Enouch Arden Returns to Save Wife After 20 Years
John Taggart, former Glen Lyon pastor presumed dead after the Johnstown flood, reappears in Bloomsburg to rescue his wife from poverty. He has wandered widely, known she remarried, kept quiet, and now offers to take her and her children west to begin anew.
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Bloomeburg
John Taggart
Glen Lyon
Enoch Arden
Bue
Taggart
Johnstown
Tageart
Matory
Glen Lyons
Eliza Ivey
Bloomsburg
Officer Catches Baby From Window Fall
Philadelphia report details a three year old boy leaning from an open window on Phillip Street when a passing Policeman Jackson intervened. A startled crow struck the officer, who then caught the falling child, saving him from serious harm.
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Jackson
Babe Hid in Ice Cream Can Near Galesburg
Mrs Jonas Wilder of two miles away visited Galesburg with her two year old son. While she traded, the boy vanished. A search found him inside a three gallon ice cream freezer used as a delivery vessel outside a local shop. He appeared unafraid and had eaten most of the cream with his bare hands. The incident remains a humorous mystery with speculation of older children behind the prank.
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Galesburg
Mich
Jonas Wilder
Twists Mouth Awry by Chewing Gum
A Greene County high school girl, whose name is withheld, is seriously ill with paralysis of the mouth from chewing gum. Her condition worsened after a twitching on the left side of her mouth. doctors fear deformity and may perform an operation to prevent permanent change.
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Mason City
Greene
Doctor Pearsons Plans Last Million Gift to Small Colleges
Dr Daniel K Pearsons the Chicago real estate tycoon aims to give away his final million before his 90th birthday next April bringing total philanthropy to about 5 million over 25 years. He funds 47 institutions in 24 states plus Anatolia College in Turkey and prioritizes Christian small colleges over major universities.
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Chicago
Daniel K. Pearsons
Andrew Carnegie
Pearsons
Culburh
Hinsdale
Galog
Dr. Pearson
Christian College
Whitman College
Beloit College
Mount Holyoke College
Chicago Theological Seminary
Kentucky
Tennessee
Ohio
Indala
Tow
Missouri
Ilinoia Central Railway
Lake Forest University
Knox
McCormick Theological Seminary
Drury College
Fankton College
Colorado College
Fargo College
Mount Holyoke Seminary
Berea College
Marietta
McKendree
Grand Prairie Seminary
Olivet College
Fairmont College
Carleton
Anatolia College
Turkey
Pegrsona
Vase from the Sea Sparks Ancient Find in Boston
A Somerville man, John Quadara, holds a red earthenware vase found by Sicilian fishermen at about 450 feet deep near the Lipari Islands. They valued it as ancient and planned to sell to a Panama merchant before Quadara bought it for himself, rejecting a $400 offer. The vase bears marine encrustation and smooth interiors suggesting long seabed exposure.
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Boston
John Quadara
Somerville
Vane
Vere
Panaria
Lipart Islands
Slety
Panama Island
Italy
Boston Republican Samuel Eider Named Senior U S Counsel
Samuel James Eider of Boston has been appointed senior counsel for the United States in the Hague arbitration over Newfoundland fisheries. An ora tor, writer and attorney and Yale alumnus of 1873 he has been active in Heaton law practice since 1375 and is now about sixty.
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Boston
Newfoundland
Samuel James Eider
United States
The
Hague
Ora
Tor
Wider
Yale University
Taft
Heaton
Chicken a la Marengo and Spanish Tamales Recipe Notes
Recipes from the Boston Herald describe Chicken a la Marengo with rice or potato, hampered by steps to brown fowls, simmer with flour and mushrooms, and serve with a pepper tomato gravy. Also shared is Spanish Tamales using boiled chicken, cornmeal mush, rice, onions, garlic, raisins, peas, and beans.
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Dorchester
Boston Herald
Lemon Syrup for Summer Drink
Instructions describe making a lemon syrup from twelve lemons six rinds and sugar. The finished syrup is mixed with water for a refreshing drink, touted as superior to store bought lemon syrup.
Home Made Baking Powder Recipe
A culinary authority provides a homemade baking powder method mixing cream of tartar bicarbonate of soda and wheat flour. For every two tablespoonfuls of cream of tartar add a tablespoonful of soda and a cupful of the mixture stir in a tablespoonful of wheat flour and store in a tin box with a fitting cover.
Italian Potatoes Bake in Creamy Layered Dish
A historic recipe directs cutting six cold boiled potatoes into ice. Create a thick cream sauce with flour butter and milk, layer potatoes, sauce, and sliced cheese in a buttered dish, repeating until full, then bake in a moderate oven until top browns.
Iron Linen Dresses Care Instructions
To iron linen dresses place two bath cloths one over the other on the ironing board. Do not sprinkle. Turn the skirt wrong side out. Wet a yard of cheesecloth wring lightly and place over the fabric. Iron from top to bottom thoroughly with heavy irons to dry and avoid dust and rocks on the skirt.
Pickled Currants from a Virginia Recipe
A dated Virginia recipe outlines pickled currants with brown sugar Tipe currants alspice cinnamon and vinegar boiled briefly then jarred while hot. Also a tip on mending table linen by darning with linen threads from an old tablecloth kept in the mending basket for neatness.
Curried Eggs Recipe Note From Historic Menu
A concise recipe fragment lists ingredients for curried eggs with four esq one ounce butter chopped onion half ounce curry powder one gill milk and water one teaspoonful curry powder juice of half a lemon and boiled rice.
To Clean Paint With Bran And Water
A cloth dipped in hot water cleans white paint without injury. Bran on the cloth acts as a gentle abrasive to lift dirt quickly.
Child's Boils Vanish After Cuticura Remedies
A Detroit mother describes her daughter Vivian's springtime scalp boils stinging and spreading behind the ears. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with curing the outbreaks after repeated use and notes two years of relief since the last incident, dated February 24, 1904.
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Vivian
Horne
A Trying Time Judge and Prisoner Exchange
A brief exchange in Harper's Weekly presents a courtroom moment where a judge questions a striking suspect while the prisoner asks what the judge would do if two men sought to photograph his cheese as he defended his actions.
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Harper's Weekly
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Philadelphia
Third
Fairmount Avenue
Phillip Street
Walter Smith
Egala
Walter
Babe
Dr. Pearsons
B.C
Massachusetts
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Lt Lonke
Samuel J. Elder
la Marengo
Lucky Man
Cuticura
Lewis
DR. D. Jayne
D. Jayne
Arters Carterliver
L Carters
Vihiah Soom
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