Incoherent miscellany of ancient lore and modern curios
A jumble of notes surveys ancient coastlines, a Jewish inscription at Ostia, a stationary senator’s horn, guidebooks to St Sophia, a humorous court scene with Hill, aluminum supply limits, crab barometers in Chile, insect tones, St Ives dances, Salinas salt making, cotton seed exports, Greenland tree growth, aging surgeon Dr. Martin, silk imports from Canton, French airplanes, a Paris Louvre origin, aeroplane prizes, Elbe tunnels, a Philippine eruption, Moses hymn, Mexican fireworks, China trade shifts, and global divorces and wine data.
Wife Seeks Separate Maintenance From Wealthy Real-Estate He
Atlantic City wife of Thomas Grant Sheen sues for separate maintenance and alimony after a separation said to have lasted since last month. She claims he gave 34 cents for a week in New York, questioned its use, and offered little support including shoe repairs. Sheen, once a tailor, built a real estate fortune with reported wealth around $100,000 and an annual income of $20,000. he is active in All Saints church in Chelsea.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Thomas Grant Sheen
New York
Sheen
Absecon Island
All Saints’ Church
Chelsea
Cincinnati Girls Learn Marble Exercise For Flat Feet
University of Cincinnati students will be taught toe marbles by athletic instructor Miss Macquerite Gray this winter. The program aims to strengthen arches and posture, with measurements of weight height and chest expansion recorded before and after the course.
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University of Cincinnati
Macquerite Gray
Miss Gray
La Follette Daughter Engaged to New York Playwright
Washington special Senator Robert M. La Follette and Mrs. La Follette announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Fola La Follette to George Middleton of New York City. Miss La Follette is an actress who has just returned from Europe and performed with Edmund Breese in The Scarecrow. Middleton, a playwright and critic, dramatized The House of a Thousand Candles and Rosalind at Red Gate and authored Embers. He is a Columbia graduate and member of the Players Club. The couple will wed in a few weeks at the La Follette residence in Washington with only family present.
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Washington
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
Rosalind
Red Gate
Columbia University
Players’ Club
Columbia University Club
New York
Players
Middleton
Man shoots at wife over missing money in St. Louis
Alola Amann awoke to find his wife with his trousers. He fired twice from under his pillow as Policeman Webb intervened. Mrs Amann claimed theft, while the husband defended his right to shoot a thief, arguing courts sanction a husband’s protection of his funds.
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St. Louis
Alola Amann
Webb
Mra. Amann
The Universal Franchise Parade in New York
A small group of sympathizers marched in the suffrage parade in New York City. Among them were faculty members from Teachers College. One professor carried a banner with a cryptic inscription and joked about it being decipherable, noting the men vote, why not women.
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New York City
Teachers College
Surviving American Revolution Doubter Passes Away
The latest of the surviving real doubsters is Mrs Emmeline Wallon of Ha Mich. Her father served with an ante in the Northampton mill.
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Ase
Emmeline Wallon
Ha Mich
Wnth
Anate
Northampton
Chicago Sunday Evening Club a notable success
Chicago business men run the Christian social club that hosts weekly services at Orchestra Hall from October to June. Noted speakers include national figures and international guests, with free seats and a 2500 average attendance last season. The club cooperates with Chicago churches and assists visitors in forming church ties.
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Chicago
Chicago Sunday Evening Club
Orchestra Hall
United States
John William Galland
Treasury
Nbefal
Josep Folk
William A. Quayle
Charles F. Aked
Jacob Bils
Wilfred T. Grenfell
William Jennings Bryan
Edward A. Steiner
George E. Vincent
Iowa Boy
Marion Green
Dubuque
Chicago Evening Club
Secretary of the Treasury
Franklin MacVeagh
John G. Shedd
Marshall Field & Co
Clifford W. Barnes
A. C. Bartlett
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co
John V. Farwell
D. R. Forgan
Marvin Hughitt
Richard C. Hall
Hall
Ers
Ite
Odd Lunar Visitors From Harper's Weekly
Reports of queer hollow yellow iron ore balls found along the Atlantic coast chiefly New Jersey. They rattle when shaken, show red and yellow bands when broken, and may be ancient lunar ejecta. Billiton in Indonesia notes similar glass balls among tin deposits. moon origin suggested.
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Harper's Weekly
Atlantic Coast
New Jersey
Billiton
Sumatra
Borneo
Java
Australia
Earth
Pretty Dirty From Success Magazine
A London outing on the Thames sees boys swimming freely while one quips about dirtiness. Johnnie responds that he missed the train last year, adding a lighthearted note on misfortune and carefree youth.
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Success Magazine
Newaboys
London
Thames
Johnnie
Suffragette Debate Captures Personal Tensions
A fragment shows a domestic exchange about voting, with remarks on a wife seeking a larger audience beyond her suffragette activities. The dialogue hints at social expectations and personal motivation, illustrating broader reform era tensions.
Yves Doucet Named World’s Most Beautiful Baby in Paris
The three year old Parisian Yves Doucet won the grand prize at a world baby show in Paris. Judges measured facial features and body proportions, while the public ballots echoed the decision, declaring Yves the most beautiful among hundreds of rivals.
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Chicago Tribune
Yves Doucet
Tat
Paris
Yves
Scientiste
Scientista
How Gold Crosses the Ocean
An NYT account of a trans Atlantic miner ship carrying a strong room full of gold. The captain details strict custody, bullion room access via saloon floor, a neck-hung key, and elaborate safeguards to deter thieves. The bullion truck and loaded safes move under police and detective oversight, with precise procedures at docking, London officials, and guarding measures.
