Galveston Storm Toll and Damage Report
The message from Galveston reports fourteen dead and extensive damage after a severe Gulf storm. Cities inundated as seawall protection saved lives, while mains to wells at Alta Loma break and water supplies dwindle amid widespread debris and fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Texas
Port of Sorrows
Gulf of Mexico
Alta Loma
Houston
Gulf
Galvez
United Art
McCullan
Pelican
Temple Junk Company Ad In Temple Texas
L NOVY proprietor operates wholesale and retail junk materials including scrap iron metals bones bottles sacks rubber and bees wax from office and warehouse at 115 South First Street Temple Texas old phone 422 business listing.
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Temple Junk Company L. Novy
South First Street
Temple
Texas
Muffins with Hungarian Bacon Flavor
A Hungarian servant introduced muffins to a household. She uses bacon instead of pork and explains mixing flour with baking powder sugar and salt, then adds egg melted butter and sweet milk. Half a cup of bacon is chopped and folded in, the bacon bits flavor the muffins without butter.
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Hungary
Auburn Molasses Cookies And Pigeon Fricassee Recipes
A cookbook style passage describes cookies made with lard butter molasses soda water eggs salt ginger and cinnamon with dough resting before baking to a rich brown. It also details pigeon fricassee with pigeons water claret onion herbs butter flour and egg yolk sauce thickened before serving.
Baked Oysters Guide in Toasted Bread Cups
A simple recipe outlines placing toasted bread rounds in small cups or dishes, spreading with butter and oil, seasoning oysters with salt and pepper, and baking in a pan in the oven until done. The text ends with garbled nonessential trailing letters.
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Beason
Unclear historical snippet about sugar, teapot, and ten hints
Fragmentary OCR note discusses a miswritten line about a lump of sugar being placed near a teapot when forming ten. The readable words show spelling errors and odd phrasing with no clear event, date, or identifiable subjects.
Memento Mori and Excess in Diet and Life
The piece argues that early Christians warned of death with Memento Mori while modern physicians, led by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, stress temperance in all things especially eating. Overworking and overeating shorten life more than drinking, and temperance means moderate indulgence rather than abstinence.
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Woods Hutchinson
American Academy of Medicine
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Saving
J. D. Dobbins
Dobbins
Obbins
Plof
Bbins
Garrett Snuff Dobbins
Memento Mori
Gambill & Posey’s
Thompson & Nighols Temple
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