Tonight We Meet the Angels in a Neighborly Way
In a domestic comic turn, Mrs. Gallup frets over dying and meeting angels while her husband Drifts with his paper. She imagines heaven’s quirks from breakfast to beds and fears being judged for habits, while he quietly reads as her fears mount.
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Mrs. Gallup
Heaven
Giet
B. Lewis
Samuel
Gallup
Sarah Jane Bixby
Sarah
Mr. Gallup
Santel
Seerus
Houdini in England and Minnesota Adventures
American escape artist Harry Houdini visits Scotland Yard and discovers handcuffs that cannot be removed. In St Paul, Minnesota, he suspects neighbors guarding him and encounters two detectives revealing a jail escapee found wearing a long cape and handcuffs.
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Harry Houdini
Astry Houdini
England
Scotland Yard
London M. A. BP
London
Houdini
Ifoudini
St Paul
Minn
Londini
Ticudini
Sunday Habits and Rest Patterns Across the Week
The text notes Sunday slows the average man leading to slower recovery until Wednesday. It describes a man wandering around home on Sunday, less active than on weekdays, then eating earlier and moving less, resulting in fatigue by Wednesday. It suggests maintaining usual weekday habits on Sunday.
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Lisbre
Globe
Quoted Fragments Reflecting Public Discourse From Papers
Disjointed snippets from the Philadelphia Press and Atchison Globe show voices on civility and committees. The passages mock the limits of taste and the inflated status of committee members amid era phonetic spellings and casual criticism.
Novel twine holder and cutter from a St. Louis inventor
The Scientific American describes Raymond J. Weakley’s twine holder and cutter with a lower twine chamber and an upper mechanism. It uses a toothed wheel and rack, a carrier, a spring mounted plunger and a knife to sever twine, enabling tidy package tying. It also notes devices aiding the blind and deaf, including a cinematograph relief system for the blind and an electrical vibrator plus gradual amplifier by Dr. Dussand for the deaf.
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Scientific American
St. Louis
Raymond J. Weakley
Dussand
Psychological Institute of Paris
Important Plague Discovery at Cape Town Experiments
Experiments at Cape Town suggest the rat plague, linked to rats, may differ from the human plague bacterium. The rat plague bacillus shows distinct appearance and does not affect rabbits as the human plague bacillus does, indicating separate causes behind rat and human epidemics.
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Cape Town
New Automating Typewriter Hailed With Battery Power
A novel electric typewriter uses a standard electric supply and a light touch on the keyboard to automate spacing and line ends. Tests by skilled writers aim to gauge commercial viability with a projected price around 175 dollars.
Midsummer Drinks From Home Manufacture Recipes
A set of tested homemade beverages for cooling and healthful enjoyment. Recipes include Sarsaparilla Mead Currant Shrub Raspberry Vinegar Oatmeal Drink and Lemonade Syrup with instructions for preparation storage and serving using common household ingredients and simple steps.
Bracelets Grow in Fashion Says Elsie Bee
The Jewelers' Circular notes the rising vogue of flexible bracelets with hinged brilliants and jewel pairings. A cart shaped group of sapphires separated by a single diamond illustrates the design as a handsome example.
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Elsie Bee
Popular Bracelets Show Variety of Styles and Gems
Links of brilliants enclose square cut emeralds and form colorful beaded strands. Gold chains feature turquoise jade or other stones. Watch bracelets, serpent and expanding designs, and padlock bracelets are prominent in displays. Ear styles mirror these trends with matching varieties.
Novel Sleeve Links and Candlesticks Featured in Jewelry Trends
The Jewelers' Circular highlights shirt waist fashion with cross matched stones for sleeve links, including sapphire and cat's eye cabochons and pink yellow topazes. It notes high topped stones, renewed interest in bedroom candles with flat bottoms and extinguishers, and evolving candlestick shapes in antique black finishes.
Raspberry Rolly Poly
A compact raspberry roll recipe from Table Talk blends flour salt sugar and baking powder with butter and milk to make a soft dough. Roll it flat add raspberries and sugar, roll like a jelly roll, seal edges, then steam thirty minutes and bake ten minutes. Serve with sweetened cream or hard sauce.
Sour Cream Delights From Boston Cooking School Magazine
Thrifty cooks can salvage sour cream with simple methods. A demonstration shows washing out buttermilk, leaving the golden ball, and using an egg beater with fresh butter. The article then lists Sour Cream Gingerbread and Sour Cream Biscuits recipes with precise measurements and steps for a foamy, well mixed batter and quick bake times.
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Boston
The Sunbonnet Girl Takes Center Stage This Summer
The Sunbonnet Girl rises as a fashionable headpiece for summer outings from sailing to tennis. The trend features curls framing sunburned faces and versatile tying options, with golf sunbonnets in bright red adding charm on the greens. Ginghan bonnets with roaffles and fine embroidery appear but are less airy.
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Cimity
The
New York Herald
Wear Your Rings Atlan One Hand
Astor leads New York society in a ring fashion as The New Idea Woman's Magazine notes her ever changing left hand adornment. Sue is famed for a bold collection, with Astor predicting rubies and diamonds may one day dominate her nights out.
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Alrg
Astor
New York
Sue
New Idea Woman's Magazine
Will
Hove
A Simple Colonial Dwelling For Small Families
An illustrated design for a modest suburban home emphasizes beauty for health. Description covers exterior features, porch and balcony, back veranda, full basement, and a two story layout with four rooms upstairs. Construction is timber framed with lathe plaster and Cypress woodwork, estimated at about $3,000.
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Atchison Globe
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