Various modern witticisms and curiosities from GOSHEN
A long flash of humorous items and observations from the era discusses royal princesses as human, schooling wages in Strasbourg and Germany, and a Lahore lecture with armed constables. It notes Olga Nethersole’s view on marriage, New Zealand finances for entertaining a fleet visit, and a Boston girl with six personalities. Also touches on penny postage, a mad cat in New York, and Canadian canal talk amid railway expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Cleaning The Empty Room From Dust To Glazing Glass
Step by step guide to renovating a cleared room including sweeping dust from floor ceilings and walls, washing painted woodwork with soap and water, scrubbing floors with water and ammonia, and cleaning windows inside out. Tips include using a dedicated sponge wash leather warm ammonia water, drying thoroughly, and avoiding sun glare to prevent streaks. Turpentine helps lift paint marks from panes.
Banish the Sand Soap in Kitchen Ware
The article warns against using sand soap on enamel and agate ware calling it harmful. It suggests ammonia and kerosene for cleaning certain utensils and describes a method to salvage burnt agate ware with borax or washing soda boiled in hot water for 16 minutes. It also advises avoiding sand soap on enameled sinks.
Salads with Cheese Carrots Eggs and Beet Rounds
A compact guide suggests shaping yellow cheese into small carrot forms with parsley tops for salads. It recommends Neufchatel cheese rounds with chopped nuts and puffed olive centers, beet juice dyed eggs, and thin pie crust rings with cheese baked beside a vegetable salad.
Shortcake Without Cooking a Strawberry Preserve
A user guides lovers of strawberry shortcake to can ripe berries with sugar in a granite dish, mash, stir in sugar, seal in cans, and store bottom up in cool dark place for perfect preservation. The method emphasizes equal berry and sugar quantities per quart and wrapping cans for storage.
Pie Crust Technique for Lard Butter Double Crust
Instructions describe mixing 1% cup flour with a pinch of salt, rubbing in 1/4 cup lard, adding cold water to form a stiff dough. Roll out cold butter between sheets, fold in three layers, repeat, to create a large two crust pie pastry.
Green Asparagus Salad with Chicory and French Dressing
Instructions describe trimming two inches from asparagus tips, tying into bunches, steaming until tender, then shocking in cold water and drying. When served, cut into one inch pieces and mix with torn chicory, arrange on lettuce leaves, and top with French dressing.
Smooth Ice Cream Making Tips for Creamy Texture
Advice on using pulverized auger and gradual freezer turning to achieve purer, smoother ice cream. Encourages steady process to improve grain and consistency for icy cream. Includes several misspellings reflecting OCR style but keeps core steps.
Warmed Over Potatoes Stir Family Debate
A quirky column discusses heated opinions on reheated potatoes and family meals. The piece notes playful mock arguments over texture and taste and hints at broader meal planning tensions within households.
Family Feud Over Tiny Church Pew Ends After Ten-Year War
In Littleton Massachusetts a drawn out dispute over ownership of a small church pew in the First Congregational Church tied to the Fletcher estate, valued around 1200 dollars, is settled. The pew, sold by Mrs. Fletcher to her son Walter Titcomb for 20 dollars, is resolved as the pew remaining in the family with a 20 dollar indebtedness noted.
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Littleton
Mass
Httle
First Congregational Church
Theodore C. Fletcher
Fletcher
Hammond
Daniel
Titcomb
Ora
Walter
Hammond Fletcher
Ora Titcomb
Walter Titcomb
East Cambridge
Lawton
Kin to Cleveland and Taft Ties Found in Fort Wayne Newsdealer
Charles A. Phelps, a Fort Wayne newsdealer and founder of the Newsboys' union, is described as a third cousin of Grover Cleveland and related to William Howard Taft through his father. He lives at 324 Creighton Avenue with his wife, though neither has met Taft or Cleveland. relatives include Nancy Cleveland Wood, first cousin to Cleveland.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Grover Cleveland
Newsboys’ Union
Charles A. Phelps
Mr. Phelps
William Howard Taft
Mr. Cleveland
Nancy Cleveland Wood
Ia Mving
Creighton Avenue
Phelps
Fortier
Mr. Taft
Charles Phelps Taft
William T. Taft
Appleton Launches Flood Raft To Ride Rising Mississippi
Missouri man J. W. Appleton built a massive raft with his family and livestock to weather a flood. The raft carries 12 pigs three cows two horses and poultry and travels along the Mississippi as water covers farms. Food supplies for man and beast are aboard for several days.
