Billy and Star Face Sandstorm and Reach New Mexico
In Kansas a sandstorm forces Billy and Star to seek shelter as a northeaster drives dust and grit, risking exposure before two days later they arrive in New Mexico near Las Vegas. Mr Wilder welcomes them on their trek toward Wilder’s ranch while Billy contemplates loneliness and growth.
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Kansas
Star
Billy Jr
Billy
Billy Dr
New Mexico
Rocky Moun
Mr. Wilder
Corn and Potatoes Bake Dish From Old Oven Note
A fragmented cooking tip describes draining corn, browning kernels in a pan, dicing cold boiled potatoes, adding two cups to the corn, and cooking until light brown. Salt and pepper are added to finish.
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Groder
Quips and snippets from a distant dawn
A collage of witty exchanges and old world anecdotes travel notes and humorous lines. References to a London taxidermist a museum lead pencil Noah's ark and a deacon sister exchange appear alongside satirical quips about Americans and confidence men and a cholated medieval aura pervading the fragment.
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Noah
Republican Congress Fails to Deliver on Domestic Agenda
The piece critiques the Republican Congress for inaction on key measures. It cites stalled bills, internal party rifts between Old Guard and Progressive factions, and a pattern of political posturing surrounding the budget, labor, farmers, and foreign policy, including Ireland. It notes 19 Senate defections from a Lodge conference and a cited Washington Post critique of the congress’s record.
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Republican Congress
Congress
Old Guard
Senate
Lodge
Washington Post
George Rothwell Brown
Brown
Department of Labor
Capper
Mason
Illinois
Colby
House
State Department
Foreign Relations Committee
Mexico's Old Story of Revolt Treachery and Fate
The piece surveys Mexico's revolutions from Maximilian to Obregon, noting betrayals and grim outcomes. It contrasts autocratic methods with republican masks, warns of foreign interests, cites Jacobite nostalgia in New Zealand, and mocks profiteering in wartime economy.
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Mexico
Carranza
Huerta
Madero
Maximilian
Louis Napoleon
France
United States
Porfiro Diaz
Europe
Obregon
Mary
Diaz
Tle
Heart No Home Problems
Advice column excerpts show readers seeking guidance on engagements, marriage, and in law arising from conflicts with partners. Topics include breaking an engagement over a fiancée’s treatment of her mother, a husband’s repeated late returns, and a wife tolerating smoking in bed. The helper offers practical, measured guidance.
Household Hints Menu Breakfast And Dinner Recipes
A fragment from a household hints page lists a breakfast menu including oranges oats sausage bread coffee and lunch items with a dessert plan. It then gives detailed steps for rhubarb pudding dandelion salad escalloped corn and a cheese souffle with measurements ingredients method and serving notes. The notations reflect a mid century domestic guide style.
As a Woman Thinks by Edith E Moriarty
A parish house group of women discusses high living costs and wartime thrift. A minister's wife shares a mindset of cutting non essentials, living simply, and urging others to do the same despite social pressure and fear of judgment.
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Eivery
Pillar of the Church
Moments in Everyday News and Wit
A collage of light verse and short notices spans humorous lines about seeking living space from box cars to a submarine, and a garage man’s mourner. It notes Pullman fare debate, reconstruction humor, Long Island potato prices and speculative markets, plus a Nevada strangulation scare with a last minute reprieve.
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Nevada
Price of sugar kills consumer and shopkeeper implicates others
A terse dialogue frames a deadly outcome as a grocer admits his sugar price harmed the consumer. The butcher recalls seeing the victim die when presenting the bill, and a laborer offers to dig the grave for ten dollars an hour or more.
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Randolph Leigh
Cheyenne
Postoffice
Carey Avenus
Associated Press
Billy “Whiskers
Saalfield Publishing Co
Akron
Ohio
Will
London
Walter Pulitzer
Cicero
Ings Land
Margaret
Lord Blessus
Republican Party
Royal House of Stuart
New Zealand
Senor Tanez
Keynes
Mrs
Elizabeth Thompson
Orrin
Mrs. Thompsong
Tillie
Edith E. Moriarty
Roy K. Moulton
Willie Doll
Pullman Company
Long Island
Shock Growers National Bank
Fay Cheyenne, Wyo
Winston-Salem, N. C
Fe Aarae
Aaa Secon
Ul Shi
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