Before the War a Southern Guest and a Sold Horse Tale
Thomas Nelson Page recalls a prewar incident of southern hospitality gone awry. A guest borrowed a host’s horse and left a enslaved boy to return it. After days the boy vanished, and the messenger learned the horse was sold, then the boy was sold as well, exposing a grim social dynamic of the era.
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Thomas Nelson Page
Dearest Wish and Curious Admonitions in a Humble Page
A fragment, mixing old prose and humor, cites a congressman father debating a son’s craving for literature and fame. A ten year old aims to make people tremble at his name, while a pair of trousers prompts a comic exchange about marital gifts and weakness. The text also briefly mentions a patent medicine claim for curing colds in a day.
Why Do People Call Me a Christian
A pompous city church deacon in charge of a boys class asks why people call him a Christian. A bright boy answers simply that they call him so because they don’t know him, delivering a quick, guileless retort.
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Reasor
Begging His Pardon Versus Kaiser Wit
A brief verse compares a versatile kaiser who spoke freely with one who must button his lip. The quip notes the kaiser is wiser after receiving a straight tip. A stray Chicago Tribune line adds a wry remark about a man whose head and heart fail to act in unison, leading to poverty.
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Kaiser
Chicago Tribune
Postum ad teaches coffee switch via a Tennessee reader
A Living Advertisement touts Postum as coffee substitute with a Tennessee woman sharing six years of improved health after stopping coffee. She claims lingering indigestion nervousness and insomnia resolved by Postum while weighing 117 to 170 pounds since switching. The annou ncement credits Postum Co. and urges readers to read The Road to Wellville pamphlet.
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The Crime of i by Jules Claretie excerpts vigil before the magistrate
Bernadet pursues Jacques Dantin as M. Ginory, the examining magistrate, questions him in the palais about Revere's murder. Dantin reveals little, hints at a secret linked to Revere, and a mysterious “friend” who could have opened the safe. The tense inquiry hints at danger, loyalties, and impending revelations.
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M. Ginory
Jacques Dantin
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M. Revere
Mme. Moniche
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M. Dantin
Palais
M. Jacques Dantin
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Revere
Dantin
Rovere
Quick
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Monsieur
Ginory
M.vere
M, Moniche
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Moniche
M. Bernardet
Japanese Banking Episode at Shanghai Depositors Plea
The Shanghai News reports that about 17 000 depositors of Japan's Chiyoda Bank sent Viscount Hort a written request to perform hara kiri as expiation. The Chicago Evening Post notes the clash of cultures in this dramatic appeal and questions the practicality of such a demand.
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Shanghai News
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Plow lone hae the restaurant been open
An inexact Harper's Weekly vignette features a would be diner and a shopkeeper named Sam. The fragmented dialogue centers on a long awaited service and a misread menu item, ending with a distracted scene around Mrs Bopper and Mr Bhoppe as patrons joke about prices and a social setting. The piece preserves period tone and the humor of everyday miscommunication.
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Harper's Weekly
Excellent Holiday Mince Pie Recipe Collection
The article offers old holiday recipes for planning dinners and decorations. It presents a mince meat recipe by Christine Terhune, detailing chopping beef suet raisins currants apples citron and spices, with sherry or brandy to mellow the mix for a week or more before use.
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Christine Terhune
England
Scalloped Onions and Pumpkin Pie From Cookery Tips
Instructions for scalloped onions with buttered crumbs and milk bake, followed by a detailed pumpkin pie recipe from Good Housekeeping. Includes steps for selecting onions, layering, seasoning, baking, and a classic pumpkin custard style pie with milk, pumpkin, flour, sugar, spices, and crusts.
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Whittler
Salted almonds and roast turkey from Delineator recipes
A collection of pantry and holiday cooking steps includes methods for salted almonds coated in egg and salt then baked, a novel steam serving idea with brandy and orange notes, and a roast turkey with chestnut stuffing. It offers process details like soaking, peeling, browning, basting, and gravy preparation.
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Rowton Cooking School
Scalloped Oysters in Buttered Pudding Dish</n>
Oysters are drained and arranged in a buttered pudding dish with fine bread crumbs, pepper, salt, bits of butter, and oyster liquor. Alternate layers repeat with seasoned crumbs and butter, ending with a crumb top. Bake covered half an hour.
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Chia
Hauke
Delinnator
Norwich art student wins scholarship grant
Ruth N of Noralet Cent has won the Norwich Art Students Association scholarship for the work submitted featuring inch of mandible and figures tipped in melays from Wife Partnership for mutual advantage. The scene was noted Friday afternoon as two men moved through a crowd and an accident or incident occurred near a shop while farm laborers in the south received monthly wages during the season.
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Minn Ruth N
Rorisgop
Noralet, Cent
Norwich Art Students’ Assolution
Health Restored by Peruna Claims Twenty-Five Year Catarrh Cure
Evanston resident Mixa Sophia Kittlenen writes of twenty five years with catarrh and a severe cough. She praises Peruna saying it cured her chronic catarrh and greatly improved her health. The ad promotes Peruna tablets and mentions Man-a-lin laxative and a free Peruna Almanac for 1909.
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Mixa Sophia Kittlenen
Evanston, DL
Perona
Aswan
Man-a-lin
The Gathering Place Poem Tribute to Home and Heaven
The poem reflects on heaven as a distant yet familiar homeland, a place beyond merited toil where gold streets and pearl gates glimmer but the real comfort comes from reunion. It speaks of loved ones awaiting, a lakeside peace, and the longing of hearts for a final, enduring home. Roberts Brownlog is named in the closing line.
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Robert Brownlog
How Could He Know a Wit Testimony in a Will Case
In a court, M. Bantos Due mont, famed aeronaut, faced a probing cross examination by a vigorous young lawyer. The exchange centered on the deceased testator, with the lawyer pressing if he spoke alone often. Lanton-Dumont replied he never knew, claiming he was never with him when alone.
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