Mayor and Miss Vining Stage Grail of Glen Isle
A comic resort tale unfolds as Mayor Bedight flees arrest pursued by Miss Vining and friends. In a hotel room chase a plan to hide Mabel Arney shifts to a mound dig and a suspenseful midnight storm. The mayor ends sheltering with the mysterious Brookes as a cliffhanger tease ends the scene.
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Mabel Arney
Mayor Bedight
Hotel Otaira
Bedight
Bess
Jackie
Beas
Miss Vining
Lakeville
Mabel
Bess Wintera
Miss Arney
Mayor
Harriet Brooks
Glen Island
Harriet Brooke
Sylvan Lake
Glen Isle
Too Big an Insult
A haberdashery head storms into the employment agency demanding a meeting with the manager. He accuses the agency of recommending young men as AI collectors who allegedly collect from others. The agent defends himself, while the merchant asserts none of the men have collected a dollar from his shop and warns against spreading it.
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Haberdashery
Taming His Uncle by J Andrew White
Tommy Burchell, pampered by his rich uncle Abner, elopes with Mabel Brockbridge and soon shows no business sense. Desperate for funds, Burchell imagines a plan that leads to a scandalous ad and an unlikely suitor, but Mabel proves resourceful. Abner’s calm facade yields to a surprising twist as the couple reunite with a ready-made family.
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J. Andrew White
Tommy Burchell
Burchell
Mabel Brockbridge
Mabel
Indy
Abner
Indies
Abner Burchell
Tommy
Tim
Buechell
Fifth Avenue
Hoffman
Aparble
Abner Hutchell
McClure
Not Hard Position to Fill
Weary Willie questions Tattered Tom about his last summer and his claim of work. Tom says he was a scarecrow in a farmer's corn field, receiving a nightly handout and allowing sheep to sleep in the hay as salary, then losing the job when the corn was taken in.
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Bess
Waller
Jackie Vining
Beas
Walter
Redight
Weary Willie
Tom
Gawan
Mysterious Exchange Quips on Trade and Boots Across Ocean
An oblique dialogue questions national needs as an orator asks what the nation requires while a gleaming materialist jokes rubber boots. The exchange juxtaposes bold commerce with practical gear in a stylized, literary fragment.
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Pacific
Peanut Recipes For Hash Macaroni And Date Dishes
A vintage guide extols peanuts for diverse preparations. It describes peanut hash cream, a peanut butter binding with potatoes, a peanut flour dough for baking, macaroni with peanut cream sauce, and a date and peanut pudding, detailing quantities and steps for home cooks. It emphasizes peanuts as nutritious, versatile, and easy to combine with other ingredients.
Mock Bisque Soup From Old Recipe Card
A historical soup recipe describes combining tomatoes with sugar and spices, scalding milk with bread crumbs onion parsley and bay leaf, then sieving and returning to boil. The mixture is enriched with butter salt pepper and served with crisp crackers.
Steamed Beef and Rich Pie From Simple Beef Dice
Steamed beef made by dicing round steak and cooking in a double boiler with water for two to three hours, salted and buttered near the end. Use rind and tough pieces to extract juice, thicken, and pour over meat. Bake a beef pie by covering meat and gravy with a rich crust. Onion optional.
Onion Soup Recipe From Historic Fragment
An old kitchen note extols onion soup as valuable and to be eaten weekly. It instructs slicing a large Spanish onion, salting, peppering, and simmering in water, then draining. In a double boiler heat milk, thicken with butter and flour, combine with onion, reheat, and serve at once.
Mother's Easy Biscuit Recipe From Early Scan
A dough method reads mix one cup flour with a pinch of salt add two teaspoonfuls baking powder work in two tablespoonfuls lard or butter then half cup mixed milk and water beat to smooth lumps bake in pans for twenty to thirty minutes yields a light biscuit.
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Baye Good Housekeeping
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