The Steel Penguin and other comic verse fancies
A playful verse strip introduces whimsical creatures such as the Steel-Penguin Mint-Julepard Boot-Jackal and Ten-Centipede with light satire. It pairs quirky lines about each character with a gentle moral or curiosity, in a humorous catalog-like style.
Dear Sisters Sewing Circle Advice on Marriage Roles
Letters from readers discuss happiness in marriage and home life with suggested tactics. Advice favors separate living spaces, constant wifely charm, secrecy of troubles, and prioritizing husband comfort to keep love. Other notes question housing for families with children and duty to reveal infidelity.
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Sewing Circle
Birthday Bio Briefs on Giuseppe Garibaldi
Biographical outline of Giuseppe Garibaldi born July 4 1807 at Nicethen Italian possession. Details include his early naval career, escape to South America, capture and torture, marriage to Anita, campaigns in Italy and abroad, time in New York as a chandler, later marriage to Countess Raimondi, Caprera retirement, period of financial hardship, and death in 1882.
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Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Nice
Genoa
South America
Anita
Italy
Ravenna
New York
Raimondi
Caprera
Pilot Price Increase To Five Cents In Future
The Pilot the official Catholic organ of the archdiocese will rise from 2 cents a copy to 5 cents and from 1 dollar a year to 2 dollars due to higher material and labor costs. The price had been 2 cents after Cardinal O Connell trimmed it years ago.
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Archdiocese
Cardinal O'Connell
Run up Old Glory An Ode To The Flag
A stirring poem urging citizens to raise the flag with pride across the nation. It evokes a shared sense of duty and the flag as guardian of hearth and home, extending the call from coast to coast and to every region.
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Heaven
Two-Minute Talks on the War by Charles Franklin Jones
Column urges practical effort over grand plans in wartime. It argues big targets like millions of troops or ships are unachievable and urges individuals to dig in and do their share to help the government win.
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Charles Franklin Jones
Boston
France
Germany
Home Made Ginger Ale and Owen Fried Potatoes Recipe Note
Miss Dorothy Busby of Cross Street Everett shares home cooking tips. A ginger ale method uses fresh ginger, lemon rind, sugar and yeast, fermenting then bottling. An Owen fried potatoes technique chops thin potato strips greased with fat for baking.
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Dorothy A. Busby
Cross Street
Everett
Dorothy Busby
Owen
Potatoes Baked Quick in Hot Oven Suggestion
A reader from Waterville Maine recommends baking potatoes in a very hot oven for thirty minutes until done. Serve on a hot dish and enjoy a result similar to fried potatoes while saving fat.
Viscount Ishii Arrives at Fairhaven Address Planned
Japanese ambassador Viscount Ishii and his wife arrived at Fairhaven near New Bedford yesterday where he will deliver a Fourth of July address. The town sheltered a wrecked Japanese sailor Manjiro Nakahama and the ambassador will present a 4th century Japanese sword as a token of appreciation. John D. Rockefeller Jr rode the Broadway subway and quietly enjoyed a brief encounter with a coal heaver and shop girl who thanked him. Vincent Astor is now a navy lieutenant after patrolling the French coast. he offered his yacht Noma to the government when war began and has served abroad since. Caroline E Furness of Vassar College has been chosen to strengthen U S Japan ties and will sail for the Orient soon. The English press favors a visit by the Prince of Wales to the United States. Edward VII visited in 1860 to a vast Boston reception and Revere House hosting. Ignace Paderewski urged Polish revolt against Austrian military service. Dr William H Thayer, Johns Hopkins professor and Harvard overseer, elected foreign member of the French Academy of Medicine. Pierre Loti, French academy member since 1891, has served in the war from its start and praised for devotion. George W Young lost a bid to overturn Lillian Nordica s will leaving 300 000 to her three sisters. Roosevelt declined to appear in film adaptations of his books. Mrs Hannah Skeffington faced a heavy crowd in New York about the Irish question and warned she would be watched under the defense of the realm act in England. Billy B Van said to be a constable of Van Harbor NH and spoke in New York at a Friars Club dinner.
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Viscount Ishii
Fairhaven
New Bedford
Manjiro Nakahama
Vincent Astor
United States
Noma
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