A Rose and Water Blue Bedroom Color Scheme
A Woman's Home Companion guide describes creating a delicate rose colored room with cream white woodwork, pink walls, and a subtle border. It recommends polished white enamel furniture, pink curtains, and a sage green carpet to achieve a pastel, serene effect.
Home Style Cookery and Sewing Tips From Early Practical Guide
This page offers a cabbage stuffed leaf recipe with rice and meat, tomato gravy, and mashed potatoes, plus sewing with double thread to prevent knots, dampening clothes for ironing, and a rubber mat tip to protect umbrella jars. It reads as a practical household guide with dated, simple instructions.
Sweet Potatoes Mexican Style Recipe Notice
Sweet potatoes prepared Mexican style roll them until tender then peel and halve lengthwise. Melt butter add minced onions, brown slightly then add green and red peppers tomato catsup vinegar and brown sugar. Stir and pour over potatoes as directed by Vogue.
Sauce for Duck From Sorrel and Cherry
Extract the juice from sorrel leaves and add a glass of cherry. Mash gooseberries with a touch of sugar. Melt two tablespoons butter, fold in, and simmer briefly. Serve sauce hot with roast duck.
Currant Sauce Recipe Passage
A historical recipe fragment describes cooking currants in water for five minutes, then adding bread crumbs, cloves, wine, and butter until smooth. The note suggests serving with veolson, a term implying a meat dish accompaniment in old culinary language.
Mean Flings At Editors In A Publisher's Anecdotes
A publisher recalls Lafcadio Hearn's youthful newspaper work and his later satire of editors. He cites stories of a pompous editor who claimed the seven ages of man as original and a weather note about winter lingering in spring's lap cut for moral tone in a town of schoolgirls.
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Little John Claims Prayer Is Not Said Right
Four year old John attends church for the first time and, after listening from the pew, loudly protests that the minister is not saying the Lord’s Prayer correctly. His mother had warned him to be quiet, but his earnest critique draws amused and surprised reactions from the congregation.
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John
Going to Be Fined
An anecdote recalls a newspaper reporter asking for a laborer’s name at a scene of injury. The worker joked about being docked minutes lost to the hospital, highlighting a blunt view of work and punishment.
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George Ade
Texas teacher praises Postum over coffee for nervous relief
A Texas primary teacher recounts starting coffee as a child and shifting to Postum Food Coffee for a month, noting improved nerves, clear skin, better digestion, and no headaches. She claims others switched from coffee after proper preparation and urges reading The Road to Wellville booklet by Postum Co.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
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Wellville
Irish servant girl humor amid New York household scene
A New York West Side caller meets an Irish servant girl who answers with a witty brogue and a humorous line about taking tickets in her mouth as she offers to check if her mistress is home. The incident reflects class expectations and immigrant staff humor reported by the New York Press.
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Iriah
Lele
New York
West Side
N. Y
Sores as Big as Pennies After Measles
A Nebraska resident, Mrs. Henry Porter of Albion, recalls severe head and neck sores lasting six months after measles. She praises Cutlourn Remedies, noting dramatic improvement in a week and full recovery in three weeks, seven years ago.
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Henry Porter
Albion, Neb
Modest Five-Cent Tip Startles NYC Waiter
A man at a restaurant left a five cent tip amid a modest luncheon. The waiter, instead of scowling, said thank you and viewed the small gratuity as good fortune, muttering to himself that it was a start er. The encounter reflects a cheerful note from a new shift.
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N. Y. Sun
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Fragmentary chatter on bread lines and virtue
The clipped text reflects a New York Sun column snippet debating poverty and virtue with a line about bread lines in a great city. It juxtaposes a wife returning home to a mother with a cynical remark on how the poor obtain food, ending with a Cicero quote.
Burglary Trial Debate and Auto Line in Abyssinia
A lawyer counsels a lengthy jury address to delay sentencing a burglar. In another note, London Globe reports Abyssinia embracing autos with a German concession to run Addis Abeba to Direduna, a two day caravan distance by road.
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Prester John
Abyssinia
Germany
Negus
Addis Abeba
Direduna
London Globe
A Fascinating Game in the City Street
A precocious girl watches the busy thoroughfare from her window and explains her interest as watching the cars go pro and con. The passage echoes a Harper's Weekly tone with a playful street scene and a stray ad line about piles treatment and a vague note on telephony in France.
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Harper’s Weekly
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