Squire Hart and Ralph Reed Test Courage on a Run
In Hart's Holm a spring visit tests young Reed as a track sprinter while the squire questions his suitability for Elsie. A runaway wagon and a peril near Bobby reveal Reed's bravery, and Hart contemplates whether courage or lineage should seal a match.
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Squire Hart
Ralph Reed
Reed
Mr. Hart
Papa
Elsie
Eisie
Ordl
Betty Bartlett
Bartlett
Hart
Betty
Bhorsy
Bobby
Jim
Larsy
Ralph
Gayety
Hart’s Holm
Forgetful girl and clock mix up denver parlor tale
A Denver story recalls a forgetful girl on Washington Street who set her parlor clock ahead to ward off late visitors after horseback riding. She forgot to reset it, leading to a teasing encounter when a caller notes the time. The joke touches on hiring trouble.
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Dow Hebner
Denver
Washington Street
MISS LEILA USHER A Western Sculptor Winning Reputation
Miss Leila Usher, a western woman who studied and built a Boston studio before moving to Manhattan, has emerged as a notable sculptor in portraiture. Critics praise her character delineation, with bronze busts of Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, and Professor Childe of Warward earning wide acclaim. Her works have been exhibited at the St Louis fair, the Atlanta and Omaha expos, and purchased by leading American institutions and colleges.
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New York
Boston
Manhattan
Atlanta
Omaha
Miss Usher
Susan B. Anthony
Booker T. Washington
Childe of Warward
Academy
Philadelphia
New York Society of Sculptors
Brooklyn Eagle
Teaching Kindness to Children Through Example
Annie Lillian Swett argues in the Housekeeper that children imitate adults, showing kindness or cruelty based on parental behavior. She recounts a scene with a toddler squeezing a cat and notes how parental responses shape a child’s sympathy and urge to retaliate, warning that harsh training fosters cruelty.
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Annie Lillian Swett
Orange Flower Skin Food Facial Cream Recipe
The passage describes a nighttime facial care routine using hot soapy water, a 4-step cleanse, and a homemade cream. It lists ingredients including white wax spermaceti cocoanut oil lanoline oil of sweet almonds and orange flower water with tincture of benzoin. The method covers melting mixing cooling and applying the cream and notes the remedy does not cause facial hair growth. It ends with a remark on ceasing self focus and worry.
Worry and health lessons from a Wardrobe repair note
A clipped excerpt discusses worry as a disease rooted in bodily and mental weakness and its effects on perception and behavior. It shifts to a practical guide on relining a coat, detailing how to cut the old lining, fit a new lining, and sew seams without catching the edge.
Mother's Day Off and a Meat Pie Recipe
A New York Tribune piece recalls a husband proposing a weekly shift for duties so his wife could enjoy a true day off, with the family managing meals and chores. It includes a meat pie with potato crust recipe featuring boiled potatoes, cold meat, butter, egg, and meat essence baked until hot and firm.
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New York Tribune
How to Make a Light Feather Bed Comforter
From a discarded feather bed you can fashion warm, light comfortables using two pieces of sateen or silicone. Layer, bind, fill with feathers to thickness, bind end, place in a frame and quilt. Travel pillows and air plows now come covered in bright cretonnes and silks, with pretty plaids enhancing comfort on trains or for invalids.
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Cromwell
Abney Park
Fleetwood House
General Fleetwood
Bridget
Oliver Cromwell
Abney
Isaac Watts
D. D
Preserving Children Teeth Through Daily Vigorous Mastication
The article argues that children should practice vigorous chewing three times daily to form a lasting habit. This training would lower dentistry costs, strengthen facial muscles, and lead to stronger, better polished teeth in the young.
Frugal Beauty Tips and Household Tricks From the Past
A mix of home remedies and upkeep advice includes wrist fattening through nightly massages and cocoanut or cod liver oil compresses, safe benzoin use with rosewater, sewer gas tests with sugar or lead on blotting paper, nickel cleaning with baking soda and vinegar paste, marble stain removal with magnesia, and the value of books as room ornaments for comfort.
