Preach Coffee Flavor Adds Butter and Sugar to Roast
A Harper's Bazar note explains how French coffee gains a caramel aroma by melting a tablespoon of butter and powdered sugar into every three pounds of roasting beans. The process spreads a thin coat over the beans, enhancing flavor.
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Friday to Lucky and the Doubly Charming Ducky Day
A Boston Advertiser fragment notes luck in odd numbers and a double luck in two odd numbers. It claims Friday is the sixth day, links Bix to double three as a charm, and proclaims Friday a doubly charming day.
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Frisco System Offers Low Fare to Southwest Homes
The Frisco System announces excursion tickets from St Louis and Kansas City to Oklahoma Indian Territory Kansas and Texas at 1500 round trip. Tickets valid on specified regular trains October 20 from St Louis and Kansas City. Inquiries for rates and limits and a booklet New Lands Along the Frisco System by Bryan Snyder and contact R S Lemon Secretary Frisco Immigration Bureau St Louis.
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St Louis
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Bryan Snyder
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Remitting a Fine by Idaho Senator Dubois
The Idaho case recounts Senator Frederick T. Dubois of Boise City being reprimanded for contempt and fined fifty dollars. The next day, while filling in, he instructed the clerk to note that the $50 fine had been remitted by court order, a display of his noted presence of mind.
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Idaho
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Dressing a Speech and Phonograph Sales at Banquet
At the Immitten club banquet in Chicago Speaker Cannon quips on writing and dressing a speech. The column notes a humorous exchange about phonographs being popular gifts with the purchaser claiming they speak for themselves.
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Chicago
Cannon
Minerva
Jupiter
Cheatham Laxative Chill Tablets Ad Claims
A vintage advertisement touts Cheatham's Laxative Chill Tablets as a top chill tonic. It promises a consistent dose every time, a ready dose, and a no cure no pay guarantee.
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Frank learns to ride and stays upright on horse
In a humorous anecdote from the Little Chronicle, Frank explains that riding a trotting horse does not bounce him much, because he stays up nearly all the time. The quip highlights his calm handling and steady posture during the ride.
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Frank
Little Chronicle
We Till No Secrets in Open Secret Oil Claim
An ad asserts Hunt's Lightning Oil cures all ailments except broken hearts and brain softening, offered at 25 and 50 cents. The strange claim targets broad cures with a two price point, reflecting late 19th or early 20th century marketing language.
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Not Surprised Librettist and Victor Herbert Dine Together
Glen MacDonough the Babes In ‘Wayland’ librettist sat with composer Victor Herbert in a New York restaurant when a waiter who once sang in his company greeted him. MacDonough recalled the singer and asked if he was surprised to see a waiter. In Alaska tin stream discoveries, Cape York yields large ledges of tin ore with several miners making small fortunes this summer. Two men reportedly took twenty-two tons of placered tin from Cape York area creeks using crude methods. Next season hydraulic mining will be introduced to gauge the ore's extent and value.
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New York
Victor Herbert
Mr. MacDonough
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Alaska
Cape York
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