Learn to Tend Your Human Locomotive
John Blake argues that every person operates a complex body like a locomotive and should understand steam power basics, air brakes, and proper care. He warns ignorance endangers life and property, urging self education beyond crude stop and start knowledge to reduce hospital and medical burdens.
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John’ Blake
Something to Think About by F. Walker
A meditation on imagination as the seed of all creative work. The author argues that visionary planning precedes any book play or project and that without imagination progress stalls. He notes how imagination drives art architecture and education and elevates effort beyond routine tasks.
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Walker
Meyer
Pyramids Awe in Egypt and Tangled Tales of Youth
Pyramids near Cairo rise from imagination to enduring monuments admired for centuries. A reflective piece notes the ancient marvels while a childhood memory recounts a broken friendship after a hide and seek incident, illustrating loss and reminiscence.
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Pyramids
Cairo
Egypt
The
Nile
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Chicago ‘Journal
Day by Day by Douglas Malloch
Poem notes daily progress and self improvement urging action today over tomorrow. It emphasizes molding character through present deeds, comparing life to stair building and stone sculpting. The piece ends with a call to do the best today and endure daily effort.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Plain Duty to See God’s Kindness Daily
A reflective note urges readers to avoid envy over lost fullness and instead cultivate buoyant gratitude for daily kindnesses from God. The quote from Alexander Maclaren emphasizes recognizing grace in ordinary life as a guiding teacher.
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Alexander Maclaren
Recipes and provincial musings from a 19th century page
A miscellany of home crafts and food tips includes bran bread recipe using yeast, flour, bran and raisins and a rhubarb pastry with raisins and meringue. Scattered prose quotes touch on beauty, parental roles, and a child's exchange about greed with a judge’s quip.
Separate Domicile, As It Were Excerpt Echoes Proverb
A fragmentary excerpt cites a biblical verse about dwellings and conflict, noting dwelling preference in a poetic or editorial context. The line contrasts living on a housetop corner with a noisy spouse inside a large home.
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Solomon
Poem Fragment by John Hall Ingham Quoted
A fragment quotes John Hall Ingham praising a distant light beyond stars and night. The lines evoke a celestial glow and a glint of hope seen through darkness.
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John Hall Ingham
Foods That Are Good for Health and Wisdom
A home guide lists a dinner plan featuring Stuffed Onions with pecan filling, Franconia Potatoes roasted with beef, Bread Pudding with grape juice, and Bread Crumb Bread. It notes the quote about man as representative of the universe, summarizing both good and evil.
Spring Foods Show How Nature Feeds The Table
Readable article outlines spring foods as cooling aids to summer meals. Recipes include Egg and Spinach Salad using hard boiled eggs, spinach, onion, pepper, celery and mayonnaise. Clubette Sandwich features scrambled eggs, toast, parsley, lettuce, mayonnaise, bacon and dill pickle. Egg and Fish Loaf combines eggs, tuna, boiled rice, onion, bacon with tomato sauce.
Wide brimmed hats and satin trends in 1923 fashion
A 1923 millinery feature notes satin fading in favor of bold wide brim hats and pastel palettes. It highlights back trims on large and small hats, back scuttle shapes, and implementations of flowers or ribbons, with blue tones from Lady Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon’s trousseau and vivid plume colors and fur accents across ensembles.
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Castor
Trousseau
Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon
Duke of York
London
Betty
Westminster Abbey
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