New Christmas Dinner Ideas From Old Fashioned Mince Pie
A Victorian kitchen article outlines affordable mince pie and plum pudding methods. It promotes fat removal, beef broth richness, and oat based puddings, with pastry using oil instead of lard. It details spices, fruit, and substitutions aimed at economy and digestion. The piece ends noting author Anna Martha's household tips.
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Porto Rico
Sarah
Abraham
Mamre
Turkey
Anna Marta
Parisian fashions and a Luxembourg Garden doll display
Trimmed gray fox coat by Redfern praised for style in New York. A center case showcased dolls in a Parisian garden scene with chaperones and miniature admirers. A French nurse, children, and a cocoa seller added life to the exhibit as an observer notes Americans buy such dolls for about eighteen thousand dollars in six months’ labor.
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New York
Redfern
Atch
Paris
London
le Baron Og Bremont
Luxembourg Garden
Luxembourg Gardens
Polly
Ida Rose McCang
Nice for Central The Office Boy at a Big Paper
The New York Commercial Advertiser recalls a long-suffering Central voice and a prankster office boy who pesters with a loud, comic monologue while the editor is away. Clerks, managers, and readers expect a future criminal streak from the boy as he disrupts the newsroom routine.
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New York
Central
Gussie
Rascal
Debutante Stella Shines at New York Society Gathers
In a lavish New York society sketch, Stella, a celebrated debutante, moves through a day of appearances. From rose water scented cushions to a Murray Hill luncheon and the Patriarchs tea, her gowns range from French frocks to a pink gauze Felix toilet. Her elegant outfits, gloves, and hats mark a life of fashion and admiration.
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Stella
New York
Murray Hill
The
Patriarchs
Felix
Pen Holloway Earns Five Thousand As Editor In Connecticut
Portrait of Charlotte Molyneaux Holloway, the sole woman editor connected with a daily Connecticut newspaper, presiding over the New London Daily Telegraph for three years. A self-made writer, she has built a high yearly income near $5000, travels four languages and begins Greek study, plans a Burr and Hamilton romance, and refuses marriage to focus on work and study.
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Charlotte Molyneaux Holloway
Connecticut
Miss Holloway
New London Daily Telegraph
Quincey
Mass
New London
Young Ladies’ High School
Boston Conservatory of Music
Chicago
New London Day
Daily Telegraph
Godey
Ladies’ Book
The
Magazine of History
Epoch
Churchman
Housewife
Ladies’ World
Home Cheer
Boston Budget
New York Ledger
Burr
Hamilton
Holloway
Made of Straw Matting For Christmas Crafts
A DIY guide shows how to repurpose oriental straw matting into decorative covers for tea chests and straw floor-cloths. It outlines steps to soak, cut, and tack the material, then cover a foot-stool or shoe-box with matting, adding batting for a refined finish.
Crafting a Matched Shoe-Box Decor Item
A detailed guide for covering a shoe-box with magazines and matting to create a dainty bedside piece. It describes choosing magazines, aligning edges with matting, fastening with brass tacks, adding tassels, and finishing with bronze painted cords and crescents for a refined look.
Do It Yourself Matting and Hair Care Remedies
A mix of home crafts for matting and packaging art, plus varied hair care tips and cosmetic remedies. Instructions cover folding matting with margins, drying under weights, and decorating boxes with gilded ropes. Also includes peroxide hair bleaching cautions, sea water tonics, charcoal and taraxacum complexion advice, and refined gall for skin treatments.
MISS BLAINE HELPS MA How They Make Themselves Useful in Their Homes
The article highlights five cabinet daughters Misses Blaine Foster Wanamaker Miller and Rusk as vital helpers in their mothers households. It details Miss Rusk as a meticulous housekeeper who selects menus and markets herself while Miss Miller shares house duties with her mother in alternating weeks.
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Blaine
Foster
Wanamaker
Miller
Rusk
Wilmerding
Miss Blaine
New England
Maine
Miss Foster
Lester Secosdingly Rey
Thackeray
Dickens
Miss Rusk
Mawthorne and
Howells
Victor Hugo
George Eliot
Mrs. Rusk
Miss Miller
Cure for Earache Advice From a Celebrated Aurist
A renowned aurist describes a home treatment for earache. The patient lies on a bed with the painful ear up, a towel wrapped around the neck, and warm water poured into the ear for 15 to 20 minutes. Water rinses the ear, then glycerine and cotton are used to plug the ear. It may be repeated hourly until relief, using water as warm as possible without scalding.
