The Waddy Mystery in an Australian Bush Tale
Clarence recounts a adventure in the Murrumbidgee region where a battered hat becomes a clue to a bush encounter. Dolly, a farm child, joins guard against aborigines as Clarence describes the coo ee cry and a staged ruse using a hat and a basket to escape a sudden encounter with the hunters.
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Clarence
Australia
Mars
Ceylon
Murrumbidgee
Rhenish
Prussia
New Zealand
Shropshire
Dorothy
Dolly
Diggins
Heroic mother stops train for dying baby
Mrs Ellen Jebbaun of Kenosha Wisconsin accompanied her husband to Edgewater Illinois golf grounds last Saturday. She learned by telephone her baby in Kenosha was dying and waved her red golf cape to halt a rushing fast mail train. The child survived and she is hailed as heroic.
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Ellen Jebbaun
Kenosha
Wis
Tanner
Edgewater
Ill
Allen
Evanston
A Fair Astronomer Leads Paris Observatory Field
A young, fit, educated astronomer mentors a Paris Observatory department photographing stars and computing measurements. She won the post in a 51-way French contest and earned a French government decoration. Her sisters include painter Anna Klumpke physician Augusta Klumpke and violin pupil Julia Klumpke, all San Francisco educated.
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Athena
Paris
Married a Savage in London Declares Love Story
Desdemona and Othello compare in a sensational tale of Florence K Jewell marrying Lobengula in London. Jewell, an American heiress, pursued the Matabele showman from Bloemfontein to England, despite doubts about his princely claim. The wedding followed their Orange Free State meeting.
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Desdemona
Othello
Florence K. Jewell
Lobengula
London
Orange Free State
Miss Jewell
Joseph Jewell
Mexico
Bloemfontein
England
New York World
How to Boil Eggs in the Ideal Time
The guide explains common faults when boiling eggs and gives precise times. For a soft boil two minutes, medium three minutes, and hard five minutes. Ensure water boils before adding eggs, then reboil briefly, cover, and time accurately.
I Teaches Folks to Reed and Rite an do figgers in their heads
An old sign over a negro cabin in Liberty County advertises schooling in reading and writing and mental arithmetic. It also proclaims a daily business lunch for 100 with service from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a ladies lunch on the second floor at Ormonde, 16 W. Pearl Street.
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Liberty County
Our Business
Ormonde
W. Pearlst
Practical kitchen tips from a 19th century cooking guide
The text offers culinary advice such as broiling beefsteak with onion rubbed on the platter, boiling potatoes until steam finishes cooking, and Blanc mange made from sea moss as a nourishing dessert. It also describes tomato jelly with gelatine served on lettuce, and a hard boiled egg salad with lettuce and nasturtiums with French dressing.
Short Clothes for Babies and Women’s Shirts This Season
Babies’ clothes are shortened gradually for comfort with early slips and wraps a few inches above the feet. Shirt waists dominate store displays as August nears, praised for neatness and coolness. A curved belt, dipping in front, improves a woman’s figure more than tight lacing.
Quips and Quarrels in Late Night Gossip Columns
A trio of humorous exchanges from 19th and early 20th century papers captures flirtations and blunt barbs. A caller notes whisky’s after effect, a colonel jokes about drinking, and a snoring husband provokes a sharp jab about silence.
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Detroit Journal
Lost Babies in Poignant Verses Echo Lament and Consolation
A vintage-calm verse excerpt traces bereavement through two poems. Harriet Prescott Spofford recalls new life as a fragile blessing and fragile threshold while James Whitcomb Riley pleads to share grief with a stranger who has no child to lose. The pieces juxtapose tenderness, fear, and solace in intimate family loss.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Reflections of a Bachelor from a humor column
A witty syndicated quip mix from the New York Press about marriage and love. The items joke about Eve Adam relationships and how a woman's confidence in her husband affects a trip abroad.
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Adam
Eve
New York Press
Under New Management Merchants Dinner 15 Cents
Plaza restaurant at Monument place advertises new management. The note lists CHICKERING PIANO by Wulschner Box Indianapolis and mentions prices or offerings in a terse ad style typical of a historic newspaper notice.
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Plaza Restaurant
Monument Place
Chickering
Wulschner
Indianapolis
Moths Routed by Perfume Fragrance and Antimoth Bag
A historical note describes a folk remedy for moths using a blend of cloves nutmeg cinnamon caraway mace tonka beans and red ochre powder. It suggests placing the mixture in a muslin bag and tying it with ribbon to protect wardrobes. Also included is a train promo for a special round trip via L D W Ry leaving Union Station at 7 a m and Decatur at 6 32 p m on August 13, 1899.
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Decatur
Union Station
Eaves Decatur
Delicious Syrup Recipe From Pure Sugar And Maple Flavor
A home made rich syrup serves as an excellent substitute for pure maple syrup to serve with wastes or griddle cakes. Mix five pounds of sugar with a pint and a half of boiling water in a porcelain or graniteware pan, melt, then boil ten minutes. Adding a pint of pure maple syrup or melted maple sugar enhances flavor and lightens whiteness. Store in glass jars or an earthen jug.
Biggest Kitchen in the World at Bon Marche Paria Init
The Bon Marche in Paria Init houses the largest kitchen with 100 bays feeding 4,000 staff. It features frying pans that hold 800 cutleta, a coffee machine yielding 740 quarts daily, and kettles of 75 quarts, with 7,800 eggs used for breakfast omelettes.
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Paria Init
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy popular with people
The soothing healing properties and pleasant taste promise prompt healing. For sale by all druggists.
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Chamberlain
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Ellen S. Lillibridge
Muncie
Atlanta. Constitution
Mrs. Chat
Mr. Chat
William
Harriet Prescott Spoffora
Sea
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