Father’s stubborn love in a Boston home departure
In a long diary voice Mary narrates her strained dinner with Father who insists she go to Mrs Anderson, then shows rare affection at departure. She travels to Boston to reunite with Mother, Grandfather, and new suitor prospects, while Father’s distant change haunts her. Mary maps growing family tensions, hope for a new romance, and her own shifting loyalties as school, letters, and social ties reshape her world.
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Aunt Jane
Charles
Jane
Father
Ivo
Wil
Ike
Tane
Hin
Vee
Renly
Raid
Carrie Heywood
Stella Mayhew
Charlie Smith
Mr. Livingstone
Observatory
Mary
Marie
Bedicles
Mother
Hattie
Raby Lester
Lke
Aurea
Nein
Boston
Nuklear
Maria
Jaye
Sonesome
Aline
Andersonville
Rex Howerlog
Wat Hook
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Resoya
Kitchen Cabinet Guided Home Preserves and Pickles
A family guide offers tested recipes for preserving foods including Sliced Green Tomato Pickles Tomato Catsup and Spiced Peaches with step by step instructions. It notes ways to store jars and suggests serving ideas. The text closes with a reflective quote from James Russell Lowell on personal restraint and empathy.
Molasses dumped at sea to calm hurricane seas
A steamship named Philip Pu Icker pumped about 280000 gallons of molasses overboard during a West coast hurricane to smooth the seas and reduce their force. The molasses reportedly affected the surface similarly to a heavy oil slick, though details remain unclear.
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Philip Pu Icker
Siip
Seasonal Good Things From The Seasonable Kitchen
A collection of vintage recipes using peas onions mint parsley spinach and peppers. Green Pea Soup and Hot Cherry Pudding share basic steps of cooking mashing or steaming with butter and stock, while Spanish Salad combines chicken cucumber walnuts and peas with dressing. Other dishes include Peas and Pepper stuffed peppers Pound Cake and dessert ideas reflecting period tastes and methods.
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Baku
Made World War Pictures Portrait of Captain Jackson
A World War I pictorial record credits Captain E. N. Jackson of the Signal Corps with photographing America's war efforts from the front to postarmistice scenes. His images of President Wilson's travels in France and other key moments now reside in galleries, libraries, and private collections nationwide. Jackson later served as a staff photographer for the New York Daily News and remains active with American Legion Signal Post No 848 in New York City.
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America
France
Soltdiere Fanding
Hoboken
E. N. Jackson
Signal Corps
Wilson
Jackson
Jack
Ben
Captain Jackson
United States
New York Daily News
The
American Legion, &Ignal Post No
New York City
Greetings to the Tommies by American Legion envoy
Bur ington Vermont veteran BH Nelson Jackson, a national American Legion vice commander, addressed the British Legion during a visit representing U S servicemen. He recalled World War II era Allied ties and urged continued efforts to strengthen fraternal bonds for lasting peace.
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Atlantic Ocean
Timn Ig
Nelson Jackson
Burington
American Legion
Legion
British Legion
British Isles
Jackson
Medical ‘Corps
France
Leutenant
Hanford MacNider
New Zealand Veteran Released From U S Asylum
World war veteran Robert M. Thompson of Christchurch returned home after months in Elgin Illinois asylum. He said a Chicago Veterans Bureau visit led to discovery of his confinement and poor treatment before authorities arranged his release on condition of leaving the United States. Thompson’s case follows Canadian guidance for New Zealand pensioners.
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New Zealand
Robert M. Thompeaon
Christchurch
Elgin
Thompson
United States
America
Veterans’ Bureau
Chicago
Bureau
Carrying On with the American Legion in Jesup
In Jesup Iowa the American Legion and local business leaders plan help measures for assisting veterans with disabilities. In Clay County a Red Cross Legion drive surveyed 550 men and found 276 with some disability across four units. A delegate at Cedar Rapids convention was praised for German birth yet fully American in spirit, mentioning two sons in military service.
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Correc- Honville
American ‘Legion Posta
Clay County
Town
American Red Cross
The
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Cedar Rapids
Eccentric Dueling Claims Over Butter in Baltimore
A Baltimore woman outshines a rival with a witty butter request to a fish dealer. The exchange centers on orders for butter to eat on toast, prompting humorous reflections on marriage and appetite as the narrator laments modern dating.
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Baltimore
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Eleanor H. Porter
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Thackeray
Ruesel Lowell
Tommies
Jacksons
MacNiders
Jesup
Amércan Legon
Arts Aere
Robert
Donyall
Konnedy Brothers
Stearns
Acil Stearns
Western
Canada
Peart
Therais
tSavenances
Ieee
Stoba
Mata Agha Bishan
Dela Endank- Tives
Manet
Boxee Miduat
Baden
Axwell
Hun
D Bey Company
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