A Race for a Wife The Girt Flawe Answer in Lanl
A comical tale centers on a daring proposal and a swift love test. The piece features playful language and a woman’s choice framed in a lighthearted narrative setting.
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 23, 1911
Page
2
Lapland Race Custom Decides Lovers Fate
A traveler narrator describes Spitzburger and his daughter Irene living in a globe trove home. Irene uses a Lapland courtship race to accept the narrator’s marriage proposal after a staged stumble. Spitzburger approves, and the two embrace, celebrating a culturally coded betrothal.
Paris sewing woman wins La Vie Heureuse prize for Marie Claire
Marguerite Audoux, a Parisian sewing woman, receives a $1,000 prize for the best book published in France during the year. Her autobiographical novel Marie Claire traces her life, from sewing to blindness, and has gone through ten editions in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Audoux
la Vie Heureuse
France
Marie Claire
Mile. Audoux
Charlies Dickens
Charles Reade
Octave Mirbesu
Says Wife Should Aid in Business
Lady Hope argues that a woman best aids her husband by supporting his business and creating a harmonious home. She emphasizes the home as foundational to a man's career and urges women to be true to roles as wife, mother, daughter, and sister, with the ideal being a cheerful, devoted partner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Empire style dominates winter evening frocks this spring
The article notes the empire cut as the season’s accepted winter evening fashion. A black velvet dress with a pale pink chiffon panel and skunk banding features silver passementerie cursage. A silver lace cap with a small aigret completes the look.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire
Monkeys of India Return to Be Home after Banished
In Be nares the monkeys banished from the city return at dusk, leading to a joyful but raiding spree as they reclaim their posts at food shops. Merchants had earlier trapped and released them in a distant forest, but the capering army soon found its way back, resuming former mischief with renewed impudence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Bemares
Benares
Arsenic and Skin Bleaching Linked by Chemist Claim
Manchester Eny chemist D V Duval warns that women bleaching skin with small arsenic doses risk long term accumulation causing paralysis and loss of control. He cites 5 years ago England’s beer contamination epidemic traced to arsenic in glucose used by brewers, leaving many helpless and with diminished blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. V. Duval
Manchester
Eny
Medical Profession
England
Too Expensive to Eat and a Theatre Star’s Train Rush
Mr George Graves the leading variety actor and Norfolk hunter missed his train while returning from a day’s shooting in Norfolk. He tried to catch a train at Cambridge by car but a punctured tire forced him to charter a special train from the University town. On alighting at Liverpool Street he quipped about the birds, remarking they were too expensive to eat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baring
Spitzburger
Irene
George Graves
Multilingual British Ambassador James Bryce’s Global Life
James Bryce the British ambassador at Washington has been described as able to speak nearly every language. Born in Belfast seventy years ago to a Scotch father and Irish mother, he has talked with African kings and banquetted with Dyaks. He has climbed high American peaks, stood atop Mount Ararat, and traveled widely in Russia, India, Japan, and across the British Empire including the Fiji Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Bryce
Washington
Belfast
United States
Mount
Ararat
Aee Noah
Russia
India
Japan
British Empire
Fiji Islands
Prevaricator Origin in Latin and Roman Court Use
The term prevaricator traces to Latin roots describing a distorter in gait and later to a term for a person found conspiring with an opponent to commit dishonesty in Roman courts. Over time falsehood became the defining aspect of the word.
Cooking Apples Croquettes From Gookery Guide
The recipe describes simmering quartered apples with sugar and lemon, mashing to pulp, folding in butter and cornstarch with egg yolks, then cooking over hot water until set. Shape into cylinders, coat with egg and crumbs, and fry until crisp. Serve with roast pork or goose.
Making Nut Brittle From Basic Candy Method
The recipe describes combining brown sugar syrup water and vanilla with egg white to form a soft ball stage, then folding in nuts and cold brittle syrup to create a candy. It instructs pouring onto a lined pan, cooling, and cutting into cubes for serving.
Souffle of Apples With a Border of Rice
A cream rice base is baked into a solid border shaped dish. Apple marmalade folded with egg yolks and butter forms the center, lightly mixed with whipped egg whites, then baked until risen and served promptly to prevent collapse. Some cooks finish with a salamander flame before serving.
Date Filled Cookies and Cream Filling Instructions
Cream together one cupful of sugar and two-thirds cupful of butter, add one egg, two-thirds teaspoonful cream tartar, one-third teaspoonful soda, four teaspoonfuls sweet milk, one teaspoon ful vanilla, flour to make stiff, chill roll very thin, put filling on one cooky, lay another over it, bake in quick oven. Date Filling For Filled Cookies. Stew one-half pound dates and one half cupful of milk and water together with one-half cupful sugar and one half cupful shredded cocoanut till dates are soft. Cool before using.
