Wide range of curiosities and notes from the era
A brisk roundup of social curiosities and oddities from a late 19th or early 20th century era. Items include remarks on pay-as-you-enter streetcars, aviation magazines, elevator origins, asbestos use in sleeping cars, and a variety of cultural observations from Europe and America.
Proper Tinware Care And Rice Cooking Guide
A practical guide on cleaning tinware copper and brass using hot soapy water and rust removal with potato and brick dust. It also details best practices for enamelware granites and cups. It then explains cooking rice by rinsing, boiling four quarts of water, adding rice gradually, adding vinegar, draining, rinsing, and steaming for a perfect result.
Fish and macaroni salad with oyster stuffed trout
Prepare macaroni with hard boiled eggs capers tomatoes peppers and mayonnaise. Chill and mix into salad. Clean a fish, stuff with an oyster cracker crumb dressing, season, braid with twine, bake twelve minutes per pound, and serve with parsley sauce.
Boston Pumpkin Pie Recipe From Old Kitchen Tip
Select a medium sized pumpkin with solid substance and dark orange color. Cook in water until not burning then evaporate to keep sweetness. For the filling blend one cup pumpkin with nutmeg clove salt cinnamon ginger sugar one half teaspoon. add one beaten egg and three cupfuls of rich milk. Bake in a hot oven about one hour.
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Boston
Fruit Raisin Pie Filling Instructions
Combined small amounts of brambles raisins and grated jem with juice cracker crumba and egg sugar. Mix well and bake in a thin rich pie crust. Fold like turnovers or top crust and bake until firm. Cut into squares when cold for luncheons or dinners.
Reproduction of Early Northwest Home Life Planned for Fair
Ezra Meeker and partner plan an exact exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition with oxen plowing ash pits and cabins built without lumber. The display includes a 1865 stockade, a pioneer schoolhouse, spinning wheels, a music hall, and relics from Oregon and other states.
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Ezra Meeker
Northwest
Dave
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John V. Meeker
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Bible Dean Read Through New Testament 240 Times
Ferris Texas Reverend T B Pittman pastor and Bible school dean has read the New Testament once every month for 20 years. He averages nine chapters daily and sometimes uses the Greek text. He plans to continue his readings as he nears Bible number 241.
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Dear Word Lifts Class Leader From Hopeless to Bright
Gladys Williams a St Louis county public school teacher shared at a county teachers meeting how the simple word dear changed an eight year old pupil. After she called him dear the boy felt pride and his brother began to work harder, turning both boys into her best students.
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Gladys Williams
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New Paper From Cotton Stalks by Atlanta Company
A Atlanta based company with $600000 capital plans to manufacture paper from cotton stalks, a previously useless by product. The bureau of manufacturers reports this method could produce paper at about $15 per ton.
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Bureau of Manufacturer
Atlanta
Three Paths for Policy: Banking, Railways, Corporations
The article outlines three options for guiding policy: laissez-faire, socialism through collective ownership, or balancing private initiative with strong public control. It argues three core issues demand calm, rational decision: banking and currency, transportation systems, and large industrial corporations, solvable only by informed, nonpartisan study and public interest as the guide.
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Patson
America's Hope Is in Public Schools
A historical reflection on public schools carrying heavy expectations to educate diverse immigrants at low pay. The piece argues teachers bear the burden of shaping wisdom and virtue, while urging parents and citizens to engage actively with school work to realize schools' full potential.
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Bath
United States
Punishment and Eternal Hellfire in Theological Debate
A fragment discusses eternal punishment as fixed and varied by guilt, arguing punishment must match different sins. It notes a two-class afterlife, with the condemned facing endless, unalterable suffering and suggests that adjusting punishment to guilt clarifies this belief.
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