Poets Take Up Fists Like Byron and Maeterlinck
A French report says Maurice Maeterlinck agreed to spar rounds with Carpentier for a Paris charity, following poets like Lord Byron who enjoyed boxing. It recalls Byron’s diary notes on sparring and Shelley’s bravado, and recounts Keats’s own pugnacious anecdote against a threatening butcher.
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Cri de Paris
Maurice Maeterlinck
Carpentier
Europe
Paris
Lord Byron
Cribb's
Jackson
Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Keats
Shelley
Llow
White Plague Crusade Urges 200000 Groups to Aid Tuberculosis Day
The National Association For The Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis calls on churches schools labor unions and fraternal orders to mobilize over 200000 organizations for the fourth national tuberculosis day on Dec 7. Appeals target clergy principals and leaders to schedule lectures the association cites over 1000000 US consumptives many unable to pay for home care and urges expansion of hospital and sanitarium facilities to remove infection foci.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of
National Association
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
United States
Poiret Echoes Venetian Robes in Pearl Headdress
The article notes evening fashion shifts toward ornate adornments such as aigrets and pearl headdresses. Poiret, famed for bold designs, debuts a red velvet mantle with ermine trim inspired by Venice doges, highlighting a dramatic pearl crowned look as the season's standout.
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Poiret
Venice
An Easily Made Maternity Gown From Babani Robe
A maternity gown gaining favor for ease and grace is copied from the Babani robe. If fabric is wide the gown splits into two, joining under arms and sleeves with edges buttoning or hooking. Crape-silk or cotton, wide and stencil friendly, yields borders in gold on colors or silver on dark shades. long enough to cover the feet for a graceful look.
Pure White Bedspreads Fashionable for Every Home
The article extols pure white bedspreads as timeless and fashionable for old and new style homes. It contrasts materials from satin finish linen damask with embroidered edges to cotton poplins crepes and Swiss muslins, noting durability, finish options, and inexpensive scrim alternatives.
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St. Gall
Valenciennes
Handy lap board device aids needlework in Indiana
An Indiana man designed a lap board with two uprights and rocking arms. Clamps hold fabric hoops, knobs adjust arm angles, and an elbow rest supports the user. The device lets a needle worker tilt the hoop to any angle while keeping fabric taut and hands free for intricate stitches.
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Indiana
Tomato dish with butter dressing and egg based glaze
A recipe describes peeling and frying tomatoes with salt pepper and flour in butter then serving with a dressing made from butter powdered sugar mustard salt cayenne egg yolk beaten egg and vinegar cooked over hot water until thick.
Corn Chowder With Bacon Fat and Corn
A simple chowder method with bacon fat in a pan then sautéed onions. Add water, simmer potatoes sliced thin, then stir in corn milk and seasonings. Finish with butter and serve hot.
Spanish Pork Chops
Two pounds pork chops baked in hot water for thirty minutes with basting. Add salt pepper and one pound sliced onions, bake fifteen minutes. Top with half a can of tomatoes and bake twenty minutes. Serve hot with gravy.
Homely Cornmeal Quick Bread Recipe
A simple batter blends white cornmeal salt lard boiling water and sugar with cold milk and eggs. Quick baking method uses hot buttered pan and baking powder to finish in about twenty five minutes.
Homemade Biscuit Dough Instructions
One pint of flour, one tablespoon of lard, one half teaspoon salt and one half cup of milk water. Mix lard and salt into sifted flour, blend, add liquid to form a thick stiff dough. Knead until it blisters, roll thin, prick with a fork and bake in a quick oven.
Virginia Style Chicken with Corn Lima Beans and Tomatoes
A medium frying chicken is parboiled then simmered with corn, lima beans and tomatoes. Salt and pepper season the dish as it cooks for about one hour, yielding a hearty meal.
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Virginia
A Bed and Trunk: A New Portable Sleep Trunk
A novel trunk blends a travel chest with a bed. Fill it with clothes for the journey, then unfold springs and cushion inside at night to create a simple bed. The contraption converts travel storage into a sleeping surface with minimal setup.
Honey Gingerbread Instructions From Old Time Recipe
A concise royal kitchen method for honey gingerbread with soda, hot water, and honey. It details beating butter and egg, then adding flour and ginger, mixing thoroughly and baking in a very slow oven.
Fruit Preserve Directions
To each pound of sliced ripe tomatoes add half teaspoon each cinnamon clove and allspice and quarter teaspoon salt. Add half pound sugar and a scant half pint vinegar. Simmer until thick and fill jars.
Pearl Industry in Arkansas Reveals Hidden Fresh Water Pearls
Arkansas leads as the nation’s top pearl producer with hundreds of fishermen and a thriving trade in fresh water pearls and shell goods. The article notes classifications from true pearls to baroques and chicken feed, highlighting shells used for pins, cuff links, and buttons along the Mississippi river fisheries.
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Arkansas
Union
South
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi River
Was the Forbidden Fruit an Apple or a Quince?
The discussion notes that Genesis does not name the fruit and questions whether the apple was the Forbidden Fruit. It cites scholars who favor the quince, sacred to Venus, and traces ties to Babylonian origins of the Eden story, suggesting evidence points away from the apple.
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Garden of Eden
Venus
Babylonia
Ishtar
Wordsworth Predicts Martineau’s Ambleside Estate Worth
In a Cen tury Magazine note by A C Benson Wordsworth visits Miss Misa Harriet Martineau at Ambleside. After admiring the landscape he proclaims your property will triple in value within the next ten years.
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Wordsworth
Misa Harriet Martineau
Ambleside
A. C. Benson
Century Magazine
Wordswort
Windo
Landsea
Living in Poise and Harnessing Imagination
The text urges reducing energy waste by poise and using imagination to picture current goals. It states imagining larger talents shapes mental models, guiding creative forces to form bigger, more perfect abilities.
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Son
Supposing A Lawyer Should Steal A Horse
A humorous dialogue shows a Ki as lawyer proposing a hypothetical case about stealing a horse. The judge rejects a mere supposition of the judge stealing, but accepts the lawyer’s hypothetical if the lawyer himself steals a horse. The exchange unfolds with the judge guiding the case toward a real scenario.
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Kias
Argut
X. Preceed
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Helena
Missouri
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Louisville, Ky
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Gms
Depew
Home News
Southern Beaten Biscuit
Brunswick
Mississippi
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