Why Mr. Grub-Worm Goes on His Back
Aunt Henrietta tells children a folk tale about Mrs Possum and Mr Grubworm. Both creatures are fat and lazy, preferring home life while others roam. A tale unfolds of a law requiring animals to crawl on their backs, provoking Mr Grubworm to roll over and protest before finally being mocked by the others.
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Oklahoma Name Debate Ties Choctaw Origin to 1866 Claim
In Oklahoma City a Reverend reexamines the origin of the name Oklahoma arguing it derives from Choctaw words meaning red people. He cites Governor Wright in 1816 and notes earlier plans for a territorial government. The piece discusses American Indian governance and the 1866 treaty context.
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Buzzards Menace Health In Mexican Coast Towns
San Antonio reports a coastwide effort in Mexican ports to exterminate vultures seen as nuisances. Tampico leads the move to remove birds protected by law, with experts noting many cities suffer water contamination and health risks under modern sanitation.
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Ways of Cooking Lambs A Digest of Roasts Stews and Pie
A scrambled 19th century guide detailing lamb preparations including stuffed lamb with bread crumbs and herbs, braised lamb shoulder with vegetables, lamb pie from neck meat with kidneys, stewed neck of lamb with peas, and cold roast lamb minced with bones for gravy. It provides step by step methods, seasoning hints, and oven times for each dish.
How To Use The Cold Meat In Leftovers
A Prairie Farmer style snippet outlines multiple methods to reuse cold beef leftovers. It suggests serving cold slices with condiments, warming in gravy, or chopping into hash with potatoes and onion. Alternatives include croquettes, fried cakes, or loaf baked with tomato gravy, plus a simple salad using liver, celery, onion, vinegar, mustard and lettuce.
To Make Colors Fast in Fabrics
A dated home remedy advises soaking items before washing to preserve colors. For color protection use ax gall in rinse water, tea from common herbs, vinegar for pine and green fabrics, and soda for purple and blue. Wash with milky soap lather and ox gall prepared by salt and water, then rinse.
Old School Floor Care Note
Instructional fragment advises layering multiple sheets of newapaner under matting to trap dust, followed by thorough sweeping and refreshing with a cloth dampened with ammonala water.
Cleaning Carpet: A Frugal Home Guideline
A quirky home tip describes laying carpet face down on grass and whipping with rauon switches, then sweeping both sides and finishing with a tight squeeze of water. The unusual method emphasizes thorough rinsing and air drying for stubborn grime.
Back Yard Garden Help From Wilhelm Miller
A practical guide on improving backyard soil with compost and manure, using wood ashes and proper texture. Recommends vines like Boston ivy Virginia creeper and honeysuckle for hedges, with iron rod supports and woven wire fencing. Highlights annual climbers and neighbor-sharing seeds to save costs.
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Virginia
Hall
WILHELM MILLER
Eggplant Recipes with Onions and Fritters
A wartime or home cook’s guide lists methods for preparing eggplants in several styles. Broiled eggplant slices are seasoned with onions and a sweet-sour vinegar sauce. eggplant fritters mix pulp with flour and egg, fried to brown. boiled eggplants cook in salted water with onion, finished in butter, flour, and ketchup sauce. roasted eggplant with cheese uses garlic butter and Parmesan, then served hot.
Engagement Woes Plague A Couple In The Weeklies
In a humorous exchange from Ge Y. Weekly, Biagnosis admits to nerves before proposing to Miss Due Wink. The pair discuss awkward lines and failed attempts as the moment nears, with both sides revealing lingering uncertainty and playful banter about the impending engagement.
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Ge Y
Fishing for a Compliment Quip Causes Funny Exchange
The Wonston Post reports a playful exchange where one person accuses another of fishing for a compliment at a friend's house. A response denies the remark and recalls a question about whether monkeys are intelligent.
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Wonston Post
Wicker Furniture Care Through Enameling and Dyeing
Unvarnished wicker can be refreshed by enameling in white or by applying a color such as red. Wet the wicker with clear water before dying to help the color distribute evenly and improve the appearance of the furniture.
Growing hollyhocks by seeds and cuttings in gardens
A 19th century gardening guide explains increasing hollyhock stock by cuttings in August and by sowing seeds in July for spring transplants. It discusses seed-bed setup, spacing, winter protection, labeling, and tips for vigorous growth using rich soil, mulching, and regular feeding with nitrate and phosphate.
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Garden Magazine
Bathing the Baby: Safe Temperature and Handling Guidelines
A Chicago Tribune excerpt warns caregivers to prepare a barge or tub with a large towel and set bathwater to 8 to LW degrees, neither under nor over. Test water with the elbow and a small pitcher of hot water nearby. never use hands to judge heat. Remove the baby with care, dress quickly, and avoid pressure on the abdomen to protect delicate organs.
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Chicago ‘Tribune
Commencement Pudding Recipe From A Historic Note
A vintage kitchen guide describes Commencement Pudding made by soaking gelatine then dissolving in boiling water with sugar, adding orange juice, folding in stiffly beaten egg whites, and chilling until set. A custard is prepared separately with milk, orange rind, and yolks, heated briefly, then served with the pudding.
Ramesea 112 Fate Mentioned In Student Answer
A graduation candidate wrote about the fate of Ramesea 112, noting in a fresh pen stroke that this remarkable potentate would not escape humanity's common fate. The history exam question on Shamn then Witr was the tenth item, and the student’s answer reflected a varied and interesting view.
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An Unsympathetic Description of a Boy’s Studies
A neighbor questions what the boy has been studying. Farmer Corntessel replies that the boy is focused on botany, naming a set of things he cannot manage to raise, revealing a humorous or critical view of the youngster’s education. The exchange appears in the Toqten Star.
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Gorman and Culberson remembered in senate tributes
Washington notes recall the late Maryland senator Arthur Pace Gorman as a towering Democratic leader who rose from page to postmaster of the Senate and shaped party strategy. Texas congressman Culberson, longtime House elder, is praised for wit, practical jokes, and advice, including a famous Jesse Stallings moment in debate.
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Flooding Congress With Petitions
John Quincy Adams protected petition rights in Congress but petitions now flood the House from labor groups churches and patriotic orders. Many petitions are mass produced or signed by others homes and not the listed members. Speaker Cannon watches for individualized messages while bulk telegram petitions are dismissed as organized influence.
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Death by Own Action of Representative Adams
The recent death by own action of Representative Adams of Pennsylvania is the first known instance of a member of Congress taking his own life. It follows the earlier cases of Chickering of New York and Lane of Kansas, with Adams described as a courageous, paradoxical act by a man once seen as unlikely to act similarly. His death is treated as a personal crisis and a remarkable incident in congressional history.
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Marconi and slang mark telegraph evolution
A historical note discusses the shift from saying to wire to telegraph as Marconi's wireless telegraphy expands. It cites electricians' views on language decay and predicts wires becoming obsolete in communication. The piece reflects era tension between new tech and speech.
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