How the Wolf Was Made and Other Tales
A collection of era notes and fables begins with a Norse style tale of the wolf's creation by the devil and Allfather, ending with the wolf becoming the devil’s foe. Embedded anecdotes describe Mme de Stael, Miss Westover, Miss Mollie Talmare, and a quip about Chinese tones, plus light verse and odd local boasts from New York and Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfsider
St. Louis Chronicle
Mme. de Stael
Cynthia M. Westover
Beattie
New York City
Mollie Talmare
Dr. Taltrage
China
Devil
Buttermilk cake and walnut pickle recipes from old cookbook
A dated culinary fragment describes a buttermilk cake using sugar butter buttermilk flour and soda with spices like mace and nutmeg. It also extols a walnut pickle from English or white walnuts, requiring salt-water soaking, a spiced vinegar with onions red pepper white pepper cloves allspice celery seed and mustards, and a hot seal for storage.
Faint Glimpses of Notable People and Oddities Across News
A collage of short items mentions ex-impress Eugenie declining to publish a memoria, Count Herbert Bismarck's gift of Schonhausen estate, Mme. Adam of Paris as editor, Henry Labouchere on Mr Bradland, and quirky anecdotes from New York and Chicago. Other notes cover a Kentucky voter's faint, a shark incident in Jupiter Inlet, a Paris cigar case, a card about not touching with canes, jokes about business attire, military ranks, Cincinnati sword makers, a pension tale from Minonk, a marriage license spree in Visalia and Arcadia, a Nebraska farmer’s bean-for-stove-wood rule, Hood's Sarsaparilla claims, and dental ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugenie
Herbert Bismarck
Schonhausen
Madgebuge
Prussian Saxony
Mme. Adam
Paris
Henry Labouchere
Mr. Bradland
Laboucherean
New York
Auctiviiser
Jupiter Inlet
Fla
America
World’s fair funding urged as racial tension grows in Omaha
A descriptive row of items notes the push for more funds by the world’s fair commission, amid anticipated strife between white and black residents in Omaha. Other reports include Gen Miles planning a Mexican tour, a fatal shooting in Blount county, a factory fire in Omaha with substantial losses, a New Orleans jury trial, a mill strike in BR 1, a Tex mercantile failure, a Baltimore shooting, a Milwaukee suicide, a New York Dynamo incident, and train wreck attempts near Norwalk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World’s Fair Commission
Omaha
Miles
Chicago
Mexico
Jef van Horn
Blount County
Alabama
Bohn
Neb
Hennessy
New Orleans
Prowmleney
Heinty & Co
Lagrange
Tex
Isaac B. Moore
Baltimore
Thomas Massey
Milwaukee
John Freeman
New York
Norwalk
Conn
Hiram McConkey
Spring Point
Mich
Mark & Sons Dry
Amsterdam
N. C
Also Mentioned on This Page
New York Herald
Shakespeare
John Shakespeare
Middlefield
Odd Thins
Lese
Jones
Chicaco News
Rae
Joseph
Tommy
Brown
Robinson
New York Sun
Grant
Washington
Congress
Cincinnati
United States Army
United States
John W. January
Minonk
Illinois
January
Andersonville
Visalia
Cal
Arcadia
Keya Paha
Nebraska
Hood
Wood
Winslow
the News
Darby
Jamars W. Panksrepn
Philu
Benson's
Washington Street
Ida Seibert
Indiana Avenue
Indianapolis
Ob- Seraith
Abbett
M.D
Virginizore
Ind
Bax
Posiolfice
Gail
McKinney Medical and Surgical Institute
Hstab
Bor
BilcaSep Aye
Thealand
McHinstey Medieval and Surgical Institute
Bas
Washington St
Dtaa
Imate
Intanto
Pitez2
106
Caita
Deveerstri
James H. Thomas
Tiamon
State of
Indiana
Marion
John L. F. Steega
M. Hadley
James Smith
C. R. Balke
Coval
Civil Circuit Court
Marion County
General Assembly
City Hall
New York Street
Wafayette Road
Lynn Street
Common Council
Swirt
Worthington’s
Washington-st
Statehouse
Aleo
F. E. Fuller
Stata. É
Bourke
H. Fitzgerald
Journal Building
Steele Mackaye
Ellery
Ibe
Bacony
Alu Rus Neuls
Ida van Cortland
Lyons
G and
Opera House
E. H
Sotherbrn
Slatines
Blurard, JR
Chicago Opera House
Traveler’s Register
Union Station
South Illinois Street
Indianapolis Union Station
Mnoylvania Lie
Pittsburg
Baltmore
Philadelphia
Columpus
Columbus
Richmond
Louisville
Vincennes
Cairo
Sud
G. Daly
BT. Louis
Louis
Terre Haute
Evansville
Greencastle
St. Louis
Terre Haute and Grechenstie
W. EF. Brunner
Cleveland
Irernatl
Fin Cicago
Dilly
Chicago & Cincinnatty
Aim
Chicago & Cincinnati
Peoria
K4st
Louis Division
Dally
Pullman
Tauathmtong
Our City
Ulinois Street
Kentucky Avenue
Trians
Indianapolis Gas
Vicodus
Short
Byram & Sullivan
Pursell & Medsker
Delaware Street
Flanner & Buchanan Undertakers
Ypelephone
Carlton
Vance Bicaz
Brown & Son
Fort Wayne Ave
Buschmann’s
Charles Mayer & CO
BEYCE
EF. A. Dickert
West Washington Street
Case
HALY
Holmes & Brundaga
Mantal
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