Fudge and Meals From A 1920 Cook Book Page
A 1920 Western Newspaper Union excerpt offers home recipes and tips. It features fudge variants with molasses corn flakes and peanut layers, and recipes for baked ham with garlic mustard sauce, stuffed green peppers, simple fudge, potato and egg mash with cream, and sausage with apple rings. It also advises diet guidance emphasizing vegetables, whole wheat breads, and salads for better health.
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Western Newspaper Union
The Romance of Words NCE Mrs Grundy and the Play
A historical note explains how Mrs. Grundy, wife of Judge Felix Grundy of Nashville, derided theater as sinful. The name Mrs Grundy then became a feared societal arbiter, influencing social morals across communities.
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Mrs. Grundy
Noah M. Ludlow
Martin van Buren
Judge Grundy
United States
Burglar-Proof Alloy Lining Vaults and Safes
Popular Mechanics reports a burglar-proof alloy used to line bank vaults and safes. In tests a four-inch plate yielded only a small hole after nearly four hours with an acetylene cutting torch, highlighting exceptional resistance.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Dreaming of Bridges Signals Path to Success in Business
The article analyzes bridge dreams as a sign of upcoming success in business. Crossing a warned or damaged bridge suggests overcoming obstacles. seeing a bridge calls for exertion to overcome private or work challenges. falling off or bridge collapse warns of false friends, with one authority deeming it unlucky.
Rainy Tomorrow Advice on Financial Reserves and Saving
A historical advisory urges readers to save part of income and build a financial reserve for hard times. It stresses not spending all money, preparing for illness or accidents, and investing in sound securities. The note notes Corsica's language roots and Napoleon.
The Woods the City I The land that is silent forever
A poetic fragment describes a contrast between silent nature and a beckoning city. The speaker contrasts tranquil acres and blooming roses with the city’s allure, music, and seduction, ending with a poignant image of the city’s allure and loss.
President Grant completes 45000 mile voyage with Czech troops
The United States Army transport President Grant returned to Pier 2 Brooklyn after a nine month voyage covering about 45 472 miles. The ship carried 865 officers and men plus 5874 Czech troops, endured fires, gales, heat and cold, and visited Yokohama Kobe Colombo Trieste Manila Singapore and Vindlovostok. Captain John Chambers led the crew through fires, rescues, and long crossings before docking in New York Harbor.
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New York
Army
President Grant
Pier 2
Army Base
Brooklyn
John Chambers
Rome
Chambers
Boson
Vladivostok
Hoboken
Japan
Pacific
Trieste
Italy
Shipping Board
Colon
Panama Canal
Golden Gate
San Francisco
Washington
Hner
Brock
Adison
Ray
Yokohama
Kobe
Tsugarn Straits
Vindivestols
Hongkong
Singapore
Sumatra
Indian Ocean
Colombo
Ceylon
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Port Said
Globe
China
Venice
Crook
Adriatic
Manila
Borneo
Palawan
Karatsu
Subic Bay
United States
Stu
Nippon
Grant
Vindivostok
Russhin
Thera
Cecek
China — Sea
Tsongkong
Sues Cunt
Sptain Chambers
Laat
Oleer Jones
President Crant
Mediterranean
Loa. Om
Trooklyn
Certain Man Pays Quietly Denies Family Honor
In Washington North Carolina during a revival Rev McLendon accused a man in attendance of sin and warned he would name him if he did not donate ten dollars to the plate. The offering included eight ten dollar bills and several notes asking discretion and promising the money for repentance.
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Washington
N. C
McLendon
Killing Bee Spoiled in Seymour Bank Robbery Tale
Citizens of Seymour Indiana imagined a dramatic bank raid scenario at Jackson County Bank. They surrounded the building and waited for hours before discovering the vault was improperly locked and the robbery plot collapsed.
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Seymour
Ind
Jackson County Bank
Prince Stirs His Brothers With Empire Trip Tales
London reports say the prince of Wales shared vivid accounts of his empire trip with Princes Albert Henry and George. He plans a preface for a photo book benefiting a blind soldiers hospital and hosts small dinners at St James Palace. He enjoys rackets swims Bath club hunts and cattle breeding with prize Aberdeen Angus cattle from his Dartmoor farm.
