Ghosts and a London Ghost Seller at Norton Towers
Henry recounts buying a haunted house Craven Cr. He discovers a ghostly ransom from uncle James and visits Payche Co ghost purveyors in Soho to hire an Elizabethan specter. Uncle James arrives, expects a ghost with chain, is duped by a postman ghost, and departs after meeting falsified phantoms and the bearer postman.
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Providence
Uncle Jurmen
Bradshaw
Skipton
London
Payohe & Co
Archipelago Street
Soho
Mr. Payche
Herbert Tiwmatrit
James I
Thors
Bob
Uncle James
Craven
Pasche
James
Uncle Jamies
Old Dempster
Dempster
Drity
Wpataira
Taycie
Usele James
Rob
Tumbril & Smithers
Oreenre
Smithers
Henry A. Henao
Housekeeper Guide to German Salad and Simple Soup
A housekeeper instruction describes preparing a German style shredded white cabbage salad with salt pepper mustard and a vinegar egg dressing. It also outlines making a meat bone soup with bones onion turnips carrots pearl barley and potatoes simmered in water for two hours then seasoned with pepper and salt.
Lemon Juice Promoted as Healthful Preventive
A historic notice extols lemon juice as healthful and disinfectant for mouth and stomach. It recommends one lemon daily diluted with water, hot or cold, as beneficial for health and sickness and notes a recent claim that lemon juice may help prevent pneumonia.
Warming Up Leftovers and Storing Tactics
Practical tips for reheating pies and gingerbread while preserving moisture and flavor. Suggests spritzing with water, using oven steam, and baking small loaves to keep treats as good as fresh. Recommends steamers for cereals and vegetables, and using a perforated pan or grate with boiling water to avoid scorching.
Value of Cream and Odd Scientific Claims Highlighted
The piece extols sweet cream as superior to butter for digestion and nutrition, touting benefits for invalids and the elderly while challenging the belief that cream is only for butter making. It also notes Professor Poe's gas and oxygen revival device and Moissan’s claimed method to produce diamonds via carbon and iron in an electric furnace.
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Poe
Norfolk County
Virginia
M. Moissan
Peranipa Dish With Butter and Flour Sauce
A recipe describes cleaning parenipa and cutting it into quarters and three inch lengths. Boil in salted water until tender, drain, then add a walnut sized butter piece. Mix two teaspoons butter with a breakfast cupful of flour and pour over the parenipa, boiling a few minutes.
Lean Mutton Stew with Ginger Carrots and Sage Soup
Lean breast of mutton rubbed with ground ginger and salt boils with carrots and cabbage. A thick flour-thickened sauce with a hint of sugar cinnamon and stock is poured over the meat. Vegetables are arranged around the meat and stock is strained and served as soup.
Stewed Meat with Pastry Topped by Four-Slice Crust
The recipe describes frying onions, carrot, and turnip cut into four inch squares for five minutes more. Add salt and pepper and water, simmer with lid while making pastry. Pastry combines flour salt baking powder suet and water, rolled round, placed over meat, cooked an hour, pastry lifted in four pieces and stew poured over hot dish with pastry corners.
Leamon Lemonade Preserved From Fragrant Rind Blend
A dated kitchen note outlines making a lemon cordial from two lemons two cupfuls of water one pound of sugar tartaric acid and extra water. Peel lemons infuse rind juice and boil mixture ten minutes strain it then bottle when cool. Mix with water to taste for serving.
Plain Currant Cake Ingredients and Method
The recipe lists ingredients including flour sugar butter currants peel eggs milk and specifies methods such as washing currants preparing peel sifting flour rubbing in butter adding sugar and fruit beating yolks with milk folding in whites and baking at a moderate heat for about one hour.
Magneto-Driven Cannon Concepts Grow From North Lands
The article outlines an electro magnetic gun using a transit coil system and aVanGalvan battery with branch connections. Birkeland has built a cannon model weighing a pound with strong launch capability. Samuel T Foster of Tamaulipas Mexico claims a powderless smokeless and soundless electro magnetic gun. Practical hurdles include needing many windings to reach required projectile speeds.
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Professor Birkeland
Norway
Samuel T. Foster
Tamaulipas
Mexico
Modern battleship life spans analyzed by naval experts
Naval experts compare circa 1910s active life of a modern battleship with earlier ships. They note current vessels served a shorter portion of their commissions, while ships a century ago remained in active service for most of their lifespan.
Brazing Mixture and Technique From Early 19th Century Guide
A detailed instructions outline a dry mixture of boric acid, pulverised chlorate of potash, and carbonate of iron for brazing. It describes heating methods, flux application with a spooned iron rod, and the need to keep the mix dry to prevent loss of efficiency.
Japanese Earthquake Expert Sees Long Calm After Californias Quake
Professor Omori, a leading Japanese earthquake expert, predicts California will remain free from major quakes for centuries. He says the crust had been in unstable equilibrium and massive matter redistribution caused the great shake, with minor shocks decreasing as the crust settles into a new position. He notes shocks align with high atmospheric pressure.
