Favorite Lettuce Varieties and Farming Notes
A centu ry old farming page reviews lettuce types. Prize Head leads in US plantings, with Black Seeded Simpson and Tennis Ball also popular in markets and home gardens across regions. It covers suitability, ship-ability, and seasonal performance for growers. It also includes notes on farmer well being, land value shifts, and simple soil-testing ideas.
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Nanking
Simpson
Detroit
Chicago
West
Grand Rapids
Lipstan
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Wilson
Great South
Mississippi River Valley
Pacific Coast
Great American Desert
Buffalo Range
Handkerchief Case for Travel and Its Clever Uses
A quirky Victorian style note describes a handkerchief case for travelers and as an aid for storing collars and stocks. Instructions explain folding silk strips with batting and sachet powder, sewing steps, and ribbon centers to create a double use case. The piece includes decorative tying and a tip about keeping contents tidy in limited space.
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Philaddio
Noouth Vererich
Flaky Pastry Instructions From a Scribbled Note
A blurred OCR style recipe outlines flaky pastry steps with measurements and mixing actions. The note mentions mixing flour, baking powder, salt, fat, and water, forming a thin dough, rolling, folding, chilling, and shaping with a rolling pin. It emphasizes soft but not sticky dough and gentle rolling.
The Home Doctor Remedies and cautions
A compilation of home remedies for ailments including a hot water drink for dyspepsia, an ointment of white vaseline and bismuth for skin issues, and cautions about using poultices. It notes orange juice affecting castor oil, remedies for hoarseness, fig poultices for a gumboil, and warns against using poultices during pneumonia.
Dorothy and the dictionary mischief in a dusty lesson
Dorothy stirs a household by chasing a word’s meaning. Her mother unveils the big dictionary and the next day Dorothy quarrels with local youths over a second term. A school dictionary is shown, but pride and sarcasm sour the exchange.
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Dorothy
Halloween Stuffer Dish Instructions From A Fragment
Fragmented recipe notes describe a savory bread stuffed with minced meat of chicken veal or lamb mixed with onions salt butter gravy and optionally juice. The dish is baked in a pan with crumbled tops and graced with herbs before serving after a slow bake.
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Tabu
Taking the Inititative Women Take Charge in Courtship
A Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt notes that new century women increasingly take the initiative in courting, while older men expect invitations. A pretty maiden on the telephone invites a visitor for tea, and grandmothers discuss how men often wait to be asked. A few say men may act, but many agree women lead.
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Kiughired
Mia
Mien
Ned Smith
Bartif
Caine Mosweldhuy
Philadelphia Inquirer
Seasons Mixed By Little Peres Pike Claim
Exchange quotes Selu Pars and Fol describing inconsistent seasons. They complain heat in summer and cold in winter while thermometers fall and rise unexpectedly. The dialogue satirizes climate confusion and mixed weather perceptions.
Birthday arithmetic yields day of week for date
A historical calendar method is shown to compute the day of week for a date. Using Jan 15 1865 as example, steps add leap-year adjustments and day counts, dividing by seven to yield the weekday. The demonstration concludes Jan 15 1868 was a Thursday.
Ancient Bokhara rug mended by self repair method
A rare Bokhara oriental rug, damaged with a two inch square hole and frayed edges, is repaired by hand. The author trims frayed ends, patches with a matching piece, and sews it in place, then dampens and presses to hide the patch.
Detective Stories and the Weakness of Crime Fiction
Chesterton argues that detective tales fail as high art because they destroy mystery rather than sustain it. He contends genuine fiction should deepen wonder, while police mysteries reveal the puzzle and dissipate suspense, leaving readers with an empty sense of meaning. He compares sensational crime narratives to classic drama and poetry, insisting emotion and mystery must endure beyond the final reveal.
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Chesterton
London News
Pointed Paragraphs on Costs and Comforts
A quotation from the Atchison Globe notes that discussions often center on prices rather than reform. It observes men talk about selling prices while women discuss buying prices and that fussing rarely yields results. The piece laments public candor and the toll of constant chatter on social costs.
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Atchison Globe
Do Not Boil Coffee Too Long
The Chicago Chronicle warns that overcooking coffee changes its character making it nearly poisonous. Most overcooks do so out of greed to stretch profits, not ignorance, but the remedy is not harsh laws to ban boiling beyond three minutes.
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America
London
Luxde Park
Berlin
Chicago Chronicle
Child Pension Plan in France Sparks Cautious Talk
The article explains a French savings scheme for children via Ure Mutualite. For a three year old, a weekly two cent contribution buys future benefits. One cent funds daily candy while the other builds a pension. A boy aged eighteen contributing 44 cents monthly could secure about 72 dollars yearly at sixty.
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Ure Mutualite
Shade tree for coffee plantations described in colonial note
In Colombia a tree prized for shade is noted to thrive in poor stony soil. It is also found in tropical Brazil and is well suited for shading coffee crops. A tree eighteen months old can shade 144 square yards, while a mature tree may reach fifty feet in height and fifty feet in spread.
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Republic of Colombia
Brazil
Aggressive reading of a Scotch dialect tale
Trisband Pin battles dense dialect in a fearfully exciting plot as the Detroit Free Press notes the reader’s furious temper and quick pace in following the hero. The piece highlights linguistic challenge and brisk narrative momentum.
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Tenry
Trisband
Pin
Detroit Free Press
Not Needed. A fragment from a newspaper readers' exchange
A brief, quoted snippet shows a controversial question about whipping posts for wife beaters and a woman's curt answer. The text includes jumbled lines about a stove lifter and a wager night, attributed to the Washington Star and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Washington Star
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Crown of Womanhood Mothers and the Favorite Prescription
A vintage ad urges expectant mothers to take Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription to strengthen the maternal frame and ease childbirth. It claims women unprepared bear heavier burdens, touting the remedy as healthful preparation with claims of reduced pain and anxiety. The ad offers a $550 reward for any untreatable case and cites the World s Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York.
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Josephens
Mila
Northumberland Co
di Merce
Doctor Pierce
Dispensary Medical Association
Bufffalo, N. Y
Allen's Grocery Selections Advertise Quick Meal Range
An old time notice promotes Allen's as a general store offering a wide range of goods from flour and meal to canned meats and spices. The letter section includes testimonials praising the Quick Meal steel range, its efficiency, and wood savings, dated 1901 to 1902, with multiple customers endorsing the product and shop.
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Tamia
Allens
Sam
Sewell’s
Allen's
Chaseline
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