Unpremeditated Passion Aboard a Transatlantic Steamer
On a Halifax bound voyage John English and Rachel Baruch form a growing bond after a flirtation on deck. He reveals a desire to marry, persuading her with fate as the motive, while she weighs the implications and hints at a planned Boston harbor future before St Johns.
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John Vogish
Boston
Rachel Baruch
John English
Boston Harbor
Sam
Yarmouth
Queen’s Hotel
Halifax
Fie
Dixie
Lucla
Rachel
St. Johns
Hife
Miss Baruch
Toway
Sean
John Mnglish
Tie
St. John’s
Harvesting Shellac Sheds Light on Lac Production
A historical account explains lac development from bark insects in India and southern Asia. Native collectors break twigs to expose insects and dry lac. Seed lac is prepared by crushing off resin and washing. Shellac is melted and filtered to form thin plates for commerce.
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India
Asia
True Education and the Flame That Burns
The Ohio State Journal argues true education aims to form virtuous people, not just scholars. The educator should inspire beyond old professional ideas, guiding aspiration and understanding of God in the world to save the nation and direct its destiny.
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Ohio State Journal
What the Tongue Can Do
Rev Newell Dwight Hillis states the tongue enables mercy and sympathy and that soft words accomplish what lashings cannot. He praises individuals who cure sorrows, ease discontents, heal enmities, and spread happiness, likening one such person to a flower filling a room with fragrance.
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Newell Dwight Hillis
Value of Play and Healthy Exercise Across Time
The piece argues play should refresh and rest the body while yielding useful results. It stresses wholesome environments, proper air and temperature, upright posture, and circulation. It contrasts true play with unpaid work, cites Bacon’s Solomon's House and early ideas about exploration and invention, noting later the misuses of technology.
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Jack
Bacon's Prophecies and Faked 17th Century Predictions
A brief note argues that most centuries old prophecies about flying machines are fakes, with the essay focusing on later revelations that debunk sensational claims. The piece implies skepticism toward prophetic certainty and emphasizes misattribution.
Mother's Cook Book Fig Sandwiches Recipe
The excerpt from a Mother's Cook Book describes fig sandwiches made by cooking figs to a paste with juice, lemon juice, then cooling. It also provides a walnut coconut raisin mix with cream cheese and chives, forming a savory filling. The tone is instructional and period style.
War Bread Recipes From Miss Wenona Wind sor
Wartime guidance shows corn meal muffins corn bread and Boston brown bread as wheat substitues. Recipes from Miss Wenona Windsor university of Missouri provide practical steps using cornmeal graham flour sour milk molasses and baking powder for economical meals during the food campaign.
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Wenona Windsor
University of Missouri College of Agriculture
Boston
Continuous watering improves plant growth, says botanist
Lucien Daniel, a French botanist, reports young hothouse plants and sap-producing vegetables and flowers thrive more with a constant water supply. A jar of water with a linen strip near each plant delivers a steady drip by capillary action, outperforming periodic soil drenches.
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Lucien Daniel
Sandwich ideas for various occasions from cottage cheese spread
The text describes making pimento sandwiches with cream for spreading on buttered bread. It suggests sandwiching thin brown bread slices with seasoned cottage cheese tinted pink with beet juice or currant jelly, adding chopped chives, then pressing two slices together for lunch baskets picnics and light refreshments.
Ripe Olive Sandwich Recipe From Old-Time Menu
Stone half a cupful of ripe olives and add one chopped sweet green pepper. Mix with softened cream cheese blended with French dressing. Spread on rye bread slices for a savory sandwich.
Rip Van Winkle Shop Auctioned in Dobbs Ferry
The Moser Dry Goods Emporium on Main Street Dobbs Ferry was sold at auction, ending an era of old fashioned stock that dated back over eighty years. The Misses Moser, sole holders, kept a wary shop with a dog at the door and refused new customers. One sister died and the other, aged ninety three, was placed with relatives after illness.
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America
Moser Dry Goods Emporium
Main Street
Dobbserry
Herald Square
New York
Cincinnati Times- Star
John Moser
Moser
Soldiers Reflect Training In Bearing and Attitude
The Omaha Bee notes that smartness in soldiers stems from discipline and orderly conduct. Proper appearance and demeanor reflect training, making the soldier alert resourceful and dependable. The army balances individuality with concerted action, fostering self reliance and initiative within disciplined routines.
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Omaha Bee
Terrapin Breeding Advances at Beaufort Biological Station
At the United States Biological Station in Beaufort North Carolina researchers are breeding 1600 diamond back terrapins in captivity. The project reports a profitable new method to raise turtles in vigorous condition and notes a female terrapin may lay eggs up to three times in a season based on 12 nests averaging eight eggs each observed in a small pen.
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United States Biological Station
Beaufort
N. C
Samuel H. Hildebrand
Brother of Mine Poem Reflects on Gender Roles
Grave Mary Golden wrote in London Pictorial about a sister who envies male sport and faces a women’s world. The speaker expresses kinship with a brother and laments gendered limits while accepting sacrifice and courage. Death looms but dignity remains.
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Mary Golden
London Pictorial
Seaweed Gelatin Substitute Found in Philippines
Popular Science notes a seaweed based gelatin substitute developed in the Philippines. It also mentions the giraffe’s neck has seven joints despite its length, Canada supplying most asbestos, attempts to adapt steam engines for aircraft, and French factories employing women organizing cap and overalls washing.
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Philippines
Canada
France
Concrete floors made nearly noiseless with tarpaper cover
A simple tarpaper layer bonded by cement can render concrete floors almost silent. A new wire clothespin design inserts into sod to prevent articles spread by wind from bleaching or blowing away.
Uncommon Vegetables For The Kitchen Garden
Dr Hugo Erichsen shares experiences growing unusual vegetables for home gardens. Cardoon, Mexican corn, English marrow, Martinoes, Brussels sprouts, PetsaI, and kohlrabi are discussed with cultivation tips, spacing, sowing times, and culinary uses.
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Hugo Erichsen
Flora
New Zealand
United States
Florida
Martynia
Martinoes
England
Mexico
Persia
China
Europe
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McClure
Washington Post Office
Samuel Dixon
Commissioner of Health of
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Ponti
Initer
Atlantis
Francis Bacon
Solomon's House
Bacon
Odd
Dobbs Ferry
Popular Science
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