Dorothy Wins Surprise Mountain Wedding Ordeal
In a suspenseful trek from the Alpine tavern to Echo Mountain a young man seizes a chance to wed Dorothy with a Unitarian minister, a cannon as backdrop, and a cheering crowd as they reach the courthouse. The runaways’ bold plan culminates in a playful hilltop ceremony.
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Comforter
Fred
Erba
Dorothy
Yender
Los Angeles
Mking
Mer. B
Unitarian
Altadena
Mount Lowe
Echo Mountain
Dolly
Proposing by the Sea A Romantic Dilemma
A young man tries repeatedly to propose to Dorothy during a summer at Santa Monica. She recalls a vow she made about proposals and teases him to find an original way to ask. Their banter turns to plans for a Mount Lowe trip as their summer closes with unresolved feelings.
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Leovean
Dorothy
George
Neil
Santa Monica
Dorothy Allen
Nell
John
Joan
New York
Mount Lowe
Apa
Los Angeles
Africa
Wealth and character found in a judge's memory
A judge recalls learning that wealth can be misread as virtue. He remembers a new, rich boy at school and his mother’s reply that they are rich in respectability, a lesson he carries into life.
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Neddy Blake
Meteorite from El Nakhila Yields New Mineral Oakilte
A meteorite shower stone found 25 miles east of Alexandria, Egypt on June 2 has been analyzed by Professor Meunier of Paris. The pentagonal, four by one and a half by one inch stone shows a peculiar composition and may constitute a new mineral named oakilte. The source of meteorites remains uncertain, with investigators attempting to map origins in space.
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el Nakhila
Alexandria
Egypt
Siapisias Meunier
Paris
Meunier
Ballooning Grows as a Hobby in The United States
Ballooning gains fervor in the U S with about sixty owners and many private balloons. Balloons range from one man carriers to eight or ten seat crafts, priced from 590 pounds to several thousand dollars, with second hand options available as interest grows.
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Europe
United States
Ead
New York Sun
French thrift a nation's steady course and success
Century Magazine lauds French thrift as rooted in industry and intelligence. It credits two generations under self government for a robust republic, noting discipline, moderation, and a rule to save a fifth of income. The piece links thrift to prosperity and national contentment.
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France
Bismarck
Republic
Century Magazine
Pearl-Inserted Watch Impresses Paris Artisans
A Paris watchmaker completed a remarkable timepiece after fifteen months of work. A forty five grain pearl, about half an inch in diameter, houses an eleven and a half millimeter watch with a two-twelfths inch caliber balancing wheel. The bore to insert the watch was the hardest part, and the finished piece costs six thousand dollars.
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Paris
When Passengers Were Scarce in Scottish Lines
A Glasgow Herald excerpt recalls early Callander and Oban era travel when trains rarely carried passengers. An Oban bound run at a remote stop had only the guard disembark and a station master quips about a woman for the rest of the week, highlighting sparse traffic and local humor.
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Invergarry and
Fort Augustus
Callander
Oban Hne
Prince Charlie
Oban
Glasgow Herald
New York City Chinese Community Expands Across Education
The imperial Chinese board in Peking forms a Chinese school in New York where about fifty pupils study both languages. Some eighty Chinese students attend area high schools and universities, including forty at Columbia. One Chinese church operates on East Thirty first Street with twenty one branches. Fu
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New York City
Imperial Chinese Board of Education
Peking
New York
Columbia
East Thirty-first Street
Mott Street
Ir Hoang Caon Cheu
Shadow Picturessculpture party fashion and fur trends
The piece describes a Paris fad with photographers capturing shadows for fortune telling. It recalls a New Year sculpture party with Paros marble blocks, penknife sculptures, and prizes. It then surveys social types, fashion shifts toward fur and delicate feminine attire, ending with a signoff from New York.
The Care of Aluminium in Household Use
Guidance on aluminium utensils notes advantages such as light weight and resilience. It warns against alkali exposure and hot suds, advises soaking then scouring with non alkali materials, and cautions against sharp scraping and salt vinegar polishing. Ammonia and lye should be avoided.
Charcoal Value Promoted for Home Use and Hygiene
Housewives urged to keep charcoal in cupboards and the refrigerator to absorb odors and maintain sanitary conditions. It should be renewed weekly to stay effective, with discarded charcoal reusable as fuel. Powdered charcoal mixed with salt is recommended for cleaning teeth and removing verdigris from copper utensils.
Whispered praise for intricate coil fashion accessory
The piece extols a decorative coil design calling it lovely yet costly. It hints you can acquire a triple coil coiffure if you tailor it, using your own garments, with concealment only for you and your maid.
Notable Sires and Sons Profiles Across Professions
Violin virtuoso Kobelik gave 220 concerts last year earning about 205000 dollars. Maurice Burke Roche heir to a vast fortune works as a clerk for the Lackawanna railroad. Caradoc Roberts earned Oxford doctor of music after years at a carpenter bench. Andrew Bonar Law, English Unionist leader, is a self made businessman with no university education. William T. Fowler, Boston registrations chief, resigned and returned 3000 dollars yearly to the treasury. Dr. Philander Priestley Claston, U S education commissioner, studied at Tennessee University starting at nineteen and shifted from law to teaching.
