Cleaning Metals for Brass and Iron Care Tips
Emily Holt in the St Louis Globe Democrat offers metal care guidance. She details eco friendly brass cleaning with vinegar salt and oxalic acid plus oil polishing for a six month luster. For wrought steel she recommends ammonia soap wash dry oil lime treatment and thorough brushing to resist rust.
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Emily Holt
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The Sailor Hat Remains in Memory of a Bygone Era
In a playful column the girl philosopher laments the demise of the sailor hat. She recalls its simple charm and memories tied to college colors, hats trimmed with ribbons, and the haunting image of a hat drifting on a boat. The piece blends sentiment with nostalgia for a fashion symbol fading from shops.
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Gainsborough
Army
Chicago Daily News
Combination Dress Shows Chinese Ladies Embrace European Fashion
The article notes a rising trend among Chinese women to wear hybrid outfits mixing European and Chinese elements for festive occasions. A light blue silk ensemble features a long embroidered gown with a waist-length jacket and a European collar, topped by a distinctively Chinese headdress crafted by a Peking tailor. The style reflects a balance between imitation and distinct cultural identity.
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New York Herald
Peking
A Hint for Housewives: Vanilla Bean in Sugar Box
A simple kitchen tip suggests placing a vanilla bean in the sugar box to impart a fragrant, dessert friendly flavor to sugar. The method is presented as an easy way to elevate sweets without added ingredients or effort.
Portable self feeder for cattle on grass
Illinois reader shares a 12 by 5 by 6 foot portable cattle feeder with sliding sides to control grain flow and adjustable openings A and B. A roof keeps feed dry and sled runners allow movement. construction shown in illustration with end open and a tight boarded roof.
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Ohio
Portraits under parasols become new fad in painting
A new trend in portraiture shows sitters shaded by parasols. The sitter is placed in a garden chair with the parasol overhead to shade her face while keeping features visible. A leading English society painter excels in these works including royal and court beauties.
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Fadts
England
Victoria
Maryland Breakfast Roll Recipe Steps for Yeast Rolls
A historical kitchen directive explains making yeast rolls from six potatoes mashed with one quart of flour and eggs. It instructs adding butter and yeast, overnight rising, shaping into envelopes with butter beneath the lid, a second rise, then baking in a hot oven.
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Maryland
Dainty Summer Salad with cucumber boats and toppers
Select six uniform cucumbers peel and halve them scoop centers soak in water. Dry and fill with a mixture of sweetbreads and peas dressed with mayonnaise. Arrange on green lettuce leaves on individual plates serve with plain bread butter sandwiches and baked apples.
Profitable Veal Through Managed Calves and Milk Feeding
A farmer argues for delaying veal calves to Christmas to raise sale value. He suggests feeding mother's milk to calves then skim milk with ground grain, keeping calves dry, well sheltered, and regularly fed. He notes calves thrive with outdoor exercise and periodic sulphur and salt, yielding marketable animals. Farm and Home.
Dustless roads and macadam in auto era debates
The article weighs dust from fast driving and the push for dustless road surfaces. It argues against cheep unscientific road fixes and stresses MacAdam's principle of a solid impermeable foundation with a porous top layer, essential for durable roads despite new methods.
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California
Striking Fragments Echo Old City Dialogues
A mix of overheard banter and quips from Baltimore American and Ram's Horn, recalling a Count Ded failed plan to marry an heiress and a tax assessor bid for inside info. A boarding house labor discussion prompts a vacay joke about men taking a striker during hot months.
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Baltimore American
Markets (Midwest and East) August price report
The report lists regional price ranges for flour wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes and livestock. Stated values include No 2 red wheat 72 cents and hogs around 6.40 to 6.50 in New York to Cleveland and Toledo price lines, with cattle veals sheep and lambs quoted across multiple cities.
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New York
Cleveland
York State
Love and Hash in Curious Daily Snippets
A lawyer laughs at a tearful divorce seeker while a street tale recalls a girl pondering hash and its origins. The anecdotes mix courtroom humor with kitchen mystery from daily life.
Monkey jests and shoe aids advertised in old notices
At Norumbega Park crowd chatter features a monkey joke about a man with hair parted and cane. The page also carries an advertising note for Alien's Foot-Ease powder to relieve tired feet and related foot conditions sold by druggists and shoe stores with free samples.
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Boston Post
Allen
Alien
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Leroy,n.y
Record Smashed Uncovering 50,000-Year-Old Mammoth Digestion
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports undigested food found in a Siberian mammoth that died 50 000 years ago breaking a record for chronic dyspepsia. A letter from Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1800 mentions Piso's Cure for Consumption as infallible for coughs and colds.
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N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Check Coughs Colds and Croup With Hoxsies Cure
Ad copy fragment presents a suggestive dialogue about love and a medical cure. The text names Puck and references a croup remedy marketed with no opium. Contains partial dialogue and product tagline.
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Hoxsie
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