Making the Home: Comfy Housewives Form Small Town Brigade
In a quiet town, women create a housework brigade to ease domestic drudgery. They split cleaning, cooking, sewing, and dressmaking duties, visit together, and share tasks to free time for social activities. The scheme began when Mrs Brown sought help for a children's party and grew into a cooperative support network.
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Mrs. Brown
Bee
Mr. Brown
Honan
Vira Brown
Theo
Denatured Alcohol for Radistors at Greencastle Battery Co
Denatured alcohol advertised for radistors at the Greencastle Battery Company on the North Side square. Subscriptions noted for the Abrald fever and related items.
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Greencastle Battery Co
North Side Square
System and Efficiency in Household Work
A group of busy mothers discuss how to systematize housework to gain leisure and efficiency. The piece argues system groups related items together while efficiency adds knowledge of how to perform duties with minimal time and energy, suggesting a housekeeper use a systematizer concept and practical storage like a linen closet and attic dust-proof closet to keep items found and organized.
Washing Elderdown Quilts At Home With Two Usings
Instructions describe washing elderdown silk or sateen quilts at home using two key steps: sun-dry outdoors and rinse through clean waters with boiling water and ammonia. Includes soaking, rinsing, squeezing, and sun drying to achieve fluff, plus ironing tips for buttoned areas and a method to protect bamboo furniture from cracking.
Willing to Be Fined Opposes Child Labor Fines
Edwin Markham denounces fines in labor practice urging abolition of wage docking for minutes late. He cites a theater anecdote about fines from stage money to illustrate how fines injure workers and call for reform of labor law and employer charges.
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Edwin Markham
Man With
Markham
Mr. Markham
Booth
Conan Doyle Meets Astute Paris Cabby
The Paris cabby, claiming to read in the papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's arrival from Nice, identifies him by clues on his clothing and muddied shoes and finally by seeing Doyle's name on his luggage. Doyle is astonished by the deductive method and the cabby's honesty.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Figaro
Riviera
Gare de Lyon
Marseillen
Lyons
Blair
Marseilles
Sir Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Bellinan
Poor Learner Faces Fifth Chicken Theft Charge
A magistrate confronts Abe about his son repeatedly stealing chickens. Abe replies that he has shown him the right way, but the boy keeps getting caught. The exchange ends with a weary remark on the boy's tendency to “come wild dose chickens.”
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Abe
Darkey
Central Law Journal
Ice cream bricks puzzle leaves poll blank in weird note
A quirky snippet notes ice cream allegedly came in bricks but finds no can in the poll. The garbled line hints at a riddle or slang reference with no clear answer or context.
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Pat—Jinnie
Language of Aquatics and Wordplay in a Social Evening
A French woman and an American woman mingle at an uptown gathering where language mixups spark humor. The American uses a French phrase misheard as a water term, prompting light exchanges about translations. The humorous vignette echoes cartoonish wordplay and newsroom quips from the era.
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Philadelphia Timas
Fair Exchange in War Scene
A Kansas City Journal quip depicts a demand for a prisoner swap as a joke about revolutionary aims. A flag of truce asks what the revolutionaries want and the reply humorously proposes exchanging generals for a can of condensed milk.
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Kansas City Journal
Salads and Dressings From Early 20th Century Guide
A compact cooking guide offers salad making tips and classic dressings. It advises starting with plain salads, using good condiments, and avoiding overcomplex dishes. Includes English dressing recipe and specific salad preparations like Cabbage Salad Pineapple and Celery Salad and Yellow Egg Tomato Salad with detailed steps.
Roll Breakfast Cake Delights Morning Meal Preparation
Instructions describe making a yeast sponge dough the night before for a breakfast cake. Mix butter sugar egg white soda cinnamon or rose flavoring, roll the dough to a quarter inch, spread with sugar and egg, roll, cut into inch slices, stand until light, then bake in a moderate oven. Cakes are good hot or cold.
Town Girls 10 Have Y W C A Work in Wider Role
Mrs Mabel Head notes wartime lessons in global thinking as the Y W C A expands service for women and girls. Citizenship forums and reading courses are planned at National Headquarters to involve girls in countrywide study and world citizenship. Seventy nine county secretaries travel to assist communities with social, recreational, educational, and religious activities and collaborate with Agriculture Department agents on home economies programs.
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Mabel Head
National
Red Cross
New York
Department of Agriculture
Rice Dessert With Peaches
A dessert recipe describes cooking rice with milk sugar salt and butter then chilling in cups. After firming turn out and top with crushed peaches mixed with the remaining sugar, optional vanilla or nutmeg, and garnish with green leaves for a decorative finish.
Procrastination and Cooking Tips from a 19th Century Note
A fragment describes a molasses recipe with bicarbonate and lemon juice, boiling steps, and cooling in shallow pans. It then shifts to a reflection on procrastination: delaying work makes tasks harder, noting griddle cakes brown better with a touch of brown sugar or molasses in the batter.
Campaign for $42,000,000 and 1500 workers in Philippines
The Episcopal Church plans a nationwide drive to fund social and spiritual work in the Philippines. The effort aims to educate and Christianize by expanding missions and programs, with many American practices shaping local activities. The campaign targets December 7 and involves a large workforce.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Santa Claus
Cheing
Philippines
Episcopal Church
Denatured Alcohol for Radiators and Real Estate Ad
Denatured alcohol note appears for radiators and a real estate ad from Nam Reality Co Inc seeks buyers for modern or semi‑modern properties. Limited buyer interest noted. call for sale details.
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Nam Reality Co., (Inc
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