Lenten Seafood Recipes From Cream Shimpa To Scalloped Oysters
A historical reading outlines a set of lentil season seafood dishes and simple steps. Cream Shimpa uses a jar of event and shrimps with butter cayenne and catsup baked in a chafing dish. Oyster Salad combines oysters celery and mayonnaise in lettuce cups. Salmon Omelet blends salmon eggs salt and pepper, fried then baked. Baked Fish suggests handdock binefish abad and bass baked in pieces. Garulah with parsley layers milk and butter. Scalloped Oysters layers oysters with breadcrumbs milk and oyster liquor baked thirty minutes, two layers max.
Cherry party planned with cranberries as decor
A hostess plans a Washington Birthday cherry themed party on a Sunday the 22nd. Fake cherries proved expensive, so she will use big red cranberries. Invitations feature cherries, and a cherry tree game will award points for tying cranberries to a sapling tree.
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Washington
George
Hatchet Party Teaches Temperance Era Fancy Costumes
A temperance group hosts a hatchet party themed for colonial days. Invitations imitate 18th century style and names parody prominent figures as Hatchet family members in Martha Washington inspired gowns. The event features period costumes and a home setting for Miss Mary Brown in February 220.
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W. C. Av
Mary Brown
Tomasine Jefferson
Jamexina Madison
Jemima Monroe
J Quinctana
Wilhelmina Hesrietta
Johnetta Tyler
Hate Marty van Buren
Dinny Keeturah Polk
Zacherina Tagelor
Millerel
Fillmore
Veils of the Season Fashion Notes
Plain white and Diack ana white veils are popular among conservative women. A novel flatwise mesh gains appeal for its novelty, with plain veils edged by tiny velvet dots and star accents. Deep bordered veils suit Louis collars, while all white veils with a black beauty spot or pescock on one cheek appear as a new novelty. Veils in shaded chiffon and love veils cater to motorists seeking skin protection and style.
Tasty Lenten Dish with Boiled Eggs and Tomato
A compact recipe describes boiling eggs until hard, cooling, shelling, halving and spreading with velvety paste. Butter a dish, arrange eggs cut side down on thick tomato slices, pour spicy tomato sauce, and bake eight minutes serving hot.
A Message From Washington Greened by a Wartime Messenger
In colonial New Jersey, Herbert Burrage carries a crucial dispatch from Washington toward General Lee. Disguised as a farmer, he evades Tory scrutiny through Elizabethtown while Molly Erskine, his lover, secretly aids the mission. After capture, Molly hides the message with a risky ride, while Burage is imprisoned. The saga ends with Tory plans to shun disgrace by exhausting the ruse of his escape story.
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New Jersey
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Dubbe Ferry
Fort Lee
Hudson
New York City
Morristown
N. J
Lee
Herbert Burrage
Burrage
Elizabethtown
Elizabeth
Erskine Fort
Molly
Herbert
Tim
New York
Howe Fintend
Erskine
Lew
Bur- Hige
Herbert Burrage Atuberty
Cherries and Cranberries Party Contest for Young Readers
A Washington birthday children's party features a "guess the number of cherries" game with a second point for nearest guess. Players dip hands to balance cranberries on the back, walk without spilling, and toss cherries into a bowl for additional points. Prizes include candy boxes with artificial cherries and scarlet crepe paper cherries as consolation prizes.
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Washington
Where Washington Got His Time
A playful note imagines George Washington greeting his 183rd birthday on February 22. It recalls his death in 1799 at Mount Vernon Virginia and notes the sundial at Mount Vernon as a relic of early timekeeping. He reportedly used sundials before clocks, with the Mount Vernon Ladies Association maintaining the site.
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George Washington
Mount Vernon
National Capital
Washington
Adam
Etiquette in Washington as Washingtons Life Guide
A 18th century guidance on conduct advises prep for advising others either publicly or privately, choosing the right moment and tone. Reprove with calm sweetness, avoid choler, mockery, and sharp wit. Do not blaspheme or gossip, and resist spreading disparaging reports about anyone. Be virtuous, modest, and temperate in all dealings.
Inscribed Message Found Above Ten Commandments
A stone tablet in a northwest England country church bears letters: PRSVRYPRFCOTMN VREPTHUSPREOPTSTN with only one letter missing. The deciphered line hints at a moral precept set and notes the answer is the letter E, while urging men to persevere and keep these precepts.
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England
How the Seal Breathes Under Arctic Ice
A fragment from Youths Companion notes a small spotted seal drilling through fifty feet of solid ice to access air in the Arctic winter. It describes the seal's thick blubber and tough skin, and mentions polar bears waiting below for prey.
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Far North
Arctic
Lt Ia
Exkline
Religious War Gifts Shrink as War Strains Church Aid
War pressures cut donations to Catholic Protestant Jewish missions and church organizations. Exhibit funds for Panama-Pacific Expo fall from 25000 to 15300, with many boards running deficits. Episcopal missions report 250000 debt. Baptist boards behind 30000, cut to 30000 through efforts. Zionist and Jewish relief efforts face restrictions. Salvation Army funds delayed. Despite hardship, postwar congregations grow, raising temperance interest and spiritual revival.
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Gnandal
Protestant Missionary Societies
Panama-Pacife
Episcopal Board of Mivelions
Baptist Board
Lyons
France
United States
Far East
Society For
Salvation Army
Willeh
Chicago
New York
Bishop Greer
Manning
Jowett
Burrell
Stires
Wilson
Jefferson
Remensnyder
Morrill
Cavalry Horses and Their Burdens Across Armies
The British cavalry uses Lee-Enfield rifles with ten round magazines, swords, and revolvers for certain ranks. Troopers carry 100 rounds in a bandolier, with lancer regiments using lances. Each cavalryman bears one ration, kit, and a total load near 110 pounds. Cossack ponies ~17 stone, Indian horses ~19, Austrian troops ~21–22, French and German averages similar. This summary reflects Manchester Guardian’s wartime equipment overview.
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Europe
Eame
Manchester Guardian
Washington sua culpa? Replaced stone by rule
General Washington and his retinue visited Chelsea near Boston in 1775 to inspect the land. An officer refused to replace a wall stone after alighting from the horses, prompting Washington to mend the stone himself and declare that he leaves places in good order.
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Falion Stons
Washington
Chelsea
Boston
John Dexter
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