Dainty Refreshments for Unexpected Evening Guests
The article offers simple hot chocolate and light fare ideas for drop in guests. It details making hot chocolate with chocolate, hot water, milk, and sugar, plus optional cornstarch for thickness. It suggests peanut and lettuce sandwiches and pecan nut mayonnaise sandwiches, with tips on bread prep and keeping nuts handy. It also notes archaeologists naming Count Matuschke's mansion at Winsel-on-the-Rhine, Germany, built in 700, as the oldest dwelling inhabited today.
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Matuschke
Winsel-on the-Rhine
Germany
The Great Thing in Life
A reflective note questions what we stand for and urges moving forward rather than waiting. It emphasizes action over hesitation and frames purpose as the core measure of progress.
Dollie’s Dose Poem Fragment About Medicine
A fragment praising a big doll and the need for proper medicine. The speaker notes that larger dolls receive stronger doses and should take their medicine as they ought. The verse adopts a playful, childlike tone with repeated emphasis on care and dosage.
Diploma for Blind Baltimore Student Finishes Music Course
A blind Baltimore youth, Bimmer Vogts, 21, earned a teacher's certificate at the Peabody Conservatory after completing a three year musical course. Vogts, who lost sight at age 10, attended the Maryland School for the Blind since 1902 and studied at the Peabody Institute since eighth grade graduation three years ago. He was previously an accomplished violinist before his vision impairment.
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Peabody Conservatory
Bimmer Vogta
Maryland Institute For the Blind
Vogts
Maryland School For the Blind
Peabody Insttute
The Preacher Knew When Prayers Were Called
A preacher remarks that prayers for land and crop yield are useless without work and manures. The tale ends with a rural moral urging labor before harvest. The piece reflects a faith rooted in practical action amid agrarian life.
Dancing Toy Amusing Mechanical Dance Device
An illustrated craft describes a boy made springboard toy using two boards a block as base rubber bands as springs a raised post and a jointed figure on a curved wire to simulate a dancing doll. The toy vibrates when the board is tapped and can be made with a wooden or cardboard figure.
Glass-walled Yokohama house guards against microbes
A Yokohama doctor builds a glass block house with saline-filled hollow interiors and hermetically sealed, filtered windows to regulate temperature and exclude microbes. The piece contrasts daily meals and values with social reputation and notes aloe's varied African uses from bow strings to fishing lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
Japan
Thia
Old-Timer Turtle Found Near Poughkeepsie On Hudson Race Day
A land tortoise with carved initials A W B and the date 1854 was found near Poughkeepsie by David B Sleight. He left the tortoise with his own initials, hoping it would live on until another Sleight generation arrives.
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New York
Poughkeepsie
Hudson River
David B. Sleight
Mr. Bleight
A Doughnut Twice Cooked in Boxton Window Fire
A bakery in Boxton suffered a window fire caused by an overheated doughnut in a magnifying glass contraption. The large doughnut burned after sun heat focused through the glass, with no fire department response noted. The incident reads like a humorous, rambling account of a small mishap.
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Boxton
Southern Cake Frosting And Blueing Ad
Advertisement shows a recipe for cake filling and frosting with ingredients and steps for mixing brown and white sugar, milk, butter, eggs, and nuts. It includes optional vanilla and lemon, and adds instructions for a blueing product, urging readers to buy Red Cross Ball Blue at grocers with a sales pitch about value and family appeal.
Squab Growth in Early Development
A squab grows rapidly in the first 12 hours and accelerates after day three. Early down is sparse with long filaments at the base indicating where feathers will begin. Down clings to feather tips during growth and some believe it is absorbed into the feather shaft.
All About the Pig Story
A young student’s playful composition centers on a pig named Nero. The piece contrasts pigs with humans, noting pigs are queer and useful while the author praises his father and references a king named Nero in a humorous, rambling school essay.
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Nero
Milk to Put Out Fire and Peacock's Proud Display
Milk can extinguish petroleum fires by emulsifying the oil, unlike water which spreads flames. A note references the Home Department and Vanity's Excuse in a National Magazine. The passage then shifts to a peacock’s showy behavior and a humorous exchange about family credit and attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Magazine
Sal
Bread Griddle Cakes and Odd Humors in Penny-Press Fragments
A jumble of recipe snippets and ads includes bread griddle cakes made with stale crumbs and boiling water, plus notes on milk, flour, and butter. Scattered lines reference home remedies from Dr. Pierce, alfalfa for poultry feed, and social jokes about love and fashion, all in a compact newspaper-card style.
Fine Self Denial by Albany Lady Over Feathered Hats
An Albany woman declines to speak to people wearing feathered hats, a self denial praised as worthy of reward. The quip appears in a Chicago Record-Herald item critiquing social fashion and manners.
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Albany
N. Y
Chicago Record-Herald
Know Nature and Secrets of Ground Waters and Heavens
A succinct quotation from Emerson on knowing nature. It asserts that those who understand secrets and virtues found in ground, waters, and skies, and how to access them, are rich and royal in spirit. The message links knowledge to wealth and nobility of insight.
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Greiner
Nature
Nur
Matilda M. Oreiner
D. C
Superittenden
Williams Avenue
Portland
Oregon
Africa
Mecca
Emerson
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Frank Drag
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Belmont Auto
Belmont Auto School & Rage
Morrison
ST. Mary
S Academy
Sisters OF the Holy Names OF Jesus and Mary
Gilleatans Cours
Casirvere Lal
Mary's Perlam
H. W. Freeze
Merchants Trust Bldg
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Dollie
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Mall
Young Man of
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Oakland
California
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Stanford
University of California
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Milla College
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Royal Shoe CO
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Portland, Or
Ted
Caine
Benets
RPM
Hondars
A.G. Smith
Portiana
Setitiouk Camesbotograph
Adley
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More Bros. & Co
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Keeley OH
Los Angeles Express
Ayer
Thed. C, Azer Co
Lewill
Meadow Glade Osteopathic Sinitarun
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Thorushly
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Vancouver Reground
Wash
Daisy Ely Killer
Boynton Furnaces
J.C. Bayer Furnace CO
Bluing
Hostetter
Lydia E. Pinksham
Sikeston
Lydia
Pinkham
Dean
Dewa Beran
Stkeston
Pinkharo
Ine Fares
Backad Benane
R.V. Pierce
M. D
Prest
Buffalo
N.Y
Pinnon
People’s
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Allen
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Dr. Pierce
United States
Sealdad
Sir Walter Scott
Ushera
St. Pielding Hall
AMD
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Mali
Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
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