Model co op town to solve domestic probs in Philadelphia
Philadelphia board of city trusts pursues a model community within two miles of the city center. It would house 1200 five person families with heat light and hot water from a central plant priced 33 to 44 dollars monthly, gas extra. Central kitchens, skilled labor, and professional staff would support households and domestic tasks.
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Board of City Truss
Philadelphia
Girard
Stepfhen Girard
Board of City Trusts
Girard College
Seventeenth
Porter Streets
Robert Ellis Thompson
Nee High Echo
Sama Ides
Fast End
Board of
City Trusts
Od A
Neces
Bergen
Norway
Thompson
New England
Mobile
Charlotte Ferkins Gilman
Conversation on manners and a country churchyard reference
A Mrs Highmore and Mrs Struckoyle spar over Professor Bletter and his odd question about admiring Gransella Gee in a country churchyard. The exchange reveals social snobbery and quick retorts in a Chicago Tribune snippet.
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Mra. Highmore
Ike Prof. Bletter
Mra
Struckoyle
Chicago Tribune
Samson Thamthon and the curls that would not stay
Aunt Dee helps Samson, a boy with long curls, face taunting from peers as Dorothy and a new neighbor consider family love. After a scissors-wielding fix and honest confession, a motherless boy finds welcome with David Whiting, offering the needed motherly care.
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Aunt Dee
Dorothy
Thamthon
Samson
Merthy
Dee
Aunt Merthy
Deborah
Grace
David
Delilah
Mercy
Aunt Mercy
George Washington
David Whiting
Imperfect Immunity Claim Sparks Washington Scene
Washington policeman confronts a nine year old boy claiming diplomatic immunity after he breaks branches in Dupont Circle. The child asserts envoy status and ministerial immunity, but the officer insists the law applies and threatens arrest. The exchange ends with the officer challenging the boy to verify his parentage.
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Washington
Chicago Tribune
Dupont Circle
Dutch Buns and Baked Orange Pudding From a Home Kitchen
A Victorian era household guide offers a Dutch buns recipe with butter sugar potatoes eggs milk salt yeast and flour, plus steps to knead rise and bake into 36 small buns. It also provides a Baked Orange Pudding with oranges milk flour sugar and butter and a creamy sauce to finish.
Capay Nan Marders Potato NAPPET Method
Wash and pare six large potatoes and cut them small. Boil until done then mash or rice with salt pepper and butter. Add rich milk and beat to light cream. Bake topped with an egg wash for twenty minutes in a hot oven. Serve hot in an enamel basin with napkin handles. Cold potatoes fail this way.
Chestnut Dressing for Turkey
Select 60 large chestnuts and shell them. Boil to loosen skins, then blanch in salted water until tender. Drain and chop finely, add marrow from two bones, mix with nuts, season with salt and pepper. Moisten with cream or milk and stuff the turkey lightly using a spoon. Do not pack with hands.
Cranberry Ketchup and Plant Care Tips from Home Reminders
A simple catsup recipe uses cranberries water vinegar spices and sugar then canned. follow with plant care hints including using meat water as fertilizer reviving a dying palm and castor oil soil treatment to deter pests. Also notes on removing burned cake crust with a grater and cooling technique.
Weed control by chemical spray and cultivation contrasts
The article discusses weed characteristics and control in cereal crops. It cites a 1 percent arsenite spray per acre with 62 gallons water, comparing treated and untreated yard squares. It stresses knowledge of weed habits, proper cultivation, rotation, and timing for effective management.
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Tu Bot
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Cooperative
Samson and Delilah
Harriet G. Canfield
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