Leeds Widow Rejects Murat as Suitor for Riches
New York society notes tell how Mrs. Leeds, widow of Tinplate Trust founder William Leeds, spurned Prince Joachim Murat despite his royal lineage and a fortune that might entice a duke. She seeks business acumen and American status over titles, after a history of high society matchmaking and international intrigue.
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York
Leeds
Murat
William B Leeds
Tinplate Trust
Rock Island Railway
Joachim
Napoleon
Lussars
Naples
Caroline
Paris
Cowes
England
Anthony J. Drexel
Duke of
Richmond
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jeannette
Logansport
Elwood
American’ Tinplate Company
The
Tinplate Iu
United States Steel Company
Road
Nannie Stewart Worthington
Cleveland
George K. Worthington
Mrs. Leeds No. 2
Mrs. Leeds No
Palm Beach
Toom
Lrst
Leedses
New York
Newport
France
Boris
Russia
N. Y. Press
Joke on the Orator John Kendrick Bangs on Maine Stump
John Kendrick Bangs, long a Maine coast resident, recalls a campaign night when two local speakers drew crowd attention and a fat band member asleep before Bangs began. He aimed to wake him, delivering a joke at the man’s abrupt exit as the crowd watched.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Maine
Mr. Bangs
Lippincott's
Paris Gaulois asks readers to name world’s 25 greatest writers
The Paris Gaulois surveyed 11 247 readers to rank the top 25 writers to date. The list includes Hugo Shakespeare Racine Corneille Vergil Moliere Homer Dante Goethe Bossuet La Fontaine Lamartine Chateaubriand Voltaire Cicero Pascal Musset Balzac Sophocles Horace Schiller Plato Cervantes Rousseau Milton and others. The first list shows no living writer and 14 of 24 are French.
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Paris Gaulois
Lst
Victor Hugo
Shakespeare
Racine
Corneile
Vergil
Moliere
Homer
Dante
Goethe
Bossuet
la Fontaine
Lamartine
Chateaubriand
Voltaire
Icero
Pascal
Musset
Balzac
Sophocles
Horace
Schiller
Plato
Cervantes
J.-J. Rousseau
Milton
Anti- Cfa, Jr
Restrictions On An Heiress And The Lucerne Legacy
Miss Katherine Bradley Bigelow, ten, inherits an estimated 500000 from grandmother Mrs Hennessy but loses it if unaccompanied travel by maid or if she weds a divorced man or an actor. Part of the will dispute reduces a 45000 city legacy to 4000 after costs.
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Leeds
Rock Island Railroad
Paris
Ritz
New York
Katherine Bradley Bigelow
Hwllen M. Hennessy
Lucerne
Council
Minerals in Food and Bodys Work Depend on Minerals
Jessica E. Besack argues minerals are essential to all body organs beyond bone and blood purification. Blood mineral salts drive heart expansion and contraction, and mineral-rich foods must accompany any mineral treatment. Fresh vegetables, fruits, milk, and eggs are valuable. skim milk and buttermilk give minerals cheaply. A simple cabbage salad with onion juice and French or butter dressing tops a mineral rich diet.
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Jessica E. Besack
Department of Domestic Science and Art
Omaha
Neb
Rice Bavarian and Savory Sandwich Fillings
A double boiler yields rice Bavarian with lemon peel milk sugar and gelatin, flavored with sherry and whipped cream, served with crushed strawberries. Also includes vegetable sandwich fillings with celery, radishes, peas, peppers, cucumbers, olives, onions, and tomato on whole wheat bread. A Minced Lamb dish simmers roast scraps with bones, herbs, and stock then thickens with flour butter and cayenne before adding lamb and boiling.
Croquettes from a Meat of Well Toiled Craw Fish
A recipe instructs to chop craw fish fine and season with pepper salt and mace. Mix with a quarter as much well rubbed bread crumbs and two tablespoons melted butter. Shape into pointed balls roll in beaten eggs then in cracker dust and fry in butter or sweet lard. Serve hot with crisp parsley.
Chocolate Caramels Recipe From Granite Saucepan
A readable fragment instructs to melt grated chocolate and milk with sugar and two tablespoons of butter in a granite saucepan over low heat. Boil until a drop in cold water forms a brite ball, then turn into greased pans and cut into squares when gold.
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Europe
Edward
de Wolf Cutting
Ate Wigzrat Leeds
Orator
Chas. A. Grubb
4Th and
Chestnut Streets
Atlantic, Towa
C. B. Clovis
Melcher’s
Atlantic
Iowa
T. B. Swan
J. B. Rockafellow
Wood & Savery
John Hy
Wood
Ben A. Woope
W. Savery
Sixth and Chestnut Srs
D. O. Herbert
East Fifth Street
Max Emmert
J. D
C. G. Clark
Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
R. A. Gamble
Opera House
Chas. D. Finley
Chestnut Street
C. L. Campbell
Gluespie Building
Musson
A. S. Mullins
W. C. Heers
Smiley
Music Store
G. R. Miller
Gillesme
Musson Phone
J. A. Giffen
C. Thurman Furniture Company
W. M. Bailey
Hmbalmer
Mussen
Bell
Chestnut St. Atlantic
Butler
M. H. Butler
Publi
Pril
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