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Kobelik
Maurice Burke Roche
Lste Frank
Lackawanna Railroad
Caradoc Roberts
Oxford
Carpenter's Bench
Andrew Bonar Law
Glasgow
Unionist
England
William Tf. Fowler
Institutions Registrations Department
Boston
Philander Priestly Claston
United States Commissioner of Education
University of Tennessee
Notable Writers and Their Home Lives Revealed
Travel writer Frank G. Carpenter bought a Washington home for 30000 dollars. Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck quits tobacco except for a pipe with a decotinized prep. Mary Roberts Rinehart keeps little writing in her elegant Pittsburgh library and works in a city office study. At home she focuses on her husband and three sons.
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Frank G. Carpenter
Map
Washington
Maurice Maeterlinck
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Pittsburgh
Frivolous Headlines Echo Era Gossip
A collection of snappy quotes from U S newspapers lampooning fashion and science. The Philadelphia Record jokes about cement furniture. The Atlanta Journal mocks knee breeches revival. A New York teen seeks guardianship for a 25 year old bride. The Baltimore Sun wryly notes guardianship formality. A London scientist links shock to eye color changes. Each item reflects light social commentary of the period.
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Idison
Philadelphia Record
Atlanta Journal
New York
Baltimore Sun
Electric Sparks and New Meters of Communication
A possible England Switzerland telephone link is anticipated. A wearable storage battery illuminated sign helps street vendors in theaters. C Candrelier reports an oscillatory spark made of about 10000 pulses per second with a half inch air separation to estimate speed.
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England
Switzerland
C. Candrelier
Notable Quotes and Quick Bits from Dailies
A snapshot of colorful lines from newspapers: Dr Mary Walker called one of the twenty greatest women. J P Morgan sets up a private office on the 30th floor making him harder to reach. Widener may prove successful in collecting Rembrandts as railways. Kipling fetching a dollar a word, with a wry note on restraint.
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J. A. B. Widener
New York World
J. Pierpont Morgan
Milwaukee Sentinel
German Gleanings on Crops and Industry
An average German potato crop totals about 59 million tons. Heat last summer reduced cabbage and sauerkraut yields, causing unhappiness. Before electric motors enter German coal mines they undergo exhaustive gas tests to prove explosion safety.
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Germany
State Lines Oil and Gas Fields and Water Power
One hundred years is the estimated life of Oklahoma oil and gas fields. Pennsylvania has a petrolent area of 2,000 square miles and a gas area of 2,730 square miles. New York leads in water power development due to Niagara Falls, with generating power of 85,862 bore power.
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Okahama
Pennsyylvania
New York
Niagara
Oysters Cooked in Paper Bags Featured in English Guide
A vintage English magazine promotes paper bag cooking for oysters. It suggests rolling twelve large oysters in breadcrumbs, buttering a bag, and baking eight to twelve minutes, with pastries brushed with milk and vents in the bag for browning. It notes various sweets and milk rolls can be prepared similarly in about fifteen minutes.
Home crafted cottage cheese and scalloped bake
Instructions describe making cottage cheese from sour milk by letting whey separate then thinning curds with salt butter and cream. The cheese may be flavored with onions chives or sage. A scalloped bake uses bread slices milk and dairy cheese baked until brown for a hot serving.
Apple bread pudding with lemon nutmeg accents
Layer buttered crumbs on a dish base then add thin apple slices with lemon juice and nutmeg. Alternate with crumbs to the top, bake until tender and lightly browned. Serve with sweetened whipped cream.
Tomato Bouillon for a Clear Tomato Essence
Use a clear beef bouillon as base. Boil tomatoes until tender, strain for a clear juice, and mix into the bouillon to desired strength. Season to taste and serve hot. A dash of cyenne pepper enhances it as an appetizer.
Fish Cakes from Cooked Fish
The recipe instructs to debone cooked fish then mix with dried breadcrumbs and seasoning. Add enough milk to shape into two inch by half inch cakes with an egg, form, and fry in hot lard. Garnish with minced parsley for flavor.
Creamy cheese sauce folded into fried potatoes
Instructions describe grate cheese into white sauce before coating potatoes for baking. Cheese flavor permeates the pan creating a creamy sauce. Finish with cracker dust or breadcrumbs and brown under the oven.
Pancake Circles With Tart Fruit Jelly Roll
A pancake recipe uses very hot flour and milk to make a thin batter that cooks into large circles. Fill with tight tart fruit jelly, dust with powdered sugar, roll like a jelly roll, secure with a toothpick, and serve very hot with tea.
Fig Sandwiches from a Perplexing Recipe
A historic kitchen note describes mixing one quarter pound fea tery fine with water to a paste, adding one third cupful of simonids landhed and rosewater, then lemon juice. The mixture is spread on buttered rye bread when cold.
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Werner
Elsa
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Paros
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William
Derr
Peter
Granaddaudters
Milady
Mabel
Haifzk
Sires and Sons
London
St Paul
Pert Personals
Mary Walker
Kipling
Chicago Record Herald
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