Choosing a Name for the New Baby
Louisa Shaw guides Annie Pelton through a stormy day to help with a newborn. A mistaken meeting in a muddy gorge leads to a chance rescue by a fashionable city girl Dorothy. Later, generous Louisa learns Dorothy is Dorothy Hamilton, wife to a wealthy Briar Lodge owner, sending a layette and hinting at a budding romance.
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Ouisa Shaw
Louisa
Annie Pelton
Annie
Jack
Scrapton
Hank Wilson
Jim
Peltons
Mr. Hamilton
Mrs. Hamilton
Hamiltons
Briar Lodge
Dorothy
Elephant hunting fatal shot guidance in old text
The article describes methods to kill a charging African elephant. It explains that a brain shot requires the hunter to be in front of the animal and aimed at the center of the skull above the eye, while a heart shot targets the area where the elephant’s ear meets its body.
Warning Signals Little Billy at Grandfather’s Farm
A short children’s tale describes seven year old Billy reluctance to greet farm animals. He fears a pig that he believes is honking at him prompting his mother to coax him outside. The scene captures a child’s anxiety toward animals on a country visit.
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Billy
Origin of superstition tied to umbrella in Catholic rites
A writer in the London Sunday Times traces the belief that opening an umbrella indoors brings bad luck to Catholic practice. Priests carried viaticum under a canopy in the form of an umbrella for the dying, as in Catholic countries today, linking indoor umbrella openings with death.
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London Sunday Times
Prayer on Gratitude for Missing Things Poem
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union poem contemplates gratitude for sun and snow and inner warmth, asking when one may thank the divine for things missed and lost, attributed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
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Western Newspaper Union
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Rhubarb Delights Teas up Spring Desserts
Simple rhubarb recipes highlight pudding sherbet punch and sauce. Includes rhubarb pudding steamed in cups with batter, foamy sauce from rhubarb juice and egg whites, gelatin sherbet, and multiple punches. Also mentions baked unpeeled rhubarb sauce and Brown Betty substitute plus rhubarb shortcake.
Conserves and Marmalades for Summer Jellies
This old recipe note lists citrus marmalades, carrot marmalade, and orange sweet pickles as substitutes for summer jellies. It covers methods for apricot maram lade, carrot base jams, spiced versions, and a pickle with oranges, sugar, vinegar, and cloves.
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D. J. Walsh
Ellen Louisa
Annie Marie
Julia Elizabeth
Astoria
Aera
Sthee
Chas. H. Fletcher
Cole
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford, Ill
Bayer
Calif
Business Service
Second St
Long Beach
Co. D. Oppenheimer & Co
Certified Public Accountants
Los Angeles St
Los Angeles
Mabel Smith
Rt. 2
Hollister
Parker
Balsam
Manor
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
Selma
San Joaquin
Fresno
San Fernando
J. H. Nelson
P. O
McCall
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