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New York Times
New York
London
Steamship Company
Custardy Eggs with Cheese and Toast Rounds
Cook four eggs with boiling milk four tablespoons grated cheese and seasonings stirred to prevent cheese from settling. Bake in molds over simmering water until set. Cut rounds from bread fry in butter to golden, then dish custard and brown in oven, garnish with parsley.
Leftover Oyster Omelet with Bacon and Eggs
A quick recipe using one half cup oysters without liquor. Mix flour and milk into a smooth paste, fry bacon until brown, whip egg whites, fold in oysters and yolks, then cook in a hot skillet. Fold to a finished omelet and serve hot.
Veal Cutlets Fried Then Baked In Milk
A recipe guides cutting veal into pieces half an inch thick, coating with egg and seasoned crumbs, frying in hot fat, then baking in milk in a tight covered dish for about an hour. In the final minutes uncover to crisp. One ounce of veal serves four.
Breakfast Sausage Quick Prep Boosts Tenderness
A simple method poaches breakfast sausage in hot water for ten minutes before frying to ensure even doneness and tender textures. The technique reduces uneven cooking and yields thoroughly cooked, juicy links.
Concord Grape Pie With Skins For Rich Crust
Wash grapes and remove skins then fill the pie with the skins and sprinkle two pounds of flour and one and one half cupfuls of sugar over them. Add top crust and bake. Use the remaining grapes for jelly. Concord grapes must be used.
Tomato Juice Wine from ripe fruit ferment to bottle
The instructions describe pressing ripe tomatoes to juice then adding brown sugar at four pounds per gallon without water. Allow fermentation then store in a keg for two to three months before bottling to minimize sediment. The result is a flavorful tomato wine with medicinal claims implied.
Simple Tomato Orange Jam From Frugal Kitchen
A compact fruit and carrot preserve method uses one quart yellow tomatoes one orange two carrots four cups sugar and one and a half cups water. Peel the orange thinly remove rind pith then grate with carrots. Chop tomatoes and mix all ingredients then boil until slightly thickened.
Cucumber relish recipe mixed with peppers and onions
Instructions describe shredding twelve large cucumbers and thirty six small ones with seeds removed, adding peppers onions and sweet and hot mangoes, grinding raw, mixing salt cider vinegar and sugar, boiling half an hour and sealing jars.
Ripe Grape Preserve with Spices Making Note
Five pounds of ripe grapes are picked from the stems then three pounds of sugar and one pint of vinegar are prepared. Add one tablespoon each of cinnamon pepper and cloves and half a teaspoon of salt. Boil the grapes and strain to remove seeds and skins. Add the remaining ingredients and boil until thick.
Oven-Baked Layered Potatoes and Roast Beef Dish
A recipe fragment describes layering raw potatoes with slices of roast beef in a baking dish. After layering until the beef roast is used, pour gravy over the top and bake in the oven.
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Poe
Alice
Juicy Steamed Fried Chicken with Peas and Gravy Method
Dip pieces in flour and fry in hot lard until browned then steam over boiling water for thirty to forty five minutes. Finish by simmering in luke warm water, then add a stewing can of green peas and a thickened gravy made with flour butter and milk for a rich serving.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Breadcrumb Mixture
A rustic recipe mixes stale bread crumbs with chopped nuts onions salt pepper and melted butter. Tomatoes are hollowed filled with the mixture and baked in a pan with a bit of water for about eighty minutes, basted once or twice. Da- Zicious.
Almond Gelatine Slice Recipe
Seven tablespoonfuls sugar white of one egg one fourth pound finely chopped almonds two teaspoonfuls vanilla two heaping tablespoonfuls gelatine dissolved in one ounce of water. Put gelatine sugar and water into a pan boil eight minutes then cool slightly remove from heat add egg white beat until light then add vanilla and almonds blanched and chopped. Butter a tin with corn starch pour in mixture cool completely then cut neat slices.
Recipe Fragment for Butter Molasses Bread
Fragmentary recipe lists ingredients for a bake, including molasses butter soda warm water cornmeal flour milk and spices. Some words are garbled but indicate mixing wet and dry components before baking. Unclear quantities and instructions due to OCR errors.
The Penny Wise Club in the Wysp Family Plot
Isabel Wysp befriends Evelyn Spender, then confronts the pressure to keep up appearances with costly outings. When Evelyn reveals their hardship to “stay in” with modest means, the two couples form the Penny Wise club to enjoy cheap, shared evenings and avoid debt.
Esperanto Explained From the German of FB Schubert
A 1911 Washington journal piece argues Esperanto is a living evolving language built from civilizational roots not an arbitrary invention. It praises its simplicity, logic, euphony, and universal pronunciation, urging self instruction and noting the United Esperanto Association sells a primer for ten cents.
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F. Schubert
Ll.m
Washingtonian Journal
Thie
Jealousy Sparks in Olson Lauder Tour Feud with Witinge
In a vaudeville tour tale, Julian Eitinge wins audience envy away from Harry Lauder. Lauder’s dressing room riot fears fade as reviews praise Witinge, prompting Lauder to vow a comeback if Witinge performs in Chicago.
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Lauder
Witinge
Mitinge
Chicago
Allent
Vallens
Jusus Nettinge
Through Fire and Water Promise Fails Woman in Distress
From Human Life column Mrs Bnicker laments a failed vow by a partner who promised to endure hardship for her and to water the plant while she is away, accusing him of neglect and broken promises. The fragment shows personal grievance and domestic upset.
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Mre
Bnicker
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