Be Happy as You Can Despite Life's Storms
The Boston Watchman urges patience amid life’s trials. It counsels finding joy in small things, treasuring simple waters that form great rivers, and making surroundings pleasant even when plans falter. The poem encourages resilience, gratitude, and cheerful perseverance.
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Hope
Boston Watchman
Mountain Lily Moment Tests Faith and Darcie in Frontier Night
In a moonlit frontier scene Faith and Darcie confront shared secrets and risky affection after a tense, intimate conversation. Darcie reveals a conflicting position and seeks forgiveness, while outsiders misread him as a scheming spy, foreshadowing danger.
Labor unrest and union influence in mining frontier tale
A narrative from a frontier camp discusses miners’ grievances and the rise of union power in Coeur d’Alene. Mike argues the union coerces workers while owners resist, detailing wage scales, stoppages, and threats to control the mines. The episode ends with the question of who truly runs the mines.
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Darefe
Mike
Darcie
Manin
Shtake
Jester Archee Armstrong of James VI and I era
The tale recounts Archee Armstrong, beloved jester to King James VI of Scotland later James I of England. A shepherd driver with a dead sheep exposes a thief who asks to read the Bible before death. The king pardons him after a witty reply and makes him his jester, where he becomes a royal favorite.
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Archee Armstrong
James VI
Scotland
James I
England
Ostice
Archee
Amelia Wofford
St. Nicholas
Pigeon Toss Provokes Laughing Collier in Town
A collier arrested for attempting to fly a pigeon in the town hall square caused a scene when a policeman warned him against it. The man released the bird from a bag and spoke a slang line before the pigeon flew away, leaving the officer astonished.
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London Telegraph
Woman Overlooks Past As She Turns 28
A young woman remarks on another’s forgiving nature noting she once offended her and was forgiven. Miss Cayenne confirms this trait as a specialty, saying she overlooks the past and is only 28 years old.
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Miss Cayenne
Wouldn't Keep. Tommy's Interruption Teaches Manners
A mother admonishes her six year old to wait while she talks with the ladies. The child protests that he never gets heard and wonders why talking adults can go on without interruption. This scene captures a domestic moment on manners and listening.
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Tommy
Substantial Boarding Case Quip Echoes in Courier-Journal
A fragment from the Courier-Journal captures a wry exchange as Triv heckles Dicer about Mrs Small and a substantial bite. The dialogue references beefsteak and a biting remark, echoing a period newspaper humor style.
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Dicer
Triv
Courier-Journal
Furnishing a Future Flat Across the Years
In a humorous Chicago Daily News column Peggy mocks Beth Thompson and Fred who are planning a future wedding and furnishing a flat with prizes from cinch and euchre games. The piece notes duplicates, storage plans, and social pressure on brides to collect housewares before marriage.
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Peggy
Beth Thompson
Fred
Beth
Trousseau
Chicago Daily News
How to Gain Flesh From Stout and Thin Women
Dietary guidance from Mrs. S. T. Rorer in the Ladies' Home Journal advocates quiet activity for the thin, with a morning bath and a limited, digestible meal plan. It outlines specific breakfasts, lunches, and dinners featuring eggs, bread, cream soups, meats, potatoes, rice, custards, and light desserts, while avoiding cakes and pie.
Corn Soup from Mrs S T Rover of Ladies' Home Journal
Score down six ears of corn and press out the pulp, add to a double boiler with one quart of milk, grated onion, mace, salt, pepper, and optional sugar. Stir in a beurre manié made of butter and flour, thicken, then serve hot through a puree sieve.
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S. T. Rover
Ladies’ Home Journal
Recipe for Fig Paste Wrapped Rolls
A described method to make fig paste from ripe figs by scraping, then buttering very thin bread slices, spreading with the paste, rolling, wrapping in tissue paper, and tying the ends as a motto. The technique yields tight rolls suitable for serving.
How to Cloud a Glass for Privacy and Light
A glass worker explains a method to cloud glass for bathroom privacy while preserving light. Apply a solution of Epsom salts and vinegar with a brush to create a frosted look. Then brush on Damar or white varnish to fix the appearance if desired.
Invalid Dress For New York Lady In Bed With Baby
An article notes Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr resting after childbirth wearing a cream chalice room dress. The gown features a gatheredless skirt with godet fullness, challie waist with a frill, ja ponica pink satin, and jap onica pink figures. The surplice patterned waist provides a neat front finish.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Challie
New York
Bread and Cheese Sandwich Method from Ladies' Home Journal
Mrs. S. T. Rover provides a layered brown and white bread recipe. The method uses half inch slices, cottage cheese paste pressed through a sieve with butter salt and cream, then stacked with thin white bread layers and trimmed into shape.
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S. T. Rover
Ladies’ Home Journal
Patti Still in Good Voice at Fifty Five
Adelina Patti now fifty five remains in fine voice despite two marriages a divorce and the recent death of her second husband Sig Nico lini. She has continued to sing in London with remarkable clarity drawing lavish praise from the public and press.
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Patti
Adelina Patti
Sig. Nicolini
London
The French Don’t Bake and Wash at Home Myth
The article asserts that in France families do not bake bread or wash at home. It claims bread is superiorly bought from shops and that family linen is professionally laundered by dedicated workers, performed with high care and neatness.
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Faith
Darcie
France
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