Lord Russell of Kilowen and His Reading Habits
Barry O'Brien notes Lord Russell of Kilowen favored action over books and carried two volumes, Locke and The Imitation of Christ, in his bag. He enjoyed novels like Monte Cristo and Geboriau, Tolstoy, and Tourguenev, once praising Weyman’s Prisoner of Zenda.
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Mancherter Gateren
Farrow
Reseell
Kiliewen
Barry O'Brien
Judge
Monte Cristo
Geboriau
Tourguente
Branley Civil
Mr. Weymas
Zenda
Stanley Weyman
Ghipe That Made History and Navy Report
Ghipe that made history notes Kearsarge among twelve American battleships reported by the secretary of the navy to Congress as no longer proving value of arbitration. Westminster.
Heavy Grief Obituary From German Paper
A narrator recounts a German obituary noting a wife who died seven days after a lively life. The letter laments human life, thanks the choir for a grave hymn, and expresses deep sorrow while hoping others avoid similar tragedy. The piece quotes Ackerman the master locksmith and mentions the sexton.
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Castor
Ackerman
Suffragist Critiques Opponents at Cripple Creek Dinner
A Colorado suffragist leader, ae Mate Riverton Byles, challenged critics at a Cripple Creek dinner, arguing that granting women the vote does not turn them into monsters, comparing it to turning a young man twenty-one into one. The exchange referenced the supposed monstrous outcome and highlighted steadfast views on woman suffrage.
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Mate Riverton Byles
Colorado
Cripple Creek
Birds At The Beach Inspire Fearless Seagulls
A city shore scene recalls gulls that scavenge scraps and lure children with crumbs. A child explains how a bird carried a shoe from a mamma's clothesline, while locals note the birds' bold habituation to people and strict protection rules shaping their fearless behavior.
When Women Were Knighted, A Noted History Briefly
The piece notes that knighthood has often been conferred on women and cites Elizabeth and Mary Cholmondeley as examples. It mentions English law granting women certain titles at coronation and recounts a contrast with the Spanish tale of Tortois women knighted for saving the city from Moors.
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John
Mary Cholmondeley
Cheshire
Elizabeth
Spain
Tortois
Mary
Elisabeth
Underrated Man Recall by Victor Hemery
A fragment quotes Victor Hemery praising an underrated figure and compares the sentiment to a mother calling a child during a cold night. The text includes misread dialogue about a child responding to a request for the bed as radiators clank downstairs.
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Victor Hemery
Tommy
Recipes for bacon macaroni and sweet bread desserts
A Chicago Tribune recipe excerpt describes cooking bacon with macaroni or spaghetti and spices, then heating through. It also outlines multiple desserts and breads including cornstarch batter with milk and flour, layered chocolate or nut fillings, and a warm fruit shortcake served with cream. Variations include reducing sugar and using muffin pans.
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Chicago Tribune
Dutch Salad Preparation Instructions
Dutch herrings in milk cleaned and cut into half inch pieces with two apples and two hard boiled eggs sliced thin. Add cooked beets celery and finely chopped greens. Season with aigrette sauce from salad oil vinegar parsley and shallots. Add additional seasonings to taste and garnish with chopped gher.
Plain Belled Rice Cooking Method
Wash a cupful of rice in two wa ters. Put it up the fire in a pot containing at the least two quarts of wa ter at a galloping boil. More water is better than less. Allow a teaspoon ful of salt for each quart of water. Keep up the vehement boil and do not stir the rice. Cook 15 minutes, take out a few of the grains on a spoon and tear them to see if they are ten der. Drain off the water-which may be used in soups-turn the rice into a colander, cover it with a cloth and set it over hot water or at the back of the stove or in the open even to dry or for a few minutes before put ting it into a heated dish and sending it to table.
Tripe With Tomato Sauce by Gene Weld
Tripe with tomato sauce recipe from Gene Weld uses one pound of honeycomb tripe and a sliced onion simmered until tender. Tomato sauce is strained, thickened with flour and water, then butter, salt, and pepper added. Tripe is drained, dried, and folded into the sauce before serving.
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Gene Weld
Bonach Balad Spinach Molded Salad Card
Half peck of fresh spinach washed and steamed ten minutes. Drain and chop fine. Season with pepper salt and two tablespoons melted butter. Mix well and press into small molds. Chill then serve on lettuce leaves with one tablespoon salad dressing on each mold.
