A Yankee Coat Leads Ned Moore to Love and Change
Ned Moore, a bashful bachelor of 28, travels to Spring Lake for a rest and funds a bold wardrobe from a secondhand shop. On a moonlit beach he hugs Nell, mistaken for her lover, and the scene collapses into laughter when Nell’s suitor Jack arrives. Moore learns to value companionship and eventually marries, keeping the courting coat as a memento of his transformation.
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Ned Moore
Spring Lake
Monmouth House
Flo
Ned
Nell
Jack
New York
Chicago Times-herald
Pious Ideas and the Duchess of B on Sabbath achurch
A tale from Bishop How's Notebook contrasts pious display with genuine faith. A Presbyterian nurse admires a grand church and its singing, while a duchess notes the beauty of worship, the nurse calling it an odd way to spend the Sabbath. A Scotch lady and her gardener attend worship together, doubting formal doctrine, and a minister’s rain prayer yields floods, prompting a joke about a clergyman ignorant of agriculture.
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John
Magenta Named By Empress For New Duchess
Eugenie named the color magenta after the new duchess of Magenta following MacMahon’s rise and celebrated with official and private entertainments. The duchess, a devout Catholic, wore a reddish violet velvet dress to an audience with the Empress and the color chosen as a compliment.
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Eugenie
Magenta
Mme. MacMahon
Frrench Republic
MacMahon
Buffalona
Old Jersey hostess’s antique recipes from a yellowed book
From a colonial era household known as the Belle of East Jersey, a legacy of hospitality and large Jersey estate inspires a short collection of recipes. Soft Gingerbread uses flour molasses cream butter ginger and saleratus. Whips blends cream lemon and wine with egg whites. Apes combines sugar butter eggs cream saleratus for a stiff rolled dough.
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Jerseys
East
Jersey
A Newspaper Holder DIY Guide
A simple newspaper holder made from a 14 inch square of cardboard covered on both sides with cloth or velveteen in contrasting colors. Sew edges together, add a hanging cord, fold two points to the center, attach a ribbon bow, and finish with a ribbon bow on each side.
Cheese Stuffed Baked Potatoes Recipe Guide
Boiled potatoes lose most potash salts in water. baked potatoes retain them making a cheese filled, easily digested dish. Bake large potatoes until soft, halve them preserving skins, scoop, mix with grated cheese and hot milk, pepper and salt, whip lightly, refill skins, brown with egg wash and serve.
Carving Knives and Beef Quality
A cookery class head explains that a sharp knife matters more than perfect beef. He notes carvers wear out blades faster due to beef ingredients, heat, and moisture, which dull knives but not dullness from mutton.
Simple barometer uses pickle bottle inverted flask
A brief description explains a reliable barometer using a wide mouthed pickle bottle and an inverted washed oil flask to sense weather changes. Water rises in fine weather and recedes in wind, with stormy conditions sometimes emptying the flask. A German Swiss variant uses a water jar, a frog, and a Hetle stepladder where the frog perched on the steps signals imminent rain.
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Germany
Switzerland
Return to Darker Wood Furnishings Defines This Season
In furniture, white lacquered pieces have been worn out by fashion and are giving way to darker wood. Upholstery tones remain light to align with the season’s overall fashion trend.
Pine Forests Predicted to Be Denuded in Five Years
A forecast warns that the remaining white pine forests could be virtually stripped within five years, signaling urgent concern for timber supply and ecological impact.
Soy beans economical feed and soil improver for Kansas
The Kansas station advocates soy beans for stock and dairy use, noting drought tolerance, pest resistance, and soil enrichment. They detail planting 30 to 42 inch rows, one half bushel per acre, surface planting and level cultivation, and harvesting when pods brown to avoid seed loss.
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Kansas
Iansus
Carler
Mixing Sweet and Field Corn in New Jersey
Charles Black of New Jersey reports a 20 year practice of growing sweet corn and field corn together. He keeps a small strip of sweet corn within field corn, noting the crops tend to mix in the first year before conforming to field corn size.
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Charles Black
New Jersey
Duke and Dean Petition for Sunday Open House
The Duke and Dean Rogers recall in a park meeting how Lord Rosebery joined a petition to open Apsley House on Sundays for public viewing. The Duke dourly notes only Dean Stanley and Rosebery as names he respects while agreeing to proceed if visitors wipe their feet and avoid sitting on sofas.
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Rogers
Lord Rosebery
Duke of Wellington
Apsley House
Duke
Mr. Rogers
Dean Stanley
Westminster Gazette
Old flames and new marriages at distant resorts
Two women in a dry goods store recall past lake trips and flirtations. One mentions Perry, now married to another, while Hetty notes meeting Johnny in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The pair exchange surprised, rueful remarks about him being married now and the perils of old flames.
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Perry
Hetty
Johnny
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Salt Lake Herald
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County
New York Times
War veterans seek relief with Pain Balm use
Old soldiers recall hard service and many suffer rheumatism. Geo S Anderson of Rossville Penn reports relief after using Chamberlains Pain Balm and asks what a dozen bottles would cost for himself and neighbors. The piece also notes various medical claims and a Mississippi law on corporate property.
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Geo. S. Anderson
Rossville
York County
Penn
Chamberlain
Foley's Honey and Tar Endorsed for Coughs and Colds
From the Chicago News an odd contrast notes bankers and jolly fellows, while advertising Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy for stubborn coughs from grippe or heavy cold. The claim highlights its supposed lung strengthening healing properties.
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W. W. Mayhew
Merton, Wis
H. J. Moogh
Foley
H. J. Moogk
W. FF. Jungkunz
Running sore cured by Banner Salve claim origin
Henry H Richards of Willseyville New York recounts a yearlong breast running sore cured after using half a box of Banner Salve. He praises the remedy and says he will never be without it. Two other names appear in the testimonial. Separate note mentions Paris sewage farms causing well infection and an intestinal illness epidemic.
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Henry H. Richards
Willseyville
N. Y
H. J. Moogh
W. F. Jungkunz
Paris
The
New York Tribune
the Tribune
Tribune
Cleveland
United States
Tri-Weekly
Tri-Weekly Tribune
the Weekly
Atwater man benefits from kidney cure after illness
Chas Replogle of Atwater Ohio was unable to work due to kidney trouble. After four days using Foley's Kidney Cure he was entirely well. H. J. Moogk and W. F. Jungkunz endorsed the remedy.
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Chas, Replogle
Atwater
Foley
H. J. Moogk
W. F. Jungkunz
Chiropodist and Manicure Ad at Pennsylvania House
Mrs Hale offers foot care at Pennsylvania House cottage for corns bunions and related foot ailments. Appointment availability advertised in a concise local notice.
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Francis M. Hardy
Mississippi
Southern Man
DeWitt
Chicago
Chicago, Ill
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
Dodd
Tam
Ageke
Sent &H
E. C. Dewitt & CO
H. J. Mooge
Americas
Alton Railroad
Kansas City
ST. Louis
Peoria
Palliway
Chicago News
Hot Springs
Ark
Denver
Colo
Texas
Florida
Utah
California
Oregon
Chicago & Alton
Geo. J. Charlton
Illinots
Pen Ule
Croc
Mana Manas
Georgia
Alabama
Aisis
North Carolina
South Carolina
Wan
Daily and
Sunday Tribune
Cit
the Sunday Sun
the Sun
Chicago Journal
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