Boston Baked Beans and Old Fashioned Bread Traditions
A nostalgic guide to genuine baked beans with a crack at the false article, a tale of a Bostonian in New York, and a detailed method for soaking, seasoning, and slow baking beans in a pot. It includes how to bake beans for two meals, with salt pork, molasses, mustard, and a long oven bake, plus a recipe for authentic Boston brown bread and notes on bake-shop bean pots.
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New York
Fine
York
Bostonian
Boston
Iisoner
Best
Beans
Alue
England
New England
Nyone
Lere
N. Y
Home Carpet Cleaning Method and Putty Facts
Practical home carpet cleaning steps describe ripping large carpets into breadths and washing with soapsuds or naphtha, then thorough rinsing and rapid water removal. The piece shifts to putty, its composition using whiting and linseed oil, variations with cottonseed oil, packaging, export markets, and common uses by decorators, plumbers, and painters.
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England
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Canada
Mexico
West Indies
South America
Sandwich Islands
New York Sun
New York
Brooklyn
Relief for Tailors and Remarkable Family in Calhoun County
A correspondent lampoons a New York bicycle pants lawsuit and offers a risqué method for measuring ladies. The piece then describes a prudish beauty routine using alcohol and cocoa oil before powder. It also profiles the Sadler family of Calhoun County Alabama, a farm clan with five sisters and a lone brother, aged ninety one to over a century, who never married.
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Pedsnap
Calhoun County
Ala
Sadler
Sadlers
Old Dominion
Alabama
Anniston
Origin of Oxtail Soup From Tail of Nobility
During the 1793 Paris terror the nobility faced starvation and beggary. Abattoirs sent hides to tanneries with tails left on. when a noble begged and received a tail, he cooked it into what became the first oxtail soup. The tale notes how reports of the dish spread and prices were set on tails. It then shifts to a note on manna in modern times, citing 1800 in Baggad.
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Paris
Indian demon a formidable lynx in Maine woods
A lone hunter on Chairback Mountain encounters a giant Maine lynx described as an Indian demon. The animal reportedly stretches to fifteen feet, climbs trees with ease, and shadows the hunter for miles after prey evidence shows a recent deer kill. The hunter, wary of a lethal encounter, continues toward safety.
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Maine
Chairback Mountain
Hangar
French schoolmaster flees wife to forest over tyrannical mother in law
A married Amiens schoolmaster, fleeing his domineering mother in law who lived with them, hid in nearby woods for three weeks eating roots and apples. He later filed for divorce claiming desertion, and the court freed him, citing the costly ill treatment as grounds.
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Amiens
France
Therm
Lou
New York
Rose i
Gate of Paradise
Oceanic gold predicted by electrolysis future prospect
Dr Henry Wurtz claims an induction that gold exists in seawater as early as 1506 with a 1879 Sonstadt disclosure. Using best data and 0.0 grain per ton, the ocean could contain over 8.8e17 grains of gold. Wurtz predicts electrolysis may tackle this vast future resource.
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Henry Wurtz
E. Sonstadt
Sonstadt
Great Ocean
Wurta
Battle of Brandywine Lineage and Damaging Defeat
The battle of Brandywine was one of Washington s worst defeats in the war. The name Brandywine is linked to a Dutch distillery on the Brentwine riverbank, with Dutch origins meaning brandy or burned wine.
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Brandywine
Washington
U.S. Patent Office
A. Snow & CO
Patent Office
Washinton, D. C
Water and temperance ruin a Maine visitor’s vacation
A young man visiting Maine boasts he drinks only water, despite family pressure and a teetotaler father. After three years away, he entertains guests with a water toast that ends his vacation, revealing how a single glass sparked trouble and social scrutiny.
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Maine
Richard
Father
Marvelous Memory Modeler Delights Portrait Fans
Danton, a famed caricaturist, could sculpt a near perfect bust after a single glance. He once modeled a sister’s likeness using jewels shown by a brother, then captured an absent sister the next year for her father. A boastful client learned the dangers of memory work when the bride’s maid was mistaken for his wife.
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Danton
The ominous Goldbrook bridge fear in Hloxne parish Suffolk
A local superstition centers on a bridge near Eye England where bridal parties avoid crossing at night due to a tale of Edmund king of the East Angles slain by Danes in 870. An oak contains the king’s hiding place and spurs glinting in moonlight allegedly betrayed him to arrows. Tradition once claimed a curse on wedding parties crossing the bridge.
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Goldbrook
Hloxne
Eye
Suffolk
England
Hoxne
Edmund
East Angles
Goldbrook Bridge
Battle painter Drvrarn to paint prince of Wales in England
News from European art circles reports Drvrarn the battle painter will travel to England to paint the portrait of the prince of Wales. Moment, the painter, died in Venice aged 75 and was buried under Titian's Madonna in the Church of the Frazi. French auction results show Charles Jacque works selling for high francs at Paris sale. Lupwie Pierson, the Vossische Zeitung critic, received the honorary professor title from Emperor William on his seventieth birthday. Miss E. M. Merrick undertakes painting Zenana women despite resistance to native dress. Christie's sale in London yielded 1,000 for a sheet of pen drawings by Michael Angelo with holy family and allegorical scenes.
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Drvrarn
England
Prince of Wales
Venice
Christie's
London
Michael Anmelo
Smiles by the Shears and Brief Snippets of Witty News
A collage of brief quotable exchanges from various papers, ranging from a quip about closing doors to humorous mishearings and light gossip. Notable lines include a man escaping a scolding, a clerk declining pamphlets, and a magistrate probing a witness in a humorous touch of courtroom banter.
Evolution of fashion from ancient hides to corseted trends
A compact survey traces attire through history, noting early footwear from hides, Tur Greeks helmets of cloth, horned head coverings, iron hoopskirts weighing up to thirty pounds, 17th century court footwear, Catherine de Medici forehead bindings, 894 Rome breeches ban, and the term cassock evolving from vest to long coat.
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Charles II
England
Catherine de Medici
Rome
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