Haunting Valley Shanty Draws Town Folk Into Supernatural Fear
In a snowbound valley, Lena Heller's brook visit sparks Tom and a wary crowd at Poppy Miller's, amid rumors of pow wow and haexing led by Al Farthing. Amos Harding vows to confront the old cabin, while the squire and locals debate signs and the danger of the haunted house.
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Lena Heller
Old Poppy
Grannie Miller
Tom
Loney
Heller's Gap
Poppy Miller
Squire’s
Poppy
Amos Harding
Amos
Dan
Gum Stump
Dan Tressier
Darkey
Snyder
White Deer Valley
Blairs Gap
McCormick
Bottle River
Green Briar Creek
Squire
Pennsylvanea
Spruce Creek
Lem Fisher
Lem
Little Circle
al Fartin
Alle
Valley Archives
Katie Barndollar
Andy Bowersock
Luke Snyder
Turkey Bottom
Ulie
Ulir
Ali
Alie
Clever Animals at London and Paris Theaters Draw Big Pay
A Philadelphia North American report notes chimpanzees, horses, elephants, parrots, dogs, leopards and cats commanding high weekly sums in London and Paris shows. Seeth's lions earn 1500 dollars weekly, while Hendrickson's tigers get half that.
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Philadelphia
London Hippodrome
Trixie
Palace Theater
London
Emir
Pilu
Seeth
Lions
Hendrickson
Tigers
Merrion
Paris
Barnord
Claire Beassy
Messina
Sizing Them Up From The Sketch
A village pair debates potato sizes with Farmer Giles asking about the largest spud and Harry answering that the biggest is just a bit larger than the small ones. The light hearty exchange captures rural humor and character.
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Farmer Giles
Harry
Spinach with Mushrooms in Buttered Mold
Wash spinach and boil in salted water then pound and sieve. Mix with butter and lemon juice and simmer briefly. Fold in beaten yolks and pack in a well buttered mold. Bake slowly for an hour, unmold onto a plate and fill the center with chopped mushrooms.
Spinach Molds and Salad Dressing Method
Spinach molds combine spinach soup stock and gelatin then set to harden. Garnish with hard boiled eyes and lettuce leaves, served with a prepared salad dressing. The dressing uses vinegar oil sugar mustard salt and cream thickened over hot water.
Yeast Biscuit Style Bread From Old Recipe
Make pint yeast and let stand overnight. In morning mix one cup hot mashed potatoes one cup white sugar and three eggs well beaten one scant cup butter. Beat into yeast, add flour to form soft dough, rise roll cut rounds rise again. Bake with topping of flour butter and sugar pasted on top until biscuit like.
Bran Muffin Recipe Note
Instructions list bran muffins ingredients two cups bran one cup white flour one cup molasses one cup milk one teaspoon soda and suggest testing with a toothpick. The fragment ends without baking steps or timing details.
Punch Torte Recipe Steps For Rum Filled Layer Cake
Instructions describe making a multi layer sponge or almond torte with arrah wine flavor. Crumbs from the thickest layer are used in a rum syrup filling plus a rum flavored icing. Alternate filling uses crabapple jelly with brandy or grated apple and egg white batter. Bake in a buttered springform at a moderate oven.
Old Fashioned Angel Food Cake Recipe Teaches Cream Method
A historic baking note lists ingredients and steps for a cake batter. It uses butter sugar milk soda corn starch pastry flour cream of tartar lemon and eight eggs. The instruction directs beating eggs to froth then folding into the batter and baking in a five quart milk pan.
Parafin Use Hint for Safer Sealing In Homes
A practical tip suggests placing the paraffin dish in a large vessel of hot water to prevent smoke and accidents. Melt the paraffin on the stove, then remove and keep the wax hot with the water until sealing is complete.
Perfectly Cooked Rice Guide from Old Cookbook
Wash rice through several waters. Boil two quarts water per half pint rice. Sprinkle in slowly to keep water hot. Boil rapidly for 20 minutes without covering. Add half a teaspoon salt, then drain. Serve as a vegetable.
Wash Crocks and Pans With Steam for Easy Cleanup
When washing crocks or pans that have dough baked in, moisten the interior and turn them upside down in a dish pan or on a table for a few seconds to steam. The sticky substance washes off quickly, saving time and reducing scraping and scouring work.
Suet Plum Pudding Boiled In Bag Instructions
A recipe lists one cup each suet molasses milk currants and raisins with soda cloves nutmeg allspice and salt. Sift dry ingredients then add suet and fruit. Stir in milk and molasses with the dry mixture. Pack in a bag and boil three hours.
Apples Stuffed With Banana Dish
Instructions for preparing baked apples stuffed with bananas. Peel large sweet apples, core, fill with bananas, bake and baste with hot water and sugar. Serves with bread and butter, cold or hot.
Cottage Shortcake Strawberry Cream Dessert
In strawberry season, make a French shortcake by hollowing a baked cottage pudding circle. Fill with sugared berries, replace the top, and dust with sugar. Slice to serve with cream or berry juice. The following day use the crumb inside to make a pudding.
Prune Ice Cream Recipe Steps
Stir one and a half cupfuls of sugar into three pints of cream with one and a half tablespoons of vanilla. Blend, chill, and freeze. When half frozen, add a small cupful of stewed prunes, chopped fine. This version tastes better than fresh fruit.
Simple Butter Fried Potatoes with Onion and Parsley
Cut cooled boiled potatoes into small cubes and season with salt and pepper. Sauté an onion in butter until browned, add the potatoes and cook five minutes. Stir in minced parsley and serve.
Simple Chicken Stew with Tomato Roux Method
Start with a heaping tablespoon lard in a kettle. When hot stir in a large tablespoon flour until brown. Avoid burning. Add one large minced onion. Brown chicken pieces then stir in two large ripe tomatoes and enough water to make a good stew.
For Feminine Walking Costume For School Girl
A seal brown cheviot walking suit for a girl aged 14 to 16 features a semi-fitting coat worn over a side-plaited skirt. Untrimmed except for dark brown silk frogs. hat of pliable seal brown felt with self tone ribbons and a lighter shade ribbon. Each knot has a brown quill.
Satin Meteor Gown With Tulle Veil Fashion Note
Ivory satin meteor gown cut on princesse with pearl salons and rosettes of tulle at intervals around the skirt and bodice. Fichu edged in embroidered mousseline de soie, gluimpe and sleeve bands in the same fabric. A conventional white tulle veil is worn with orange blossoms.
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Flere
A Useful Gift For the Engaged Woman in 1920s Style
The article urges personal homemade gifts for brides to be noting that teacups and spoons have faded in favor of handmade presents. It highlights embroidery as the nicest option for engagement gifts and lists ideas such as centerpieces doilies table covers towels pillow vases and embroidered napkins and sheets with openwork like English Madeira eyelet.
Man sentenced in Prague for woman and dog tied to cart
A Prague magistrate sentenced a man to six months imprisonment after charging him with harnessing his wife and their dog to his vegetable cart. The wife testified she had suggested the arrangement as she enjoyed the work, but the court did not accept this justification.
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Witt
Poppy Miller
Prague
Bohemia
Greek Drapery in Vogue and Tobacco Value Cited
A fashion note touts a Grecian gown with a plain cling skirt and draped bodice trimmed in fringe, using silks or crepe. A photography piece from A Larsen notes lightning flashes may form from multiple rapid electric discharges. Cuba’s tobacco production value reached at least 45 million dollars last year.
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A. Larsen
Cuba
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