Fine Peanut Wafers Instructions
A recipe lists ingredients and steps for fine peanut wafers. It specifies peanuts butter sugar flour milk vanilla and instructions to creaming, alternating additions, and shaping on greased tins while noting to bake few at a time as wafers harden quickly.
Devil's Food Cake Recipe Instructions
A vintage recipe describes boiling bitter chocolate with sour milk and brown sugar, cooling, creaming granulated sugar with butter and sour milk, then adding beaten eggs, four cold chocolate, vanilla, flour and baking soda. Bake in a hot oven for layers.
Recipe fragment for raisin walnut cookies
A fragment lists ingredients for cookies: one and a half cups brown sugar, one cup butter, three eggs, two and a half cups flour, three fourth cup raisins, one cup chopped walnuts, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, two tablespoons molasses. Drop in teaspoonfuls.
Plea for an Alternative Endings Treat No Bonbons Used
A recipe note proposes a substitute dessert using large raisins stuffed with minced walnuts as a wrap up dish to serve instead of bonbons at the end of a meal. It suggests a neat, compact sweet option with a similar bite and a clean finish.
Mysterious Dreams and Ship Disappearances Draw Attention
The London press records a fascination with dreams linked to maritime tragedy. Claude Sawyer’s Durban warning and a sailor’s cross tree dream unfold beside recounted tales from The Bible in Spain, featuring a young seaman lost at sea and a warning dream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Isles
Claude Sawyer
Waratah
John Dickinson
Board of Trade
Durbagy
Cape Town
Sawyer
Durban
Sydney
George Burrow
Spain
Lisbon
Cape Finisterre
May Knight Women and Worthy Titles in Coronation Year
The piece discusses how historic abbesses were knighted and notes a modern French noblewoman, an abbess in her order, and the imbalance of honors between men and women in England. It rumors two English women may be knighted during coronation year alongside male peers, urging attention to honorary titles for eminent women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
George
Reprobate’s Disturbed Slumber Column
Dr. Armstrong Robinson, recently transferred to the Deanery of Wells, is praised as a first-rate scholar and forceful preacher. The piece notes his rise under Mr. Balfour and includes a humorous anecdote about an old reprobate seeking repentance and a debt repayment, told by the dean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armstrong Robinson
Westminster
Wells
Somerset
Metropolis
Lord Salisbury
Balfour
Robinson
Irish M P's Cheap Election Victory for South Down
J McVeagh secured election as Nationalist M P for South Down at no cost apart from the return officer's fee. At a victory meeting he said supporters spent nothing on agents literature postage printing or polling cards. No motor cars were offered and no elector was canvassed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. McVeagh
M.P
South Down
The Music Lovers
Two ladies in front chatted throughout the concert while the rest of the audience listened, dampening one listener's experience and leaving him unable to hear the music.
Prince Olaf and the Pony Named Chris
Prince Olaf, a small boy heir to Norway, visits England and envies his cousins riding skills. After returning home he asks his Danish and English parents for a pony, and a small horse is brought to the royal stables. The pony follows the young prince everywhere, earning the name Chris with no clear reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Olaf
Norway
Chris Olaf
England
Englad
Royables
Olaf
Chris
The Boys and the Peddler
An Italian fruit peddler in New York loses his cart after a stone detours it and fruit spills. Newsboys initially laugh but then share their pockets to help recover the apples and pears. The grateful peddler rewards each helper with a large apple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gamin
New York
The Anteater's Feeding Tongue Described in Natural Detail
The anteater feeds mainly on ants and termites using its long flexible tongue as a feeding hand. When fully extended the tongue resembles a red earthworm and appears to move with a life of its own while gathering food.
Handkerchief Tag Game Between Two Sides
Two squads stand fifty feet apart with a handkerchief placed on a club between them. On Go, a player from each side runs to seize the handkerchief and return without being tagged. If successful the opponent becomes prisoner. if tagged the runner is prisoner. If neither succeeds the failing player also becomes prisoner.
Hate-to-Hurry and Put-It-Off Poem Recited by Youths Companion
A poem in old verse contrasts rushing and delaying with time kept by a clock. It depicts two laziness habits, one avoiding effort and one delaying tasks, and concludes that those who waste time fall behind in life’s race. Father Time and the clock hands symbolize the passage of hours.
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Globe
South Sea Islands
Greenland
Holy Land
Spitzburgers
Tibet
Ted
New Zealand
Kamchatka
Lapland
Myurder
She
Spitsburger
Esvine
Mountaineer
Gookery
The
Anteater
Jong
Father
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