Diner Repeats Order as Server Seeks Repeat Customer
A diner patron indicates possible repeat business after ordering a steak from a waiter yesterday. The server asks if the customer will have the same today and the patron hints at continuing the habit if no one else uses the table.
Attractive Apple Dessert and Kitchen Tips
A collection of home notes covering how to pare and core apples with cinnamon syrup and marshmallow centers, keeping fish white with a splash of vinegar, thawing meat slowly, separating yolks from whites, fire safety for fat, griddle cake texture from egg white, rotating laundry usage, and a fudge cake recipe with steps and icing.
Mistaken signs and labels puzzle shoppers
A humorous list notes misreadings in a shop sign set by a newspaper service. Items include candy sho read backward from outside and a duck misnamed as a chicken, with other quirky mislabelings and arithmetic slips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candy Sho
Quotations about Liberty and Virtue in Brief Reflections
A collection of short quotes on courage liberty and wisdom from Adams Johnson Coleridge Coleridge Bailey Ruskin Juvenal and Seneca. The pieces stress accuracy conciseness noble action thought and the warning about liberty as a treacherous phantom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Johnson
Coleridge
Bailey
Ruskin
Juvenal
Seneca
It Would Be a Sow's Ear and Silk Purse Parables
An assortment of maxims on sales resistance pride and social quirks. The piece contrasts folly and wisdom with pointed lines about wealth work and household behavior. It notes how people mock others troubles yet share their own stories and how most must earn money while capable financiers shape wealth.
Great Divide and other history questions combine here
Answers cover topics from geography to history including the Continental Divide various rulers and quotes. It explains that the President cannot declare war and notes that Cleopatra traced Greek ancestry, while the scale model definition clarifies model airplane sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Jerusalem
Alfred the Great
England
Chesterfield
Congress
Advertising Cut Safety Razor Prices Through Demand Rise
Advertising created demand for safety razors and as demand grew prices fell. Razors that once sold for 3.00 to 5.00 are now available for fifty cents or less, benefiting consumers.
Pepsodent Irium Dentifrice Promises Bright Teeth
Readers are urged to try Pepsodent containing Irium, marketed as safe with no grit pumice or bleach. The ad claims twice daily use reveals natural pearly luster quickly, leaves the mouth refreshed and tingling clean, calling it “The Miracle of Irium.”
Also Mentioned on This Page
SnoOpie
But
E BY
Ted O'Loughlin
Winuy
Panhandlin
Doc Smith
Nez
Bys Osborne
Patcher
WNU
Andrew Jackson
Benjamin Franklin