Field Mice Descriptions Show Prolific Spread and Crop Damage
Dr. A E Brehm notes Germany field mice yield staggering catches in Zabern Nidda and Pizmach districts with tens of millions seized over weeks. French naturalist Louis Figuier warns females bear eight to twelve young thrice yearly, risking widespread ruin. US meadow mouse also highly prolific with six young per litter and four litters, date-like estimates.
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A. EB. Brehm
Germany
Zabern
Nidda
Pizmach
Erfurt
Gotha
Breslau
Alsheim
Rhenish
Hesse
Louis Figuier
Naturalisp
Vendee
United States
Accidental Fakers Target Knee Injuries Says Surgeon
A surgeon warns that fake accidents trick insurance firms by injuring a knee and slipping it out of place. He cites a jail-bow man who in nine years collected over 11 000 through dummy knee claims, traveling city to city and exploiting swollen knees.
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Tunuly
Jalt Bow
Notice to customers of unsettled accounts at Thomas Buggy Co
As we close our retail business we request all who owe by book account or note to call at the store immediately and settle. The Thomas Buggy Co.
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Thomas Buggy Co
If You Had to Live Over Again
An article presents a wife's confessional about domestic abuse by a husband praised publicly for gentleness. She recalls a honeymoon shock, years of fear, controlling behavior, and financial stinginess, and argues she would resist future submission, demand respect, and exercise self defense.
Conversation on Social Standing and Coffee Pot Catastrophe
Two women discuss class habits and the idea that breaking coffee pots could avert divorces. One laments the lack of fashionable clothes as compensation, while the other suggests throwing the pot at a husband as a solution to unhappy marriages.
Care of the Eyes and Light Safety Rules
Advice on eye care warns against rubbing eyes and forcing out foreign objects. It recommends blinking tears to flush irritants, washing lids with warm salted water, and avoiding harmful glare from sun and electric light. It also says to use shaded lamps, limit continuous reading, and rest eyes after long periods of use.
New Needle Work in Gobelins Tapestry Style
The article highlights Gobelins tapestry as the popular needlework, noting easy yet impressive results. It mentions the Royal School of Art Needlework in South Kensington offering varied designs and simple to follow hand tapestry instructions using coarse canvas with thick wool or fine canvas with thin wool.
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Royal School of Art
South Kensington
Hot Fruit Salad Melt
Melt butter and sugar with water and lemon juice for five minutes. Add mixed fruit apples cherries pineapple bananas figs and peaches. When hot serve with whipped cream sweetened and flavored with vanilla extract.
Baked Apples and Raisins Dessert Recipe
Wash apples and stud with cloves then place atop one teaspoon sugar and six to seven raisins per apple. Add about half a cup water and replenish if boiled away. When apples are tender lift them and prepare a white sauce by stirring in a quarter cup thickening and boil briefly.
French Egg Dish with Tomatoes and Soft Poached Eggs
A French chef prepares eggs by frying half a sliced onion in butter until golden. Then he adds a cupful of tomatoes seasoned with butter salt and pepper and cooks ten minutes. The mixture is turned into a wide pan and eggs are added without breaking yolks, lifted gently and not stirred.
Pineapple Pie and Echoes of Home Cookery and Housekeeping
A collection of kitchen tips includes a pineapple pie recipe with pineapple sugar cream egg yolks and meringue from whites. A Greek style stuffed squash dish uses beef tomato onion and breadcrumbs baked and served with tomato sauce. Deviled whitebait is fried, seasoned with cayenne, and served hot. A home repair note advises mounting a broom holder with two screws for long wear.
Looking for a new apartment in a crowded city
Warren and Helen tour several buildings to find a cooler front apartment. They contrast high rents like 1100 dollars yearly with cheaper options around 75 to 70 dollars, but prefer their current warm, well kept home for air and light and sentiment. Helen recalls their life there as a bride and the birthplace of Winifred, fueling reluctance to move.
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Warren
Lollel
Helen
Clyne & Johnson
Bronx
Coor
Hades
Winifred
Repairing a Tear in Rubber Gloves with Adhesive Plaster
The text advises not discarding a rubber glove with a rent but mending it with adhesive plaster. A patch slightly longer than the tear is placed on the underside, edges pressed together, and the sticky side toward the glove to hold the tear. The glove will then wear for many days despite the rent.
Reward of Love and Art Amid London Fog
Mary MacAllister as a diligent London typist clings to love with Dick Herrick while caring for Carlo Terrini an artist in exile. When Terrini recovers he writes a powerful opera inspired by Mary and dies after selling it to a publisher. Mary learns of his gift as Herrick regains wealth through Terrini s work and a child is born named Carlo.
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Great Bridge
London
Mary MacAllister
Mary
Africa
Dick Herrick
Carlo Terrini
Mrs. Bird
Watervaal
England
Cara Mia
Carlo Terrin
Mary Herrick
Helpful Husbands and Household Hysteria
A bride basks in praise of her husband Henry for fixing a table and other chores while nagging by elders turns to caution about husbands who overdo domestic help. An older wife mocks the romantic idea, recounting mishaps from torches to frozen laundry and plumbing, ending with a warning about the price of a helpful spouse.
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Battl
Friends
For
Italy
Carlo
Henry
Arthur
Johnnie
Brads
Jimmie
Jimmy
Isisace
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