Roaming Thoughts and Snapshots From Farmington Notes
A fragmentary Farmington Enterprise page mixes editor credits with varied quips on Naples and Roosevelt, Pole theory, misused foods, and social topics. It cites humorous asides on sausage quality, Chinese emperors, psychotherapy, and the clash of health and religion. The tone resembles a miscellany column of opinions and curiosities.
Deportation detainee offered leniency for escape attempt
A man held in New York on a deportation sentence is promised leniency if he escapes his detention jail and is now working on the job. The piece notes the odd testing of the jail system and the role of his employer, highlighting community stakes in handling undesirable citizens.
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New York
Westward rush to care for consumptives checked by meals and air
Los Angeles lags in admitting the burden of caring for consumptives shipped there without funds or adequate care. Denver already faced this truth. It is not climate but adequate air and nourishing food that aids recovery, slowing the western and southern migration of patients seeking relief.
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Los Angeles
Denver
Grim official figures show long historical death tolls and flawed justice
The report claims 2319 condemnations and 1485 executions from 1906 to 1900. It hints at harsh political punishment and cites a New York court case where an honest man, a plumber, lowered a bill after noticing a miscalculation.
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Police Department of the Empire
New York
Diogenes
Shakespeare
Des Moines Seeks Moral Censor as Public Debates Rise
City officials discuss creating a public morals censor role, exploring qualifications and duties. The dialogue references a model like a Municipal Advisory Board and questions the need for oversight of local morals.
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Des Moines
MAB
Arab gentleman fills missing space in record
An Arab gentleman fills a gap in a historical record with careful typing and archival handling. The scene centers on preservation work and the quiet role of the individual in maintaining document integrity.
The Sorrow of a Letter and the Doctor's Lost Dog
A doctor friend and his loyal Irish setter Hugh share nine loving years. After a hunting pup is introduced, the old dog is neglected and stars, then wanders away. Hugh dies peacefully beside his master as children listen to distant chimes.
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Hugh
Dr. N
Plaster of Paris
Mary
Hig House
Merchants’ Bank
Doctor’s
Queen’s Avenue
Hugh Strong
Victoria Park
Neologism Debate Sparks Salesman ship Term
In Charleston during a lecture on Neologisms Carey Johnson Ludlam, the southern Philologist, critiques advertising columns while noting the coined term salesmen ship. The fragment suggests a discussion on language innovation and media usage.
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Carey Johnson Ludlam
Charleston
Strong Concrete Culvert Built at Moderate Cost
A discussion on road construction highlights the value of proper drainage and crowned surfaces for earth and sand clay roads. It stresses thorough mixing of subsoil materials, the use of sharp clean sand, and clay with iron or lime to bind the surface, noting how proper subgrades and maintenance improve durability of wagon roads battered by heavy use.
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Hoard’s
Dairyman
John Lucien Macadam
Macaulay
Lord Bacon
Testing Seeds and Manure Practices From North Dakota Guide
The article outlines a seed testing method using cloth and water to gauge germination, plus advice on manure management and field application. It covers manure spreader value, top dressing timing, and notes on cow peas as a substitute for clover, highlighting regional planting suitability and quick yield.
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North Dakota Agricultural College
Small Quantity Bread Recipes From The Family Page
Readers with small households can use tested scale down recipes for corn muffins biscuits and wheat muffins. Ingredients include corn meal flour sugar baking powder and sour milk with eggs and shortening. yields range from six to eight portions per batch.
Practical Household Hints and Food Uses
A collection of kitchen and home care tips. Apples cored for baking filled with orange marmalade and butter sugar. For blue serge sponge with blue water and air dry. Ensure no grease on egg whisks to avoid frothing. Use lemon and salt with price marks on china or bric a brac. Chestnuts as a food source. pulp can substitute meat or vegetables. croquettes possible. Add alum to flour paste for wallpaper to improve adhesion and insect control. Skim soup fat with square tissue sheets one by one.