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Offee
England
Count Rumford
Hayt
Modern Four-in-Hand Silk Knot Scarfs Highlight Style
Clothier and Fur nisher notes the newest diversion in high-class moekwear is the four in hand self tied scarfing. The fabric is soft yielding but heavy silk and the knot is a distinctive feature.
Table Covers in Baby-Blue Linen for a Maiden Room
The cover suited to a young girl's room is made of baby-blue linen with a four inch hem turned on the right side and couching of heavy white linen floss. The design is drawn or stamped above the hem and outlined with floss. The tone is sweet and pure, and the material eminently serviceable, with a simple style appealing to refined taste. It suits rooms of dainty coloring and youthfullySuggestive tints.
Silk and satin brocade cover described in detail
A second cover combines satin brocade with silk in the same color, outlining figures in fine gold thread. Some figures feature darned or fish-scaled stitches. The edge has a velvet band darker than the silk and the piece is lined with cotton flannel.
How Do You Pronounce Hawarden in English Names
This sample lists pronunciation guides for English place and surname spellings. It shows Hawarden pronounced Harden, and pairs many other tricky names with their common pronunciations like Abergavenny as Abergenny and Cholmondeley as Chumley.
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Abergavenny
Beauchamp
Beecham
Bolingbroke
Ballingbrook
Brougham
Broom
Bulwer
Buller
Cholmondeley
Chumley
Cirencester
Cockburn
Cobun
Colquhoun
Cohon
Cowper
Cooper
Grosvenor
Grovenor
Hawarden
Harden
Holborn
Knollys
Knowles
Leicester
Lester
Majoribank
Marchbank
Marylebone
Salisbury
St. Leger
Silliger
Tee
Weems
Taliaferro
Tolliver
Norwich
Norridge
Talbot
Thames
Necessity vs Luxury in a Detroit Banter
Two bachelors in Detroit Free Press debate marriage, noting poverty and the search for a girl with money. They question wealth versus partnership, arguing that desire for a wife exceeds concerns about luxuries and money.
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Detroit Free Press
Chamois crafts for gift vanity items by Mary Maxwell
Chamois skin crafts suggested for Christmas gifts include a powder dabber, a small powder bag, and washable table mats. Projects feature edging with pinking, indelible ink lettering, and decorative vines or floral borders. Also described are a poppy fronted watchcase, a sachet, a pansy handkerchief case, and a brown shaded book cover.
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Ain
Mary Maxwell
On the West Shore Brakeman and Ulster County Farmer Exchange Barbs
A fragment from West Shore reporting a terse exchange between a brakeman and a farmer in Ulster County. The farmer asserts pride in his farm yet scorns bragging to non relatives, declaring he won’t boast about it to outsiders.
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Poukhockin
Ulster County
Parrot Price Debate Sparks Quick Trade in Courtroom
A judge queries a dealer about pricing a speaking parrot. The dealer explains the $10 bird is valued for its talking ability, while the cheaper $5 parrot cannot talk. The exchange highlights perceived value based on traits rather than mere presence.
Crafting a Bamboo and Matting Screen in Delaware
A guide invites readers to build a 24 by 40 inch screen using bamboo and matting. Follow the sketch’s suggestion for leg arrangement with short stems as spindles. Center panel features light painted birds, a deep toned chrysanthemum, dogwood, or goldenrod bouquet, with careful color balance. Delaware.
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Delaware
Shirley Dare Answers Readers Questions on Hair and Skin
Health and Beauty column where Shirley Dare responds to inquiries about hygiene personal culture and domestic affairs. She notes no private answers or addresses will be given and letters should be sent to The Sunday Globe with signature and return address, but not for publication.
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Shirley Dare
Sunday
GLOBE
Teaching Johnny in Self-Defence Lesson
Mrs McFazzle asks John what he will do. Mr McFazzle plans boxing lesson for Johnny. After twenty minutes he returns with a bruised eye and applies remedies while confessing the method uses Strap. The exchange ends with a joke about an exotic pupil and a Chinese funeral.
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Johnny
Washington
John
Resolutions debate sparks playful banter at table
Epoch asks Hojack if he will make good resolutions this year. Tomdik replies he always breaks them. Hojack suggests making a few bad ones this time to tempt fate.
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Tomdik
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