The Story of Francis Cludde Chapter XIX
Francis Cludde confronts Clarence and Bertie at a perilous stand. The spy Crewdson faces judgment as Bertie asserts his honor. A midnight pursuit ends with a warning note and a mysterious summons to St Botolph's cross street.
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Clarence
Master Bertie
Bishop Gardiner
Count de Feria
Walter Kingston
Kingston
Crewdson
Carey
Bertie
Francis
Richard Bertie
Fis
Penruddocke
Ceria
Sir Thomas
Bertle
Barnes
Walters
the Thames
Holborn
London
Gatehouse
Highgate
Francis Cludde
St. Botolph’s
Mistress Bertram
England
Spain
Pioneer of Predigestion Schumacher’s cereal reform legacy praised
The New York World extols Ferdinand Schumacher as a founder of modern breakfast diets. His predigestion methods turned cereals into staple pantry fare, elevating corn, rye, and barley to national prominence and shaping American nutrition and literature promotion.
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New York World
Ferdinand Schumacher
Temple of Fame
Morses
McCormicks
Edisons
Havemeyers
Armours
Schumacher
Dr. Johnson
England
Scotland
Edinburg
Gran
Fuld
Davy Balfour
The Art of Punctuation in a Boston Transcript
A light humor piece recalls Edith teaching punctuation with hat pins and button hooks, then shifts to a German accent exchange about languages and a note on Atlantic liners employing many firemen.
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Boston Transcript
Edith
Mamma
The Spooners: A Comic Midnight Kiss Tale
A Bohemian Magazine verse sketches a cheeky scene as a man and a pretty girl share a late night moment in dim light. The mother intrudes with a lamp and gently carries the girl away to dreams, leaving the speaker amused and admonished.
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Land of Dreams
Jove
Bohemian Magazine
Cleaning and renewing old hats and veils with simple remedies
Simple home methods describe removing grease with cornstarch and newspaper, renewing a chip hat with olive oil, cleaning straw hats with oxalic acid, and refreshing chiffon and black veils using soap, water, alcohol, and ammonia.
The New Place Cards
Vegetables and flowers form a favorite place card design for summer luncheons and dinners. Cards are sketched on bristol board, cut out, padded with cotton, wrapped with tinted paper, and edged. Leaves receive green wash and watercolor to finish.
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Bristol
Appetizing Fish Dish and School Tennis Plans
A recipe advises chicken white meat with celery and mayonnaise on buttered toast topped with bacon and chives. Brownell Hall plans leveled hillsides and four new tennis courts, making five total on campus, to boost fall athletics on Omaha grounds.
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Brownell Hall
Omaha
Unbleached Muslin Frocks Display at Dressmaking Dept
A dressmaking department showcases unbleached muslin outing frocks with gored skirts and shirtwaist bodies trimmed in colored linen. Styles include sailor necklines, three quarter sleeves, and belts in color fabric. Muslin is also used for mountain fishing and boating waists and for pajama jacket like sacques finished with colored bands.
Apple Cake Recipes and Variations from Early Bakers
White Cake uses six or seven egg whites with cream of tartar whipped in. Raspberry Cake combines brown sugar butter eggs and raspberries with cinnamon and nutmeg for a leaf shaped bake. Apple Cake explains sponge starter with milk yeast, eggs sugar salt lard butter, rolled with apples and custard, with optional nuts or currants and moderate oven.
Prevent baldness advice and wash day tips from 1900s issue
The piece warns against using fancy hard soaps on the hair and outlines a method: wash with light suds, shower until clear, air dry, then apply olive oil. It also suggests a rubber sheeting bib apron for protecting clothing on wash day and condemns perfumes.
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New York Press
Correct fashions in handkerchiefs
The article notes a shift from plain borders to colored handkerchief designs with white borders and initials in white or faint color. It highlights empire designs, Mercury wings, and narrow embroidered circles, all in various linen grades, with no need to spend $1.50 for the latest styles.
Salads From Home: Egg and Delicious Mixes
Three salad recipes described. Egg Salad uses eight eggs with a flour sugar butter and mustard dressing poured over eggs, nuts optional. Delicious Salad combines red kidney beans walnuts celery olives and lettuce with mayonnaise. A fruit salad uses grapefruit strawberries marshmallows and mayonnaise, served on lettuce leaves for eight portions.
Marking Sheets and Marking Techniques in Newspapers
The passage argues for using ink to create neat, uniform marks on sheets by copying initials from newspapers or magazines via carbon transfer, then tracing with indelible ink or embroidery. It notes the shift from copper plate Spencerian handwriting to vertical scripts and offers a tip on drying lace curtains before starching to improve results.
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Mary
Stanley J. Weyman
New Jersey
Deal
Worp Elbridge Gepeyzonow
LSA
Tidead
N. J
Directoire
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