A Close Sh shave For The Lieutenant And Norah Desmond
Lieutenant Robert Emmett Kavanaugh frets over a Florida wedding as a telegram orders Norah Desmond away. He pursues the fleeing prisoner, aided by Jack Bacon, and a Chicago hotel ruse leads to a rescue and a court-martial in danger. Private Spencer aids and earns a wedding blessing a year later.
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Robert Mmett Wavanaugh
Fort
Grady
Michigan
Chicago
Florida
Frank
Norah Desmond
Bob Emmett
Bob
Leutenant
Norah
Muggs
Winfield Scott
Robert Emmett Kavanaugh
Bob Kavanaugh
Per
Cy Lanyard
Artillery Corps
Kavanaugh
Lanyard
Fort Sherman
Sherman
Spencer
James Spencer
Fort Grady
Prisner
Jack Bacon
Avanaugh
Jack
Goodby
Halsted Street
Polly
Jim
W Kavanaugh
Chicago Record-Herald
Doctor questions mother over spelling measles note
A farmer’s note to Doctor Porter asked him to come quickly for a boy with a "very bad cold." The doctor sees the child and tells the mother the boy has measles. The mother admits neither she nor her husband knew how to spell measles, explaining the miscommunication.
A Dream of Bliss and a Dream of Dollars
A brief quip from the New York Weekly contrasts a fantasy of wealth with domestic humor. Dora and Clara speculate on a 35 million dollar sum as a purchase price for many diamonds while a husband and wife banter over marital expectations with calm and sharp humor.
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Dora
Clara
Ne York Weekly
A Mechanical Milker Explained In Detail
The latest milking machine uses an engine to power a vacuum pump and exhaust line above stalls. A tight airtight bucket hangs from a hook on the main pipe, with rubber tubes to cups at the cow’s teats and a small egg‑shaped chamber as the active part. a single man can milk fifty cows with proper setup in two to ten minutes.
Science and Farming Show How Drainage Boosts a Farm
A Missouri land case shows science lifting a boggy tract to a $56 an acre worth, with $10,000 of corn raised last year after expert drainage and farming methods. The piece cites engineers and practical agriculture boosting returns, while urging measured winter egg tactics.
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Missouri
Robert H. Kern
St. Louis
Macon County
Kern
Afr. Kern
Chariton Bottoms
Kamsas City
Farm Notes and Feed Tips From the Field
Practical guidance on soil work harnessing soil leveling tools and tractor-like devices. Advice on horse feeding stresses regularity judgment and attentive care as fixes for appetite and digestive issues. Garden cleanup tips urge late summer fall soil tilth and weed seed eradication. Farm notes highlight machinery use labor shortages and pig feeding multiple feed options plus Danish co op dairy practices. Livestock facilities at the St Louis world’s fair show 2800 open stalls and 400 box stalls across a 37 acre livestock area.
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Denmark
St. Lois
German Potato Salad Step by Step
Peel twelve potatoes boil in skins and dice. Chop whites of three hard boiled eggs and six young onions. Mix two well beaten eggs a secant half cup vinegar two tablespoons sugar and butter until thick. Add cream, stir into potatoes. Line dish with lettuce, top with egg yolk slices and parsley.
Ginger Pudding and Board Cleaning Tips
A Victorian kitchen recipe outlines a ginger pudding using suet flour ground ginger treacle lemon rind milk soda and an egg boiled in a mould. It also offers a method to remove spots from wood boards by making lye from wood ashes applying it at night and scrubbing with a brush next morning then sanding for a tight grain finish.
Domestic Recipes and Home Cleaning Tips from a Past Era
A compilation of kitchen and household guidance including corn pone and cabbage celery dishes, rice pancakes, damp wall varnish, canned corn and tomatoes method, and practical cleaning hacks for windows sinks and kitchenware. The tone mirrors a bygone home magazine with step by step instructions and cautions.
Around a Big State Embraces News of Accidents and Deaths
A long item notes many Indiana events including Charles Holbert 83 of Muncie struck on an electric car, a buried iron kettle with 1866 counterfeit coins found at Linton, a dynamite cap accident injuring a Sedalia family, and multiple local deaths. It also covers corn crop woes in Delaware County, a missing farmer near Monon found dead, and several other local incidents. The piece mentions Ball Brothers plant in Muncie employing 1500, and Indiana patent grants to multiple inventors.
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Linton
Sedalia
Charles
Lewis
Logansport
Abram Walker
Hagerstown
Greensburg
Jason Hambrick
Henry McGaughery
Vincennes
John Wilson
Union Traction Line
Elwood
William S. Jones
Lake Erie & Western
Muncie
Delaware County
John Everhardt
Monon
John Kemp
Leavenworth
Captain Kemp
Wiseman
Indiana Soldiers’ Homes
Lafayette
Frey~Parsons Company
John Harter
Newecastle
Henry County
Ball Brothers
United States
Ward
Indiana National Guard
National Guard
Indiana
John Baker
Valparaiso
William L. Cassaday
South Bend
Lewis K. Davis
Indianapolis
John Goldsworthy
Indianapols
Edward T. Griffith
Olaf N. Culdlin
Fort Wayne
Joseph R. Hall
Alexander Jack
Evansville
John C. Kuhlman
Terre Haute
Joan W. Lambert
Anderson
Ira H. Marr
Bullivan
Abram Middleton
T. S. Pearson
Kokomo
Clifton G. Rust
Herbst
James C. Scott
Alexandria
James M. Smelser
Pendleton
Daniel H. Talbert
John Meding
Oneal Watson
Crawfordsville
William Wright
Bennettsville
Norris Wright
Jeffersonville
Emory W. Clifford
Chester- Held
Superior Court
Madison County
Court House
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Wim
Livre Stock Journal
Ily
Dinah
Indiana News
Charles Holbert
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