White House Christmas Dinner and Desert Grouse Flavor
The article details President Roosevelt’s Christmas afternoon horseback ride and family outing, the private dining room setting for the festive meal, and the White House kitchen operations. It highlights Horace Vose’s 30 pound turkey, Cape Cod cranberries, Roosevelt potatoes, and White House Steward Henry Pinckney managing market runs. The piece also describes the desert grouse, its habitat, and its nickname sage hen, tying the meals to national character and presidential tradition.
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White House
Executive Mansion
Horace Vose
Rhode Island
Sam
Cape Cod
Oyster Bay
Henry Pinckney
Pinckney
Presidential Mansion
Quentin
Big East Room
Desert grouse described as sage nourished and camouflaged
The article details the western desert grouse, its sage-based habitat and coloration, size, and physical features. It explains camouflage in gray landscape, white shoulder epaulets, and a strong leg, noting flight ability, alarm response, and flesh flavor varying by diet with sage-heavy flesh tasting strongly of the shrub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Desert
Rockefeller Gift To Weber After Old Operation
Dr Gustav C E Weber of Cleveland a pioneer doctor recalls a patient who paid fifty dollars monthly for a past surgery. John D Rockefeller later visited for medical advice and offered five hundred pounds to cover the bill but Weber refused. Rockefeller urged giving the money to a struggling medical student.
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Gustav C. E. Weber
Cleveland
Ohio
Nuremburg
Weber
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Government irrigation plan eyed for vast western lands
A Reconstruction era Interior Department schedule shows $32.87 million planned for irrigation to reclaim 1.839 million acres at $17.50 per acre. Estimates suggest 600 million arid acres exist, with private reclamation of 10 million. Experts foresee 75 to 100 million more acres irrigable, promising large future western population and multiple crops annually in the Southwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reclamation Service of the Interior Department
United States
W-Tech
France
Germany
New York
Vatican Annuls Monaco Marriage Amid Royal Scandals
The Vatican backs annulments when a party is not a free agent. The Monaco prince and first wife Mary Hamilton split amid disputes over legitimacy and guardianship with Napoleon involved. A future Monaco marriage to an American and other royal intrigues follow, while the Vatican’s legal order, The Attorneys of St Peter, upholds church interests. Ambassador Reid hires William Walsh as chief lackey, a rare American aristocratic post, with Walsh linked by engagement to Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill.
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Vatican
Prince of
Monaco
Mary Hamilton
Mary
Baden
Duke of Hamilton
Napoleon
Albert
Monte Carlo
Florence
Marie
Russia
Tassilo Festetics
Tolno
Vienna
Albert of
New Orleans
Michael Heine
St. Peter
Pius LX
Rampolla
Court of St. James
Whitelaw Reid
William Walsh
Walsh
Reid
England
King’s Down
Lord Ormathwaite
Dorchester House
Marble Palace
Faro
Aything
King Edward Tales From Europe Travel Laughs
A curio of Edwardian stories recalls the King driving a dog cart near a palace when a village fishwoman rode along seeking a lift. He gave her a portrait and a sovereign, then dropped her at her destination after she spilled her fish. Another tale has the Prince at a theatre helping buckets of water during a fire while a pompous man claimed to be too much a gentleman to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Edward
Prince of Wales
Cost of Columbus Voyages and Crew Wages Revealed
A historical note questions the mythic cost of Isabel I’s jewel bag funding Columbus. It cites a £3,000 outlay to outfit three ships, Admiral Columbus earning £300 annually, other captains £200, crew wages at £2 5s monthly, and notes the era’s higher relative value and limited shore leave for sailors.
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Isabel
Columbus
America
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Duke of Devonshire
Chatsworth
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Edmund H. Abbott
Alexander Cattanach
Salem
Mass
Sir Thomas Lipton
Duke
Matlock
Buxton
Bakewell
van Calaya
Pope Pius X
H. T
Warre Lewine Macue Co
Cleveland, Olio
Foster
West Hydraulic
Watson-Stillman Co
Deyote N
Webb Publishing Cos
St. Paul Minn
Pensions
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman CO
Warder Bidg
Washington, D.C
Eagle Tank Co
N. Green
Chicago
Mason
Hanlin
Anand
Ini Re
der Weeate
Hewes & Potter
Lincoln ST
Boston
Lynch Meg. Co
Madison, Wis
Pepe Tee
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