Calis Temperance Convention Call Arouses Indiana Voters
An Indiana statewide call signed by 125 temperance workers including J W Harrison and Charles K R Milford urges an anti saloon omnipartisan convention at Indianapolis December 5 1911. It aims to craft platforms and candidates reflecting temperance goals rather than partisan deals as liquor interests influence politics. George McGahan of Greenhill visited Attica Monday.
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Indianapolis
J. W. Harrison
Charles KR. Milford
Indiana
Tomlinson Hall
Dainty Dishes and Curious Cures in Vintage Recipes
A collage of old kitchen notes includes spinach cream sauces with sweetbreads and mushrooms, orange baskets filled with jelly and wine, and English puff pastries. It also recalls the Spider Cure and Puritan views on health and appetite, with notes on farm animal tasting and curious folk beliefs across Britain and Ireland.
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Somerset
Eng
Tiny nutmeg hints in lima beans and beet dish
A foreign chef adds a minute pinch of nutmeg to lima beans boiled with butter pepper and salt to preserve the beans delicate flavor. The same chef also drops the merest sugar into boiled beets, keeping flavors restrained.
Screens and Porch Fittings
In the fall during porch furniture storage a clear day is chosen. Rugs go to the line, furniture and window screens are set nearby. A thorough cleaning with a hose follows, and once dry the screens are lightly brushed with raw linseed oil to prevent rusting. The oil does not evaporate.
Queen Pudding Recipe Instructions For Lemon Custard Topping
A recipe fragment describes a Queen Pudding with one pint bread crumbs one quart milk one cup sugar yolks of four eggs lemon rind and butter. Bake then spread over jelly topped with stiffly beaten egg whites sugar and lemon juice. Brown lightly in the oven.
Trustee's Notice for Logan Township Meetings
Logan Township notices call residents to Weber's tailor shop 112 North Perry Attica to transact township business. Sessions set 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday with L. G. Biggin as trustee.
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Weber's Tailor Shop
North Perry Street
Attica
L. G. Biggin
Clocks That Strike Thirteen Across Worsley England
Harper's Weekly notes two unusual clocks in Worsley Lancashire that strike thirteen at 1 am and 1 pm. One clock stands over Worsley Hall once owned by the Earls and possibly made to warn late workers, while the other clock was connected to the Duke of Bridgewater. The piece also urges steadfastness, praising Columbus and others for taking firm stances.
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Harper's Weekly
Worsley
Lancashire
England
Earl of Ellesmere
Worsley Ball
Duke of Bridgewater
England's First Christmas Trees Legend Debunked
The article refutes the claim that Prince Albert introduced Christmas trees to England in 1841, noting instead that trees were used in royal settings decades earlier by Queen Charlotte and at Kew and Windsor for royal children, tracing a broader history of the tradition.
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England
Prince Albert
Windsor Castle
Queen Charlotte
Kew
Windsor
Lom Foo
St Pauls Cathedral Theater in Elizabethan to Jacobean era
The article notes St Pauls Cathedral in London operated a theater during Elizabethan and early James I reigns. The boys of the choir acted in plays, with the theater hosting some of the period’s notable works. The structure aided early English dramatic activity.
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St Paul's Cathedral
London
Elinabeth
James T
Portraits on currency raise questions of memory
A treasury official says circulating a portrait before posterity honors the statesman. Senator Sorghum quips that few hold dollar bills long enough to know whose image appears, highlighting the playful tension over national currency imagery.
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Treasury
Senator Sorghum
Eye in the brain argues from subconscious judgment says Doyne
R. W. Doyne, a Medical Record writer, asserts that the eye as a concept exists in the brain not as a physical organ. He describes it as a complex subconscious judgment drawing on knowledge experience touch and sometimes hearing or smell.
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R. W. Doyne
Cornmeal method to remove soot from rugs sweeping soot
A home cleaning tip suggests spreading cornmeal on a soot covered rug starting at a spot twenty feet away. The cornmeal absorbs soot and blows it ahead of the broom, allowing it to be swept away without leaving a trace.
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Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
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