Women Built Homes and Canned Crabs Featured in Recipes
A dated article contrasts the claim that men build homes with the world’s women shaping them. It describes crab canning processes, including washing, steaming, and handless packing, followed by several crab recipes such as Crabs in Peppers, Crab Meat Tarrapin Style, Crabs with Cheese, and Crabs with Mushrooms. The text also offers dessert ideas like Snow Balls and Orange custard, detailing ingredients and steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reat
Hery
Atleas
Brave Stragglers Seek Victory and Rest in Peace
Poetic excerpt urges weary fighters to persist toward victory yet seek inner peace. It contrasts earthly struggle with divine solace and the lasting calm within the heart. The lines valorize endurance and call for trouble to cease in the inner life.
Lettuce and Cheese Balls and Strawberry Sponge Desserts
A vintage recipe collection presents Lettuce Salad With Cheese forming green red and yellow color balls on lettuce leaves, and a Strawberry Sponge dessert. The cheese balls use cream cheese with colored additions and mold into spheres, while the dessert blends gelatine, sugar, strawberry juice, and whipped eggs and cream chilled in molds.
Retreat as Victory In Life, A Longfellow Insight
A reflective note compares life to warfare, praising the art of retreat as a form of victory. The quote emphasizes that happiness lies not in constant struggle but in evading and managing battles wisely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ufe
Longfellow
Cold Desserts and Quick Coffee Custard
The note outlines inexpensive cold desserts for hot days. It suggests a coffee custard made with two cupfuls of milk and two tablespoonfuls of ground coffee, with guidance to use cold coffee from breakfast and to strain the mixture.
Mysterious Quote on Need to Keep Pulling Rope
A fragmentary quotation attributed to George Eliott urges persistent effort beyond desire. It emphasizes that happiness lies in ongoing action and the act of pulling, not merely in restraint or rest. The line hints at determination and endurance as core motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Eliott
Ways of Serving Vegetables in German Style
A compact guide lists methods for serving vegetables in German style. Dishes include sour pickled beans in a brown gravy, boiled string beans with salt pork, seasoned beets in a vinegary syrup, fried warm beans in butter, hot slaw with apples and cabbage, green peppers in beef gravy, mashed carrots with butter and milk, scalloped parsnips, and banana junket served with whipped cream.
Rescue on Prinzess Irene Averts Loss of Life
Brave life saving crews rescued 1,720 passengers from the stranded ship in five hours ten minutes. The Prinzess Irene's cabin and steerage travelers were transferred to the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, without a single life lost. Ten boats two tugs and a relief ship assisted as revenue cutter and destroyer stood by. The first passenger were helped ashore by noon with last transfer by 6:65 PM. Captain Petersgen expects to sail back under his ship’s own steam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Hill
N. J
New York
Pasaengéra
John T. Timmins
John Nichols
Hnar
Gondbar
Petersgen
Prinzess Trene
Atlantic
Peterssen
18 year old runs away to become hobo in Palo Alto
Misa Ruth Haynes daughter of John Haynes, 18, dressed in her father’s clothes and left home pursuing an open road romance. She was found at a Dumbarton construction camp and sent to the Juvenile Reform School at Whittier for three years or until she comes of age after Judge Buck ruled. Her father reported the disappearance when he found her chair on the table with a note. Officers located her within hours and brought her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo Alto
Cal
Misa Ruth Haynes
John Haynes
Dumbartel
Buck
Whittier
Middlefield Road
Snake Eater May Die From Faithful Serpent Demonstration
In Coldwater Oklahoma a fanatic from the Brewsome faith known as a snake eater attempted a public demonstration with a rattlesnake to show the serpent symbolizing good. G W Huffman, a leader, was bitten when he tried to seize the snake from Mrs. Osteen who had been handling it after she took it from Huffman. The bite occurred on Huffman's hand as he pressed to remove the serpent from Z J Osteen. The event risks Huffman's life as the snake delivered its venomous bite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coldwater
Okla
Kansas
G. W. Huffman
Huffman
Z. J. Osteen
Mrs. Osteen
Scorfng Osteen
Mrz. Osteen
The Real Mystery Fox and the river mosa ruse
A fox drags a bundle of mosa into a river and sinks, then releases them ashore. A bystander muses the fox did so to rid itself of fisas driven by water to the mona. The fox hints the act was to mislead observers, revealing motive as piracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
Duck Sets Record with 28 Eggs in Two Weeks
Greenwich Conn Frederick Marshall superintendent of Greenwich high school owns a duck that has laid its twenty eighth egg in fourteen days. The eggs are evenly sized and show nothing unusual about them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich
Conn
Frederick Marshall
Greenwich High School
Painter Charles I Miller Survives 70 Foot Fall
Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania Berwyn artist Charles I Miller who plunged seventy feet from the Great Valley Presbyterian church cupola has awoken after two weeks unconscious. One eye was gouged out yet replacement left vision largely undiminished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryn Mawr
Berwyn
Charles I’. Miller
Great Valley Presbyterian Church
Envy and Country Living Cited in Town Talk
A town columnist extols rural pleasures and breezes, contrasting country life with city living. Residents share opinions on the virtues of the countryside and the joy of open air, highlighting a nostalgic view of simpler surroundings.
Doctor Praises Cuticura Remedies in Cure Claims
A Boston doctor reports two cures using Cuticura Remedies for dermatitis and related skin troubles. He recounts a male patient with widespread eruptions improving after Cuticura baths and ointment, and his wife’s finger and arm skin clearing after consistent use. The note includes endorsements by Dr. B. L. Whitehead dated July 22, 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. L. Whitehead, M
Dartmouth Bt
Boston
Mass
States and Territories with Tuberculosis Reporting Laws
The piece lists Connecticut through Vermont as having specific tuberculosis reporting and registration laws, notes 14 states where TB is just part of infectious diseases, and itemizes 28 regions with no TB reporting provisions including Arizona Alaska Arkansas Colorado Delaware Florida and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Kansas
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Mississippi
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
Vermont
State Boards of Health
Arizona
Alawake
Arkansas
Colorado
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Iinois
Kentucky
Louisiana
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Philippine Islands
Porto Rico
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
Sincere Prayer and the MAD Dilemma at the United Presbyterian
A fragment presents a dialogue where Sincere Prayer asks what to do with $100 entrusted for a deceased MAD figure. The teacher-turned-narrator Tommy responds that he would not pray for the departed Ike, but would pray for another Ike, reflecting a peculiar moral stance within a church context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
United Presbyterian
Death May Love a Shining Mark in Scarce Light
A terse reflection on mortality and pursuit, noting death favors bright targets yet such marks remain rare.
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Halle
Spain
Prinzess Irene
Brave
California
Sheara
Serpent
Wootson
Willis
Garfield
Garfield Ten
Coola
Cocacola CO
Atlan, Ca
Fletcher
Lea
Wheerrer Moe Arcow Thal of
Geca-Colp
Libby
McNeith C& Libby
Wares
Ee Wr
Toser Puiner Manufactira
Lars
Nerul Eifatog
Detal
Schaal Furniture Ce
Mecriser
Wrotern
Chicago
R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
de. Pierce
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Pate
Formas
Apie Eee
California Fig Syrup CO
Seei
Victus Paceare
FK Syrup CO
Paxton Toilet CO
Soaven
Maan
Fas
Ie de Kulives Bevetlyn, BT
Bale
P.k.dederick
Roger Tee
Peret
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