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London
England
Prince of Wales
Albert
Henry
George
Prince
St. James’ Palace
Tle
Bath
Piccaddy
Hets
West Norfolk
King Edward
Birmingham
Dartmoor
Peeping Landlady Spurs Arrests in Louisville Robbery
Mrs Carrie Meyers, owner of a rooming house, peeped through a door keyhole and observed three men dividing jewelry worth $8,000. The sight led to arrests and the men being jailed on charges of robbery in Louisville Kentucky.
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Louisville
Carrie Meyers
Crown Jewel Imitation Shocks Tower Jewel House Keeper
At the Tower of London Sir George Younghusband reveals a crown jewel is fake. The aquamarine substitute turned out to be a colored glass piece. The stone’s origin traces to King James II’s crown with no discovery of when it was swapped. In Paducah Ky a local architect survived a plunge into a sorghum skimming vat after falling in headfirst.
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London
George Younghusband
Tower of London
James Hh
Guy
Paducah
D. Harry Johnson
Saving Flood Fished Rescues Persist Under Federal Effort
The 1920 report of the secretary of commerce details the rescue of food fishes stranded in floodwaters along the Mississippi and tributaries. From July to November 1920 about 156 BHO fish were saved and released, far surpassing prior seasons, with costs around 20 cents per thousand fish.
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Secrediary of Commerce
Mississippi River
Minnesot
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Lonistaha
Federad
Bureau of Dahertes
Wilpernitt
Hls
McCormick Proposes Major Government Department Shakeup
Senator McCormick Republican of Wisconsin introduces a plan to reorganize federal departments creating a Department of Public Works and a Department of Public Welfare while realigning agencies from Labor Interior and other offices. The proposal includes enlarging Commerce and abolishing the Comptroller of Currency and several boards. President Harding’s stance noted with early session intro and possible deferment post inauguration.
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Department At Public Works
Department of Public Welfare
McCormlet
Winess
Cone Graxa
MeCormtele
Ty Mue Ropec
Dee
Harding
Winola
Dhebi
Department of Public Works
DAHL
da Ren
Department of Libor
Pension Bureau
Department of the Interior
Vocationnal Training Board
Department of Commerce
Suloy Alliira
Alaska
Offlee
Secret Service
Department of Jaslee
Comptroller of Currency
Federal Reserve Board
McCormiel
Board of Mediation and Coneibition
We Department of Labor
Abel- Ikh
Ho Council of National Defense Mill
Department of Commercs
Weather Bureau
Patent Olea
Court Guard
Lake Survey Otee
Hydrographic Office
Naval
Wulep Whys Baryv
We Are Living in a Tenth-Second World War Era Voice
General Squier reports rapid progress in military communications highlighting a 25 percent rise in civilian telephone costs vs a 42.72 percent army saving. He promotes signal corps control of telephone networks at permanent posts and notes advances in radio telephony and telegraphy via sewer-in-earth lines and enhanced wired radio tests on rail routes across vast distances.
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Syuler
Squier
Signal Corps
AMA
General Squier
Niles
Opposition group launches new campaign against woman suffrage
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage announces a fresh push to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment and to restore state rights by requiring congressional action and nationwide ratification. Analysts say only a small fraction of eligible women voted in recent elections.
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National Association
Womna
Congress
Anti-Suffrage Association
Ann
Russia Trade Initiative Hinted By Senate Resolution
A Senate resolution by Senator Joseph J France proposes resuming trade with Russia and lifting embargoes to establish friendly relations. It calls for credits and reparations talks linked to Russia’s invasion, praising Soviet-era cooperation while seeking to aid Russia’s path to ordered liberty through commerce. The measure aims to place the U S on equal footing with Britain after recent trade deals with the Soviet government.
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United States
Russia
State Department
Joseph J. France
Tle
Great Britain
France
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