Paris Watering Place Revenue Move Sparks Debate
A 1919 Paris council move aims to classify the city as a watering place to collect small fees from visitors, aligning with other towns’ practices. The plan, praised by some as revenue boosting, faces criticism for altering the city's traditional identity.
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Uric Acid in Meat Said to Clog Kidneys
In a fragmentary account a health note claims meat forms an irritant acid that clogs kidneys and disturbs the bladder. Advice recommends neutralizing the acid with a grape and lemon juice tonic, plus a saline remedy, to ease irritation and restore comfort. The text also mentions Maniicta’s large gilt herd and a quotation about value.
Recipe for Gray Hair Concoction from Obscure Page
Fragmentary OCR shows a dated note for a hair treatment mixing water and unknown compounds to cover gray hair. It claims it won t coat the scalp dry rub off or leave odor and is easy to persuade worried men it is harmless. The source text is garbled and many details are unreadable.
Sour Cream Uses and Soup Recipes from a Traditional Kitchen
A guide on sour cream uses for cookies cakes dressings and sauces with recipes for soups and breads. Includes hints for cooking soups like Split Pea Amber and Onion Soup and notes on bread puddings and household economy tips.
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Eugene
Serson
Tastes and Odors of Wood Flavors Cited
Fragmentary notes describe odors and tastes of various woods. Laurel family woods such as California laurel have distinct flavors. Port Oxford cedar and Pencil cedar or juniper show stronger scents. Hemlock is mild, cypress somewhat rancid. other text shifts to unrelated wedding dialogue and jokes with unclear attribution.
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Quotations on Failure and Success Across Papers
A collage of aphorisms and quips from multiple papers contrasts failure with success. It includes Irving Bachester on life’s tragic end and the value of honest effort, a line about a message from a departed wife, a quip on a postal postscript absence, and a dentist joke about a bill. The mix showcases era-typical brief witticisms.
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Good Barn for Up to 30 Cows and Beef Shelters
Arrangement details describe a winter dairy barn for 30 cows with beef cattle shelter sheds. The design includes central feeding alley with stall-facing mangers, overhead feed carriers, rear alleys, three ventilator domes, four air shafts, and fresh air and sunshine as key welfare factors. Watering cups are planned with a storage tank in a typical farm system.
Modern weather-tight dairy barn aids efficiency and profits
An architecturally designed dairy barn combines a 36 by 72 foot gambrrel reef dairy unit with two 40 foot shelter sheds for beef cattle. The design emphasizes continuous water supply, loose housing, and central feed racks to boost milk output by keeping cows warm and comfortable, reducing labor costs, and improving winter storage.
Campbell Camel Brains and Stupidity at the Zoo
In a humorous zoo scene Campbell Camel laments lacking brains and the burdens of education while Charlie Camel chides him. The exchange mocks vanity and foolishness as camels boast and tease each other about brains and load carrying.
Raising ships from seafloor as Britain eyes salvage
The article notes about 14 British ships, 20 to 10100 tons, could be raised from shallow waters by divers rather than rebuilt. If half are salvaged and reused, Britain gains greatly in transport. Lusitania would not be raised due to depth, rest in peace amid horror of the crime.
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Bremen
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Chicago Journal
Handy for hubby provides a wall flower basket ashtray
A reader recalls a Christmas gift that was a long narrow wicker affair with zinc. They used it as an ash receiver on a Morris chair, drawing a horrified reaction from the friend who gave it, who said it was actually a wall hanging flower basket.
The Slackers and Oddities From London News
A humor column notes army officers discussing race creams in France and home skin care, a unique bear cub hybrid from Teddy and Daisy, the Matamata turtle hunger strike in London, prohibition woes of a beer lover, a Roman Eye Haksam ad, and witty exchanges on Christmas shopping and engagements.
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London
Teddy
Canada
Daisy
Russia
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