Tongue Twisters From The Strand March Issue
Readable text outlines a series of tongue twisters and wordplay from The Strand Magazine March number. It includes sleepers and sleepers runs, a duel between Shot and Not, Betty Kotter butter rhymes, a mock Parliament exchange on lighter and lighter lighter, and a long Esau Wood saw wood chain.
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John
Strand
Betty Kotter
Betty
Bristol
Stranraer
Board of Trade
Esau
Local Obituaries and Civic Notices Mix in Attica News
Mrs Jennie Pearson wife of Charles Pearson and sister of George Largent dies at home in Hammond after months with inflammatory rheumatics. Seven children survive. Various local residents are noted visiting, traveling, or recovering from injuries and illnesses, including a girl injured by a horse and John Huber who had appendicitis surgery in Peru.
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Jennie Pearson
Charles Pearson
George Largent
Hammond
Pearson
Attica
John Shuppert
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Lafayette
John Huber
Riverside
Peter Huber
Peru
Hattie Foote
Rex
Short Street
A. L. Schulerburg
Huntington
Stone Bluff
A. N. Walton
Reno Shideler
Frank Shideler
Matt Shideler
Milhousen
George Dove
Coal City
F. B. Ogborn
Pine Village
Terre Haute
Tom Finney
Wabash College
Crawfordsville
C. J. Finney
Lewis Pitcher
Williamsport
Oxford
Ed Marlatt
E. H. Marlatt
Lee Turman
Log@ansport
Phillip Kullmer
Charles Robbins
25 Girls Wanted for Attica Branch Factory
CAWOOD NOVELTY Co seeks 25 girls to start Monday morning at the Attica branch. Apply 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the old Gass residence room, former Hunter Springs Co location, across from Hotel Attica. Easy work, permanent positions, good wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attica
Gass
Hunter Springs Co
Hotel Attica
Cawood Novelty Co
Telephone notice opens toll rates in Shawnee exchange
Subscribers of the Shawnee Telephone exchange are hereby notified that on and after June 1913 there will be no flat toll rate. C. W. Galloway, Supt.
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Shawnee Telephone Exchange
C. W. Galloway
Attica to Welcome Danville Firm Branch Factory
J L Cawood of Danville Illinois discussed opening a branch factory in Attica with local merchants Tuesday night. The firm makes advertising novelties and labor unions have hindered growth prompting a temporary Monday opening in the Gass building. If satisfactory the entire plant may relocate to Attica.
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J. L. Cawood
Danville
Ill
Attica
Merchants Association
How to Attract the Birds Book by Noted Naturalist
A new book by a renowned author on natural history promises guidance to lure birds with expert ideas. The notice hints at a witty backstory behind the title and aims to appeal to readers interested in avian behavior.
Costly White House Flowers and Lawn Upkeep Across Years
Government funds sustain the White House floral program with 16 propagating greenhouses and colonial gardens funded by $12,000 yearly for flowers and grounds. Mrs. Wilson favors lush, color coordinated displays with daily bouquets and state decorations, while upgrades under earlier administrations created the present conservatories and gardens.
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Washington
White House
United States
Executive Mansion
West Terrace
Roosevelt
Washington Monument
Congress
Taft
President Taft
Wilsons
Uncle Sam
Charles Henlock
Haunting Deserts and Wild Men of the Gobi
Douglas Carruthers reports in World Wide Magazine on the Gobi as a beauty scarred by terror. He recounts legends of genii and evil spirits, mystic songs, distant drums, and lost travelers. He details Kosloff’s sightings of the Kyz Kyks, hair and fur, long legs, and a fatal refusal of sustenance.
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Dzungaria
Gobi
Marco Polo
Kosloff
Douglas Carruthers
The
World Wide Magazine
Jelled Tongue and Scotch Roll Recipe Guide
Step by step kitchen instructions describe how to prepare jelled tongue using lemon slices and gelatin, with a 12 hour setting time. Also details for Scotch roll beef involving flank, salt, pepper, cloves, savory, vinegar, rolling, cold rest, and slow simmer with a flour gravy for serving hot or cold.
China Care Compared Through Grandmothers’ Customs
The piece contrasts durable old china with modern sets and argues care practices shaped durability. It notes grandmothers never entrusted fine china to servants and kept it in the dining room, treating washing as a special rite, with a grand mother story from Today's Magazine.
