The Emperor's Kitchen at Hofburg in Vienna Explains Splendor
In sixty years of Francis Joseph's reign Vienna's kitchens, from the Mundkuche to the Olio and court roasts, show a blend of grandeur and precision. The Hofburg houses vast storerooms, gold and silver plate, and a secret Olio recipe prepared for gala events, while Emperor Francis Joseph prizes simple, finest quality provisions and decor.
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Francis Joseph
Vienna
Europe
Austria
Maria Theresa
Schoenbrunn
Eugene of Savoy
Hofburg
Stephanie
Elizabeth
Beginning Early
A father and son exchange quips about bene factors and safety razors. The boy asks if a man who makes two blades grow where one grew before is a benefactor, and expands to ten blades. The father laments that the boy will become a humorist.
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Rollo
Little Rolls
Alvira
Buttermilk Brothers Starvation Quest in St Louis
Sam and Joe Weisman known as the Buttermilk Brothers fast on buttermilk with water only for days, aiming for 165 pounds. Sam weighed 202 before a 15 day fast with a week rest. Joe started heavier at 204 and has lost about nine pounds. They describe hunger, headaches, and resolve, while friends and physicians discuss prolonged fasting.
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St. Louis
Sam
Joe Weisman
Thinville
Taft
Joe
J. C. Eales
Belleville
Mules Sink in Quicksand Pit Near Rocheport Missouri
In Missouri near Rocheport, a 46 foot diameter quicksand bed swallowed a farmer N C Angell's $500 pair of mules. Foreman James Kite led efforts to free a second pair. The dead mules show front legs protruding, warning of the danger. Four mules pulled the plow before the accident.
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Columbia
N. C. Angell
Rocheport
Here
James Kite
Mr. Kite
Kite
Poor Girl Heir to Millions in Ball Estate Mystery
Miss Flossie B. Singleton, a Washington restaurant cashier, learns she may be an heir to the Ball estate once held by a Revolutionary War soldier. Reports place the estate at about 50 million dollars, with 1.85 million in cash and 6,260 acres of iron-bearing land across Meadville Pennsylvania and other towns in Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Kentucky, and Virginia.
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Washington
Flossie BE. Singleton
Pennsylvania Avenue
Joseph Ball
Miss Singleton
Ball
Meadville
Pennsylvania
Carolinas
Kentucky
Virginia
Bristol Va Tenn State Line Splits Town in Twin Laws
Bristol Virginia and Tennessee are divided by state line down State Street. The split governs street cars to skirt Jim Crow laws and creates differing marriage ages and license costs. The boundary shaped trade and jurisdiction, linking historic figures Gen Evan Shelby and Daniel Boone to a modern, uneasy balance of law and life on one street.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Bristol
Va-Tonn
Virginia
Tennessee
Old Dominion
Volunteer State
State Street
Evan Shelby
Isaac Shelby
Kentucky
Aleghenies
King’s Mountain
Svan Shelby
Commonwealths
Daniel Boone
Bar
East Hill Cemetery
Bristol (Tenn
Go Barefooted Trek Through Broadway By Isa dore Duncan
New York report notes dancer Isa dore Duncan strolling Broadway in bare feet, drawing various reactions from pedestrians. She wears a streamered dress and leather sandal strips on her feet, proceeding unbothered toward Charles Frohman’s Empire Theatre offices despite onlookers.
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New York
Broadway
Isadore Duncan
Miss Duncan
Frohman
Professional Cares
Formerly Interne Hospital State University of Iowa, house phone 461 Black, office 268 Black, Atlantic.
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Interne Hospital
State University
of Iowa
Atlantic
Probate practice and general law in Atlantia
Fragmentary notice notes probate, administration and guardianship appointments as a specialty in general law. Mentions Atlantia as the locale and references to administrators and guardians, with focus on probate practice as a service area.
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Gentral Law
Atlantia
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Silius
Eperor
Suicksand
Swallows
Missouri
Soldier's
Roosevelt
Underwood & Underwood
Africa
White House
Bristol, VA
Rialto
Riddle
D. D
Pipp
John
Professional Cares
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney AT Law
4Th & Chestnut Streets
Iowa
G. R. Miller
Sufte
Gillespie
Musson
Office
Avante
C, G. Clark
OR. R
Osteopathis
Opera House
Calla
Phone
T. B, Swan
C. L. Campbell
Gillespie Building
Res
A. Wood
OR. U. S. Mullins
Whan, D. Finley
D. O
Penotisk Tenavhine Qook
Finley, D.0
DRS
Finley & Finley
The
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy
Chestnut St
Atlantic, Iowa
Nels Brown
Butler
M. H. Butler
G. J
Walnut Street
Koms
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