Navy Menu: Tow Purchases and Serves to Sailors
W R Ryan outlines how the U S Navy selects and prepares daily rations for over 60,000 sailors. detailing procurement, strict specifications, inspections, and the rigorous standards ensuring quality from eggs to butter and meat, and the role of trained cooks aboard ships.
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Calgor
Uncle Sam
KO Magnificent
United States Navy
Glenp Tin
Navy
Kenerit
Newport
San Francisco
Pay Corps
Lake
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Tareia
Moss
Newport as a unique watering place in Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine extols Newport as a singular watering place with no hotels or flashy amusements. It praises its quiet elegance, clipped hedges, and long Bellevue avenue, noting few observers beyond tennis players, fashionably dressed visitors, and occasional garden parties.
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Newport
Coney Island
Europe
Coney
Bellevue Avenue
Newport Presenta
Harper's Magazine
Bluffing the Lion and Chest Tapping in History
South AfricaMea hunter curveballs the lion with a theory that a wounded prey can be lured into a failed charge. meanwhile a medical anecdote traces Dr Corvisart and Napoleon embracing chest tapping as a favored scientific test over guesswork, marking early modern methods.
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Atmerivuy
Stewart Edward White
South Af Mea
Tim
Nin
John Niclas de Corvisart
Napoleon
Corvisart
Kansas City Star
The Wings of Time and Vanity at a Mask Ball
A mother explains the phrase wings of time as faded hat ribbons worn for three seasons. A costumer notes human vanity, citing a knock-kneed man seeking to attend a mask ball as a Scottish highlander, provoking curiosity about appearances. The Washington Star account ends with a wry observation.
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Paywinser
Roy
Hsell
Calley
Linas
Heoline
Spottesstown
Tolesain
Tim Ie
Tommy
Washington Star
Imaginary quote on married men and bachelors
A witty line from the Detroit Free Press asserts that married men exaggerate their troubles while bachelors overestimate their fun, offering a playful stereotype about married life and singlehood.
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Detroit Free Press
Toot or Talisman in a Puzzling Exchange
Mary Pert boasts of a perfect complexion while Kitty Katt jokes about luck with a hare's foot as a playful judge presides over a whimsical exchange.
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Toot
Mary Pert
Kitty Katt
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Newport Commissary
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