Labor Day luncheon menu ideas and wedding card crafts
A hostess plans a Labor Day luncheon where six seasoned housekeepers share practical household tips with notebooks and pencils for notes. Guests will receive labor themed favors such as tiny brooms and aprons, and place cards feature gilt framed bride and groom mementos.
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Jack
Mme
Curtsey
A Summer Bride Elect Shower Delights Guests
A hostess hosted a lawn shower for a bride elect with lanterns rugs and camp chairs. Guests brought misc items for a decorated evergreen tree parcel by parcel, each with a rhyme as the bride clipped the ribbons. Refreshments were served as a musical program entertained guests.
Five O Clock Tea Improvised Fruit Drink
A popular tea time drink mixes arape juice with ginger in a third proportion. A lighter version uses white grape juice instead of purple for a better taste. Serve in glasses half filled with cracked ice.
Five Sewing Designs for Silk and Lawn Garments
The note outlines three dress designs with silk and ninon fabrics. It details back tucks, waist wake folds, and cut piece plastrom with cord trimmings. Sleeves are three quarter length, with specific fabric widths and materials listed.
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Lyons
The Wildcat Whiskey Trade in the Old South
An 1880s study details moonshine production and enforcement in the United States. It notes a sharp drop in illicit output due to government raids, describes covert still sites, methods, and the peril faced by revenue agents and informers, and cites annual losses and costs to the treasury.
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Sam
Treasury of
United States
Possible American Queen as Portugal Crown Consort
The article notes the eldest son of Portugal's crown may be named king and could marry American actress Anita Stewart. It cites Miguelist support and potential succession if the current king dies without issue. The young prince, born 1878 and educated in Austria, is multilingual and seen in London society courting Miss Stewart amid Grosvenor Square social life.
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Sethe Tame Sieen Genza
Portugal
Ory
Europe
Miguelist Party
Dom Miguel
Spain
Austria
London
Anita Stewart
James Henry Smith
Duchess of Somerset
Grosvenor Square
Miss Stewart
Anthony Drexel
Sherman Used House in Acworth as Private Post and HQ
An Acworth Georgia home preserved from the Civil War era served as General Sherman’s private post office sleeping quarters and headquarters during a two week camp there. The house still bears names of federal soldiers, including J A Yoder, with owners Mary Smithson and daughter Callie Smithson continuing to reside there and recounting Sherman's invasion.
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Geh. Sherman
J. A. Yoder
Mary Smithson
Callie Smithson
Sherman
Needed Inventions Spark Public Debate
A city man invents a device to blow out gas safely and prompts questions about other useful creations. The piece playfully asks for devices to turn banana peels into sidewalk delights, curb troublesome humorists, and an antidote for supposedly loaded revolvers.
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Metropolis
Success Magazine
Like Attracting Like in a Poker Hand
A witty remark contrasts affinity with luck noting a poker hand that wins cash. The exchange hints at strategic appeal and monetary payoff in a sharp, concise joke.
No Fine Distinctions in Bantering Portraits
A pair of speakers mock a man named Bangs, describing his appearance with sharp jabs. One calls his face a monkey-face, highlighting a caustic exchange over a friend’s countenance.
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The Good Old Days of Yore Decline
Fragmentary lines lament changing tastes and trends across generations. A narrator recalls simplicity and steady standards, contrasting indulgence in fads with past values where any option sufficed. The passage critiques self centered cravings and childlike stubbornness in both women and men.
Two Jewish Recipes Salmon pickle and cucumber pickles
Salmon pickle instructs boiling a thick salmon slice then soaking in hot white wine vinegar with bay leaves fennel seed and seasonings overnight. Salt water cucumbers soak twelve cucumbers in salted water with pepper and grape leaves for two days renew leaves add dill then refrigerate for six days before serving cold with dressing.
Sardine Salad for Hot Weather Serving
Hollowed tomatoes are filled with chopped sardines and topped with water-cress and lemon juice. A substantial variant uses scooped peas with mayonnaise, then nut meats as a luxury. The dish provides nitrogen from sardines and protein from peas, with carbohydrates from tomato.
The Watermelon Wine
A narrator favors simple rural dining over lavish banquets and electric disappearing tables. He longs for a shady corner by a watermelon vine with grass napkins and plain comfort rather than exotic dishes and luxury.
Bridget's Beatitudes on Diet and Comfort
A humorous meditation on kitchen habits and domestic comfort. It mocks cooking with grease spinach, praises lemon in apple sauce, notes pillow-slip sizing, and derides elaborate summer dinners as wasteful and in poor taste.
Icing making hints for sugar icing and coloring
Boil sugar and water until a ball forms in cold water. Spread icing on a cooled cake. If using colored sugars, sprinkle only when both cake and icing are cold and icing is stiff.
Egg Lemonade Suggestion in Plain Lemonade
A householder article proposes adding two well beaten eggs to six glasses of lemonade to create a nutritious and tasty beverage. The suggestion emphasizes thorough stirring and is aimed at all readers including inexperienced homemakers.
Save the Feet for Rich Stock and Jelly
The article explains preserving fowl feet by boiling to remove skin, yielding a soft membrane used to make stock and jelly for soups gravies and related dishes. It emphasizes not discarding feet as waste and highlights their culinary value in accompaniment to meals.
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