Household Matters in a Culinary Scale
A vintage kitchen note describes preparing eight medium potatoes two carrots and three beets with oil and parsley for a six serving salad. It includes a sweet milk cake mix with sugar butter egg and flour baked in three layers and topped with a lemon rind lemon juice yolk icing.
Cornmeal Batter Recipe from Harpers Bazaar
A vintage cornbread style recipe from Harpers Bazaar details mixing cornmeal with sugar baking powder and salt then folding in beaten eggs and milk plus butter and a fruit or berries. It notes placing some flour over fruit to keep it suspended and to fold in egg whites last.
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Harpers Bazar
Waffle Batter with Dates and Lemon Butter
Separate two eggs and beat the yolks very light then mix in Balt sugar butter and cream. Stir in milk flour and baking powder then fold in chopped dates and egg whites. Bake in a waffle iron and serve warm with butter and powdered sugar with lemon peel or maple syrup.
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Harper's Bazar
Rolled Jelly Cake From Simple Pantry Mix
A traditional jelly cake recipe uses sugar flour baking powder and water with beaten eggs folded lightly for a fluffy batter. The batter is sifted through a flour sifter multiple times then baked in a shallow tin and spread with jelly before rolling and wrapping.
Household tips and small chores from a past era
Practical advice on household tasks including leak repair with soap and whiting paste, cough remedies with lemon juice and sugar, lamp burner cleaning with soapy boil, copper kettle care, furniture placement for space, toy chests for storage, needlework ironing, frying pan cleaning by soaking, preserving geraniums for spring, soft blankets without shrinking, making hot suds with white soap and borax, and decorative silk shade painting with forget me not motifs.
Reading Him Down to the Yard
A humorous exchange between de Viland and Tomwalker over fowls and American breeds, noting Secretary Wilson’s remarks on the American hen. The Chicago Tribune quotes their banter about chicken yard choices and poultry worth.
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de Viland
Russia’s peasantry and the village Mir system described
G Frederick Wright discusses Russia as an agricultural nation with a vast peasant majority in village communes called Mir. He contrasts Great, Little, and White Russians, notes Cossack frontiersmen, and explains Mir governance, exile to Siberia, and internal passport practices. He argues Mir hinders progress yet bonds empire unity.
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Europe
United States
Russia
Moscow
Volga
Don
Dnieper
Dvina
Tolstoy
Vladivostok
Siberia
Central Asia
Black Sea
Sea of Azov
Dreshky
Great
Ural
Mir
Friends
Vetera
Howe
G. Frederick Wright
New York Evening Post
Belgian hare craze ends as markets fail to glut
A New York Post column notes that Belgian hares never became a food product and failed to flood markets. It parallels other fads like tulips and mushrooms, stating profits from such ventures are illusory and often driven by over-optimistic advertising rather than solid returns.
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Fortune Ia
Department of Agriculture
New York Post
Ragged Lad Shines On Makes Quick Choice For Toffee
A street football game on a worn ground features a small boy who towers in effort and skill. A benefactor offers a sweets box or sixpence, but the boy prefers the toffee, saying he might pursue becoming a professional later.
Odd Auction Of Husbands Across The Ages
Recounts historical and global anecdotes of wives selling their husbands from Paddington to Munich and Cracow. Describes agreements, legal quirks, and comic outcomes, from 18th century Leeds to Manchester markets, including sums, bidders, and the curious social history of marital property milestones.
Diverse Fragments Reveal Global Odds and Oddities
A collection of notes spans science quirks and history from markets to manners. It mentions watch wheels covering 355 miles yearly, baronial succession in Russia, colder climes affecting hearing, San Francisco highwaymen, a German councilman’s lese majeste sanction, Cape Town Jews dedicating a 1500-seat synagogue, ancient wedding rings in Isle of Man, rings of stone along a wall, and an Indian animal hospital near Calcutta treating thousands with eighty nurses.
Devotion and singing dispute ends in religious freedom ruling
A church member cashed in a dispute over singing during divine worship. The trial found guilt but the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed, ruling no intent to disturb and that he sincerely worshiped, upholding religious liberty.
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Va. Linkhuw
N.C
Supreme Court of the State
Education and the Papers in College Use of Newspapers
A Kansas City Times summary on integrating newspapers into Northwestern University history courses. It argues current events illuminate past understanding, noting that newspapers provide living precedents shaping modern history. The piece cites Goethe on knowing Europe through lived times and emphasizes newspapers as essential to grasp humanity and historic currents.
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Northwestern University
James
Gothe
Europe
Frederick the Great
Napoleon
Kansas City Times
Perch Catching on Lake Champlain Report Draws Laughs
Frank B. Coombs hears William B. Wackerhagen recount a farcical tale of fishing for bass on Lake Champlain a perch school rising to the surface on a bare hook with no bait. Jimmie Huested corroborates the anecdote while Coombs seeks stock quotes for the Albany Journal. The European express train average speed is cited.
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Bil Jones
Jimmie Huested
Mr. Coowbs
Mr. Wackenhagen
Lake
Champlain
Mr. Coombs
Albany Journal
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