Deserter Returns Home After Years Hidden
Ellen Callahan writes to the War Department about her father William L. Callahan, a deserter from the Ninth Infantry. A letter reveals his capture, his past danger, and Ellen’s hope for pardon as Jim Miller, the wounded man she fears, appears at their door triggering a collapse for the deserter.
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War Department
Washington, D. C
William L. Callahan
Ninth Infantry
Fort Logan
Col
Freehold
5 N
Findley
Mim
Ellen Callahan
Wreehold, Col
Washington
Callacy Ther
Eilen
Callahan
Mary
Chicago
Ellen
Miller
Sven
Jim Miller
It Pays to Put Hay and Alfalfa Under Cover
An agricultural report argues that shed storage saves hay losses, costs about 420 dollars for a 70 ton alfalfa shed, and can pay off within three years. A shed 48 by 24 by 16 feet holds approximately 60 tons. plans include end-to-end sheds, braced frames, hay-carrier tracks, and steel roofing to protect hay from weather and reduce handling losses.
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College Hill
Woman Suffrage Sermon Breaks Berkeley Pulpit Tradition
Mrs. William Keith, president of the Berkeley P E club, delivered the first sermon by a woman at Bethany Congregational Church. Her talk on the ethics of woman suffrage followed five ministers’ talks urging churches to back the cause. The pastor invited her to speak, and she answered two key questions about the pulpit and religion’s relation to the suffrage issue.
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William Keith
Berkeley
Cal
P. E. Club
Bethany Congregational Church
Bethany
Keith
Prolific Australian Hens Set Egg Laying Records
Australia's interstate egg laying contests in Queensland and South Australia end with South Australian hens amassing the higher totals. A six White Leghorn pen laid 1 588 eggs in the year in one event, and another similar pen produced 1 531 eggs in the latter. These results stand as a world record.
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Australia
Queensland
South Australia
Kingston Strikers Protest Loss of Free Smokers Privilege
In Kingston Jamaica workers at a cigar factory go on strike after the proprietors end the long standing practice of allowing cigarmakers to smoke free samples. Seventy workers respond by employing a truck in protest.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Proper Boiled Eggs According To Martinez And Experiments
Martinez, an egg expert, advises salting water and boiling eggs briefly. Put eggs in boiling water and remove from heat after three minutes, yielding light yet rich eggs. Large eggs need three minutes, medium two and a half. raw eggs are less digestible but properly boiled eggs are easily eaten. Hard boiled eggs remain 2–3 hours in the stomach, dyspeptics struggle with them, and experiments by Munck and Ewald show sliced eggs digest more easily in gastric juice.
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Martinez
Munck
Ewald
Keep Spoons From Fruit and Preserve Storage Rules
Advice warns against storing fruit with silver spoons as acids react with metal, tainting fruit. It recommends using glass for acids, tin or porcelain for lard, wooden or glass for salt, and sealed containers for chocolate to prevent odor and flavor transfer.
Art of Broiling Chickens in a Proper Fire
Instructions for broiling chicken without burning it rely on a clear bed of coals and a raised broiler set on bricks. If the fire is too hot add bricks. a medium chicken pair needs about 25 minutes, then finish in a buttered pan until gravy forms. Turn inside toward fire first, then flip to the back.
Spiced Raisins and Currants For Roasts
A recipe outlines boiling brown sugar vinegar with cloves and cinnamon in a bag, then pouring over raisins and letting stand 24 hours before slow cooking in a double boiler. It notes currants and India preserves as alternatives when fruits are in season and to combine flavors with spices.
Currant relish and home cleaning tips from Harper's Bazar
A winter relish recipe for seven pounds currants with three and a half pounds sugar a pint of vinegar and currant juice plus cinnamon and cloves instructions. Also a sweeping hint suggesting a dry dust cloth first then a moistened cloth with crude oil to polish furniture while protecting lungs.
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Harper's Bazar
Currant Jelly Preserve Recipe Steps
Instructions describe extracting juice from currants, cooking with sugar, adding orange rind and pulp, seeded raisins, and red raspberries. Boil about twenty minutes, fill jelly glasses, then seal with melted paraffin before covering.
New Lincoln Bust by Gutzon Borglum Shocks and Delights
A newly created bust of Abraham Lincoln by Danish sculptor Gutzon Borglum, now in New York, results from years of study of Lincoln and his photographs. The artist sees the right side as expressing force and intellect while the left reveals gentleness and warmth, delivering a striking new grandeur.
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Lincoln
Gutzon Borglum
New York
Mr. Lincoln
Borglam
Last Battle Memoir From Col Headington in Texas Raid
Col N Headington of Portland Ind recounts the final war battle near Palmetto ranch Texas. His 50 man expedition chased cattle, met Gen Slaughter forces, and a color bearer from the Thirty fourth Indiana swam the Rio Grande with the flag, later recovered after Mexican authorities refused without orders. The flag ultimately arrived at Bagdad.
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Slaughter
Headington
Thirty-fourth Indiana
Rio Grande
Bagdad
Col
Readington
Mejia
Matamoros
Monitor Hero Dead in Greenwich Village
David W. Orr, once a messenger boy aboard the Monitor during the Battle of Hampton Roads, died by his own hand in Greenwich Village New York. Orr later served as a navy machinist and after the war ran a steamfitting shop where he recounted the famous ironclad fight. His health declined with rheumatism and failing eyesight, but he kept two lithographs of the Merrimac and Monitor and would recount the historic days to locals.
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Monitor
David W. Orr
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Greenwich Village
N. Y
Navy
Confederate Ironsides
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