Fragmentary street notes on taxes and constitution
A torn fragment references taxes, a person named Decaune, and a friend discussing constitutional matters. The text is incomplete and difficult to interpret, offering only hints of civic or national concerns.
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Beggara
Seasonal Dishes and Fruit Juices From Pantry
A compact guide lists seasonable vegetables as palatable with a recipe for rice and peas. It describes onion butter dressed rice with curry powder, broth, sugar, lemon, and a pea centerpiece, plus a Spanish salmon celery salad. Also included are strawberry juice, raspberry juice, and cherry shrub preparations with boiling, straining, and sealing steps.
Fragments of Recipes and Reflections in Obscure Prose
A garbled excerpt blends benign admonitions on vanity with a recipe fragment list. It mentions ingratitude, favorites, and a veal dish with flour, onion, and bay leaf, then shifts to a dessert mold with cream sugar vanilla and fruit, ending with a brief line about rabbit preparation.
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Eligar
Treating Pimples and Blackheads With Cuticura Remedies
An 1800s style ad promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment for pimples blackheads and skin irritation. It recommends applying ointment with a fingertip washing off after five minutes and using soap for toilet and bath to prevent clogged pores.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Puzzled Wallie and the Ice Cream on Beef
Wallie and his father dine out and encounter a dish called a la mode, which Wallie mistakes for ice cream on beef. He notes the odd culinary phrasing and reflects on the world’s quirky food language as beef is served with ice cream-like accompaniment.
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Wallie
Patriotic quip on strawberries and patriotism
An imperti nent boarder jokes at a strawber ry dish described as red berries a white dish and blue milk to mock patriotism. The landlady answers with a wry compliment noting the color scheme. Judge.
Phrase about New York traveler and social contrasts
Fragmentary dialogue notes a man leaving New York after a brief stay and contrasts social ease. It jokes that a pretty girl can flag a car easier than a homely one can flag a street car.
Private Pat O'Flynn Chooses Drinks in Camp Scene
In a humorous London Answers vignette, Private Pat O'Flynn, part of a fatigue party, aids the colonel’s baggage and refuses thirst while a noblewoman insists he drinks. He first accepts sherry then port as the lady blends hot rum, noting etiquette and decorum.
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Pat O'Flynn
Indy
Pat
London
Not of American Origin Story Tells of Sudden Endings
The passage discusses the claim that sudden death and funeral notes are uniquely American. It cites Chronicles 1 1 10 12 13 and Asa's illness in the thirty-ninth year of his reign as evidence that such narratives predate the United States.
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Willie Jones
America
Asa
The Limit Dialog About Borrowing Money
A brief exchange shows a character insisting on lending money as a ray of hope while another snarks at the idea. The scene notes that even the poor can smile and that small acts can inflate a purse.
Where His Thoughts Were
A late ninth inning rally ties the game for Indiana as a runner advances to second with one out. In the stands a boy asks his mother what thirteen times a dollar and a half equals as the crowd holds its breath for the winning run.
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Indiana
Indianapolis News
Childish protest leads to imagined arrest in dialogue
A six year old Grace asks her mother and a younger girl if they were arrested for playing suffragette and breaking a window. The mother denies it, but Grace jokes that many men who feel essential to progress end up buried in pine boxes without trimmings.
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Grace
Cure for rheumatism sparks old debate in Woman's tale
In a dialogue from a 19th century tale, Mrs. Carter shows eagerness to try a new remedy after her sister hints at electricity as a cure for rheumatism, recalling a past lightning strike that failed to help. The exchange highlights skepticism and the era's faith in novel therapies.
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Mrs. Carter
Ellen
Carolina
Caroline Smith
Promoter Advocates Personal Gain Across Spain Farm Trials
The dialogue highlights a promoter accusing Selfridge of promoting mainly his own interests. The conversation notes Spain's years of experimenting with American dry farming methods to boost agricultural efficiency.
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Spain
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