A Walk with Joyce in the Park and Grannie’s Stand
Joyce, four, a philosopher and affection magnet, walks with her aunt through a city park. A misbehaving boy mocks Joyce and her gran, Joyce defends her gran and cries. a nurse intervenes as Joyce’s aunt consoles her. The故事 ends with Joyce praying to bless friends but avoid Bill Green, highlighting love’s fragility.
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Joyce
Mummie
Daddie
Jinnie
Grannnie
Grannie
Grannies
Nurse
Llue
Billy Green
Master Green
Styles for tots pretty coat adapted to two year boy
A home sewing note details a white rough serge coat for a two year old boy wearing petticoats, with Jap silk lining, deep plaits, a white leather belt, and a double sailor collar with anchor corners. Includes material lists and a matching pelisse for a two to three year old girl with two plaits, gimp edging, silk lining, and bonnet.
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Pelisse
Mustard Paste Instructions and Pink Cheeks Remedy
A historical health column describes making mustard paste at Presbyterian Hospital Manhattan with mustard and flour, water, and optional egg white oil or vaseline, plus poultice guidance. It also touts internal rouge via raw carrots to achieve rosy cheeks, advising grocery store purchases and daily carrot intake.
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Presbyterian Hospital
Manhattan
Striped Shirt Waists Attract Morning Wear Trends
The article notes striped shirt waists in linen and silk gain popularity for their easy fit and neat look. Striped effects in washable silks offer variety, appealing to diverse tastes and women seeking fashionable morning wear. It also gives a practical tip on rooting rubber plant slips using moss in a pot.
Housekeeper's two sweetbreads recipes in old cookbook style
The Housekeeper offers two stewed sweetbreads methods. First, white stew uses veal broth, mace, onion, flour, butter, and cream with lemon and parsley garnish. Second, brown sauce method soaks, simmers, presses, then heats in a rich brown sauce with tomatoes.
Household Hints From The Home Desk
Hot sunshine removes scorch and hot tartaric acid lifts ink from white cloth. Sealed envelopes cannot be steamed open with hot water. Delicate glass survives washing in very hot water edgewise. Insects dislike salt and alum. carpet retains them. Saturate grass stains in paraffin before washing. Extinguish burning oil by flour sand or earth. Starch mixed with soapy water gives gloss and prevents sticking. Boil clotheslines and pegs briefly after purchase. Bran at the bottom of tins prevents cake burning.
Recipes and household tips from a vintage kitchen section
Instructions for Italian Cakes and rag rugs plus quick crafts and packing tips. Includes a strawberry jelly iced cake bake ten to fifteen minutes, rag carpet by hole method, Lyman Salad with grape fruit and pecan, packing china in a flour barrel, moth prevention with benzine and camphor fumes. Entities include strawberry, raspberry, Wedgewood, Lyman, and gum camphor references.
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Lyman
When Burning Rubbish and Odors
Instruction advises adding a handful of salt to burning vegetable refuse old papers and rubbish in stoves or furnaces to prevent unpleasant odors and disagreeable smells.
Traveling teacher tale from early America humor in New Jersey
An old New Jersey Historical Society manuscript recalls a traveling country schoolmaster who boasted he could teach almost any branch yet admitted ignorance of Matthew Mattocks while claiming to know his brother Tom, highlighting frontier pedagogy and humor.
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America
New Jersey Historical Society
Matthew Mattocks
Matthew
Tom
Promises of Electrical Era and Road Notice
A passage discusses the dawn of the electrical era and its potential to surpass flames in power and scope, noting future widespread uses from telephones to household motors. The second portion is a highway notice from Mills County Iowa detailing a proposed 66 foot wide public road in section 20, with land ownership, deadline for objections by September 1, 1908, and the auditor's office contact.
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Galleo
Daguerre
Pasteur
Watt
Stephenson
Parsons
de Laval
William &. Wall
Myrtle
Meade
New Described
William R. Wall
Myrtle S. Meade
B. T. Agan
Mills County
Lows
Feminine Intuition in a Hazy Twilight Scene
In purple evening light Evangeline and Hector Mont Morency exchange intimate lines amid drifting wistaria and honeysuckle fragrance. He professes deep love, while she teases him about guessing her thoughts in a playful exchange.
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Evangeline
Hector Mont- Morency
Timetable Notice for Tabor and Northern Arrivae
Public timetable fragment shows stops Tabor and Northern Arrivae Malvern. Entries list times 9 00 am 4 80 pm 11 20 am 8 00 pm and 12 05 m with Thpm 80am RDM, indicating scheduled departures and possible errors in OCR transcription.
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Tabor & Northern —Arrivae
Malvern
Tabor
Omaha
Free Connell Bluffs
Tee
Glenwood
Bag
Balfour
Tee Thee
Wee
Tie Vere
Hastings
Emerson
Teve
Red Oak
Chicago
Adams
Oganease No
East Bound
East- Pacific Junction
Ings
Pry Pit
Sone
Hastings Bae
Malvern Iad
As Balfour
Pacific
Conncil Bluffs
Denver
Ron Hundays
Omaha West Bound
Noah
Pasitic Junction
Plattsmouth
Nowra
Plattemonth
North
South
Noal
Vere
Mons Ness
Conneil Bluffs
Minsola
Bilver City
Silrahan
Wey
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Green
Ishment
Is—Is
Jayce
Granniie
Daddle
Bill Green
Mfe
New York Hospital
the Tribune
Purling, East Bound
Kansas City
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