Santa Fe Dreamer: A Fancy Ride Through the West
A frontier voyage piece follows travelers toward Santa Fe with comic patter and stagecoach slang. The narrator sketches trains, wagons, and porters while voices recall blue bunting gowns and theatre glass, ending in a playful vow for a grand fandango at the plaza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansaw
Conestogas
Pittsburghs
Dearborns
Independence Pike
Council Grove
Capitan
Santa Fe
Missouri
Alameda
Plaza Publica
Printing Buddhist texts and a famed gold script Tanjur
The Tibet region tale describes the Derge lamasery and Litang near Batang printing the Kanjur and Tanjur in blocks for a large workshop, with hundreds of workers over many days. It recalls Lining’s hand written gold and silver Tanjur lost to Chinese soldiers, and explains the zonda foehn wind in Argentina as a heat source for dry plains winds.
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Arkansaw
Cimarron
Santa Fe
Litang
Batang
Tibet
Derge
Yangtze Valley
Andes
Argentina
Switzerland
A Word for the Invalid and Everyday Good Things
A 1921 era dietary feature offers gentle guidance for invalid care and home cookery. It urges thoughtful medicine timing, comforting presentation, hot foods, and patient-specific menus, with recipes for Chicken Quenelles, Creole Sauce, Codfish a la Mode, and vegetable soups to aid digestion and appetite.
Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Ad Child Health Testimonies
Altoona and other towns report women praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health after childbirth and aiding fertility. Letters from Mrs Benz, Mrs Janssen, and Mrs Held describe healthier babies and improved well being, urging others to seek the remedy and request the company’s free booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Lydia E. Pinkham
Os. W. Benz
8Rd Avenue
Altoona, Pa
H. H. Janssen
Millston, Wis
Marinette
Wis
Marinette, Wis
H. B. Held
Jefferson St
Powdered Lemon Juice And Distinct Perfume Notice
Powdered lemon juice is described as pure juice reduced to a soluble powder, akin to a spray milk drying method. A Lady of Distinction is praised for a perfume’s delicate influence. Cuticura soap and talcum are recommended for clear skin.
Puzzling Case and Domestic Foretells in Marriage
A fragmentary note discusses individual worth and domestic foresight. Quips reference Dobbs and his wife, with a hedged view on marriage unity and success, reflecting a strained humor typical of the era.
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North
Dobbs
West
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Ray Walt
Thomas Hornsby
Yass
Kodak
Pup
Ingebord
Independence
New York Herald
Los Carros
Los Americanos
la Entrada de la Caravana
Bravo
Sunn Tsssseceneeecunnesensee
Western Newspaper Union
Adelaide Procter
Henry van Dyke
Mac Werd
Darling
Carter
Jagsbys
Mr. Bibpee
Mrs. Bibbbles
Birmingham
Hawthorne
Katy
Bayer
Lowekdl
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