Mark Ransom Finds a Bride After All
In a dinner sparked by social pressure and mockery of his bachelor life, Mark Ransom, long labeled hard to please, contemplates marriage. Elise indicates his orbiting prospects, and a string of potential matches is weighed. Six hours later Lois Jones arrives. Mark is smitten by her delicate beauty, soft blue eyes, and graceful manner.
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Mark Ransom
Gaynor’s
Elise
Arthur
Washington
Mark
Jones
Sadie Jennings
Grace - Gray
Stephanie Ross
Alice Carleton
Venuus
Mary Willis
Wilhelmina Lee
Feid
Paragon
Ransom
Lois Jones
Mr. Ransom
Miss Jones
Grimimar
The Perils of Barnstorming for Stage Ambition
This excerpt warns aspiring actors about the rough reality of chasing stage success. It details endless agency hunts, meager pay, grueling travel, and debt while noting only a few reach recognition. The piece contrasts fragile fame with lasting character, urging caution before pursuing theater at any cost.
Tucked in Memories of Mothers and Gentle Griefs
Verse and prose fragments recall maternal warmth and loss. A narrator remembers a wife’s wrap and sunbonnet during courtship, a boy's near-drowning scare, and a child’s bed tucked by a mother. Interwoven are lyrical poems by Betty Garland and Lucy Larcom about home, time, and longing.
Miss Bertha Shoemaker Leads Lloyd System Carpentry Class
Miss Bertha Shoemaker appointed carpentry teacher at Til den school Detroit with Swedish Lloyd manual training. She clarifies the program emphasizes hand work without machinery glue nails or screws, teaching joinery, tool grinding, and mechanical drawing to produce practical wooden articles.
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Bertha Shoemaker
Tilden School
Detroit
Mich
Miss Shoemaker
Wall Decorations With Striped and Floral Papers
The article describes wall coverings using striped papers in two shades of a color or single shade with alternate stripes. Colors include green red and purple, good with white painted woodwork. Florals may be used as friezes or upper wall accents, paired with striped dado panels and lilac-toned walls.
Creamed Potatoes Recipe From Cold Baked Potatoes
A home recipe describes creamed potatoes using diced potatoes seasoned with salt and pepper, then added to a butter and flour sauce with hot milk. Parsley and lemon juice finish the dish. The guide notes cold baked potatoes make especially fine creamed potatoes but warns against extended cooling.
Woman of Many Good Works Serres Talks of Isabel Bird
The portrait notes Isabel Bird, famed 19th century traveler, often called a household word in cultured English homes. It recalls her long life of charitable aims, including hospital and orphanage foundations in the East, and her sermons on women’s mission work.
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Serres
Pictorid
London
Isabel Bird
John Bishop
Church Congress
Asia
Love at first sight proves decisive in crosscity chatter
Smiles and wit flood into conversations as a man proposes in a sonorous Scottish accent, while friends recall past crushes and misgivings. Aunt Hetty and Miss Puinter question suitors, and the scene threads through Brooklyn Life, Puck, and the Chicago Post with light social banter.
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Chicago Post
In the Kitchen Practical Advice for a Better Kitchen
Simple kitchen tips cover storage, seasoning, and digestion. Do not dampen corn starch with salt, keep peppers whole, use salt water for indigestion, store staples outside bags, and transfer groceries to suitable containers. Organize shelves and place items near where used to save steps.
Dead Gold for Buckles Fashion Note
Buckles and lace pins in dead gold without stones are stylish now. The favored designs feature a flower and leaf pattern or a small spray, with no colored enamel. Plain gold buckles appear particularly elegant on velvet girdles or milliner bows, while enameled flowers on cheap belt clasps have fallen from fashion.
Buttoning Style for Flannel Shirtwaists
Instructions suggest placing buttons on the left side of a simple flannel shirtwaist for a breakfast table look. Use sage green or rose pink flannel and small flat brass buttons. Remove buttons before washing.
Monte Carlo Casino Crown Jewel of Monaco’s Wealthy Realm
The text recalls Monaco’s Monte Carlo Casino as the world’s premier gambling hub. Prince Albert I, it notes, rules a compact, wealthy principality famed for high stakes income from the casino and Parisian real estate investments, solidifying Monaco’s reputation as a self-contained, affluent enclave.
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Monaco
Monte Carlo
Casino of Monte Carlo
Albert Honore Charles
Fengland
Duke of Hamilton
Paris
Europe
Chamberlain's Core Cholera Remedy Praised by Texas Mother
W W Massingill of Beaumont Texas thanks manufacturers for Chamberlains Core Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He notes thousands of mothers see their children saved from attacks of dysentery and infantum. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
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W. W. Massingill
Beaumont
Texas
Gale
Welcome at the Door by The Cook
A rustic verse depicts a hostess greeting comrades at the door. She smiles with a dimple and invites guests as the dinner setting is prepared, honoring each arrival as a guest of honor.
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Drest
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Grace Wilson
Vanderbilt
America
Betty Garland
Lucy Larcom
Hiram
Hetty
Brooklyn
Miss Puinter
Miss Fadingtom
Puck
Owl
Indiana Dental College
Cee
University of 8
Ohie
Nottingham
Mlinois
Stevenson
REL i
Seer
Icenk Wine Co
Toledo
Norton’s
Delaware
Iowa
Aug
Coldewey & CO
Delaware St
Ingdom
France
Italy
House of
Grimaldi
Did &E
Mediterranean
West
Majestic
Gregory & Appel
The
Indianapolis Gas Co
Vonnegut’s
Vonnegut Hardware CO
E. Washington St
Physicians and Surgeons
W. B. Fletcher
J. A. Sutcliffe
Tto
SP. M
Jos. E. Morrow
Ohio St
Union Trust Company
Company
East Market Street
Sto
R. T. Feliz Gouraud
L. A. Sayre
U. S
Canadas
FERD
T. Hopkins
Jones St
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