Librarian Wordplay Sparks Titles for Reads
At the New York Library readers in the Jewish section offered playful alternative titles for books. A boy renamed Abraham Nights as Abraham Nights. He also hinted The Young Supercargo as Young Soup of a Cargo and Miss Johnston’s To Have and to Hold with Get It and Keep It and Two Halves and Two Wholes as its original titles.
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New York
Abraham
Miss Johnston
S. S
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
California Fig Syrup Co
Baking Oatmeal Cookies Mixture And Bake Method
Recipe describes mixing two cups flour with two teaspoons baking soda and one and a half cups oatmeal. Cream butter with brown sugar add three eggs beat then fold into dry mix. Add milk to form batter and bake in a greased shallow tin.
Cure for Consumption and Coughs Promoted in Advertisements
A collection of vintage ads tout Piso's Cure for Consumption at 25 cents, Dr Kline's Great Nerve Per, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and a tip to flavor cocoa with cinnamon. Also notes a California paper linking bad water to deaths, and a quip about coal barons and money.
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California
Ronceverte
W. Va
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Early Electric Stove Note
A Toledo city notice cites Halls Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for uncured catarrh cases and lists the remedy’s claims. The piece also describes Prof Elihu Thomp son’s new electric cooking stove with asbestos insulation and a silicon resistance, highlighting high temp retention and potential low running costs.
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Elihu Thompson
Aunty Glen's Cure Prompts Sewing Club Wisdom
The sewing circle discusses cures and forgiveness as Mrs. Glen, a recent arrival nicknamed Aunty Glen, shares a tale of overcoming a headache by forgiving Mehitabel Record. The group applauds her philosophy and considers adopting the approach, with or without mustard plasters, as a healthier mindset.
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Mehitabel
Aunty Glen
Cede
Miss Everett
Glen
The Healing Power of Cheerfulness and Hope
A Success Magazine passage notes cheerfulness as a sovereign remedy that boosts expectancy and confidence, helping patients overcome disease. It argues a physician’s optimism and vitality can lift invalids from misery, illustrating strong mind body links and contagion of mood.
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Successa Magazine
Prussia’s Origins and Teutonic Conquest Timeline
The article traces Prussia from Borussi origins around 825 B C to Baltic Slavonic roots in early history. It notes Teutonic knight conquest in the 13th century, mixing Borussi and Teutonic lines with Poles, and references early Christian influence via Bishop Adalbert of Prague who was martyred in 997. It also contains unrelated quotes about painting and Roosevelt.
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Prussia
Borussi
Porussi
Baltic
Kingdom of
Adalbert of
Prague
Teutonic Knights
Bananas on Toast and Tomato Cateup Recipes
A cookbook fragment describes Bananas on Toast frying ripe bananas with salt and cayenne, served on toasted milk-dipped bread with whipped cream and nutmeg. It also details Tomato Cateup with simmered tomatoes onions mace pepper cloves sugar paprika celery seed and vinegar, plus Sweetbread Croquettes with onion juice white sauce and croquette shaping. The True Womanhood excerpt from Rev J K Smith urges women to live within God given limits and avoid overreaching virtues.
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J. K. Smith
Presbyterian
Louisville, Ky
Mint Sauce Preparation Steps and Flavoring
Gather mint wash and pick leaves chop finely. Add two tablespoons chopped mint and one and a half tablespoons sugar to a sauce tureen. Let stand an hour then add a quarter pint good vinegar and stir. Stand two hours to flavor. Ready for the table.
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Ayer
ELIC
Stuart
Albany
Oregon
Lowell, Mass
American Portable House CO
Arcade Bidg
Seattle
Satake and
Best
Agénta
D. S. Johnston Co. Burke Bldg
S.C St
Tacoma
Rockefeller
Chicago News
State OF Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Ceeds
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
FF. J. Cheney & CO
Chas. H. Fletcher
Muarf
New York City
O. B. Williams
B. Williams
Western Ave
Wash
Tommy Pomeroy
Sewing Club
Ilinesa
Rosa
Papa
President Roosevelt
USA
Geo. D. Carr
Edgar St. Evansville
Ind
Tyerea
Tower Canadian
O.lates
A.J Tower
Starr-Boyd
American Real Estate & Guaranty Co
Lincoln County
Yamhill County
Oreland
St. Johns
Seventh St
Portland
Pillsbury
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