Types of baking powders and their ingredients explained
The article outlines three baking powder types Mineral-Acid or Alum Bone-Acid or Phosphate and Cream of Tartar from grapes. It notes health concerns and price ranges 10-25c 20-30c and 40-50c per pound and emphasizes Cream of Tartar as the safest choice.
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U. S. Patent Office
Smuggling by Automobile Across Frontier Seized
Customs officials curb car smuggling as motor vehicles rise in Europe. A Berlin frontier ambush stopped a night run. a car fled but $275 worth of Moravian tobacco was seized and the vehicle with its contents confiscated.
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Berlin
Brooklyn Fagle
Wall Decor Innovations With Alabastine On Walls
Readers are urged to modernize interiors using Alabastine wall coverings. The piece touts brush application over wallpaper, noting permanence, even coloration, and easy, clean renovation by simply brushing on over a canvas-protected floor.
Global seismic turmoil tied to solar activity and volcanoes
Reports from India, Ecuador, Great Britain, France describe tremors and eruptions as sunspot activity is noted. Scientists debate links between solar eruptions and earthquakes, citing Milne's seismograph findings and unresolved causes of most quakes. The piece also recalls a mysterious UPI-style exchange about a suspect.
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India
Ecuador
Great Britain
France
Chamounix
Alps
Mont Pelee
Stromboli
Shasta
Pacific
Martinique
Hindoostan
Isle of Wight
Milne
Prof. Milne
Himalayas
Hunches and Earthquakes Pop Up in Odd Talks
A traveling man at the Coates house recalls a “hunch” that spared him from a wreck on a sleeper car. The tale leads to a discussion with a doctor about foretold earth tremors linked to sun spots and planetary activity, citing Maunder and Moreux.
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Hay Clark
Coates House
Texas
Clark
Denver
Sage Persona Shines as Discerning Financier in Spotlight
A New York broker praises Russell Sage as having a penetrating mind able to see through most matters. He remarks Sage was never duped in an investment and recalls two promoters once seeking to interest him in a scheme, meeting him for about an hour before their attempt ended.
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Russell Sage
New York
Sage
A Lovely Errand and the Cherubic Boy
A four year old with blue eyes and an angelic smile sits on a fence as a woman hugs him. He explains he has three brothers Jack Billy and Frank and says Jack did a lovely errand by biting Billy on the leg.
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Billy
Frank
Turkish baths joke spurs Dixey at Lambs Club
Henry E. Dixey mocked Turkish baths praised and condemned by papers. He recalled a comic overheard exchange between a young woman and her mother about the bills and the need for new attire, highlighting fashionable leisure as a societal joke.
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Henry E. Dixey
The
Lambs’ Club
Mr. Dixey
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims Universal Cure
Frane J Cheney makes oath that he is a senior partner of F J Cheney & Co Toledo and that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured or not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Contains testimonials and claims the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Assam
Japan
Philadelphia Ledger
Frane J. Chenzy
F. J. Curey & Co
Toledo
Hall
Halle
F. J. Cheney & CO
All Drugeists
Return of the Quixotic Brother Seeks Lost Love
Two brothers reunite after years with one revealing a photograph that sparked a dream to win wealth and win the girl. The photo shows a girl in the front row who is not the maiden he adores, but Tom Robinson, an amateur actor filling a female role in a club play.
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Jack
West
Fred
Tom Robinson
Great Change From Change In Food
A Buffalo housewife credits Grape-Nuts with curing nervous stomach trouble and restoring strength. The ad argues stomach diet drives brain health, praising Grape-Nuts as half digested and rich in phosphate of potash to rebuild nerve centers.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
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