Gingerbread Batter Instructions from A Poem Fragment
A fragmented recipe instructs mixing molasses with sour milk and soda, melting and straining fat, adding salt, and creating a soft batter. The text appears as a historical kitchen note with incomplete lines and archaic phrasing.
Train Seat Dilemma Ends With Doorstep Entreaty
A quarrelsome train ride unfolds as a small boy and his father argue over window shade shoes and noise. An injured man and two ladies observe, a fat man sighs at the heat, and a reclined boy harasses a passerby before a stranger intervenes and asks for the family address to arrange Carnegie funds.
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Carnegie
Varying Onion Soups Show Different Home Methods
Housewives share five distinct onion soup methods. Each recipe uses onions, butter, and liquid bases from milk or water with variations of cream, bread, flour, and cheese. Some include beef fat, carrots, or potatoes, with cooking steps and serving notes.
German Fish Dish With Fresh Filets And Vinegar
The preparation describes a fresh fish cut into pieces not descaled, boiled in salted water with onion cloves bay leaves pepper and vinegar to firm the meat and color the scales blue. Serve with hat malted butter sauce parsley horseradish and boiled potatoes.
Lean Beef Jelly From Pantry Instructions
A simple jelly made by simmering two pounds lean beef in half a gallon of cold water with a bay leaf six peppercorns six cloves and salt for four hours. Soak a half box of gelatin in half a cup of cold water for 15 minutes then add to the strained broth with lemon juice and pour into molds.
Colache Recipe Steps with Squash and Corn
A historical kitchen note describes chopping six small squash one onion three new potatoes a handful of string beans three green peppers and three sliced tomatoes with six ears of corn. The mixture cooks slowly with one cup water and two tablespoons of lard, covered and stirred often to prevent burning.
Onion Rings from Milk Soaked Slices Recipe
Peel and thinly slice three large white onions and soak in milk for ten minutes. Drain and dry on a towel. Separate into rings, fry in hot fat in baskets, remove when delicately colored, drain briefly, plate, salt lightly, and serve immediately.
Laundry Tips for Lace Curtains
Washing lace curtains requires calm steps. Soak in cold water overnight then rinse in clean cold water with borax. Bring gently to a boil and simmer for fifteen to twenty minutes. Rinse well, then finish in final water with two cents' worth of gum arabic for stiffness.
Baked Meckerel Recipe Instructions
Recipe instructions describe baking mackerel with salt mackerel, rinsing, soaking 12 to 4 hours, dripping fat, coating with sweet milk or cream, baking until brown with frequent basting, and finishing with pepper before serving. bones should be removed before gravy.
Use of cross in heraldry across history
The article traces cross symbolism from pagan stigma to Christian reverence, noting heraldic use since early days. It describes forms such as Greek and Latin crosses, Calvary, Patriarch, St Andrew, and St Anthony types, with variations like double bars and cruciform devices. It highlights American families, including Presidents, employing crosses on crests. Garfield Adonis shields mention a blue cross.
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Ave Maria
St. Anthony
Garfield
Tyler
Adams
The Amazons in Dahomey Warfare Seen by Martyn
Frederick Martyn of the French Foreign Legion recounts the Dahomey conflict, praising the Amazons as formidable fighters who surpassed many male soldiers in ferocity. He warns that revealing these details could spur militant resolve among women and their sympathizers.
Unseen region in sky obscures stars by absorbing medium
Innes and Worsell report a circular patch about 25 arcminutes across near 8 Corone Australis where no stars appear through a refractor. The darkness is explained by an intervening absorbing medium, with nearby nebula enveloping stars and a border star fluctuating between magnitudes 11.0 and 12.2, invisible 1899–1901 as the medium moved.
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Corone Australis
Innes
Worsell
Transvaal Observatory
Brander Matthews Quips at Howells in Dinner Speech
At a New York dinner Prof Brander Matthews criticizes Howells with sharp wit. He cites Walton family anecdotes about a daughter who wrote a novel at eighteen and read from it at a Christmas party, provoking her father to exclaim Howells be hanged in admiration.
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Howells
Brander Matthews
New York
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