Lights Of New York and Wall Street Prosperity Snapshot
The piece describes a Wall Street boom lifting many local services from brokers and real estate to eateries, barbers, taxi drivers, and telegraph firms. It also notes a lingering urban vitality with late hours and small shops, plus a vignette of St Pauls churchyard, Vesey Street, and a vanished Frank’s fish house.
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Wall Street
Financial District
St. Paul’s
Vesey Street
Frank
The
Astor
Fulton Market
Color in Food Selection Vitamin A Values Discussed
A 1933 nutrition piece notes color influences food choice and health. It ranks greens like escarole kale and spinach for vitamin A, lists vegetables high in A, and cites fruits such as prunes bananas cantaloupes cher ries and oranges. It also mentions vitamin A storage, dietary guidance for poverty, and simple recipes for banana dessert liver with cream sauce and kidney stew.
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Edith M. Barber Olor
Escarolle
In the Shadows of the Sixth Avenue El and Nearby Bungalows
Vignettes portray street life on Church and Park avenues with displaced shopkeepers after the Eighth Avenue subway project. A mix of bustling sidewalks, maid rivalries, party returns, and bemused bystanders frames a city economy shifting under razed old shops.
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Church Street
Sixth Avenue el
Eighth Avenue
Park Avenue
Eighty-sixth Street
Fools Rush In Anglos and Angels Fear to Tread Quip
A playful exchange features a sharp quip about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread and a joking reply about daily humiliations. The terse banter underscores a lighthearted moment between speakers.
My Neighbor iaaye My Neighbor iaaye HEN cooking eggs
A fragment discussing kitchen tips for mothers of growing children. It mentions soaking eggs, using cold water before boiling to prevent creaking, and notes on nutrient sources such as milk carrots spinach egg yolk liver meat cabbage raisins tomatoes fish beans peas and whole grains.
Origin of Hocus-Pocus in Stage Magic and Folklore
The article traces the term hocus pocus to stage conjurers and carnival sleight of hand, noting its origins as gibberish used by magicians. It links Ochus Bochus, a seventeenth century Italian wizard, to the term and mentions Ben Jonson’s use of Hokos-Pokos as a juggler’s name.
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Ochus Bochus
BOASTING PULL LAUDED AS VALUE ONLY IF MAN REMAINS QUIET
A remark suggests that bragging about a pull is meaningless unless the person stays still about it. The saying frames restraint as the key to effectiveness, implying action without fanfare.
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Uise
California syrup of figs cure for sluggish appetite in children
A 19th century style health note promotes California syrup of figs as a pure laxative to stimulate the colon and revive a child’s appetite. It warns against substitutes and urges checking for the CALIFORNIA label and N. R. A. membership.
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California
Nature
Why Your Health Depends Upon Your Kidneys
Health brief extols kidney importance as blood filters excreting toxins daily. Warns of symptoms from disordered kidney action and urges trials of Dean's Pills with druggist availability.
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Dean’s
Nona
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My Neighbor
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