Two Ladies and Silk Temptation Fable
A vintage fable shows two women in a silk shop tempted by cheap prices. One buys a single dress pattern and regrets spending her saved money, while the other eagerly grabs twenty yards and regrets funding a dining room carpet. The moral warns deliberation before speech.
Barley Corn Flour Muffins Recipe Fragments
A series of baking ingredients outlines for muffins using barley corn flour buckwheat and rice flour. Includes proportions for barley flour corn flour buckwheat and rice flour blends with baking powder salt and eggs. The text presents several variant mixtures and measurements.
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Borden
Cash Down or Debt Dear Sisters Debate Finances
A debate on debt versus cash purchases in a Dear Sister column. Readers advise restraint, frugality, and paying as you go amid salary limits and family duties, contrasting those who live beyond means with those who prioritize health and independence.
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Hubby
Wifle
Sister
Beth
Sistera
Oldest Inhabitant recalls Boston June 6 weather records
The Boston citizen recalls the city’s weather history for June 6 noting 46 and 47 degrees as cold records in 1886 and 1894, a high of 93 degrees in 1899, and rainfall in 1909 1910 1911 1912 1915 and 1917.
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Boston
Royal and political brief notes of early year events
King George buys a suit for 614.96 marking his first of the year. Secretary of the Interior Lane cannot be president and was born in Canada. Senator Thomas of Colorado quits wearing his wig for the season, wearing it only in cool months. President Wilson resumes golf as his burned hand heals. Mrs Wilson dislikes photographers though she takes fine pictures. Maud Allan testifies she is Durant’s sister in a London libel case. Durant was hanged for murder in San Francisco. Sir Edward Carson returns to law practice in London with fees averaging 250000 dollars a year before entering politics.
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Senator Thomas
Colorado
Maud Allan
London
Durant
San Francisco
Edward Carson
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