
Alois Burgstaller
Frau Cosiman Wagner
Baireuth
Parsifal
Siegfried
Mme
Wagner
Metropolitan
Conried
Yipots
Bears
Castoria
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
America
New England
Lady's Department
Walter F. Jordan & CO
Boylston
Boston, Mass
Winthrop Sun ‘& Visitor
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