Some Seasonable Foods By Nellie Maxwell
A 1929 Western Newspaper Union piece reviews home cooking and offers several simple salads and dishes. Cranberry Salad combines cranberries celery sugar gelatin and lemon juice. combine and mold. Combination Salad uses chopped cabbage apple pineapple almonds and marshmallows with a pineapple juice dressing. Cheese Roll blends Roquefort and cottage cheeses with olives and onion juice, rolled and served. Cinnamon Applies suggests serving with pork chops roast or goose and details cooking apples to keep shape.
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Western Newspaper Union
Earth Seen as Star From Other Worlds Poem Fragments
A short poetic fragment notes that observers on other planets perceive Earth as a star as it reflects sunlight into the heavens. The lines emphasize cosmic perspective and illumination beyond our world.
Railroad to Be Given Away Provokes Broad Interest
Western railroad offered a 158 mile branch free to anyone willing to operate it drawing applicants from housewives to preachers. An inventor and a Chicago mother sought the gift for varied aims, but the piece warns that possession carries duties and responsibilities, a lesson on choosing without considering obligations.
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Western Railroad
Pennsylvania
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Chicago
TO KEEP A ROSE In London and in Home
An essay and poem about keeping a rose of love alive. The piece contrasts coffee house culture in London with the enduring rose of love. It extols daily care, gentleness, and shared burdens as the vase that preserves affection across time and distance.
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Red Rose
Why His Coat Was Shabby
Hazel West learns how a co-worker Mabel manipulates opinions about her fiancé Jim who wears a shabby coat. Jim secretly plans a generous surprise, a deed to a bungalow and garage, proving his intent to marry Hazel and elevate their life beyond gossip and supposed status.
Trouble in Bunches by M K Thompson Ph D
The piece argues trouble arrives in clusters, driven by psychology and expectation. It cites sports boxing as an example of how a hard blow weakens a person, leading to further misfortune. It notes people magnify small issues to feel pity and that fear or doubt worsens performance.
Marcus Aurelius Reflections on Life and Time
A concise excerpt urges humility before life and future. It contrasts the yawning void of the future with the vast unknown of the past, inviting contemplation of mortality and the limits of human life. An antique meditation fragment emphasizes with stoic tone.
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Marcus Aurelius Antonines
Hide Cintidrem's Cormer No 2 puzzle described
The note presents a playful riddle. It suggests starting by drawing the letter C then adding a large circle ring and finally placing eight sticks. The quirky sequence points to a mathematical or visual puzzle common in curious notices of the era.
Lighthouse Adventures Part Iv on a Seafaring Evening
The narrator stands at the stern watching the vanished lighthouse while a buoyant boat tows a seine net for mackerel. He notes shipboard sounds, learns to tell time by the ship’s bell, eats with sailors, and recalls playful banter. A final drawing lesson yields an elephant.
Boston Arrival On the Wharf Aboard the Ship
After a long voyage I wake to calm water and a Boston shore crowd. We unload perishable fish at the docks as drummen, draymen, and ship owners bustle about. Eric guides me through a bustling Commercial Wharf toward my store as ships with white sails pass by.
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Boston
Eric
Sfony
Italy
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Director of Public Safety
Lemuel Schofield
Detective Bureau
Nellie Maxwell
Barbara Bourjaily
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
London
By Douglas Malloch
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Corona
Remington
West
Mable Richards
Hazel West
Hazel
Ark
Smithsonian
Arthur
baMer
Jim
Mabel
Jim Wilson
M. K. Thompson
Ty McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Aurelian
Cintidrem
Lighthouse Adventures
Zoo
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