FETTERS OF GOLD
A ruined financier John Dolan plans suicide in his opulent library as gambling losses erase his wealth. His wife Mary, calm and loving, reveals she knew of the ruin and offers forgiveness and a return to their former life, ending with a vow to start anew.
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Serres
England
John Dolan
Grosvenor Square
Mary
Lly
Harry
Molly
Baby
Harrow
Kathleen
Stock Exchange
Monte Carlo
My Apple Dumplings
A recipe for apple dumplings with a butter sugar cinnamon pastry filled with chopped tart apples. Dough is rolled to half inch thickness and baked with a sauce of sugar flour butter salt hot water and lemon.
Young Man Be a Farm Owning Farmer says Bishop
Bishop Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal Church South urges rural land ownership to sustain noble manhood. He warns city life erodes character, praises farm life for thought and individuality, and urges young men to stay on or return to their fathers farms.
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Bishop Fitzgerald
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
South
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
Devonshire Junket Tradition and Milk Varieties
Devonsire cooks flavor milk junket by heating milk with sugar and flavoring then adding prepared rennet. When cold a layer of clotted cream and nutmeg is added. Ewes’ milk yields better junket than cows’ milk and needs less rennet as a note on local Devonshire milking. Prepared rennet is sold by chemists in various quantities.
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Devonshire
Chicken Pie with Rich Biscuit Crust Method
Instructions to prepare a hearty chicken pie using a rich biscuit dough crust in a granite pan. Layer meat with thin crust strips, add broth, cover, bake, then finish gravy with butter cream and thickening for serving.
Household Tips From A Bygone Era
Practical household hints cover cleaning and stain removal. Topics include dust removal with moist salt, treating bruises with alcohol, using turpentine, rinsing boiling wax, lemon juice for iron stains, vinegar for cheese spoilage, drying cloths outside, cleaning Indian brass with lemon and salt, and making glass look opaque with Epsom salt mixture.
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Vanderveldt
John
Marry
Devonshire Junket
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