The Sweetheart of the Alice Club
In the Philippines a group of young Fourteenth cavalry officers joke about carrying a girlfriend photograph as a talisman. Johnson dies in action with a locket over his heart and newspapers publish his “sweetheart” image. Alice Netley learns the fate as the town mourns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourteenth ‘Cavalry
Santa Rita
Philippines
Tomlinson
Drury Lenning
Johnson
Drury
Johnny
Little Samuelson
Manning
Ong
Manny
Samuelson
Torlinson
Andrews
Win
Dow
States
Cuba
San Juan Hill
Manila
Calofus
Papas
Luzon
Sammy
Fourteenth Cavalry
Alice Netley
Johnson—Johnson
Leutenant
Lieut. Johnson
Emmettsburg
Miss Foster Brings Beauty Yet Lacks Wealth for Marriage
Fragment reads that Miss Foster brings beauty but no wealth to Hymen's altar while young Clark reportedly has abundance and would install his bride as mistress of a Fifth Avenue home. The text also mentions the Senate with hopes noted in a clipped quotation.
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Montana
Foster
Hymen
Clark
Mangion
Senate
D Becomes Your Night to Save the Dance
A dainty trifle of silk and lace frames a ballroom scene where a list of waltz partners includes many with D names. The speaker, sensing a shift, discovers a lover’s plan as a note reveals the D is for them. A tender reveal from a companion ends the moment with a hopeful, intimate message.
Winter Delicacies in the Fruit Shops
The article notes rosy cheeked Lady apples and a staple winter fruit called the mushroom, priced 50 to 75 cents per pound. Florida grape fruit and Cayenne pineapples from Florida are praised, along with Porto Rico pineapples. For the first time in five years Florida navel oranges return to markets after frost, with California navel oranges also present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Milady
Porto Rico
California
Wedding Day Romance and Gone Train Snafu in Gossip Panels
A collage of brief comic and society notes from several papers. A groom hurries to a waiting cab after vows while the bride at the ceremony drops her satin train in the aisle. A wife teases about her husband writing to his mother as a gag. A maid asks a doctor to see an absent minded patient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Free _Preas
Vernal Joy and Chill in a Chicago Morning
A playful contrast of springtime optimism and cold city mornings. The piece notes bright sun and the urge to go about daily life, yet numbness returns as breath freezes on a cold block. The tone mirrors old Chicago Times-Herald whimsy.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Apple Charlotte Recipe From a Historic Cookery Note
A pasted recipe describes buttering a pudding dish and layering chopped apples with sugar cinnamon nutmeg and crumbs. The dish is topped with bread crumbs and butter then steamed in a water bath for 45 minutes and browned quickly to finish.
Calhoun Dominates as College All Round Champion
Margaret Calhoun, a sophomore star at Vassar, wins the all drama athletic championship after a four year rise. Miss Harriet Ballantyne, college physical director, and Eva May supervised the tests where Calhoun excels in lifting, bar work, and flying rings. Freshmen admire the champion as she recalls Vassar’s distant future.
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Chamion Stareugt
Ciel
United States
Margaret Calhoun
Ballantyne
College
Vassar Wolf
Harriet Ballantyne
Eva May
Harvard
Yale
Calhoun
Vassar
Salmon Recipes From A Historic Menu Card
Cream sauce uses butter flour milk salt and chopped hard boiled eggs. Salmon croquettes mix drained salmon eggs milk melted butter nutmeg salt paprika bread crumbs form croquettes dip in eggs and crumbs and fry. Salmon salad combines flaked salmon with mayonnaise in nests garnished with hard boiled egg. Cream dressing blends salt mustard sugar egg melted butter cream and vinegar over heat then cooled.
Irene crafts hat pieces into finished millinery work
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt a caller marvels at Irene's handiwork noting she made the hat herself and Irene's younger brother explains she assembled it by buying parts and putting them together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene
Manual Training School
Chicago Tribune
Advise Against Kids Cracking Nuts With Teeth
A cautionary note warns that children should not crack nuts with their teeth as it risks enamel cracking and tooth damage. Once the tooth crown is chipped, decay often follows.
Price List of Poultry Produce and Goods
The list covers turkey hens at 8 cents per pound, young toms 7 cents, ducks 7c, geese 5c, and various cheeses, butters, eggs, wool, hides, tallow, flax, paper, jute, cotton prices. Produce items include cabbage seed, celery, onions, apples, bananas, oranges, lemons, potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, carrots, beets, turnips, cranberries, figs. Meats and prepared foods list hams, bacon, lard, sausages, beef, oysters, fish, and related staples with unit prices and package sizes.
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New York
Michigan
California
Florida
Illinois
Jersey
Wholesale prices list for candies nuts and groceries
Comprehensive price sheet listing wholesale rates for candies and nuts such as Candies-Stick 7c per lb, common mixed 6 4c, Kanner twist Stéc, cream mixed 16 17c, nuts like soft shelled almonds 16 lb, English walnuts 12 14c, Brazil nuts 12 2c, sun orand shelled 64c, corn 1.25, peaches various grades, strawberries 90c, beefing with coal and coal products, drugs, coffee, sugars and salts with numerous per unit prices and ton rates for multiple regions and brands.
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Brazil
Sun Orand
Java
Golden Rio
Bourbon Santos
Golden Santay
Prime Santos
Ariosa
Lion
Jersey
Caracas
Dillsworth’s
Columbia A
Windsor
Ideal
New Orleans
Louisiana
Carolina
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Pat
McGinty
Sweetheart
OF the
Alice Club
Rtune
Harper’s Bazar
Chicago Record
Apple Charlotte
Edwin H. Gardner
Egypt
Plymouth Co
Mass
Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Doctor Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Bilson National Surgical Institute
W. Ohie
D. P. Stirk & CO
Star Store
Children's Union
Granger Store
Granger
Rite
Meri
Chiefs
Baby’s Eiderdown
Percale
Illinois Street
GRANG
Cone
Wanderware
Kingan & Co
Indiana
Oysters Fish and Game
Baltimore
F. Brand
Coal and Coke
C. & O. Kanawha
Pittsburg
Winifrede
Raymond
Jackson
Island City
Blossburg
Connellsville
Salta
Epsom
The
Indianapolis Gas Co
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