Fruit canning and jelly making from old farmhouse notes
Mrs George Hollingberry extols fruit value and explains preserving fruit through canning and jelly making. It covers nutrition, fermentation, bacteria, yeasts, and proper canning methods including oven, boiling water, and steam, stressing sugar use, peetine gelation, and maintaining quality for health and economy.
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George Hollingberry
Massachusetts Asylum
Kansas
Frauenis Apperl
Pasteur
Kansay
Precision of Artillery Fire and Targeting Concepts
A historical note explains mortar accuracy with observer guidance and geometry. It compares aiming with a clock dial, uniform motion, and timing to ensure projectiles reach a moving target. It mentions instruments giving range and mechanical devices aiding range differences and hints at naval targeting.
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Capt
Huwett
Douglas county public school book list for first to seventh grade
Pupil list of required textbooks for Douglas county Kansas public schools. First year includes Wooster primer first reader rational method in reading geography speller copy book No 3. Sixth year adds Fifth reader language book elementary arithmetic Carpenter's North America geography speller copy book No 4. Seventh year includes Fifth reader grammar arithmetic geography primary history Montgomery's Beginner.
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Douglas County
Kansas
Carpenter
North America
Montgomery
Autograph Letter Sours Lesson On Essay Night
A girl graduate sits with her father in a car as she shows an autograph John Ruskin letter bought for $17. He critiques her essay aloud, sparking playful tension about reading before writing and the lesson from the gift.
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John Ruskin
Colonal argues over verdict in sunstroke case at roadside death
A colonel rides to a county coroner’s house after finding a man dead beside the road on a hot June day. Neighbors help view the body but no medical exam is performed. They quickly declare sunstroke, but the colonel challenges the verdict and suggests changing it to froze to death to save time.
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Juny
Water as an Anesthetic Reported by Berlin Surgeon
A Berlin surgeon reportedly discovered that water can serve as a local anesthetic. While testing cocaine for minimal effective doses in minor operations, he observed that a small subcutaneous injection of water produced a swelling that resembled a gnats sting and rendered the surrounding flesh insensible for several minutes.
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Berlin
The Black Sheep and Ed Ferguson Return
A man returns to his native town asks about Ed Ferguson who is described as thriving with a top livery stable and controlling the depot. The conversation recalls Ed’s younger brother Lem who failed to amount to much, wrote poetry, and was disowned by the family before drifting away years ago.
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Ed Ferguson
Lem
Force of Habit Causes Dish Throwing Incident
A German merchant's wife told a close friend that her 80 year old husband became upset over bad fish at a restaurant. In a sudden act of temper he hurled the entire meal, including the plate and bread, at her head, leaving her humiliated.
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Fritz
Meggendorer Blaetter
Neglected. Mrs Stiles and Mr Stiles clash over care
Dialogue captures a domestic quarrel about attention and clothing. Mrs Stiles accuses neglect while Mr Stiles defends and shifts focus to her care of him. The exchange highlights relationship tensions and concerns over priorities.
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Mrs. Stiles
Mr. Stiles
Land of Matchless Mountain Scenery Ad Offer
Travel ad invites vacations to a cool peak country. Encourages asking ticket agents about low rate tickets to Denver with summit rail depots and depots near Mt. Summit.
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Getté
Denver
Adwart Sight
Union'depot Sak
Colorado
Mt. McClellan
Young Man Presents Bonbon Bar to Gil in Exchange
A fragment notes a young man offering a pound bar of bonbons to Gil, described as the gesture of one youth to another in a brief scene from the newspaper text.
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Gil
Will Not Be Called Grandma Card Reveals Lash at Age Terms
A New York Press quote features a lexicographer arguing that the word grandma will die out by 2000. He says women dye hair and claim youth while aging, training grandchildren to use terms like nannie or lovelocks. He notes women visit beauty parlors as youth fades.
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Nannie
Nans
Lovelocks
New York Press
Let the Clouds Blow Over Conjugal Breaks Save Marriages
Advice on marital strain suggests a short absence cure for stressed couples. If conflict rises, spouses should separate for a few days to cool off, reflect, and forgive. Reuniting in calm, loving terms is encouraged to prevent unhappiness and drift apart. The guidance emphasizes timing and restraint over heated discussions.
Sooty Egg Hatchlings In Allegheny Repair Shop
A workman left two dozen eggs in a roundhouse tool box in Allegheny Pennsylvania. Coal soot covered the eggs as steam pipes warmed the box. Sixty when the first hatch of 14 sooty chicks arrived. a second hatch of 20 hopefuls followed.