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China
Alice Margaret Ashton
Today’s Magazine
Roast Apple Parfait
Core eight large greening apples and bake to tender. Fill cores with sugar cinnamon nutmeg lemon juice and malted barley. Puree and cool, fold in stiffly whipped egg whites and cream, add sherry, freeze. Serve in small rosy apple shaped cases for individual portions.
Delicious Boneless Birds and Beef Roll Ups Recipe
Pound meat and roll with bacon and onion then brown in butter. Simmer rolls in browned flour water mixture for two hours. Remove strings before serving. From Ladies' Home Journal.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Simple Layered Mutton Bake with Potatoes and Onions
Cut mutton into small pieces and slice seven potatoes thinly. Layer mutton onions salt pepper and butter in a dish. Add diced dry bread or potatoes, end with a bread top. Substitute onion extract if desired. Pour hot water and bake slowly.
Veal Shank Potted Dish From A Pocket Recipe
A wartime style recipe instructs boiling a veal shank with onion clove and bay loaf until falling apart, removing gristle and bone, mincing, and layering in a bread tin with egg and parsley, then pressing and chilling with liquid two hours before slicing.
Princess Sures Orientals Make Women Playthings
Princess Ibrahim Hassan, formerly Ola Humphreys of Oakland, arrives in California to finish a book advising American girls not to marry Orientals. She argues Orientals understand women, begin love plainly, and keep wives guessing, so American girls should avoid such marriages. She notes no hatred, only caution about dependence and loss of mystery in the home.
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Ibrahim Hassan
Egypt
Ola Humphreys
Oakland
Cal
Therincess
California
America
Ele
Grandson of Napoleon Found Living in Los Angeles
William Gordon, claimed to be Napoleon Bonaparte's grandson, works in a Los Angeles lumber yard. He describes his lineage tracing to a morganatic Napoleonic union and cites ancestors in Scotland and London. Historians and authorities confirm the claimed connection.
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Napoleon
France
Los Angeles
Cal
William Gordon
St. Helene
Gordon
John Gordon
Herrick Aims to Aid Farm Credit Reform in United States
Ambassador Myron T. Herrick in Paris said he will devote his remaining working life to something worthwhile for the benefit of others by aiding land and agricultural credits in the United States. He declined to head a $25 million U S credit company and plans to press for lower interest rates for American farmers, aiming to cut from about 8 percent to 3.5 or 4 percent. He is gathering facts for the Southern Commercial Congress, now traveling via Rome, and cites the French Fonciere credit bank rates and terms as benchmarks for long term farm loans.
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Department of Agriculture
Bulletin
United States
Daniels
Naval Academy
Congress
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Myron T. Herrick
Paris
Herrick
Europe
Germany
Wall Street
Southern Commercial Congress
Rome
Credit Foncier
France
Secretary Edwin Smith among Burleson's new Post Office aides
Edwin B. Smith, confidential clerk to Postmaster General Burleson, joins the Washington post office staff. A former private secretary to Senator Dake of Texas, he has long ties to public life, has worked for the Baltimore American, and is a longtime confidant and admirer of Burleson.
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Burleson
Post Office Department
Washington
Edwin B. Smith
Smith
Senator Dake
Texas
Newman
House of Representatives
Crisp
The
Baltimore
Austin
Preserve Indian Music Mission Promotes Study For Schools
Secretary Lane in the interior department sends a man to travel among Indian communities to study their music and arrange it for Indian schools. The effort aims to preserve native tunes though historical accuracy may prove elusive due to centuries of cultural change and outside influence.
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Lane
Interior Department
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Decatur
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Lee
Sarah Marshall
C. W. Powers
Indianapolis
L. D. Reed
Fountain
J. W. Meteker
W. A. Ruth
Chicago
Department of Commerce
Woodrow Wilson
Princess
Oriental
Napoleon Bonaparte
Scotland
St. Helena
Edinburgh
Martha Amelia Jones
London
New London
San Franccisco
San Francisco
Connecticut
Martha Amelia Gordon Parkhurst-Kouts
Clnton Gordon Winchester Parkhurst
Venice
Bonaparte
Jean Fournier
Vienna
William Fletcher Nutt
Edwin Smith
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