City opens spaces for arts and youth play today
Dennis McCarthy notes a city expanding venues for schools halls and arts while also ensuring spaces for boys to play. The piece highlights a civic push to balance cultural spaces with youth recreation needs.
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Dennis McCarthy
Suggestive homemaking tips and clever repairs
A collection of practical tips covers odor control with charcoal, shoe relief via hot cloth, china repair using alum and heat, crafting bird boxes with proper heights, fish flavor preservation, ant control with caution for pets, drawer lining for appearance, and insect repellents like citronella and pennyroyal. Also includes cake scenting with geraniums and quick garment threading tricks.
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China
Leftover Lamb and Fruit Desserts From Everyday Good Things
Practical recipes for using leftovers include Lamb Pot Pie with bacon fat and mixed vegetables baked under biscuits, Duchess Potatoes formed into squares with cheese, ham with green pepper and peanut butter for sandwich filling, Raisin Date Sandwiches, Melon and Peach Cocktail with citrus syrup, and Date Fruit Tarts with walnuts raisins orange peel and meringue.
Jaunty summer coats in knitted fabric gain fashion notice
Knitted fabrics stir style circles abroad with chic three piece crystal crepe outfits. Sports coats in woven or knitted wool attract praise for coziness and smart tailoring. White and bold color combos dominate, with satin bound edges and ribbon side ties enhancing tan and orange accents.
Velvet Coat and Hat Sitwell with Street Skirt Pairing
A description notes a velvet coat paired with plain material skirts for street wear and an accompanying hat designed to harmonize with the ensemble. The coat’s color and edge detailing are highlighted as suitable for daily use.
Mystery Symbols Found in Yarmouth Star Hotel Wall
About 100 cryptic signs hidden behind wallpaper in a room of the Star hotel at Yarmouth England puzzle local antiquarians. The designs include zodiac, a sextant, Egyptian life line, bear wyvern and toad shapes with a dominant triangle arc and circle, dating from circa 1600.
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Star
Yarmouth
England
Tross
British Museum
East Coast
Odd Principle of Heredity in Andalusian Fowl
An article explains Mendelian heredity using the blue Andalusian fowl. Crosses between blues yield blacks and whites with black points, showing non true-breeding genes. Mendel, a Austrian monk, studied inheritance from eight years of pea experiments in his cloister garden.
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Gregor Johann Mendel
Brusan
Austria
Making Flowers Smell Stronger by Grafting Wormwood
Professor Daniel of Rennes reports to the Academy of Science in Paris that grafting wormwood onto chrysanthemum enhances fragrance. The grafted wormwood produced stronger perfume and acquired some chrysanthemum scent. Seeds from grafted plants yielded varieties with strong or no odor.
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Daniel
Rennes
France
Academy of Science
Paris
M. Daniel
Chinese Superior Alloys and Chinese Inventions
Chinese experts have long mastered alloy making with pai tong white steel born from red steel and arsenic. German silver imitates this ancient Chinese knowledge. Tom toms and bronze vases retain mystique despite chemical analyses revealing composition. A brass pagoda on a hill near TsingKianfou dates to the twelfth century.
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China
Tsing Kianfou
Marsh Mallow Plant Found Along Northeast Coasts
The marsh mallow, an erect perennial herb related to the hollyhock, grows in salt marshes along Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. Known to botanists as Althaea officinalis, it is not recognized by physicians as a drug. It reaches 2 to 4 feet, with pink flowers about an inch wide, and its mucilaginous roots are used in confectionery and medicine.
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Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
Heavenly Prompt on Workman’s Plastered House
A workman tours a new suburban house with Elizabeth Anne and her father. He jokes it will be heaven when the house is plastered, prompting Elizabeth Anne to ask, heaven plastered, implying mistaken belief in the construction.
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Elizabeth Anne
Eagles Speak At Zoo About Identity And Pride
In a zoo scene two eagles, the Golden and Crowned, debate fame and national symbols. They compare their visibility with Bald Eagles and share their home ranges, diets, and sizes while critiquing public knowledge before the class ends with a quip about a drawing lesson and a prankish joke from a student.
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Bird of Freedom
American Bird of Freedom
Golden Eagle
Europe
Asia
Frog Has Cat Beat in Croak Contest
A playful exchange describes a frog outperforming a cat in croaking, with chatter about nine lives and a joke about Tommy and Ben. The item reads as a light, humorous verse fragment from a local page.
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Frog
Tommy
Pop
Ben
Tanlac Restores the Whole Family to Health
A West Terre Haute family reports Tanlac improved their health after two years of illness. Max Liva and his wife describe relief from flu aftereffects, stomach troubles, headaches, and nervousness, with their four children also benefiting. Tanlac promoted as a reliable family medicine sold by druggists with over 37 million bottles sold.
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Max Liva
S. Eighth St
West Terre Haute
Ind
Doodle-um Gadget Promises Wireless Boost
Pete Hanlon warns homemade wireless device doodle-um causes trouble. He suggests buying a smoosh and attaching it to the kerplex to boost the disseminator when the bifflebox is adjusted, but notes it rarely works on Sundays.
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Pete Hanlon
Pete
Boston Transcript
CHANGE OF LIFE LOSES TERRORS
Greenville Pennsylvania readers share testimonials praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from menopausal symptoms. A 65 year old woman recounts weight gain hot flashes and renewed energy after use and offers to answer letters from other women seeking guidance.
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Greenville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
John Myers
Union St
Ydia E. Pinkham
Noted Quip About Doctor Husband and Wealth
A witty line suggests a doctor who married wealth is partly retired from practice. It jokes he now treats his wife’s wallet for obesity, implying financial concerns shift his focus from medicine to money management.
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