The Alamo Massacre and Texan Stand Recalled
The article recounts the 1836 Alamo siege and massacre at San Antonio, led by General Santa Anna, detailing the Texans defense under Travis and Crockett, the brutal suppression of the garrison, and the aftermath that spurred Texan independence. It notes the transformation of Texans into determined fighters and contrasts San Antonio’s then small town with its later growth into a modern American city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jacinto
Bantona
Texas
Santa Ampa
San Antonio
Iraqls
Alamo
Fort Alamo
Santo Anna
Surender
Banta Anni
Travis
David Crockett
Crockett
Santa Anna
Calin
Davi Crockett
Colonel Bowie
Bowie-knife
Ranta” Ansa
Bowie
Areala Veramendi
Veramendi
Kentucky
Tennessee
Campo Santo
New Orleans
Charlotte Mary Yonge A venerable literary figure noted by Dolman
Frederick Dolman writes in The Ladies' Home Journal that Charlotte Mary Yonge stands as a venerable figure in English letters. Her works fill eight pages of the British Museum library catalogue across fiction history biography and belles lettres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Mary Yonge
England
Frederick Dolman
Ladies’ Home Journal
British Museum Library
Hampshire
Elderfield
Yonges
Pua- Uneh
Devonshire
Mlyrouth
House of Commons
Thomas Yonge
William Crawley Yonge
Waterloo
Fifty-second Regiment
France
Charlotte Mary
Alles Yonge
Robin
Fragmented Recipe and Dialogue Across Etched Fragments
A jumble of recipes and clipped conversations appears, including a Vienna sandwich preparation with eggs sugar and jam, yeast dough kneading for rolls, and social comments on women’s suffrage and attire. The text blends culinary instructions with scattered quotes and mock dialogue, with several garbled phrases and incomplete sentences throughout.
Burglars Turn Up At Mrs Noboddies Birthday Party
In Chicago Herald style, the piece describes Mrs Noboddie catching a burglar in her dining room while preparing a party punch. The intruder claims to be a friend. police are called. Freddie Noboddie arrives with bottles, realizing a profitable scheme is ruined as confusion ends in gloom.
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Nebeddie
Nobeddie Courbes
Ian
Tim
Aim
Sarl
Ahe
Bet
Cate
Freddie Gagant
Sarah
Gan
Giau
Mr. Blanque
Mrs. Noboddie
Mr. Bhinque
Freddie
Wanna
Goldlink
Bnd
Lim
Chicago Herald
Beed Cake And Miscellany From Historical Crumbs
A compiled excerpt notes a bacon dripping and sugar dough recipe baked in a moderate oven, plus scattered historical curiosities. It mentions a charity act weighed in by a wealthy Indian benefactor, dismisses bombast meaning, knights in Britain, and a claim about Indian ink from camphor soot and Chinese secrecy.
Chocolate Pot With Water Only Method
A practical note explains you can cook cocoa or chocolate in water almost indefinitely. Do not add boiling milk until five minutes before serving. Remove the needed portion, keep the rest simmering in water over the fire until you want more.
A Chicken Putty Recipe From Own Kitchen Era
A fragmented household recipe describes singeing and cleansing two pairs of fall chickens, cutting into eight pieces, browning in butter, moistening with water, cooking slowly covered, then finishing with drawn butter. The dish is topped with fried ham slices, interlaced pieces and hard boiled egg yolks, herbs, mint paste, and an herb crust, baked thirty to forty minutes in a hot oven.
Fashionable mourning textiles and tailor made dresses options
A survey of dark fabrics and tailoring trends for deep mourning and smart dresses notes tricotine varieties with stripes and spots, crepe textures, and double width options. It highlights puffed crepon, fluted pleats, and the growing popularity of tailor made costumes praised for fit and finish. It also details wool len materials, corkscrew textures, travellers cloth, felts, and gray, navy, and burgundy color options.
Finnan Baddie Baked With Cream Method
A dried fish dish is prepared by cutting the fish, skinning, and boiling fifteen minutes. Melt butter, stir in cream or milk thickened with rice flour, bay leaf, herbs, and white pepper. Simmer, strain, add parsley and onion juice, pour over haddies in a greased dish, top with breadcrumbs and butter, and bake until brown.
Circumspect and the piano joke in a kitchen scene
The excerpt shows dialogue about Miss Strait Lace and Miss Caustic, noting she will not accompany a young man on the piano without a cheperon. A recipe follows for a butter pudding with lemon, citron, and brandy, detailing cream butter, sugar, rind, raising, and flour, then steaming and serving with melted butter and lemon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strait Lace
Cheperon
Family Seeded Cake From Historic Recipe Notes
A quartern of dough, half a pound of butter or dripping, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, one ounce of caraway seeds, and three eggs. Cream the butter, mix with dough, add sugar seeds and eggs, knead well, then let rise near the bre for about an hour. Then bake into a fragrant cake.
Tea soup with peas and garlic butter
A recipe fragment describes boiling dried green peas with water and soda, then pulping and seasoning with onion garlic and butter. Bay leaves add aroma as the mixture simmers gently. Adjust thickness with more water and serve with fried bread.
Palm Reader Tells How To Start A Career In Palmistry
A Detroit Frey Press tale recounts a woman who rose from poverty after a palm reader advised action. The successful speaker explains leaving indolence, learning practical skills from a stranger, and earning money to change her life while warning others to seize ambition.
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Sterutys
Towell
Detroit Frey Press
Tutu
Jessie the Queen Victoria’s donkey in royal shed at Windsor
The article notes Jessie, a 27 year old white cross marked mare described as Queen Victoria’s own riding donkey. It states she remains in royal favor, trotted out for inspections when Queen Victoria is at Windsor, with details of her appearance and origins from Lewd Wolseley.
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Jessie
Queen Victoria
Althoigh
Windsor
Wolseley
Tix
Les
Silk-producing spiders inspire potential industry
An 19th century report notes the possibility of harvesting spider silk from Nephilengus Malabarensis to spin into threads for sewing or weaving. It mentions price potential, dirt impact, and envisions spider farms, with Wardle asserting the silk’s valuable characteristics and market avenues in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wardle
Bulew
England
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Tertullian
Carlyle
Aim University
Hay
Maud
Swetties
Molly Jamesby
Madge
Molly
Mergelf
The
India
Raiment
Ed One Weuss
Sik
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