Poets as Pugilists Spar in Charity Bout With Maeterlinck
A French report notes Maurice Maeterlinck agreed to spar rounds with Carpentier for a Paris charity, following Byron’s boxing pride. It recalls Keats and Shelley stories of literary figures defending honor with fists, including Shelley’s sudden punch and Byron’s diary sparring.
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Cri de Paris
Maurice Maeterlinck
Carpentier
Europe
Paris
Lord Byron
Cribb's
Jackson
Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Keats
Shelley
White Plague Crusade Urges National Tuberculosis Day
National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis calls for a fourth national tuberculosis day on Dec 7. Churches schools labor unions and other groups totaling at least 200000 will be asked to participate with lectures and personal appeals to leaders and clergy. The group notes over 1,000,000 consumptives in the U S and cites insufficient hospital capacity, urging more hospitals and sanitariums.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention
National Association
Poiret's Venetian Inspired Mantle and Pearl Headdress
The article notes evening fashion shifts for winter with high ornamentation like aigrets and pearls. Poiret's latest design features a red velvet mantle with ermine sleeves and a remarkable pearl headdress inspired by the doges of Venice.
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Poiret
Venice
A Simple Babani Style Maternity Gown to Make
The Babani maternity gown is described as easy to sew and graceful. Wide fabrics like crape silk or cotton allow cutting in two pieces with seams under the arms to the shoulders. Neck and sleeves are rounded, with borders stenciled in gold or silver on various color combos.
Pure White Bedspreads Fashionable and Timeless
The article notes white washable bedspreads remain dainty whether satin finish linen damask with scalloped edges and vine embroidery or cotton poplins and crepes finished like damask. It highlights Swiss muslin and bleached cluny edging as enduring options and suggests an inexpensive dainty scrim with an open head pattern as suitable for budget homes.
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St. Gall
Hints for the Busy Housewife Crafts a Handy Needle Device
An Indiana inventor designs a lap board with uprights and rocking arms that clamp embroidery hoops. Adjustable knobs on the outer arm ends let a needleworker set the hoop angle, stabilizing the work so hands can rest and focus on intricate stitches.
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Indiana
Tomato Fry With Onion and Corn Stew
Tomatoes are fried with a butter dressing then served on a hot platter. A creamy butter sugar mustard egg yolk and vinegar dressing is prepared and poured over. Bacon fat onions water potatoes corn milk and seasonings simmer into a hearty corn and potato stew.
Spanish Pork Chops Bake With Onions Tomatoes
Two pounds pork chops baked in hot water for thirty minutes with basting. Salt and pepper, top with one pound sliced onions, bake fifteen minutes. Cover with half a can tomatoes and bake twenty more minutes. Serve with gravy on heated platter.
Southern Corn Pone
A simple batter combines one cup white cornmeal one teaspoon salt lard enough boiling water to moisten add two tablespoons cold milk one tablespoon sugar two eggs two teaspoons baking powder and bake in a hot buttered pan for twenty five minutes.
Southern Beaten Biscuit
A historic recipe lists ingredients to make biscuits: one pint of flour one rounded tablespoonful of lard one half teaspoonful of salt and one half cupful of milk or water. Combine lard and salt with sifted flour add liquid knead until blistered roll thin prick bake in a hot oven.
Brunswick Stew Virginia Style
A Virginia dish with a medium chicken cut for frying two ears of corn cut from the cob a generous handful of lima beans and three tomatoes. The chicken is parboiled then the vegetables are added with salt and pepper and the mixture cooks about one hour.
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Brunswick
Virginia
A Bed and Trunk A New Combined Sleep Chest
A compact description of a versatile trunk that serves as a bed. The trunk stores clothes for travel and converts into a bed by removing springs, placing them on the open trunk, setting cushions atop, and lying down. Simple operation promises convenience for travelers.
Honey Gingerbread Recipe Note
A simple old fashioned gingerbread method uses soda dissolved in hot water with honey, then blended with butter egg flour and ginger. The batter is mixed and baked in a very slow oven for a delicate, moist result.
Spiced Tomatoes Preserving Recipe Note
Directions for a simple canning of tomatoes true to historical home canning style. For each pound of tomatoes use half teaspoon cinnamon clove and allspice one quarter teaspoon salt half pound sugar and a scant half pint vinegar. Simmer until thick and jar contents.
Arkansas Pearls Promising Market Grows In State
Arkansas leads the nation in pearl production as hundreds labor in pearl hunts. Fresh water pearls rival deep sea gems in quality with shells now valued for manufacturing stick pins, cuff links, and buttons. The Mississippi river system hosts shell fisheries and classifications range from true pearls to chicken feed.
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Arkansas
Union
South
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi River
Popular Belief About Forbidden Fruit Reconsidered
Biblical scholars note Genesis does not name the fruit in the Eden story and debate suggests the quince rather than the apple. The quince’s connection to Venus and Orientals adds support for a non apple origin. Babylonian roots for creation myth are also cited.
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Garden of Eden
Venus
Babylonia
Ishtar
Wordsworth Predicts Martineau's Ambleside Real Estate Boom
In a Century Magazine vignette, Wordsworth visits Miss Harriet Martineau at Ambleside and admires her landscape. He praises the domain and predicts the property’s value will triple within ten years, stunning attendees with a practical estate forecast.
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Wordsworth
Harriet Martineau
Ambleside
A. C. Benson
Century Magazine
Miss Martineau
Poise and Imagination as Tools for Self Improvement
The text urges living in poise to save energy and using imagination to visualize immediate goals. It argues imagining larger talents trains the creative mind to model greater abilities, claiming creative forces shape talent to fit the latest model.
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Son
Supposing a Lawyer Steals a Horse in Court
A sas lawyer uses a hypothetical to illustrate a legal point before a judge. The judge interrupts, insisting the scenario is not supposable. The attorney insists, refining to the act of stealing a horse to provoke clarification of legal principles.
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Sas
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