The Iced Hot Dish Hoax and Hidden Ice Treasure
A narrator recounts the adventures of Hung-Ho, a Chinese cook, and a plan to unveil an iced hot dish using vegetable asbestos. The quest leads from San Francisco to China, a chaotic court trial, and a violent reaction from local officials, ending with the narrator's escape and the moral that profits from trade are safer than vaunted culinary triumphs.
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Hung-Ho
Vancouver
San Francisco
Worthy
China
Hung- Ho
Farm Cathay
Zi-An
Tony
Manchuria
Orient
Peking
Son of Heaven
Shan-Tung
Chinfu-Hsien
Confucius
Hung-Shan
College of Judges
Angel Man on Long Island Parish Courtship Stir
A young Episcopal minister in a Long Island parish courts a wealthy spinster. Her family teases about his sermons and looks as she introduces him at Sunday dinner. The exchange ends with a playful judgment of his appearance and preaching.
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Long Island
Brooklyn Eagle
Beulah and the Farm Sold in a Stolen Fortune
John admits he sold the family farm to raise cash and was robbed. the couple finds no home to return to and faces a violent crime. The doctor reports Allan badly hurt but likely to recover, while police plan a jury verdict and a search for the stolen money with two suspects.
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Beulah
John
Mary
Allan
Harris
Arthur
Licely
Beulah Visits Jim in Jail In Midnight Rescue Tease
Beulah Harris defies danger to visit Jim Travers in a jail cell after a clash over a revolver linked to Travers. The couple shares a secret kiss through a bars window as plans to free him unfold, while Sergeant Grey interrupts the covert meeting and the scene ends with a cliffhanger.
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Jim
Travers
Miss Harris
Beulah
Harris
Mary
Arthurs
Allan
Bonaire
Foods of the World: Exotic Meats and Delicacies Listed
A Detroit Free Press note catalogs geoduck, elephant feet, lion, hippo, kangaroo, monkey, flying squirrel, prairie dog, hedgehog, guinea pig, walrus, and peacock as diverse regional delicacies. Descriptions cover preparation methods and cultural tastes across Africa, India, Ceylon, and the Americas.
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Detroit Free Press
Geoduck
Ceylon
Africa
India
Honduras
A Stiff Upper Lip Editorial Note
A Louisville Herald critique argues that keeping a stiff upper lip is overemphasized and suggests a stiff lower lip would be equally ineffective. The piece humorously notes facial expressions reveal emotion and warns against overvaluing stoicism.
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Louisville Herald
Faith the true charter of hope in hard times
A compact biographical style quotation from Josh Billings extols faith as the guiding force behind human endurance and victory. It portrays faith as a warrior and light on the road, stronger than knowledge and sentiment, and as the heroine of forlorn hope.
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Faith
Josh Billings
First Meerschaum Pipe Carved by Pesth Shoemaker
The article recounts how Karol Kowates of Pesth Hungary, a shoe maker skilled in carving, met Count Andrassy. On Andrassy’s return from Turkey he brought a whitish porous clay, thought to absorb nicotine. Kowates carved pipes for the count and himself, and the first meerschaum pipe remains in a Pesth museum as a curiosity.
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Karol Kowates
Pesth
Hungary
Count Andrassy
Turkey
Kavol
Kavol Konates
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By H. Howard Cawthorne
Zi- An
Hortiesfeader
Jim Travers
Beulah Harris
Sergeant Grey
Irwin Myers
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