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Omori
California
Ancient Chinese eggs achieve perfection after years
In China eggs are a delicacy only when they have aged long and turned almost completely green from burial in chalk or sawdust. The price for such aged eggs rivals that of the choicest wines in this country.
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China
How a Large Church Bell Is Cast
An illustrated explanation of bell casting describes planning on paper, building wooden and iron moulds, forming a separate foundry mud core, and pouring molten copper tin alloy between moulds. After cooling, the bell is finished and tuned, with flat notes remediable by inner shaving while sharp notes require a new casting.
Savory Rice Dish With Onions Tomatoes Calf Liver
A recipe describes frying onions in butter then cooking rice in boiling water, drying it, and adding boiled tomatoes. The onions and rice are mixed with pepper and salt. Calves liver, bacon, and strips of bacon are fried and layered with the onion rice mix, then served hot.
Plain Household Dishes Recipe by Miss Amy Manro
Specially written by Miss Amy Manro a plain household dish recipe for a cheese dish with onion pepper salt sugar mustard and egg whisked into a smooth sauce then heated poured onto a dish browned and served with small toast triangles hot.
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Miss Amy Manro
Vermicelli Pudding Breakfast Cup Culinary Note
Vermicelli pudding recipe instructs to simmer vermicelli in a pint of baling will for ten to twelve minutes. Fold in beaten eggs with a touch of gmar malade, add to the vermicelli with sultans, adjust with milk, pour into buttered mould, bake until golden brown in a moderate oven for about one hour.
Veal Loaf Recipe From A Fragmented Page
A fragmented recipe describes combining lean veal and pork, adding crackers and seasonings, forming a loaf. The mixture is placed in a pan set in water and baked for about three hours yielding a moist loaf.
Lentil Soup Recipe From Historic Pantry
A historic lentil soup recipe uses 1 lb lentils 9 quarts water and vegetables including carrot and turnip with parsley salt pepper sugar and soda. Lentils are boiled then mashed and strained for a tender, nourishing, economical soup with stock possible as a base.
Good Plain Stew Ingredients and Method
A recipe note lists beef, onions, carrot, turnips, salt, pepper, water, crust pastry, and dripping. Directions describe cutting steak into two inch squares, heating dripping, browning the steak pieces, then adding sliced ingredients to simmer toward a stew.
Electric gun coils propel projectiles by magnetic action
An electoral wonder describes a galvanic or magnetic gun using successive coils or helices as a barrel. A sliding conductor connects to the breech and the projectile, energized by a solenoid segmented by the coil sections, imparts high velocity and range. Electromagnetic rock drills rely on a similar sectional solenoid principle.
AN ELEPHANT MEMORY INJURES A MAN AT TOULOUSE
An elephant used for show memory and temper killed a man in Toulouse after selecting him from a crowd. The incident followed reports that the man had tormented the animal the day before during the inquiry into the tragedy.
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Toulouse
India Advances in Automobile Industry Leadership
India is rapidly taking a leading pace in exploiting the automobile industry, signaling strong growth and expanding influence in global markets with rising production, investment, and technology adoption across the sector.
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India
Indian roads drive motor car popularity surge
The spread of motor cars in India follows extensive grand trunk highways from Bombay to Delhi and a northern road to Calcutta aiding growth from luxury to necessity. Native princes like the Maharajah of Gwalia publish road guides while rulers and merchants adopt autos, with English and native drivers used as demand grows.
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India
Bombay
Delhi
Peshawar
Afghanistan
Calcutta
Maharajah of
Gwalia
Maharajah Gaekwar
Odds and Ends Tramps Joke About a Chainless Chase
A man carries a bag of pennies from the bank and sighs a coreat change had come over him as he struggles home. The first tramp questions why the other didn’t take a chainless bike, and the second replies that a chainless dog in a yard was the obstacle.
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Eld
Dreaming Donkey Bargain and Birthday Bicycle Warning
A farmer wakes a neighbor seeking a donkey for a dawn journey but is told by the sleeping neighbor that he must be dreaming. A later quip warns a youngster not to sell a bicycle to his father unless it is a birthday gift tomorrow.
Not Far Os Horse Trapped Between Poles
A farmer tells his nephew to check the trap for the horse. The nephew returns saying the horse is not in the trap but standing between two poles near it. A traveler mentions being a nephew of Summens who runs a town livery stable and recalls an old chess trade with Silas Wayback, seeking no relation.
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Jack
Bunce Bill
Mr. Wayback
Silas Wayback
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Cravan
Norton Towers
Eich
Anthony
the Towers
Rylstone
Mesara, Payche & Co
Mr. Pavedo
Yin
Pacsabi
Pryohe
Mr. Payola
Te Stuart Poirot
Henry the Mighty
Salvation Army
Pevebo
Teim
Aloer
British Museum
Francia
Wordeworth
Rylatane
Timbril
Antipodes
Robert Smithers
Brighton
Teron & Oy
Parsnips
Science & Invention
Odds and Ends
Gro
Somny
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