Spices and Condiments from Cinnamon to Horseradish
A readable excerpt outlines four spice classes by plant part and sketches uses. Cinnamon cassia and vanilla are described with harvest timing and flavor roles, Canton ginger noted for confections, horseradish praised as a tonic and purifier, and ginger and horseradish highlighted as root-stock types with broad colonial usage in meats preserves and medicines.
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Mesbo
South America
Asia
China
Canton
American
French pastry spreading West in postwar talk
A guest from Omaha complains that Western towns are becoming too Frenchy after the war. He cites "grande passion" and an eternal triangle as moral excess spreading from the East, noting even Omaha now serves French pastry.
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Omaha
New York Evening Sun
Osmiridium Prospects In Tasmania Attract Mining Interest
A Tasmanian Mines Department bulletin notes Tasmania could become the world’s main osmiridium source as miners quarry solid serpentine rock. One miner has quarried for six years and, by crushing the rock, yielded a high grade metal. He is described as the first and only finder in the world to locate the metal embedded in solid rock.
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Tasmania
Tasmanian Mines Department
Ile
Gasoline Cost Estimation by Local Station Agent
An expert accountant would say seven gallons at 29 7 10 cents per gallon costs about two dollars and ten cents. The author notes trusting the station agent's figure for the total without doing the calculation themselves.
Braised Veal Hearts and Related Dishes Guide
Instructions describe braising veal hearts with bacon and onions, along with recipes for braised calf’s liver, kidney on casserole, and vegetable casseroles. Steps include frying, browning, adding stock, bay leaves, and baking times, with serving tips such as rice and toast. The tone reads as old cookbook style with precise measurements and methods.
Great Lakes naval station praised as world’s greatest trade school
The Great Lakes naval station is described by a military authority as the world's greatest trade school. About 100 skilled workmen graduate every three weeks in aviation courses. The plant is valued between $20,000,000 and $80,000,000, built largely from salvaged material. There are 3,225 students enrolled.
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Great Lakes Naval Station
Tower of Babel Project Parodies Language Chaos
A humorous modern spoof shows a head contractor calling the original “so viet” while noting the world’s languages confound or confound themselves in a playful. The piece riffs on linguistic confusion and satire.
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Tower of Babel
Fruit of the night socializing a witty exchange
A dialogue snippet recalls a late evening with frivolous gatherings. One speaker scoffs at the quality of social fruit while boasting of a peach they dexeed with, signaling witty courtly banter and light social satire.
Volunteer Charity Concert Sparks Wry Exchange
A brief exchange notes tension over a charity concert. One speaker says the other disliked the event despite liking music, prompting a sharp retort about their lack of enjoyment. The remark hints at strained feelings about volunteer efforts and personal tastes.
Comedian Granted Divorce Over Custard Pie Joke
Film Fun reports a movie comedian won a divorce on grounds tied to his wife's ignorance of cooking beyond custard pies. The item highlights a domestic dispute framed by a lighthearted punchline about culinary skills and marital friction.
Planned Attack on Seattle 1856 Reactivated by Cannon Ball Find
Workmen on Beacon Hill unearthed a cannon ball believed fired from the Decatur during a January 1856 raid on Seattle. Indians supposedly planned to strike the village with a three‑sided assault, prompting a marine landing and shelling by the sloop of war as settlers sought shelter in improvised blockhouses.
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Seattle
Decatur
Elliott Bay
Beacon Hill
White River Valley
Jim
Gansevoort
Ls. Bagley
A Safe System Adds Lost Bills to Card Index
First Bill Collector Jones claims the hardest man to collect from. he touts a safest system that hides bills in a card index until they disappear from the world.
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Jones
New Oil Combustion Engine Promises Transport Revolution
In Boys' Life the article argues the war spurred ongoing invention, announcing an oil combustion engine as a new departure. The engine, now experimentally successful, powered a ship to Cuba and back with smooth performance, offering economy amid gasoline and coal scarcity.
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Cuba
Flying for Rest by M Imckiesch at General Electric
M Imckiesch, director of a GE research lab and author, says flying offers a refreshing break from sedentary science. He has logged more air hours than many army aviators and hopes to create a combined aviation and country club near Cleveland for daytime air trips and leisure.
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M. Imckiesch
General Electric Company
Cleveland
Great actress kissed poet during Boston visit
Sarah Bernhardt arrived in Boston in the 1870s to sculpt Longfellow but he declined the bust. He invited her to his home with Howells and Holmes, praised her Phedre, she praised Hiawatha, and on departure she kissed Longfellow saying Vous etes adorable.
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Sarah Bernhardt
America
Boston
Longfellow
Christian Science Monitor
Portland
Mme. Bernhardt
William Dean Howells
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Phedre
Rachel
Kidnap of Kang Shih-to From Russian Legation
Dispatch from Peking reports Kang Shih-to former Anfu treasurer and target of a $10000 reward for arrest was abducted by Chinese servants at the Russian legation. They bound him in a bed quilt, carried him over the wall, and handed him to gendarmes awaiting refugees hiding in foreign legations.
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Legation
Kang Shih-to
Anfu Club
Peking
China
Kang
It Pays to Advertise in a Lost Dog Notice
A reader recalls TF advertising for a lost dog and reports rapid results with 17 dogs presented to choose from, illustrating the value of public notices.
Fast Ride on Rough Trail by a Civil War Dispatch Rider
Henry Kyd Douglas carried dispatches from Harrisonburg to General Ewell in the field during the Civil War. Capt. Henry King recounts Douglas’s rainy, mud soaked 105 mile trek through Swift Run gap Madison Court House Culpeper and Brandy Station to deliver orders in under 20 hours despite multiple mounts.
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United States Cavalry
Uncle Sam
Rough Riders
Henry Kyd Douglas
Stonewall Jackson
Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley
Blue Ridge
Swift Run Gap
Tannardsville
Madison Court House
Culpeper
Brandy Station
Ewell
Henry King
Fuller
Douglas
Jackson
How Lightning Kills and the Psychology of Shock
The text notes that lightning deaths are caused by shock rather than direct electric current through the body. It cites heart failure and organic disturbances as outcomes, with cases where a mother dies while a child in her arms survives. Intoxicated or drugged individuals sometimes survive, suggesting psychological factors are key.
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Popular Science Monthly
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