Ordeal by Fire at Benaria Lidia Spectacle in India
A British India gathering on the outskirts of a city villa witnessed a dramatic fire ordeal. Prominent officials and social leaders watched priests march around a hot trench filled with coals as two contenders passed through unscathed. Afterward Hindoo spectators, including old men and children, walked the fiery trench as belief in Siva worship grew. A Los Angeles Times account notes skepticism gave way to conviction of mystic power.
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Benares
Lidia
British India
Kuset
Bennies Fire
Brahmapoots
Ao Ghiss Reliquiary
Siva
Hindoo
Vishou
Coronado Beach
Lanivis
Nione
Los Angeles Times
Caddie Tales and Missives of Witty Letters
A garbled mosaic of humorous lines and parodic exchanges from London sketches and Punch style quips. It weaves caddie lore, postal complaints, and a modern lover’s odd pillow request, rendering a collage of ephemeral newsroom mood and social banter.
The Ideal Nursery in Early 20th Century Home Design
A detailed guide to planning a bright healthful nursery with eastern or southern exposure. Recommends white enamel trim, Delft blue and white nursery paper, white painted furniture, simple curtains, built in book shelves, a wall thermometer, and floor rugs. Emphasizes cleanliness, moderate temperature, fresh air, and simple decor matching blue and white themes.
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Delft
PADS FOR WRITING DESK IN HASTY ONE PAD USES
A woman with extensive correspondence uses small stationery pads for casual notes, invitations, gifts, and thank yous. These pads, often morocco bound, replace costly embossed letters for informal writing and save money. An oblong card options with street numbers fits into envelopes for quick visits or directions.
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Morocco
A Handy Tray from Silk and Watered Silk Boxed Set
A silketted tray of foreign origin features a wetted silk box with old gold braid binding. It includes a string box velvet pincushion paper knife scissors and a box for odds and ends. Preferred colors are art green pink blue and farina violet.
A Religious Author's Kidney Remedy Testimony
A writer describing years of kidney trouble reports a severe winter attack keeping him bedbound for eight days. He notes thick white sediment in urine and frequent urination. After starting Foley's Kidney Remedy, the pain faded and kidney function returned to normal. He endorses Foley's Kidney Remedy.
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Foley
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Suffering Women
An advertisement claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured four years of misery from irregularities and nervous symptoms in women. It touts the remedy as the most successful for female complaints, lists conditions it treats, and offers free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia EK
Pinkham
W. 8. Ford
Lansdowne St
Baltimore
Lydia E. Pinkham
A Slip and a Slipper
A housekeeper schemes to deny plum jam by claiming the pantry key is lost. Richard insists he can reach the door from the inside, and the housekeeper approves his plan but orders him to stay in his room until their father returns.
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Richard
Propitiating the Weather Across Lands
English drought prayers in churches contrast with Roman Catholic marches of rain seeking processions. In Macedonia Greeks stage dry summer displays as children visit wells, the maid adorned with garlands leading a rhyming rain prayer while residents fear a tragic fate if drenched by water at each stop.
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England
Macedonia
Tennyson
Slips Of The Tongue Cost A Subscriptions Sale
A canvasser mispronounces a word while promoting a periodical to a householder. He boasts of an enormous circulation, claiming 38,000,000 fire places instead of copies, prompting the lady to correct him and decline the sale. The anecdote from Youth's Companion ends with a humorous corrective remark.
Cult of Beauty In Bosnia Described By Traveler
A London Standard account recalls a Bosnian peasant woman deemed an adept in cosmetics and toilet arts. Her store reportedly held roses rosewater musk saffron amber and other preparations. She dyed hair black wore kna darkened brows and lashes with a green nut powder and used royal florals for cheeks and nails while applying lime and alum for depilation.
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Bosnia
How to Make Tough Meat Tender
A cooking tip notes that adding a spoonful of vinegar to boiling meat improves tenderness without leaving any vinegary flavor. The method applies to corned beef, chicken, and other meats, with amounts adjusted to piece size.
How to Make a Cookbook from Cut Recipes
A guide suggests cutting recipes from newspapers and magazines that appeal to you and testing them. Organize tried and approved recipes under alphabetical headings, then paste into a blank notebook. Over time this creates a personal cookbook of favored recipes.
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Aretmge
The Prenchian Language Quirk In England
Paris Opinion notes a playful dig at language use highlighting how English speakers prefer French while others struggle with English. The piece suggests that mastery of English alone may fail to ensure fluency and observes national attitudes toward foreign speech.
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England
Paris
First Women Infantry Corps Debated Uniform Fables
A suffrage era meeting debated forming a women’s infantry corps. A dress uniform was proposed in olive, with a yellow jacket and knee length skirt, but disputes over bustles, corsets, hips, and hair led to a split and the group disbanded without a decision while the war secretary awaits equipment. The incident stalls the suffrage effort to showcase women’s military capability.
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American Press Association
Susan Armstrong
Congress
Marc
Strong Hind
Secretary of War
Mra Aviastrone
Aliss Owen
Miss Wrinkle
Skinner
Wrivkie
Miss Blackmore
Miss Skinner
Miss Ferguson
Mrs. Mathews
Kelloge
President
Simper
O War
Womin
Chinese burial customs and a misfired legend about snakes
The article describes Chinese burial practices with elaborate coffins kept as household furniture for dissolution. It wanders into a dubious theory about snakes in New Zealand as an antipodal myth linked to St Patrick, then truncates the tale with unclear wording.