Dutch Apple Pudding Recipe From Early Cookbook
A simple batter made from flour salt soda cream of tartar and butter is mixed with milk egg and a pinch of sugar. The dough is spread half an inch deep in a buttered pan the apples are cut into eighths laid in rows and baked twenty five minutes then served with sugar and cream or plain sauce.
Sardine Crusts With Spiced Tomatoes On Toast
Prepare oblong bread slices ¼ inch thick and larger than sardines. Drain sardines, place on buttered dish, dust with paprika salt capers and parsley, bake. Fry bread until crisp, heat sardines through, serve on toast with hot tomato puree for flavor.
A Light Cake Recipe From Early Domestic Instructions
A simple cake method uses one pound flour half a pound sugar half a pound butter three teaspoonfuls German yeast a little milk and nutmeg. Mix dry ingredients, set to rise, then blend with warm milk and butter, bake one hour. Optional caraway or citron.
Walnut Drops Recipe From Circle Magazine
A Walnut Drops recipe instructs mixing half a pound of chopped English walnuts with an equal amount of granulated sugar half a cup sifted flour and half a teaspoon baking powder. Stir in two beaten eggs and adjust with milk to a soft batter. Drop teaspoonfuls on buttered paper and bake in a quick oven.
Old Time Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe
A simple breadbox style recipe mixes one cup brown sugar one cup butter or drippings creamed with one egg and one tablespoon milk. Add two cups pastry flour and a scant teaspoon baking powder roll thin refrigerate overnight and cut shapes bake watch for scorching.
Lister Pudding Preparation Note
Recipe fragment describes mixing four parts something with tard or butter in milk, lining a basin with jam, then steaming for two or three intervals. Contains unreadable terms and incomplete steps.
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Lister
New Strength for Old Backs From Dean’s Kidney Pills
Mrs Joannah Straw of Canton 8 D says rheumatic limb pain dull back ache and kidney issues left her weak head aches and fatigue. After taking Dean's Kidney Pills she improved dramatically at age 81 she now feels as well as a 50 year old and sleeps well Sold by dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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Joannah Straw
North Broadway
Canton
Dean
Foster-Milburt&Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Doctor and Patient Discuss a Longstanding Ailment
The dialogue features a physician and patient exchanging with humor about a familiar, long lasting ailment. The doctor boasts his own experience with the condition spanning two decades.
Child Patient Faces Trial of Eczema Treatments
A young patient endures severe crusted weeping eczema as doctors test multiple therapies to ease symptoms. Despite a score of treatments, responses remain disappointing and limited.
Cure for Eczema Warned by Patient Letter
George F. Lambert of Mahanoy City Pa reports a severe infant eczema case. After physicians failed, Cuticura Remedies including Soap Ointment Resolvent were used and within two months the child recovered. Dated Sept 26 and Nov 4 1907. Potter Drug and Chem Corp solo proprietors Bos.
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George F. Lambert
West Centre St
Mahanoy City
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Bos
Not Unnatural Question at Golf Links
Two neighbors argued over the club links as Ali led and bogey held, each sending about a dozen balls into a pond. A nearby little girl asked the golfer what is the fun in this game, displaying blunt curiosity.
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Ali
Let Us All Unite in Hymn Six Doubles Sing Three
Rev Mr Spicer, after three days with his last gift, the telephone, rose to announce the hymn. In his crisp tone he called for the hymn to be sung, then corrected himself to sing hymn six doubles, sing three. The incident appeared in Youth's Companion.
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Mr. Spicer
Mean Question Quips Across Detroit Free Press Noted
A fragmented snippet presents quips about a dull man lacking a first-rate street car solution from the Detroit Free Press and stray lines on romance, health remedies, and a moral proverb about a thief. The text blends quotes from periodical titles and miscellaneous phrases.
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Detroit Free Press
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