Helpful Children and Hatpins Highlighted in Goshen Page
The Goshen Daily Democrat extols training children with light duties to build memory, discipline, and happiness through useful work. It recounts hatpins as defense in a Brooklyn assault, notes rising cancer with aging society, and cites Alexander Graham Bell's flying machine experiments. It also mentions Standing Bear’s marriage plan and a Pennsylvania baseball team signing a female first baseman.
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New York Weekly
Alexander Graham Well
Telephone
Hammondsport
His Vain Regrets Over Refined Tastes and Poverty
A man reflects on a life shaped by keen appreciation for beauty and luxury yet constrained by poverty. He laments high tastes, scarce money, and the longing for fine food, art, cars, and clothes, wondering if wealth would have changed his happiness. He clings to a line about being a might-have-been rather than a never-was.
Curved Shoe Hints at Modern Adaptation of Seven Leagues
A Leipsie engineer in Germany has devised a curved shoe standing thirty five centimeters high. The invention, called the curved shoe, is said to help balance the wearer more easily than remaining upright on a bicycle.
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Germany
Lipton’s New Yacht Shamrock Launched at Fife Yard
Sir Thomas Lipton's twenty three meter cutter Shamrock was launched at William Fife’s yard in Scotland. The yacht features Honduras mahogany planking on steel frame, green and white sides, coppered underbody, and elaborate interiors in African mahogany and Austrian oak. Capt. Sycamer is in command. the Shamrock joins other British 23-meter class entrants for the season as Lipton pursues the America’s Cup.
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Thomas Lipton
William Fife
Farlie
Scotland
America
Sycamore
Sir Thomas Lipton
Fife
Thomas
Fruit Salads Versatile With Strawberry and Apple Pairings
Fruit salads gain popularity with strawberries paired with nearly any fruit. Grapefruit hearts the mix, core removed, chilled on ice with French dressing. Apples join with celery and mayonnaise in Waldorf style, often served decoratively. cucumbers stuffed with apple and nuts, garnished with edible greens and mint.
Price of Perfection and a Napoleon Breakfast Joke
Oscar Hammerstein discussed a Thais cast with principals earning ten thousand dollars a night though he warned perfection is costly. He recounted Napoleon’s breakfast routine, where a cook keeps a chicken ready every ten minutes so the sovereign’s meal is always done to perfection.
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Oscar Hammerstein
Hammerstein
Napoleon
Baltimore Sun
Curious Old Laws of India and Nepal
The text notes archaic laws and customs in India and Nepal. It cites capital punishment for killing cows, a ritual marriage of girls to a betel fruit, and a betel nut divorce ritual. It also mentions Nepal’s definition of dawn by visible tiles and hair against the sky.
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India
Nepal
Weekly half holiday rule enforced in Auckland case
In New Zealand workers must take a weekly half-holiday. At the Grand hotel in Auckland several waiters worked instead of taking their holiday, seeking extra pay. The hotel proprietor appeared in court and was convicted and punished.
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New Zealand
Auckland
Opening Crowd at Coney Island They Flock to Play and Pay
The article describes massive crowds at Coney Island drawing visitors from New York City and suburbs with myriad amusements. It notes the resort’s global fame and the economic pull for proprietors while acknowledging visitors seek value in novelty and entertainment. It also includes a humorous telephone prank exchange.
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Coney Island
New York
Jong Island
Brooklyn
Staten Island
Bronx
Jersey City
New Rochelle
Mount Vernon
Yonkers
Corra
Surf Avenue
Island
Calf’s Foot Jelly Recipe From Historic Instructions
The recipe details preparing calf’s feet to yield about three pints of jelly, skimming fat, then adding sherry, lemon juice, sugar, lemon rind, raisins, and mage. Mix with eight egg whites, beat to froth, shell pieces, melt, simmer twenty minutes, then strain through a coarse bag until clear.
Inexpensive Cream Cake
Cream one rounding tablespoonful of butter with one cupful of sugar, add one beaten egg, one cupful of milk and two cupfuls of flour sifted twice with four level teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one half teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake in three layer cake tins. Spread with a cooked filling, for which beat one egg and one half cupful of sugar together, add one quarter cupful of flour made smooth in a little milk to one cupful of hot milk and cook six minutes. Stir in the egg and sugar and when it thickens add flavoring. Cool before using.
Bundkuchen Recipe Arising From Old Kitchen Notice
The directions describe a Bundkuchen style bread method using milk yeast and flour. Begin by dissolving compressed yeast in a pint of milk, mix with 144 pounds of flour, add milk and yeast, rise, then blend one-third pound butter four eggs one cup sugar one cup raisins grated nutmeg salt rind of lemon and butter to sponge. Bake as two small loaves after second rise.
New arrival jokes about heat in warm afterlife
A Protest. I beg pardon said the new arrival but it seems to me it's excessively warm here. Eh what snorted Satan evidently you forget where you are This place is meant to be warm Quite so but there's such a thing ag overdoing it.
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Satan
Philadelphia Press
Sweetbreads with Mushrooms Recipe Card
Roll the sweetbreads for fifteen minutes then shred and trim. Combine with one can of mushrooms and refrigerate two hours. Make a sauce with two tablespoons butter two of flour and one pint milk until thick. Stir in salt and pepper, mix with the sweetbreads and mushrooms, serve hot.
Recipe for Apple Layer Cake or Loaf Planning
A simple batter combines sugar flour lard and buttermilk with baking soda and spices. The author suggests layering with apple butter between four layers or baking as a loaf.
Ethel Contemplates Heaven in Childlike Exchange
Grandmother teaches religion to five year old Ethel who hesitates about heaven saying she might want to get out to see her grandmother. Ethel’s reply reveals a child's candid wish to visit loved ones, a humorous moral dilemma conveyed in a brief domestic vignette.
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Ethel
Grandma
Missing Link Fossil Found by Dr Dubois in 1895
The New York American notes that the discovery on the Bengawan river in central Java yielded skull, thigh bone, and two molar teeth. Scientists concluded it formed an animal closer to humans than apes and named it Pithecanthropus Erectus.
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Dr. Dubois
Bengawan River
Java
New York American
Notable Advertisements and Testimonials Fade Into History
A collection of 19th century testimonial and ad copy appears, featuring F. J. Cheney & Co. from Toledo and wholesale druggists Rimann & Maggin, plus claims for G. Hallie’s Cure, Hall's Pills, Lewis' Cigars, and Kilroy nerve restorer. Included are Shakespeare quotes and child teething syrup endorsements, with broad marketing lines and disease cures.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Riman & Maggin
Tuleda
Hall
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Goshen Daily Democrat
Ics
A. Beant
Goshen
Indiana
Troy
N. Y
Boston
Harvard Medical School
Standing Bear
Pennsylvania
Gir
Lipton
Shamrock
London
Berlin
Paris
Portland
Elsie
Elsie Jones
Sam Bilsle Ferguson
Morningside
Shakespeare
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Ill
Mia
Winslow
Inchea
Pacific Coast Borax Co
Oklahoma
Wade
Gala Botha
Graulam & Neshitd
Paula Valley
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