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Boys Vamped by Flappers, Parents Cry

Girls Blamed for Snuggle Pupping and Petting Parties Nowadays

CHICAGO, March 11 — Parents of the male flapper are holding indignation meetings throughout Chicago to protect against vamping of their poor defenseless sons by sweet young things still in their ‘teens.

How to curb petting parties, the popular pastime of the younger generation everywhere it seems, occupied most of the discussion at the convention of social hygiene associations, at which were represented the Chicago Woman’s club, the Woman’s City club, the Parent Teachers’ club, and other prominent women’s organizations.

Posted inUS Civil War

March 12, 1861 – The Zouaves

Amer Picon liqueur advertisement featuring a smiling Zouave carrying six large bottles of the product.

So much interest and admiration exist at the present time in and for this remarkable body of men, that we deem it not amiss to lay before our readers our idea of their characteristics and feats.

The recipe for manufacturing a Zouave is as follows: Take an ordinary man, the smaller the better ; cultivate long hair, unlimited moustachios, if at possible, bright red, placing upon the back of his head a cap something the shape of a saucepan, a brighter shade of red than the hair, with an extensive blue tassel.; envelope him in a blue bag with two other blue bags for sleeves, and presto! you have his jacket; then take two large red bags brighter red than the cap, and you at once have him breeched; you then keep continually winding blue sash around his waist until physical exhaustion compels you to cease your efforts, when clapping on a very tight pair-of white gaiters just below the very loose pair of red breeches, lo’! you have a first-rate Zouave.

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Fanatics of Bahia

The 40th Infantry Battalion, sent from the Pará state to quell the Canudos rebellion, 1897. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 11. — The Herald special cable from Buenos Ayres says:…
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Honolulu Daguerrean Gallery

The Subscriber begs leave to inform the citizens of Honolulu and vicinity, that, having returned from his tour to the windward islands, he has reopened the above establishment, where he…
Posted inWorld War 1

Full Story of Cruise of Famous German Raider Seeadler Is Related

The German auxiliary cruiser SMS Seeadler capturing the French bark Cambronne off the Brazilian coast on 20 March 1917. Depicted by Willy Stöwer.

Naval Department Makes Public Interesting Account of Exploits of Kaiser’s Seamen on Board American Vessel Which Had Been Taken From English Prize Force While Sailing For Kirkwall

Washington, November 10.—The full story of the cruise of the German commerce raider Seeadler has been obtained by the navy department from Capt. Haldor Smith of the American schooner R. C. Slade, and three other mariners, who landed at Tutuila in an open boat September 29 after being marooned on Mopeha Island by the master of the Seeadler when the raider grounded and was abandoned.

The Seeadler, formerly the American ship Pass of Balmaha, belonged to the Boston Lumber company, and was in the Nova Scotia trade before the war. After the war broke out she was put under the American flag and was captured by the British and a prize officer was put aboard her with instructions to taKe her to Kirkwall, Scotland. On the way she was captured by a German submarine and sent to Bremen, and fitted out as a raider. A picked crew was placed aboard, some of whom spoke Norwegian, and sent out into the Atlantic under the guise of a Norwegian ship.