Miss Clemmons in Chinatown Angel of San Francisco
Miss Ella May Clemmons, sister of Mrs. Howard Gould, plans to go to China to aid lepers but remains in San Francisco Chinatown. She works among women and children, earns respect as "The angel of Chinatown," and funds her work from her private fortune without aid.
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Ella May Clemmons
Howard Gould
China
Chinatown
San Francisco
Clemmons
Charles Overcracker
Oakland
Miss Clemmons
California
Gould
The Peculiar Father Tests Spencer in Office Drama
Spencer Grant seeks a job with Emily Quarles’s wary father who doubts him. The father assigns a trial as a private secretary, while the young man quietly proves composure, tact, and steady work ethic amid a tense exchange about a potential courtship and family approval.
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Spencer
van Annam & Co
Emily
Papa
Spencer Grant
Spencer Grant & Co
Richard Quarles
Quarles & Grant
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Emily Quarles
Grant
Father
After the Great Reunion The Boys Are Marching Away
Poem by Frank L. Stanton published in Atlanta Constitution features veterans coming home after civil war battles. The verses evoke brighter dawns, reunions, and a shared duty as comrades march from fields once reddened by war to a hopeful, unified present.
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Frank L. Stanton
Atlanta. Constitution
Breakfast Salad Method and Wry Medical Quip
A recipe outlines preparing a breakfast salad with tomatoes cucumbers lettuce onion and green pepper plus French dressing. A grim quip about piles ends with a note of a supposed cure claiming Dean’s ointment never fails.
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Dean
Thirteen Follows Couple in Proved Marked Way
Capt. Lemly of the United States Marine Corps and Miss Adelaide von Windegger of St. Louis became engaged on July 13, 1899. He sailed for the Philippines and was wounded at Tien-Tsin on July 12, one year from their engagement. She believes fate spared him only because the day was the 13th.
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Lemly
Adelaide von Windegger
Capt. Lemly
United States Marine Corps
von Windegger
St. Louis
Philippines
Taku
Tien-Tsin
Color contrasts in feminine hats according to Chevreul
The text cites Michel Eugène Chevreul’s color law noting which hat colors suit different complexions. It advises black hats with yellow flowers for dark women, white hats for bright complexions with tulle, brights for blondes and brunettes with a yellow flower, and cautions against pink, yellow, and violet hats without appropriate trimming.
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Michel Eugene Chevreul
Iced Chocolate Recipe and Serving Method
A historical recipe describes shaving two ounces of chocolate and melting it, then adding hot milk sugar cornstarch and later cream and vanilla. The mixture cools in the ice chest and is served in chocolate cups or tall glasses with chipped ice, using optional cinnamon for flavor.
Useful Household Tips From a Historic Column
A breeze of practical advice covers lawn care and cleaning. Salt fouls grass but clears sidewalks. old newspapers brighten brass after cleaning. turpentine in floor rinse freshens rooms. cayenne pepper fights ants by sprinkling under shelves. lemon, whiting, and soap remove paint marks from walls.
Cheese Crackers for Snack Time
A dainty morsel for the hungry half hour before bedtime is cheese crackers. Spread thin zephyrettes or salted crackers with a little butter and sprinkle lightly with grated cheese. Place on a dish in the oven long enough to brown them slightly. Serve instead of cake with ice cold lemonade.
Love as Tyrant Portrait by Ripley D Saunders
A short poem explores love as a force that bends to fear and bravado. The speaker notes love’s tyranny and fickleness, calling it a traitor by nature yet essential to life as moods shift with passion. Ripley D Saunders is credited.
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Rascal
Ripley D. Saunders
Talking Well and Social Conduct Principles
Excerpted advice from Mrs. Spurton Kingsland in the Ladies' Home Journal on mannerly talk. It urges avoiding pedantry and gossip while valuing heartiness, eye contact, speaking about things not persons, and maintaining natural ease with self restraint.
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Spurton Kingsland
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Cleaning Painted Woodwork With Whiting And Turpentine
The New York Sun advises keeping painted woodwork fresh by cleaning with whiting on a nearly dry flannel cloth, then washing with clear water and drying. Alternative methods include using warm tea to remove dust and spot cleaning with spirits of turpentine for stains on unpainted floors.
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New York
Book Cleaning And Diet Ads From A Historic Page
Cleaning method for grease on book leaves using Fuller’s earth mixed with water forms a creamy paste to spread over the spot. After four hours the paste is scraped away to lift the grease. The text also notes large political spending this year and promotes New Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a radical digestive remedy with a claim it cures stomach troubles.
Funny Quips and Snaps from Writers and Musicians
Smiles from Puck and quips from Chicago Tribune Answers and Life mix wit about games, kisses, shooting stars, and voices. The playful exchanges mock ambition, love, fire safety, and social banter with brisk humor.
Pretty Lingerie Sets Define French Dress Sense
The piece argues that modern lingerie is worn in sets and that French women maintain a habit of changing underwear with their gowns. It claims this discipline creates a freshly bathed, groomed, and uniformly smart appearance, not tied to expense but to time and care.
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America
Euphemis Falconer
Trent, Muskegon Co
Mich
Omelette Cooking Time Debated
A kitchen tip notes the difference between tender and tough omelettes hinges on cooking time. Some say five or ten minutes, but the omelette should not stay in the pan more than about a minute.
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Star Store
Ilinois
Wise
Brayne
Bugs
Chicago Tribune
Dees
Central Trust Company
Tte
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