Why Did Egbert Propose When Flos Looked Such a Fright
A lively Omaha Bee item recalls Egbert Tigsmore proposing to Flossie while she dressed in a shabby morning outfit. Friends debate the romance as Flossie accepts, praising a lover willing to propose in adversity and even over the telephone.
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Egbert
Flossie
Flossie Beng
Egbert Tigsmore
Plessie
Robert
Ife
Omeaha Bee
My Own Daring and a Note in the Coat Pocket
A humorous comic exchange from a Philadelphia Ledger piece shows a shy actress and a bold lover in a staged moment that turns playful and awkward. A suburban husband leaves with a panama hat, then jokes about a missing dinner note found in his coat pocket.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Woke the Wrong Man and Other Oddities
A compact clipping of light verse and humorous lines. It includes a joke about a man waking to find his face darkened by a prank and misreading his reflection, plus brief exchanges from Miss Wearyun and a domestic scene where a girl notes a man’s grace and a woman resists a cautious marriage proposal.
Witty quips from old papers on self defense and business
A collection of humorous exchanges from newspapers. A dignified man defends his ears in a baseball game by sacrificing his throat. A Tatler item notes improving business for Mr. Crape. The Plain Dealer cites a butcher achieving fine results from chopping steak in a meat market.
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Washington Star
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mosquito Lullaby Mocking City Dwellers
A satirical verse contrasts mosquitoes feeding on natives and city residents with crude imagery of bites and oil as deterrent. The piece mockingly envisions insects thriving amid summer, noting petroleum defenses and parental guidance to bite.
Cure and Comedy Skits on Marriage and Self Care
A Chicago Record-Herald piece mixes sketches about a black eye at the butcher’s and a husband praising his wife’s dress while joking about seven years of marriage. The banter reflects witty domestic scenes with playful vanity and light sarcasm.
One Woman's War and a Ticklish Exchange
A humorous fragment cites a dressmaker and a typewriter boarder planning marriage to end dictation, as well as a joke about ticklish women and an ostrich feather. The Columbus Dispatch and Catholic Standard and Times are quoted.
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T. B
Columbus Dispatch
Standard and Times
Honeymoon in an airship and other brief quips
A collection of witty exchanges and jokes from various newspapers. The items include a bride and groom planning a France honeymoon in an airship, quips about aging and fossils, arithmetic humor, bargain hunting and price marking, school excuses tied to baseball, detective vanity, and catechism mishaps, reflecting light mood humor from multiple city papers.
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France
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New Epoch Predicted Fraternalism to Guide New Age
Harvard baccalaureate sermon by Rev Dr Lyman Abbott is cited as saying the past century’s industrial and political views give way to fraternalism. He outlines three conceptions of society autocracy individualism and now fraternalism stressing mutual service and unity across creeds. He cautions against accumulation and self interest, praising leaders like Folk Jerome Colby and Roosevelt for pushing state welfare beyond personal gain.
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Lyman Abbott
Harvard
Outlook
Bose
Boston Dispatch
New York Evening Sun
Abbott
Lie
Chicago
Folk
Missouri
Jeromes
New York
Colby
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Washington
Plain Torpedoes for a Little Chap From July Woman's Home Companion
A sentimental child narrator and motherly voice recount a Fourth of July longing. Big brothers enjoy giant crackers and torpedoes while a younger child laments being too small. Father forbids dangerous toys, while mother comforts the tearful child and upholds safety, in a vignette from Woman's Home Companion July.
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Jes
Folka
Leules
Thayer
Woman's Home Companion
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Exbert
Miss Wearyun
Mr. Borum
Detroit Tribune
Patricia
Brooklyn
Him
Mr. Crape
Tatler
Val
Vatiy
Skeeterbug
Bitte
Alfred
Chicago Record-Herald
Hyker
Pyker
Chicago News
Tommie
Toledo Blade
Minneapois Tribune
Praternalism
Divine
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