Foot-Race Dilemma Sparks Romantic Intrigue in Campus Party
In a campus pause, Mrs Keap urges Speed to aid her secret plan while concealing a double engagement. Speed learns she is engaged to two men including Culver Covington, and she begs him to wire Culver not to come. Speed agrees to help as the plot threads tighten amid talk of training quarters and a looming foot race.
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Caperon
Dad
Wally
Ourge
Culver Covington
Culver
Columbus
Speed
Mrs. Keap
Berkeley Fresno
Mr. Speed
Jack Chapin
Jack
J Sea
Jove
Roberta
Scott
Helen
J. Wallingford Speed
Chicago
Cowboys of the Flying Heart Race for Phonograph Feud
The Flying Heart ranch faces heartbreak over a missing phonograph after a font race with Centipede ranch. Yale cheerleader J Wallingford Speed and Culver Covington are linked to a rescue plan as Helen Blake seeks to get Covington to reclaim the phonograph. Speed arrives with his trainer Larry Glass and begins training while a house party unfolds.
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Flying Heart Ranch
Centipede
Flying Heart
J. Wallingford Speed
Yale
Culver Covington
Helen Blake
Speed
Jean Chanin
Covington
Helen
Larry Glass
Wally
Glass
Bearing Troubles Through God’s Strength and Grace
Carl Hilty argues only worry and sin are unbearable troubles and both can end by trusting in God's goodness. The piece emphasizes troubles come gradually, God tempers the wind, and believers are sustained through trials. It reassures that, with Christ by our side, we can bear all burdens inch by inch without being overwhelmed.
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Carl Hilty
God
Meyer
Christ
Define Your Resolve to Serve and Decide for God
A sermon excerpt urges decisive faith over wavering. Rev. J. H. Jewett DD stresses breaking free from indecision, likening inaction to a drifting life and urging believers to gird up the mind and commit to the Lord. The passage frames choice as the peak moment shaping history and personal faith.
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J. H. Jewett
Fragmented prayer fragment on forgiveness and praise
The text presents a fragmented reflection linking forgiveness to Christ and to God as praised by a Psalmist. It appears as a garbled meditation mixing terms like evil and Abel with religious language, lacking clear structure or identifiable events.
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Christ
God
Abel
Meat and Vegetable Salad Preparation Guide
Free the meat from skin and bone and dice it. For each pint, make a French dressing with four tablespoons olive oil one tablespoon salt and one-quarter teaspoon plain or tarragon vinegar half a teaspoon salt and one-quarter teaspoon white pepper. Marinate meat in dressing, chill an hour to impregnate. Arrange lettuce on a platter, add meat, garnish with nasturtium leaves or watercress. Boiled meat may need more seasoning. add onion juice or chopped chives as desired.
Household Hints From An Old Home Page
A collection of practical tips for daily care and cooking. Advice covers cream cheese and dates sandwiches, boot softness with castor oil, double hanging curtains to dry, green pepper stuffed cold slaw, washing Shetland shat, buttering loaf ends before slicing, keeping flowers fresh with sugar, drying wet shoes with paper, removing door fingerprints with kerosene, and eggplant preparation to prevent browning plus wallpaper cleaning with whitening paste.
Boiled Onions in White Sauce Recipe
Peel onions and drop into cold water, then boil in water with salt. Drain, cover with hot sweet milk and simmer. Stir in white pepper and milk, then blend into the onions. Cook ten minutes more and serve.
Poor Man's Pudding Recipe From Old Kitchen Corner
A dated kitchen note describes Butter a pudding dish place half cup rinsed raw rice half cup sugar a pinch of salt and a sprinkle of nutmeg add one quart milk bake in a medium oven for about an hour and a half without stirring until the rice appears above the milk grains stay separate and the milk remains rich and creamy whether served hot or cold
Victoria Fans Cookie Dough Instructions
Mix two cups flour and half cup brown sugar then sift. Work three quarters cup butter into the mixture with hands. Roll on a floured board to one third inch thick. Cut rounds with a fluted cutter, quarter each, crease to resemble open fans. Brush with beaten yolk and milk, bake until delicately browned.
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Victoria
How to Remove Grease and Make Potato Soup
To remove grease pour cold water with a little lemon juice on the marks immediately after spilling. It hardens the grease so you can lift it with a knife. Potato soup requires four large potatoes one onion and water until soft. Press through a sieve add a pint of sweet milk tablespoon butter salt and pepper and boil until ready to serve.
Starch Mixture Described for Clothing Care
The guide suggests adding a touch of soda to starch to keep it sweet and a teaspoon of glycerine to impart a dainty gloss and aroma. Clothes starched with this mixture may stand for 34 hours without mildew.
Curing of Rwer Bridge Face Flood Control Spends Peak Iowa Land at Risk
With the Missouri river threatening to engulf farmland valued at about $250 per acre near Fol som, Burlington railroad and federal funds commit to spend roughly $190,000 more to shore the line and Plattsmouth bridge. Government and railroad share costs, farmers expected to match, while engineers monitor progress as relief work proceeds.
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Burlington
Plattsmouth
Missouri River
Uncle Sam
Funds to Operate Atlantic Northern Railroad Gathered
Atlantic Northern railroad supporters report 14500 dollars in first mortgage bonds subscribed at meetings in Kimballton and Hitners. Two five member committees were formed to complete subscriptions to 25000 dollars. Viggo Lyngby and H S Rattenberg attended, stating funds are likely available for reorganization efforts.
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Atlantic
Atlantic Northern” Railroad
Kimballton
Hitners
Atlantic Northern & Southern Railroad
Kimbalston
Michorn
Viggo Lyngby
Council Bluffs
H. S. Rattenberg
George Messinger
Linden
World tour motorcyclists seek $10000 prize abroad
Mig Harry Humphreys and his wife depart Los Angeles for a global test of endurance. The route covers Europe Africa Asia and the Americas, returning to the start. Mrs Humphreys is England's long distance cycling champion with a 900 mile ride in three days. Independence editor commits suicide at age 60. A fast passenger train nearly derails a near miss endangers 200 lives.
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Mason City
Mig
Harry Humphreys
Los Angeles
Norway
Sweden
Russia
Germany
Spain
Africa
Capetown
Madagascar
India
China
Japan
Philippines
New Zealand
Australia
Peru
Cuba
United States
Bride Drops Dead in Home After Quick Marriage
Mason City report says Mrs. Mary Evanston Sutton died of a cerebral hemorrhage while hanging her bridal gown in the new home, shortly after marrying Paul Sutton just hours earlier.
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Mason City
Mary Evanston Sutton
Paul Sutton
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