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Missouri
Point
J. W. Appleton
Mississippi River
Appleton
Pittsburgh Father Seeks Child Heiress Fortune Case
In Memphis an adopted daughter, Rosie Sheffier, is valued at fifty thousand dollars after a relative’s death. Joseph Sheffler, once doubtful of Roosevelt’s advice, sought to oppose the adoption but ultimately followed the president’s ruling. The heiress is eight years old and the father earlier raised funds to accompany her to Memphis.
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Pitteburg
Roosevelt
Memphis
Tenn
Baim Fler
Buncher
Peach Alley
Sheffler
Magele Shaeffer
Rosie
Sheffier
Watch buried 14 years found in field near Derby
Arthur E. Leighton of Chester reports that a gold watch, chain, and boot charm lost 14 summers ago while plowing his home field were found while guiding a horse. The watch runs and keeps time after 14 years buried, though the charm is missing.
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Derby
N. H
Arthur E. Leighton
Chester
Raid on War Office Germs Shows Army Tuberculosis Crusade
Maj. Paul F. Straub leads an Army Medical Corps raid on the War Department to eradicate tubercular germs. Dust, carpets, and heavy curtains are removed to expose surfaces and halt germ spread in the state War and Navy building. The campaign aims to eliminate all harboring germs.
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Washington
War Department
Army Medical Corps
Paul F. Straub
War Office
Maj. Straub
War and Navy
Dying of plain toothache in Worcester man
Liloyd McCarrell of Worcester is dying at St. Vincent's Hospital from a severe toothache that began ten days earlier. Despite fillings extractions and jaw surgery the pain worsened as doctors warn the nerve reaches the brain and death from brain inflammation is possible within hours.
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Worcester
Mass
Liloyd McCarrell
St. Vincent’s Hospital
McCarrell
Doughnut Wagon Tale From Winsted and Unionville
In Winsted Connecticut a nine thousand doughnuts project unfolds as Bill Hoyt of Unionville plans interment of the treats. Baker Luke Pournter, longtime onlooker of Bill's wagon, enjoys crullers and teases a trade. The odd tale blends small town commerce and pastry praise.
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Conn
Bill Hoyt
Unionville
Bill
Luke Pournter
Hartford
Luke
Ike
Ito in Korea Faces Stormy Occupation and National Awakening
The article describes Korea’s sudden rise as a national focus amid Japanese occupation. It notes diplomatic exchanges with Russia and China to keep insurgents out, predicts a difficult rule, and details Marquis Ito’s limited authority as the military dominates Seoul.
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Ita
Ite
Taeit
Korea
Japan
Marquis Ito
Ito
Seoul
Tokyo
Military clash leaves Korea in renewed tension
A fragmentary report notes fighting involving both military forces and asserts superiority in the Korean region, with references to a forth and a crushing action amid ongoing hostilities.
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Reople
Millionaire builds unique home in Atlantic City
Cap tain John Young, a fortune maker from amusements in Atlantic City New Jersey, constructs a distinctive residence with decorative gardens and fairy railings. He views his seaside domain as a showpiece for evenings when his two daughters and wife enjoy the view of visitors and revelers from rooms facing the front steps.
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John Young
Atlantic City
N. J
Ardens
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Gestion
Baily Democrat
JOS
Goshen
Indiana
Germany
John Thaddeus Delane
The
London Times
Edward
Milwaukee
Strassburg
Germainy
Lahore
Olga Nethersole
New Zealand
Great Britain
England
France
Harden
Messares
Chicago
Canada
Atten Bay
Harrow
Cleveland
Taft
Law
Hellingham
Wash
McNab
Hfe
Humane Society
Raip
Connecticut
Sea
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