McClung For The Treasury A Presidential Era Portrait
Franklin MacVeagh named as treasury patron of youth. The article portrays Lee McClung as a stylish, athletic bachelor and former Yale football captain with Confederate lineage and notable family history. It notes his rise from railroad freight to university treasurer managing large endowments and rents.
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Franklin MacVeagh
United States Treasury
Yale
McClung
Sim
McClungs
Highlands
America
Alexander Keith McClung
Mississippi
Think Chanler Was Duped By Lina Cavalieri Bond
Gossip across two continents centers on Robert Winthrop Chanler and Lina Cavalieri alleging she tricked him into gifting property. The couple wed in Paris on June 18, Chanler linked to the Astors, earlier sheriff of Dutchess County, with two daughters. The contract reportedly hoped to ensure Cavalieri $50,000 yearly regardless of marriage, possibly compromising the Chanler trust fund and alimony claims.
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Robert Winthrop Chanier
France
Chanler
Dutchess County
New York
Stuyvesant Chanler
Empire State
Lina Cavalieri
Sfe
Mme. Cavalieri
Madrid
Europe
United States
Cavalieri
British nurse in America an English army nurse’s life
The story profiles Miss Elizabeth Murray who visited the United States to study hospital methods before destination tours to the Philippine islands and China. It outlines her training in Dublin and London, entry into the British army reserve corps, and her role as Sister Murray within a rigid, socially linked military nursing system.
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Elizabeth Murray
United States
Philippine Islands
China
England
Military
Devonshire
Murray
Stevens Hospital
Dublin
London
Boliida Hospital
British Army Reserve Corps
Princess Christian
Queen Victoria
Sausage Roll Recipe From Antique Kitchen Note
A historic kitchen instruction details mincing cooked meat then forming a thick seasoned paste. It guides making a flour and butter dough, filling five inch squares, folding and sealing, brushing with egg, and baking fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
Serving tables aid to dainty self service
A household tip describes movable serving tables on wheels for efficient table service. Several designs are noted including single tray or shelf models with removable trays that tilt to the sink. Finishes are neat and japanned. plain linen dollies can dress up the tray for meals.
Apple Roll With Lemon Sauce
A vintage recipe outlines mixing flour salt and baking powder with butter, then adding milk to form dough. Roll to a quarter inch, spread with apple sugar and cinnamon, slice and bake. Lemon sauce combines sugar water butter lemon juice and nutmeg for serving.
Peach and Vanilla Parfait with Strawberry Sauce
Freeze vanilla cream then mix in peach pulp and orange juice. Line glasses with peaches, fill with cream, cover with a cooked strawberry sauce. Or mold the frozen cream in ice and salt, then coat with thin cold chocolate icing and decorate with chocolate almonds.
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Harper's Bazar
Smothered Cucumbers Recipe Steps
Pare three cucumbers and cut into quarters and lengthwise. Trim seeds and cut flesh into half inch pieces. In a heavy pan melt butter add salt paprika and cucumber. Cover cook five minutes then simmer slowly until very tender in 12 to 13 minutes.
Chocolate Cocoa Pudding Recipe
A simple baked pudding combines milk read crumbs cocoa or chocolate sugar yolk and egg baked in a greased dish until firm. A meringue topping made from the white of an egg and powdered sugar browns lightly in the oven. Serve hot or cold with cream.
Dusting Apron A Handy Household Tool
A dusting apron proves a great convenience for cleaning days. Made of dark denim with long pockets for a feather duster, dusting cloth, and a small whisk broom, it saves steps and speeds finding the right tool.
Striking North American Review Piece Praised Nationwide
Col George Harvey argues in the September North American Review article A Plea for the Conservation of Common Sense that America can meet unrest with calm analysis and practical remedies. He praises education in loyalty and civic duty, calls for balancing government and business, and urges conserving common sense as the nation’s key resource.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
George Harvey
The
North American Review
America
Colonel Harvey
Republic
Fire Chief Sets Strict Leave Policy for Game Day
In Jersey City Fire Chief John Conway posts a notice at fire headquarters requiring all leave requests for game day to be handed in by 10 a.m. The notice lists reasons including grandmothers funerals lame back moving and other common excuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Conway
Jersey City
Dean's Kidney Pills Promised To Cure Kidney Trouble
Mrs Frances Collins of Boonville Missouri endorses Dean's Kidney Pills claiming relief from backache dizziness fatigue and nervousness after thirty years of kidney trouble. The ad urges readers to buy at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as a timely warning about dropsy diabetes and Bright's disease.
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Bright
Dean
Frances Collins
Box
Boonville
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Odds talk and tangled secrets amid dinner talk
Craig Biddle at a New Port dinner discussed changing odds for the Jeffries Johnson fight in Reno with figures Eight to four and a half on Jeffries Nine to one on Johnson. He noted a pair of girls debating a secret, each denying the other knows. The quotes mix boxing odds with a cheeky gossip exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craig Biddle
Newport
Jeffries-Johnson
Reno
Jeffries
Aix
Mary
Advertising snippet on household products and dating sentiments
An old time ad fragment promotes Red Cross Ball Blue for whitened clothes and urges grocers to stock it. It then wryly notes a single woman waiting for a marriage proposal and closes with a medical testimonial about Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a laxative remedy.
No Modernized Bible Says King James Still Best
The writer rejects plans for a modern English Bible and defends the King James version as preserving Saxon words and classic English style. Citing Success Magazine and James Martineau, the piece argues to frown upon efforts to improve on the KJV and uphold its literary ideals.
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Success Magazine
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