Bay Leaves Aid Cupid Romance Folklore
The article describes several old methods to learn a future life partner on or before Valentine's Day. One uses plant leaves named for potential partners placed on a pillow. dreaming indicates the chosen partner. A second method involves eating a salt filled boiled egg to dream of a drink bearer who will share future joys. A third method has slips of paper with girls' names dropped into water to reveal the valentine.
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Valentine
The Engagement Ring Fashion Rule Explained
A guidance piece declares the engagement ring should be worn alone on the left hand little finger beside the wedding band. It favors a plain gold band over platinum and suggests a diamond ring surrounded by colored stones, set flat with no other rings on that finger.
A St Valentine Menu of Heart Themed Dishes
A playful menu listing croquettes of Two Salem Heartbreakers Cheese Love Knots Broken Hearts Salad in Love Apples Frozen Kisses Seed Hearts and Heartbreakers all shaped as hearts. The wording evokes romantic dessert items and decorative dishes for a Valentine’s table.
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St. Valentine
Salem
Juvenile Hairbrushes and Cleanliness in Nurseries
A guidance piece urges nursery care for children's hair using high quality clean brushes. It stresses pliable bristles to avoid scalp scratching, notes cleaning frequency varies by hair type and environment, suggests three brush changes weekly in dusty settings, and recommends ammonia in water to ease cleaning.
Pickled Red Cabbage and Beetroot Method
Instructions describe selecting red cabbage, salting layers, draining two days, packing in a jar, and covering with boiling vinegar with added red beetroot. Slight guidance suggests flavor variation with spice and notes on cauliflower as a vivid red when eaten in bunches.
St Valentine Party Ideas From A Historic Card Style
Fun Valentine decoration and entertainment notes suggest heart centered decor and games. A central heart basket target game and heart shaped bubbles, cards, and prizes guide guests toward matching sentiments. Tables feature evergreen and red hearts with heart shaped foods for a festive supper.
Current Fashions Highlight Narrow Lines and Lace Flouncings
The feature notes angles over curves in new button designs, increasingly wide skirts, and lace flouncings with mesh so fine it nearly vanishes. Gowns showcase accordion pleated chiffon underskirts and moire silk with printed, watered surfaces. Sleeves in cloth dresses appear in chiffon or satin.
Love Finds a Way In a Denver Milestone Romance
A storyteller recalls a sixties romance where a young couple, Agnes and a mill worker named Jim, faced parental opposition over a match with wealth and title. A chance coach encounter reveals Agnes in disguise as an older woman, leading to a spur-of-the-m moment wedding with a clergyman present. The tale mirrors the narrator’s family history and ends with a surprise union on the coach.
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Tom
Denver
Albert Reeler
Clear Creek
Miluntins
Reeder
Agnes
Goodby
Turkiye
Jim Harkaway
A Valentine Party For Boys and Girls And Adults Too
A wholesome St Valentine party plan designed for older youths and adults with simple games, a paper and pencil distribution, word building from hearts, heart shaped prizes, a heart quarts game, a decorated cane for quoits, a post office corner with valentines, a Cupid host, and classic ballads. Couples can match by splitting heart pieces into envelopes for refreshments.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Ben Bolt
Annie Laurie
Little Belgian Refugee Fed by English Soldiers
A Belgian child feeds with two English soldiers as relief pours in from America. The war's hunger is vast and Christmas aid included toys and clothing from across the ocean. The rescued boy had wandered alone in a deserted village before being found and fed.
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American Press Association
Belgium
America
Twenty National Parks and a quip on bankrupts
A list of twenty national parks spans the nation from Yellowstone to Mesa Verde with states named and areas noted. The passage ends with a pun about bankrupts versus idiots, noting bankrupts are broken while idiots are only cracked.
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Yellowstone
Hot Springs
Ark
National Zoo Park
Washington
D. C
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Georgia
Tennessee
Antietam
Maryland
Rockreek
District of Columbia
Sequoia
California
General Grant
Californ
Yosemite
Shiloh
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Vicksburg
Mixs- Yesippi
Mount Ratuler
Crater Lake
Oregon
Platt
Oklahoma
Wind Cave
Lincoln and a Diary Entry From His Boyhood Voyage
A Missouri or Indiana voyage tale recalls Abraham Lincoln as a young helper aboard a boat with Gentry and his son Allen. He meets Miss Roby, who would marry Allen, and Delia Gentry notes Lincolns grasp of astronomy and the cosmos, calling him the learned boy among simple folk.
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Lincoln
Gentry
Gettyville
Ind
Allen
New Orleans
Stockport
Miss Roby
Alien Gentry
Tiime
Abie Ix
Abe
Notes on Churches Use in War at St Nicholas Belfry
A Associated Press correspondent reports dawn worship at St Nicholas Church in Furnes Belgium where Belgian soldier cyclists rest amid war. A funeral mass for a child and a special mass for soldiers unfold beside a line of bicycles and mud stained uniforms as dawn light filters through old beams. The scene blends reverent ritual with military readiness as German guns near Nieuport threaten the front while clergy and soldiers observe Christmas rites.
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West Planders
Belgium
Preas
St. Nicholas
Furnes
Stable of Bethlehem
Cyclist Corps
Nieuport
Mary Fisher the Quakeress Who Spoke to the Grand Turk
Mary Fisher, the first Englishwoman to address a sultan, journeyed from Smyrna to Adrianople in 1657 to evangelize Mohammed IV. Despite his reluctance to convert, he granted her an audience and offered an escort home. She returned safely and was honored by Quakers as one who spoke to the Grand Turk.
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Mohammed
Mary
England
London Chronicle
Stomach of a camel holds water in four cells
A Presbyterian writer explains the camel gut consists of four compartments each lined with large cells that can be opened or closed by muscles. When drinking the animal fills cells gradually, then later opens them to release water, allowing five to six days without drinking and aiding long desert treks between wells.
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Presbyterian
Tough on the Kitten and an Old Chair Debate
A humorous exchange where a grannie questions moving seats as Gerald worries about his Mitte kitten's comfort on a chair and fears it may be uncomfortable for the cat. The dialogue captures family banter and affectionate pet concerns.
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Grannie
Gerald
Grantma
Lendou Oplaloui
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