Queen Elizabeth hosts Tolstoi exile home in Roumania
In a foreign dispatch, Queen Elizabeth of Roumania offers Count Tolstoi a home after czarist exile for preaching Christianity to peasants. The count is expected to accept, signaling broad relief. Other notes mock modern scandals and headlines, from jewelers selling Queen Alexandra diamonds to the North Dakota farmer entering the trust trade and politicians courting “bleeding” profit.
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Elizabeth
Roumania
Russia
Count Tolstoi
Corner for the Women Cleaning Tips for Silk and Lamp Care
Practical household advice covers cleaning silk with grated potato water and drying, preserving sponges in soda water, refreshing wallpaper with bread crumbs, lamp maintenance for better draft, and repurposing worn tablecloths into napkins and doilies to maximize fabric use.
What the Papers Say And Other Tidbits From The Era
A string of brief, era style quotes covers topics from the coal trust and consumer burden to Lafayette’s visit, incendiary fires in Peoria and large rewards for captors, plus a plan to use schoolhouses as summer refuges in Arkansas and New York.
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Coal Trust
Detroit Free Press
Lafayette
Chicago
Peoria
Fancy Sundae and Corn Fritter Recipe Tips
The text describes making a fancy ice cream or sherbet dish with fruit, whipped cream, and chocolate or cherries in flaring glass cups. It then details preparing corn fritters by cutting kernels from an ear, scraping pulp, making a batter with egg flour salt baking powder and milk, and frying in hot fat on a griddle.
Hair Adornments: Apple Blossoms and Bitter Sweets Crowns
A descriptive piece praises hair wear such as apple blossom wreaths for evening use, notes a unique coronet made from red berries called bitter sweets with green leaves at the front, and extols simple rose sprays arranged to appear casually fallen and unfastened.
Silk Belts and Stock Describe White Silk Accessories
The belts feature white silk rib bon with left side lilies accented by yellow silk centers. A decorative knot conceals the belt fastener. A white silk stock is stitched with black, has a turnover edge, and ties in front with medium length ends.
Spirit of the State Press Snippets and Satirical Notes
A collage of brief political and cultural quips from various papers. References include Pelee and the beef trust active, politics uncertain with stump or tree stances, Bryan’s quiet moment amid reorganizer talks, distrust of boodle in trusts, a jab at ping pong in British lunatic asylums, and King Edward finally receiving a crown with proper trademarked ceremony.
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Pelee
Beef Trust
Salem Democrat
Washington Times
Bryan
Lafayette Courier
Shelbyville Democrat
Sullivan Times
With The Poets And The Rose A Quiet Valentine
A compact old verse collection opens with a lonely rose tale of neglect and a failed romance from the Washington Star. It shifts to satirical quips on city life, summer boarders, and political scenes, ending with a wry exchange about wedlock and will.
Animals Rewarded for Mercy by Subduing War
South African war reports note kindness by British and colonial naval brigades. Orphaned chicks became pets aboard ships and to Bloemfontein, while a wounded dog recovered and a goat fed on papers and tobacco. A jack rescued an ox trapped in a river bank, drawing a rope to haul it to shade and water, amid brutal heat and fatigue.
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Paardeberg
Blue Jackets
Bloemfontein
Jack
Sweetest of the Sweet Check Cashed in Bank
A New York state bank cashier received a $10 check made out to the sweetest of the sweet. The woman endorsed the amount as requested and collected the funds, as her husband’s account was in good standing with no overdraft.
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New York
Quaker Reflections in a For Sale Page Snippet
A Philadelphia Record quote page over The Sun's for sale columns suggests bargains on THR SUN Liners. The quip list mocks pretentious knowledge and social flaws with humor about red hair and imitation pearls. Partial page content implies a classifieds section with advertisements.
Society Circles Mark Summer Social Season
Judge Carter enjoys fishing at Thousand Islands while Mrs Hale entertains Miss Grace Gallaway. Harri et Lyon from Muncie visits Mrs Kirby this week as Judge and Mrs Walker stay at Martinsville all summer. Lulu Keller of Kokomo hosts Indianapolis youths Sunday. Edith Pierce from Park Ave visits a Michigan lumber camp for two months. Edna Mick returns to Chicago after visiting relatives. State weddings highlight Fort Wayne and Fairmount matches. guests Isabel and Rose Haas host a N Alabama St supper followed by a trolley event. Steinfeld of New York attends as guest of honor.
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Charles W. Hale
Grace Gallaway
Harriet Lyon
Muncie
R. B. Kirby
Judge
L. C. Walker
Martinsville
Lulu Keller
Kokomo
Indianapolis
Edith Pierce
Park Ave
Michigan
Edna A. Mick
W. E. Mick
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Minnie Roembke
Emil Reuter
Toronto
Can
Fairmount
Minta Life
Oswald D. Cartwright
Isabel
Rose Haas
N. Alabama St
Steinfeld
New York
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Indiana
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Putnam Bradlee Strong
Connaway
North Dakota
Feminine News
Muttercen
Ark
Glo News
Spirit OF the State Press
Edward
Muncle
Washington Star
Reuben
Jay
Reubens
Pittsburg Gazette
Devery
Croker
Tammany Hall
Chicago News
Chicago Post
Tomboy
Atchison Globe
Chicago Daily News
Butterick
Sesaensass
Cloge
Philadelphia Record
Judge Carter
Thousand Islands
National Furniture Co
West Washington St
National Dental Parlors
Pennsylvania St
Marott
Corona
Dren
Geo. J. Marott
Fords
East Washington St
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