Talking parrot and laughter spark a sixteenth to twentieth century garden party
A group of friends recalls a past lawn gathering with a vaudeville parrot that teased Cora Blake and George Olmstead through clever ventriloquism. The prank ends with an engagement and a wedding, marking the last of the carefree juvenile jokes as life grows more serious for later generations.
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Staples
Billy Williams
Cora Blake
Mrs. Olmstead
Cora
George Olmstead
Zis
Billy
George
George Olmatead
Williams
Father Narrates The One-Legged Weather Vane Tale
Daddy tells of a mother hen and a one legged half chick who travels to see the king. Ignoring pleas from a spring fire and wind the chick fails to help, ends up in a pie, and is set atop a church tower as the weather vane.
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Daddy
Jack
Evelyn
King's Palace
Ber
Indy
Korea
Librarian Miss Belli De Costa Green Guards Rare Morgan Library
Miss Green serves as keeper of printed books and transcripts for J. J. Morgan’s vast collection. The Harvard project to establish a university press influences her work and overseas comparison with the Oxford Press.
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J. J. Morgan
Belli de Costa Green
England
London
Princeton
Miss Green
Harvard
Oxford Press
New York
Mr. Morgan
Perfect Marriages Debate Provokes Medical Certificates
A letter to committee chair Cano H Randolph urges broader sex education in schools alongside Michigan marriage certificate bills. Fulton B R Gordon argues teaching anatomy could prevent deaths and divorces, claiming national adoption would benefit humanity.
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Michigan
Cano H. Randolph
Fulton BR. Gordon
Savory Hash Recipes For Breakfast And Lunch
Simple guides offer three hash methods using fresh or leftover meat. Baked Hash combines mashed potatoes with salt pepper parsley onion juice and a breadcrumb crust baked until brown. Creamed Hash uses beef veal or mutton in a creamy milk sauce served over toast. Hashed Beef In Casserole simmers onion tomato stock and gravy with chopped parsley for a hearty dish.
Sid Johnson the Baseball Ace from Los Angeles Express
A poem praising Sid Johnson for his baseball talent while describing him as rough around the edges. It highlights his batting and fielding skills, speed on bases, pitching stamina, and occasional mischief. The piece notes his home in Los Angeles and his contentious home life, ending by calling him a peach when on first base.
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Sid Johnson
Sid
Ike Sid
Bome
Jim-Iin-Nee
Los Angeles Express
Glenwood Cemetery Lots Now Available At Low Prices
Full size cemetery lots offered at Glenwood Cemetery with prices starting at $65. The sale promotes perpetuity and advances in interment rights. Details about locations and agents are incomplete in the text, but the notice advertises affordable plots and ongoing sales.
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Iota
Sally
Inv
Davested
Sepuat Win
Lane Branch
History of the World Two in One Puzzle Reveals Lincoln
The reader is instructed to add and subtract per pictures to identify who routed the Sioux in Minnesota Iowa and Dakota in 102 After solving the math and locating a picture labeled under K the answer is Lincoln
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Minnesota
Iowa
Dakota
Lincoln
Neen裙 pattern for coat suit and dresses
The May Manton pattern offers a four gore skirt with pleat free flat lines suited for coat suits and simple dresses. Sizes fourteen sixteen eighteen, uses four and a half yards of fabric for sixteen year olds, price ten cents plus postage, order number 714. It cites health quotes from New Orleans Picayune.
Bridal Wisdom From Old Columns on Husbands and Love
A collage of brittle social advice on marriage, money, and romance from the era. It mocks extravagance, urges contentment with a husband’s esteem, and warns against revealing marital dissatisfaction. It cites quips about women, love, and the “queen of hearts” ideal in a breezy, unsentimental style.
Daisy and May Day Tales From a Curious Page
A fragmented column blends childlike riddles with notes on royalty and birthdays. It touches on German imperial succession, Independence Day birthdays, and playful jokes about cats, printers, and time. We glimpse plant lore about daisies, their Latin name, and related wildflowers across the prairies.
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Kentucky
Texas
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the Record
Story
Miss Bella DE Costa Green
Aces
Angel Boy
SD Johnson
Gall
Johnson
Glenwood Cemetery
New Orleans
Terrell
Halliday
Lippincott's
Tere
Wren Red Bank
Asbury Park
J. Kridel Red Bank
Cookman Ave
the Fashion Shop
Asbery Part
Sarger
Ma Trade Mart
Reap Suir Ave
Ceut
William
Frederick William
Ala
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