Homemade molasses ginger biscuits and peanut butter note
A reader shares a biscuit recipe using flour lard molasses salt ginger and soda with instructions to bake. Another note explains grinding nuts with butter or olive oil for peanut butter and storing in the ice chest. includes names Mrs C Howland and E F Boylen and locations Whitman Mass and Malden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Howland
Whitman
Mass
Ruby W. Gould
Grant Avenue
Campella
E. F. Boylen
Main Street
Malden
Free at last Janet and Paul reunite at the lake haven
Janet Norris seeks solitude after ending an engagement and walks toward the lake. She recalls village talk and vows to live worthily apart from her former fiancé Paul. At a hidden poplar perch, Paul emerges, revealing he came to wait, believing she would return to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet
Norris
Father Smith
Paul
Unclear OCR fragment hints at cuffs and ceviots in text
Fragment mentions restraints and ceviots, but readable details are insufficient to identify people places or events. No coherent event or action emerges from the fragment.
Safety Kiss Novel Device May Not Catch On
A German inventor introduces a kiss disinfectant device to be used between two lips to remove germs during kissing. The gadget, a silk gauze framed in ivory or metal and moistened with disinfectant or fragrance, is touted as preventing germ spread but faces questions about adoption and market demand in Boston. The piece also humorously imagines literary works and social situations sparked by universal use of such an invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champagne
Boston
Hermann Sommer
Berlin
Arthur
Germicidal Kiss Damper Sparks Marriage Satire
A humorous meditation on future nuptial life with germ killer kiss disinfectants. The speaker jokes about the minister's quip, the best man’s dash for a bottle, and the groom needing supplies, touching on costs, benches in parks, and changes to romance plots.
Gloucester Company Wins at Wakefield
The Eighth Regiment annual shoot at the Bay State Military Rifle Association range in Wakefield ended with Company G of Gloucester taking first place, scoring 601. Salem's Company II was second with 602 and Regimental Headquarters third with 586. Distances used were 200 300 and 500 yards. Sergeant McGinnis of Company Hie led individuals with 67 points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield
Bay State Military Rtfle Association
Gloucester
Company II of
Salem
McGinnis
Hie
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D. ¢& J. Anderson
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New England Housewives
Sunday Post
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The
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Europe
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