The Runaway Submarine Saga of Captain Solomon
Captain Solomon recounts how he salvaged and renamed the Polly P as the Submarine after a foggy night near New London. A Rooshian lieutenant arrives seeking the vessel, negotiations ensue, and the crew secures a bag of loot before towing the submarine back to the steamer. Polly P becomes Submarine in a forbidden record.
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Polly P
Capt. Solomon
Friendship
Maine
New York
Bill Clement
Bill
New London
Polly
Jonah
United States of America
Pibbles
Rooshian
Cap’n Solomon
Nut shell crafts and warm clothing for children in 1907
A New York World inspired guide urges mothers to dress children in wool and serge for fall and winter. It promotes bloomers, knee pants, and sweaters, warns against dusty wool, and details knitting or sewing tips. Also described are nut shell calendar figures, including Chinese motifs and a Red Indian, made from walnuts, tissues, and satin for holiday ornaments.
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New York
Convenient Needle Book for Christmas Gift
A simple needle book craft uses two circles of stiff cardboard with an inner ring and a central cutout, leaving a margin. Wrap the outer edge with bright raffia, weave four raffia strips across the opening, and sew two circles together with layers of pinked white flannel between for needle storage.
Building Advice From William A Radford On Cement Cellars
Reader questions build a compact eight room house 24 by 38 feet with two stairways and ample closet space. Radford urges cement plastered outside cellar walls for damp sites, recommends brick cellar bottoms where drainage is good, warns against brick ceilings over springs, and emphasizes water tightness and proper sills.
Modern cellar design balances storage with furnace space
The piece argues for brick cellar bottoms over dirt floors, cautioning against stagnant dampness and decay from vegetables. It notes evaporation and air circulation as key to a healthful cellar, and discusses porch understructure finishes and porch lattice screens. Estimated house cost runs from 1600 to 1800 dollars, about 2000 with fixtures.
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Middle West
Patterned Apron Transforms Into Bag and Jewelry Trends
The article describes a new apron pattern that converts to a bag with a halfmast pocket and adjustable belt, featuring eyelet work and ribbon trimming. It notes handkerchief linen finish, possible embroidery edges, and lightweight beading for practicality. It also highlights revived basket brooches in mixed color schemes, gold lattice baskets filled with colored jewels, and pink white stone jewelry trends.
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Gilbert
Amateur Dressmaking Errors and Sleeve Adjustments
The article warns nine of ten amateur dressmakers misjudge size between sleeve tops and armholes and misuse taking in. It advises gradual shaping along seams and gentle alterations rather than abrupt cuts. In children's clothing it urges full sleeves with hems that can be let out or gathered, and suggests adding tucks to ease length adjustments.
Shaving Case Craft for Father Gift
Simple shaving cases for father can be made as a Christmas present. Bind sheets of shaving paper to a stiff colored cardboard cover, punch two holes, thread with ribbon, and decorate with a chosen illustration and the message A clean shave for father.
Button Bag From Ribbon Sash Style
A decorative button bag is sewn from ribbon about four inches wide with stitches like embroidery. The bag features a deep frill at the top and a ribbon casing at the opening so it can be hung.
Souvenir Postals Holder Described for Collectors
A linen postcard holder is shown shaped like a bag with joined edges and ribbons at its sides. The gray linen case features a holly spray and the embroidered title Souvenir Postals. ABBA MAY.
A Convenient Bag Described In Detail
A plain guide explains sturdy bags made of cre tonne or silkoline with floral patterns. The large bags open and close with a slim ribbon, and small attached pouches hold needles and cotton.
Handy bag for buttons from glove tops
A simple craft item describes making a small button bag from the top of a long black kid glove. Cut two shapes, join with red silk buttonholes, and thread a red ribbon drawstring for a pretty useful present.
Forester Reads a Tree to Tell Its Life Story
A forester chronicles a tree’s 150 year life from ring counts and borings. He traces slow early growth, a burst in mid life, later slowing, a windstorm around 1806, a revival, and a false ring from a late frost, citing the 1860 spring and 1806 wind as lore from the oldest inhabitant.
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Bors
American Magazine
Washing Silks Care From Old Textbook Instructions
The article explains silk care: do not boil or wash with soda water. Use tepid water and soap, rinse with running water, add methylated spirit in the final rinse, and use blue tint for white silks. Colored silks dry in sun. white or cream should air dry and iron while damp under muslin. Overheating harms white silk and incomplete rinsing makes fabric hard.
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India
China
Pongee
January Word Game Prizes and Calendars Featured
A new word game assigns each guest a card and pencil titled January. Players have half an hour to form the greatest number of words from the letters in January excluding proper names, with a prize for the top scorer and a consolation prize for the fewest words. Calendars serve as souvenirs this month, and blotters with a month theme, bound with red blotters and a green ribbon, are suggested prizes.
Remarkable Solovetsk Monastery Described
A vivid account of Solovetsk Monastery in Archangel government territory. The fortress is enclosed by a granite wall nearly a mile in circumference and pairs of towers about 30 feet high with 20 foot thick walls. It comprises six churches densely filled within its fortifications.
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Solovetsk
Archangel
Damage to Conway churchyard stones wounds Wordsworth legend
The Conway scene shows gravestones tied to Wordsworth’s We Are Seven badly chipped by visitors, threatening to erase the stone and churchyard cottage lore. The local sorrow ignores Wordsworth’s own notes about the Goodrich castle meeting, while Gelert’s grave remains a folklore staple.
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Conway
England
Wordsworth
Tripper
Love and Friendship Reflections by Marie Capelle
A concise meditation on how romance requires differences and trials, including forgiveness and tears, while friendship offers deeper peace and resilience against life’s ills, serving as a steadfast consolation.
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Marie Capelle
The Towers and Churches Guarded by Ancient Guns
The walls and towers of these churches display large guns from the Crimean era, set as guardians and adornments among statues of various kinds and precious stones.
Rivalry and schemes over coats in a witty scene
A beggar praises a man as kind and says he will give his old overcoat. The lady responds with a sharp quip about sending her wife to receive the autumn jacket, revealing a comic exchange in the Bombe text.
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Bombe
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Norway
Roosby
Jeheokibus
Green
Jehookibus
Seven Seas
High Seas
Solomon B. Peabbles
Wooman
Grandmamma
A.M. Nadin
Ene
Onti
William A. Radford
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Ill
Radford
Forester
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