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China
New Zealand
Ieland
New
Fences and Farming Practice Through The Ages
Farmers face evolving fence choices from worm and hedgerow to woven wire. Barbed wire, while cheap and durable, risks livestock injury and costly damages. Woven wire, topped with barbed wire, offers better security, visual appeal, and easier maintenance for farm safety and productivity.
Portable Fence For a Chicken Yard
A simple portable fence can be built by walling laths on 1 by 3 stringers and using old gas pipes driven into the ground to pass through end holes. Fence height adapts to chicken size, with wooden lath four feet high and piping to set three feet between stringers for a four foot fence.
Stringers and gas pipes for open seat construction
Instructions describe cutting stringers six feet long per soil, setting fences, and driving gas pipes through holes. After stakes are driven once or twice they bend, so cutting from stringer ends may be used to form an open seat.
Fertilizing the orchard and garden in winter soil care
The piece argues winter fertilization benefits orchards and gardens by enriching soil for next year, protecting soil during cold, and reducing erosion on slopes. It notes mature plant material decays and releases nutrients, aiding plant growth while moderating freeze thaw cycles.
Theater seating grumbles over post blocking and high prices
A shopper debates theater seating options in a chatty Indianapolis News item. She rues posts blocking views while complaining about two dollar prices and prime seats. Frustrated, she negotiates for two seats, insisting on no commentary.
America Alone Has Humming Birds
A brief note from Outing Magazine discusses the global distribution of hummingbirds, noting about 400 species, mostly tropical, with only eighteen crossing into the United States from Mexico. It explains their diet includes insects that harm flowers and highlights the birds’ insectivorous role and wing capturing habit.
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America
Europe
United States
Mexico
Hax
Job
Outing Magazine
France's Roads Best In the World
France's road system earns praise for thorough earthwork, careful ditching, and staged embankments. Roads feature proper crossroad angles, stone parapets on dangerous turns, sign posts at intersections, and indicators for curves and descents. Rail crossings employ gates with a day and night watchman.
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France
Leslie’s
Extravagance of the New Yorker
A critique questions whether New Yorkers are preyed upon by service workers and profiteers. It describes price gouging in eateries and delays for poor meals, accusing cab fare rules of being illegitimate and noting harsh, overbearing street life.
Cob in New York World Item Teases A Funeral Billing Oddity
A fragment from the New York World notes a puzzling claim where a funeral procession purportedly included extra carriages not used, with a joke about weights, births, and charges against the estate. The text is garbled but hints at a satire on funeral costs and misapplied charges.
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Fales
New York World
Narrow escape as wagon nearly runs over man
Johnson recalls a morning near run over by a wagon. Hughes shielded him by striking the horse’s head with an umbrella, which broke. the horse halted and Johnson was pulled clear. A friend notes the umbrella’s broken handle and a borrowed detail from yesterday.
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Johnson
Hughes
Binks
Pearson
No data for contradiction in senator speech
A Washington Star snippet features an exchange where an attentive listener commends the speech but admits forgetting several words. Senator Sorgum replies that the essence of rhetoric lies in pleasing the ear rather than supplying data for later dispute.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Cunning Talk Between Sally Gay and Dolly Swift
Sally Gay remarks on Mr. Callipers as a cunning fellow while Dolly Swift questions the claim. Sally defends him noting his bow legs give him an arch look, in a playful exchange from the Truth.
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Sally Gay
Mr. Callipers
Dolly Swift
Her Own Money. Husband What Another New Dress
A brief exchange shows a wife revealing she bought a new dress with her own funds by selling her husband’s fur coat. Bovian captures the playful domestic banter as a punchy quip about independence and possession.
The Eternal Puzzle Baby
The London Mirror notes a shift in parenting from underestimating children to overestimating them. It critiques those who treat kids as vastly cleverer than their parents, likening such study to a biologist examining a new germ.
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London Mirror
Man Returns After Long Absence From New York Hotel Rooms
An out of town man staying at a New York hotel left his family in the rooms for an extended period. Upon returning, he calmly replied to his wife’s anxious question about his whereabouts that he had merely been in the dorm walking to and fro, reflecting a trivial, uneventful escape from the moment.
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New York
Army Dogs Train and Find Bodies in War Zone Oddity
An excerpt describes German army dogs so highly trained that upon locating a dead body they arrange a prolonged “bowling” and, if unattended, carry the deceased’s cap in their teeth to track their trainer to the scene. If the man is wounded the dog returns the cap and repeats the act.
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London
Entitled to Them Ex Mayor Claims Past Posts
In Kansas City the new arrival reads from a page at a hotel desk listing “Jeremiah Greatch NANN Skeezixville.” An officer asks about the Xs after the name. The man replies that the markings reflect former roles including ex-school director ex-township trustee ex-county commissioner and ex-mayor.
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Jeremiah Greatch
Nann
Skeezixville
Kansas City
Ab’s Simple Marital Secret Stirs Virginia Laughs
An elderly Virginia Black man explains his marriage by saying Ab simply “lets hub hub own way.” A white visitor seeks marital advice and learns the amusing philosophy: Ab does it his own way.
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Virginia
The Religious Mule
A colored citizen testifies that the mule has religion after kicking six sinners toward glory. The crowd debates whether the animals infer a moral lesson, noting the mule’s proven force when startled. The anecdote reflects local color and regional dialect in a brief humorous exchange.
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Atlanta Constitution
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