Peculiar Lines on Nationalities as Flat Tenants
A New York Sun column recounts a renting agent detailing national stereotypes about tenants. He claims Scots pay reliably but quarrel, Swedes are quiet but prone to moving, Americans are selfish and costly, Germans cause damage, Russians destructive, Italians and French easy, and he praises Black tenants while noting varying expectations.
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Blue Hat
Fathouse
Lts
Sweden
New York Sun
Homemade Stoves From Old Oil Cans
In Spain many households use a stove fashioned from an empty petroleum oil can. A hole near the bottom on one side creates a draft, the can lined with gypsum to form the fire space. The crude device, though simple, serves its purpose well and costs only a few cents.
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Spain
Early American library origins and Tokyo quake note
The text notes Teterboro in New Hampshire establishing the first free public library in 1833 and cites a general law authorizing taxation for library purposes. It also records a major earthquake in Tokyo in 1703 with an estimated 190,000 deaths.
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Teterboro
New Hampshire
United States
Tokyo
In Case of Fire How to Art When Can ous Bien
Fire safety guidance advises making improvised fire grenades from salt and nitrate solutions, storing ready bottles, and using water on burning oil cautiously. It covers smoke awareness, protective coverings, and safe egress by crawling, using rope or ladder.
How to Make Strawberry Shortcake by Mrs Rorer
A vintage recipe from Mrs Rorer describes strawberry shortcake with flour butter cream berries and milk. It lists measurements and steps to make a soft dough bake a quick oven for twenty minutes split the cake spread butter add berries and cream then serve.
Creamed Clams On Toast Recipe Steps
Row to Cream Clams. Scald the clams in their own liquor. If opened by steaming they are sufficient cooked. Chop them fine and measure. For each cup of chopped clams add one cup of thick cream sauce. In a saucepan melt butter then stir in flour. Cook but do not brown. Slowly add clam liquor and milk or cream, season with pepper and salt. Cook until smooth and thick, add clams just before serving, pour over small pieces of toast.
How to Wash Out Ginas
The sudden expansion caused by the heat cracks the glass. Washing edge wise or sidewise helps avoid danger. Cold water washing yields a clearer look than hot water but dries more slowly. Dry the glass immediately after lifting from water to prevent dinginess.
How to Make Golden Fleece Dish
Break fine and melt in a fry pan half a pound of rich cheese. When soft add one cupful of sweet cream and a pinch of cayenne. When blended break in five fresh eggs. Cover two minutes then uncover and add a pinch of salt. Beat briskly until yellow foam forms. Serve on milk crackers buttered and heated.
How to Make Poree of Spinach Tonic Soup
Instructions for making a spinach pooree soup describe pressing boiled spinach, adding onion juice and egg yolk stirred into milk, heating to boiling, and noting the dish as a nutritious tonic rich in iron. It emphasizes spinach as a valuable vegetable for iron nutrition.
How to Darn Stockings with Silk and Wool
How to darn stockings using silk thread and tross. Silk tross is favored for durable stockings while merino work benefits from a mix of cotton and wool yarn. Begin with cotton threads on the initial pass and add a cross layer of woolen yarn. Rub the surface to be drawn with white soap before drawing threads.
How to Clean Picture Frames From Old Advice
A home guide recommends cleaning frames with a mix of three parts linseed oil and one part spirits of turpentine. This solution is said to remove scratches restore wood to its original color and leave a smoother surface. Apply with a woolen cloth and rub with a silk cloth after it dries.
Curse of Kaskaskia Town Ends With River’s Sweep
An 18th century Indian curse linked to Marie Benard and French trader Jean Renard unfolds as Kaskaskia disappears under the Mississippi. The story ties the town’s fate to a pact sealed by the lovers’ capture, a log bound to the river, and a fatal duel that ends Renard’s life in 1712.
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Mississippi
Kaskashiag
Kaskaskia
Jean Benard
France
Hin
Marie
Shaskaskia
Renard
Lake Michigan
Gulf of Mexico
Marie Benard
Pbchard Pere
Chaike
Benard
Kaskaski
St. Louis
Teward
Maurie Benard
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Baby’s toothless cry echoes in playful mischief
A playful fragment from the Chicago Post recalls a scene with a baby and Willie on the floor. The baby’s tooth is awaited while a sibling or caregiver reassures with rough humor as a quaint domestic moment unfolds.
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Willie
Chicago Post
Uses of Paraffin in Household Economy
Paraffin wax, a product of petroleum, offers superior purity and stability, resisting air, acid, and water. It seals can tops for fruit and jelly, coats wooden vessels, preserves eggs and leaves, and clarifies laundry by adding wax shavings to hot water. It smooths irons, speeds washing, coats laundry tubs and freezers, and extends the life of wooden vessels while preserving flavors and preventing mold.
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Aida
How to Make Rhubarb Pie
The recipe guides making rhubarb pie by prepping two cups of rhubarb and mixing 14 cups of suyzar with two tablespoons of flour. It calls for heating egg yolks, lining a pie plate, filling, baking until soft, then topping with a stiff meringue and powdered sugar.
