Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 2 · column 3 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
Despite a raw Sunday, visitors by the thousands saw Washington’s (D.C.) Cherry BJossoms. It’s now been learned that Yukio Ozaki, 91, Japanese patriarch, who gave the trees ' the United States at .the time he was Mayor of Tokyo, is coming to Washington soon to see the famed Cherry trees. He sent the trees as an expression of'gratitude for President Theodore Roosevelt’s mediation in the Russo-Japanese war in 1905.
“If it hadn’t been for this mediation, Japan would have been thrashed,” Ozaki writes, "The Japanese didn’t realize this . . . but I thought something must be done to thank the U.S., so I sent some cherry saplings.’’ -¥—* * "
There are still some of us who get a good belly-laugh from those old spoonerisms, regardless of their age.
They tell that the name is derived from Rev. William A. Spooner of Oxfoid, England, ( 184 41930) who was addicted to the “accidental transposition of letters in successive words,” thereby having his name perpetuated in a common noun. No one has stated definitely whether or not he was the Re\. who, after performing a wedding ceremony, asked, “Is it kistomary to cuss the bride?” But he might have been.
He may also have been the man who, when asked why he
was
59.2%