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Pennsylvania
Allegheny
Yiorn
City Girl's Funny Break in the Country
A New York girl visiting Cleveland is puzzled by country life, asking if there are elevators since she has only known city life with white lights. A local narrator recalls she wanted to gather nuts and proves her ignorance with a joke about climbing trees.
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Pye
Cleveland
New York
Banzai a New Word From Tokyo University
A Notes and Queries contributor notes that banzai, the only Japanese word many Americans know, is about 15 or 16 years old. Invented at the Imperial University of Tokyo by Dr. Shigeno to match the English hurrah, it has spread globally as a brief congratulatory shout.
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Imperial University of Tokyo
Shigeno
He Liked Shakespeare
A street urchin questions the identity of Shakespeare as he exits a theater gallery. His companion quips that the famed author is “on for his job,” praising Cat McBet as the finest show he has ever seen and offering a rough compliment to the Bard of Avon.
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Shakespeare
Cat McBet
Bard
Avon
Inquired Inspector Tests Tank Capacity Joke
A terse dialogue from Bohemian Magazine features an inspector asking about a tank in the building and a janitor replying with a wry admission that he never had money to determine its capacity. The exchange captures a humorously evasive stance on unknown storage limits.
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Ol Niver
Bohemian Magazine
Taxpayer dignity and the cost of citizenship
A southern city police officer recalls that taxpaying alters a man’s view of arrest and responsibility. He notes his own shift after buying a home, argues everyone should become a taxpayer to feel government support and duty, and contrasts habitual criminals who avoid investment with steady renters. Source: St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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St. Loui
Globe-Democrat
Dutch tulip industry rests on Leyden Haarlem soil
A long description notes that true bulb soils exist only in the Leyden Haarlem arc of the former Haarlem sea bottom. This defective soil, a mix of sand and decomposed vegetation, supposedly yields perfect tulip and hyacinth bulbs. Global demand grows as cultivation expands across a measured area totaling 10,027 hectares in 1906.
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Netherlands
Leyden
Haarlem
All Haarlem
Stevens Wins Praise After Late Habit Ends
In New York near Washington Market Dustin of the commission and his employer Selmutt report Stevens nearly lost his job for chronic lateness. After a warning if tardiness continued, he mended his ways and now tells friends how the boss praised his punctuality saying he is finally the finest at last.
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Dustin
Washington Market
New York
Stevens
Selmutt
Harry
Well-Groomed England as Seen From the Train
A Chicago Evening Post reader describes England in springtime seen from the train window. Meadows are clipped hedges trimmed sheep neatly placed on hills, roads dusted and bright as if the entire country were a front yard.
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England
Willur D. Nesbit
Chicago Evening Post
Doubly Useful Mucilage for Home First Aid
The Women’s Name Companion notes a homemade mucilage made with gum arabic that can replace court plasters and patent adhesives. A heaping teaspoonful in ordinary mucilage yields a cheaper, effective antiseptic coating for ordinary cuts, with two thoroughly dried pieces resisting water better than standard adhesive plasters.
Fortune teller frets over missing wallet and ring
A fortune teller in a story laments the loss of a wallet full of bills and a diamond ring from her bureau. She asks her assistant if she used the best method to recover them, and the assistant confirms she reported the theft to the police immediately.
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Maria
Marla
Meeting at the club reveals two men’s identities
An attendant guides a visitor through a building describing a “slow combustion” house. Mr. Pneuritch recognizes Slocum at the club and expresses interest in meeting Mr. Bustion.
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Mr. Pneuritch
Slocum
Bustion
Whimsical Snippets on Reputation and Love
A collection of aphorisms on reputation and ambition. It notes that whitewash cannot hide flaws, that timely intervention helps a man advance, and that a girl’s first love makes the world lovely. It cautions some miss the mark of success by aiming too high.
Public Slogan on Guaranteed Flour and 1908 Tax Ordinance
A Lawrence Kansas miller touts Zephyr flour with a guaranteed claim as a safeguard for buyers while a 1908 city ordinance taxes for the year 1909 is laid out, detailing mill rates for general purposes interest sinking fund and library funding plus sidewalk assessments and city projects. The text blends a commerce anecdote with municipal finance in a single publishable note from the era.
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Lawrence Daily Journal
City of
Lawrence
Vetion I
Y of Lawrence
City of Lawrence
Library
Library Fund
S. E
Babenck
Pennsylvania Street
Steele
Earl’s
Cease
Earl's
Steele’s
Earl’s Add
Lee Street
LL. & GR
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