Corned Beef Hash Recipe Instructions
The method instructs mincing trimmings and poor meat with membranes bones and gristle, and mixing with an equal amount of cold potatoes and onion juice. Season heavily with pepper salt and moisten with meat liquor before cooking in hot beef dripping until a brown crust forms then fold and serve, crust optional.
How to Seatio Cabbage
Wash and chop a head of cabbage. Cook in salted water for 20 minutes. Layer in two baking dishes and cover with a sauce. Melt butter, blend with flour, add milk and boil. Stir in six chopped hard boiled eggs, salt, and pepper. Top with buttered bread crumbs and bake 15 minutes.
How to Combine Colors for Fashion Vests and Trims
A guide notes using a deep yellow in silk or velvet for vests and trimmings to create deep golden brown waists or costumes. It cites combinations such as ciel blue with black, scarlet with green, water green with mahogany brown, and mauve with pale pink for fashionable effects.
How to Cook Pork Cutlets from the Leg
Cut pork cutlets from the leg remove skin heat with a paste add breadcrumbs sage onion and beaten egg dip in egg coat with crumbs season fry until light brown turn often. After removing set pan with flour and water boil then pour over meat to finish.
How to Clean Piano Keys with Oxalic Acid Solution
The text explains whitening piano keys using a saturated oxalic acid solution on wet cotton fannel cloths. It cautions to prevent contact with unintended colored surfaces and notes the chemical acts with certainty rather than discretion.
Flow to Store Fura with Camphor in Tar Paper Bags
Fors placed in tar paper bags and hung up for a rainy closet with crusted camphor in pockets will defy the greatest moth gormand. If every now and then during the season they are taken out and aired.
Wasps and idiosyncrasy in stings reported in Chicago Chronicle
The Chicago Chronicle discusses British Medical Journal cases where wasp stings caused severe reactions and death in two healthy young women, one after a neck sting and a second after a hand sting, and a 22 year old woman who died after a sting behind the jaw. It cites idiosyncrasy as the likely cause and notes formic acid as the active agent.
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Elles
Chicago Chronicle
Noon Hour Wonder Horses Stop Wagon on Nas Badu Street
A pair of highly intelligent horses drew attention from a large crowd on Nas Badu Street at noon last week. They halted a heavily loaded wagon on a steep grade between Cedar Street and Muaid en Lane, while the driver watched with a grin. The horses freed their bridles by rubbing against each other, then refused to move until the driver fed them oats. About 200 witnesses praised the animals, comparing their cleverness to the Ishbering man and declaring the wagon team settled the debate.
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Nas Badu Street
Cedar Street
Muaiden Lane
New York Sun
Roguish Ravens in Corsica Folly and Feats
An English traveler records ravens in Corsica as bold and thievish. A youth employed to carry a camera looses a lunch and loses a cap to a raven that steals it to a high crag, where the cap becomes nest lining.
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Europe
Corsica
Foot Care By Pumice Stone Advice
A chiropodist recommends smoothing callous areas with a wet pumice stone each morning after bathing. Daily rubbing over hardened points keeps feet smooth and free of new corns. After removal, light daily rubbing helps prevent recurrence.
Invalid Excuse Sparks Debate in Lecture Room
A student tells a professor they cannot vote due to illness. The professor insists the excuse is invalid. The exchange appears in the Chicago Tribune reflecting tensions over student civic participation and exam or class conditions.
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Chicago Tribune
DeWitts Witch Hazel salve advertised in cradle ads
Eczema salt rheum tetter ivy poisoning and all skin tortures are quickly cured by DeWitts Witch Hazel salve. The certain pile cure. Chas W Cupples 139 W Tremont street Rider Snyder 12 E Main street L A McCuen 5 W Main St
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DeWitt
Chas. W. Cupples
W.tremont Street
Rider & Snyder
E. Main Street
L. A
W. Tremont Street
Rider & Snr
KE. Main Street
Chas
W. Cupples
L. A. McCuen
W. Main Street
Career and Character of Abraham Lincoln address by Choate
Joseph Choate, then ambassador to Great Britain, extols Abraham Lincoln’s career and character from early struggles to his presidency. The piece promotes a pamphlet published with a mail order offer and includes testimonial for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. Names and addresses appear for distribution.
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Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Choate
Great Britain
Abadi Lincoln
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Focal Miller
Chicago
Reduced Rates to California on Queen & Crescent Line
Special reduced rates to California on the Queen & Crescent route offer quick schedules and excellent train service. Ticket agents listed include Warson, Chas. W. Cupples, Rider & Snr, and L. A. McCuen with locations in Tremont and Main streets.
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California
Queen & Crescent
Queen & Cat Ticket Agents
Warson. G
PLAL
Cine
For Over Fifty Years Mra Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
An old advertorial note extols Mra Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, claiming it calms the child and relieves wind colic with a 25 cent price. It contrasts with Kadol Dyspepsia Cure promising digestion aid using similar natural fluids and lists multiple distributor addresses in Tremont and Main streets.
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Mra Winslow
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Arlington
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