Boston Farm School on Thompson's Island Founded for Boys
The first organized effort in the United States to address the boy problem began in Boston with the Farm and Trades School on Thompson's Island. Established through the Benton Asylum and Farm School and later renamed, it combines shelter, moral discipline, and industrial training, with a strong emphasis on agriculture, carpentry, printing, and trades, plus a unique Cottage Row student government.
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Boston
Farm and Trades School
Thompson
Boston Harbor
Publc
William Phipps
Boston Farm School
Thompson's Island
Asylum
North End
Benton Asylum and
Phyotelan
Brads
Aince
Gardner Hall
Satan
Cnat
Smilar
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dorchester
Atlantic
Bradley
Cottage Row
Ecity Council
Charles H. Bradley
Star Route Parcel Mischief With Beans And Ore
A Wyoming report says star route parcels became a freight train as contractors shipped ore beans and other items in large sacks to mining camps. Idaho drivers hauled flour and iron ore in heavy bundles while bad roads trapped wagons in mud. Local news mocks the contractor for turning parcel post into freight, amid broader strikes in Great Britain over wages.
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Idaho
Tews
Wyoming
Itn
Star
Care of Ferns and Palms in the Home Planting
Guidance on repotting and caring for ferns and palms. Use fresh loam and sand mix when repotting, trim withered leaves without harming new fronds, drain pots, and avoid drafts. Palms require careful watering, weekly soaking, and gentle leaf cleaning. avoid overwatering, rinse with tepid water, and provide occasional rain or cold tea for moisture variety.
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Palma
Cruller Recipe From Early Instructions Sealed in Page
A vintage cruller guide explains beating three eggs with sugar then adding butter milk cinnamon and salt. It directs stirring in flour plus baking powder and salt, rolling to half inch, cutting rings, frying in hot fat, testing with potato piece, then rolling in powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Strawberry Shortcake Biscuit Method with Strawberry Layer
Prepare a doughtan for baking powder biscuits with extra shortening and an egg yolk, using just enough flour to roll lightly. Split dough, bake two layers, spread with butter, rejoin, bake until risen and done. Butter each crust, stack with sugared strawberries, pour remaining juice around.
French Fruit Salad and Custard Preparation Guide
A recipe for French Fruit Salad uses sugar Malaga grapes pineapple oranges and sherry with a custard made from milk eggs sugar and vanilla. The method describes heating milk in a double boiler whisking eggs and sugar and adding vanilla just before the milk boils, then cooling the mixture.
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Malaga
Judge Peters Pudding From Gelatine And Fruit
A simple molded dessert recipe uses three quarters of a box of gelatine two oranges lemon juice two lemons one orange two cups sugar and a pint of cold water. Dissolve gelatine in cold water one hour then add boiling water juice fruit and sugar. fold in chopped fruit nuts and jelly. Chill and unmold, serve with whipped cream.
Bake Yeast Milk Bread From Old Receipt
Light Rolle One pint of sweet milk warmed enough to melt butter. Add sugar and salt. Stir in warm milk with four cups and one cake compressed yeast. Let rise in warm place. When risen, punch down, shape, place in pans, let rise again, top with white ovens, bake.
To Make Egg Soup From Stale Bread Slices
A historic recipe instructs browning bread slices then preparing a yolk butter mixture with milk and white stock seasoned with salt pepper nutmeg and parsley. The mixture is poured over toast and kept hot for ten minutes before serving.
Bean Boup Recipe Notes From Aged Text
Recipe fragment describes combining baked beans with one can of tomatoes and onions plus two bay leaves and several cloves. Simmer for three hours, strain, stir in butter salt and pepper, then thicken if needed. A hint of chili sauce is added to improve flavor.
Negro business uplift urged to curb race trouble
A Washington era letter argues that Black Americans should channel effort into business and manufacturing. It cites hundreds of grocery and retail shops, limited large factories, and a need to expand Black ownership. The piece lauds the National Negro Business League, notes employment bureaus, and details broader racial-justice legal actions and civic progress in 1913 1914 era.
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Michael Jones
Star
Washington
America
National Negro Business League
Booker T. Washington
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Association
Atorney
Jan
Altonomagie Chapin Brinpmade
New York
United States Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Esquiriers
Mx Brinemade
Legal Department of the Posocketon
Madisonville
Louisville
Public Service Commissions
Florida
Cohoe
Theatera
Department of Publcity and Research
Chain Ferry on River Tamar in Devonshire
A curiosities item notes a chain ferry on the River Tamar in Devonshire. The Tamar’s strong current requires the ferry to ford the stream with parallel chains fixed to both banks and a steam engine fitted system to haul the boat across.
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England
Tamar
Devonshire
Atrong
Chaina
Mane Highest Duty and Truth in Public Life
A fragmentary statement urges bold, uncompromising honesty in public life. It emphasizes a duty to God and the world, calling for men and women willing to speak the clear counsel of God regardless of consequences in the current order.
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Thompsons Island
Ings
David Thompson
Council For
UY Agricu
Jude
Chu
Star Route
Baby
Ber
Great Britain
Cruller
Cullings
State Free Employment Bureau
Worcester
Mass
Broadway
Thirty-ninth Street
Jerome Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Bijou
Ushers
Water Boys
Guthrie
Oklo
Portland
Ore
8. W. Alexander
Los Angeles County
California
Garrison Square
Kansas City
The
Park Board
Troost and
Forest
Bureau of Agriculture At
Manila
Philippines
United States
Tibet
France
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