Window displays and oddities dot New York news
A New York jeweler showcases diamond rings and emeralds with steep prices in a window display. Other notes describe Canal street carts with clocks tools and second hand cameras, University Hall stairs at Ann Arbor, a Mohammedan tale of Albed Hamoun in Paris, a Sultan with a Koran at table, and Southern Pacific employees earning 78 gold watches for safety feats under a point system.
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New York
East Side
Canal Street
Ann Arbor
Mich
Old University Hall
Southern Pacific Railroad
Marry Mary Peters Weds James McNeal in Millville Affair
Mrs. Mary FE Peters aged 66 of Millville New Jersey married James McNeal 64 with her mother Mrs. Jane Facemier 69 performing the ceremony. The maid of honor was Blanche Hughes granddaughter of the bride and the bridegroom’s grandson Harvey W Hughes served as best man.
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Mary FE. Peters
Millville
N. J
James McNeal
Jane Facemier
Mies Blanche Hughes
Harvey W. Hughes
Filling the Xmas Stocking Tips for true gift joy
A guide to choosing Christmas gifts that delight children by matching desires, revealing their wishes through careful questions, and balancing surprise with practicality. It stresses asking what a child truly wants, using silenced hints and staged reveals, while favoring usable, creative toys over impractical ones.
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Santa Clara
Santa Claus
Santa
Bill
Mark
Mary
Delicious Christmas Cakes and Fruit Cake Recipes
A vintage set of cake recipes and baking notes detailing prune spice cake fruit cake nut cake jelly roll chocolate spice cake tea cake and eggless butterless milkless cake with measurements and methods for blending ingredients baking times and oven temperatures.
Sweeten the Gift Card Messages from Classic Authors
A collection of period tone gift messages and quotation lines from Stevenson Shakespeare Cowper and others. It offers suggestions for personalizing Christmas gifts with elegiac couplets and literary touches suitable for books jewelry and tokens.
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Minneapolis Journal
Stevenson
Thomas A Kempi
Shakespeare
Cooky Jar Recipes From Mississippian Kitchen
A vintage collection of bakewell recipes explains Hickory Nut Macarcones Cocoanut Drop Cakes Walnut Wafers and Eggless Cookies with step by step mixing and baking notes. ingredients include nut meats sugar flour butter cocoanut pecan and spice blends. directions vary, suggesting oven temperatures and texture checks for each treat.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicats
Oysters for Dinner Recipes From The McClure Syndicate
A compact read on oyster based meals suitable for dinner instead of meat. Includes macaroni layered oyster bake with cheese, oyster fritters batter ideas, and Philadelphia fried oysters with careful cleaning, dredging and baking steps.
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Mab
McClure
The Christmas That Never Will Be
A reflective verse recalling children in wartime wish for a Christmas lost to conflict. The piece invites readers to share in imagined mercy for youths unaware of joy, pondering a future spared from war and grief.
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Mithe
Dilorce
Leave the Lights Burning
Inspector Joseph A. Faurat, chief of detectives in New York, urges women to leave electric lights on when leaving home at night to deter burglars. He argues a well-lit house is a stronger deterrent and less tempting to criminals, framing it as a prudent investment for households.
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Gardner Miffen
Washington, N. H
William Snow
Washington
Alwaye Ker
Beckver
Joseph A. Faurat
New York
Senda
Clootrelty
A Bad Panny The Magistrate Notes 14 Days
A shabby man before a city magistrate faced a charge of having no visible means of support. Asked his occupation he replied in a laconically witty way that he has retired from circulation for 14 days. The magistrate directed the clerk to make a note of the humorous statement.
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St. Louis
Concrete roads in United States show low upkeep costs
A Farm and Fireside article reports that high grade macadam costs seldom over 30 per mile for upkeep, while 16 foot wide concrete roads averaged 11 092 per mile in 1914. Wayne County Michigan touts the nation’s most remarkable concrete system started seven years earlier, with growing value and durable performance in all weathers.
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United States
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Wayne County
Michigan
Coute
Spencer
Mans
Two Weeks Christmas in the Philippines
The article describes Filipino Christmas customs lasting through December 26 to January 6 with added St Nicholas day as a hypothetical extra. It notes window stockings replaced by shoes, Joseph and Mary processions, church pageants, and crowds of the crippled attending. December celebrations continue with shepherds visiting homes, singing and collecting gifts as bands travel with tambourines and garbled ornaments.
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United States
Islands
Joseph
Mary
Bethlehem
Shepherds of
Kettles as Pontoons by Cossacks Create Bridges
The American Hoy reports that Cossacks repurpose cooking kettles to build improvised bridges. Lances pass through kettle handles and are lashed to form rafts, moored to span a stream and bear substantial weight.
Young Chicago aviator courted by Villa for service
Curtis La Q Day, an 18 year old Chicago flyer, claims status as the nation’s youngest licensed aviator. Offered by General Villa to join his army’s aviation corps, Day declined due to an existing two year Benoist contract. Other notes mention Mme. Melba’s Montreal concert raising funds, Princess Arthur clothing, Sarah Bernhardt’s murder insurance, and various female employment trends.
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Curtis la Q. Day
Chicago
United States
Agal Aviation Corps
General Villa
Iwe
Benoist Aeroplane Company
C Chicago
Hat Company
Mme. Melba
Montreal
Red Crowus
Princess Arthur
Connaught
Sarah Bernhardt
New York
Jan Hattle Addox
Little Orphant Annie Inscribed For All The Children
A partial transcription of James Whitcomb Riley’s poem Little Orphant Annie with inscribed dedication to all the children. The text depicts Annie’s household chores and bedtime tales, interwoven with the Gobble-uns and moral warnings as the children watch and listen amid a rustic domestic scene. The excerpt includes mis-spellings and archaic phrasing from an OCR source.
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Little Orphant Annie
Annie
A Christmas Box of Homemade Treats and Tips
A vintage home craft piece outlines creating handmade Christmas boxes packed with simple sweets. Recipes include Corn Crisps, Stuffed Dates, Orange Straws, and various candy options with step by step instructions and preservation notes.
Old Hugh Manity Gives Gifts And Good Advice
Dr Frank Crane's editorial portrays Old Hugh Manity as a whimsical Santa figure on a victorian city street. He hands out moral gifts to all, including education, love, faith, loyalty, and beauty protection, while a frock coat crowd swirls around him before night fall hints at a moral fable.
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Hugh Manity
Frank Crane
Victorial Review
Dave
Hive
Hugh
H. Manity
Teniamon
Receptive Emperor Yuan Shi Kai Pressured by Party
The Kansas City Stage recounts Yuan Shi Kai's initial refusal to accept the imperial throne of the Ching dynasty. Party leaders pressed, arguing the party needed him, while Yuan insisted his one year of public duty was enough to private life. He faced threats of displacement if he did not comply.
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Kansas City
Yuan Shi Kai
Ching
Yuun Shi Hal
Briae
The Ship That Never Returned
A historic verse fragment tells of a voyage that ends in tragedy as a ship sails away and never returns. Rivalry between love and duty appears as a mother and lover bid farewell while fate interrupts their hopes. The piece blends poetic travel lore with scattered notes on nurses and cultural figures.
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