The Wrong Rushville
Myra Cloyd seeks rest from social life and travels to Rushville to aid the poor. Lost and misdirected she encounters danger then quarantine at a typhus hospital run by Dr. Willis. Impressed by his work she joins the hospital effort and agrees to support his charity, finding a new life path with him.
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Hydraulic mining cartridge offers safer rock blasting option
A new hydraulic mining cartridge uses a steel cylinder with many pistons expanded by water pressure from a hand pump. After drilling, workers insert the unit and pump to press pistons against rock, fracturing it gradually. It is claimed to be cheaper than traditional explosives and can disintegrate a larger rock area.
Why the Stars Twinkle
The article explains stars are suns emitting light and twinkle due to interference from atmospheric particles. On clear nights less interference makes star light appear brighter and more distinct to observers.
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Earth
Suite Revenge: Tenant Forced Out by Cozy Apartment Swap
A neighbor recounts obtaining a convenient three-room apartment for an agent to evict a disagreeable tenant next door. The plan is described as suite revenge, implying strategic moves to clear the nuisance.
Dressing Down: A Dancer Remains in Costume Questioned
A humorous exchange questions if a dancer’s beads count as clothes, debating whether the attire is proper dress or merely a costume. The dialogue mocks propriety and social norms with witty back-and-forth.
Hints for the Cook How to Prevent Lumps and Mush
Practical kitchen tips on dissolving cocoa without lumps and avoiding mushy rice and pasta. Advice covers heating water, using fat instead of water, keeping surfaces clean, rack use in roasting, cold meats and serving, rice cooking methods, drying vegetables, soaking dried fruits, and making caramel sugar for sauces and desserts.
Baked Ham and Sweet Potatoes Recipe
A round baking dish is greased then ham slices and mashed sweet potatoes are layered with butter salt and pepper. Repeat ham and potatoes finishing with ham. Bake in a hot oven for about thirty minutes until tender. Serve hot as a hearty late summer or fall dish.
Grape Pie Recipe Steps and Baking Method
Remove grape skins, simmer pulp, strain to remove seeds, return skins to pulp. Measure one and a half cupfuls. Mix two cupfuls sugar with salt and two tablespoons flour. Beat two eggs with one tablespoon melted butter. Combine, fill crusts, and bake.
Pickled Walnuts Recipe From Mother's Magazine
Wipe 100 walnuts prick with a large needle and jar with spices. Mix cloves allspice nutmeg whole pepper sliced ginger each one ounce one half pint mustard seed four cloves of garlic and a stick of horseradish. Add two tablespoonfuls of salt and boiling vinegar to cover. Cover and tie closely.
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Mother's Magazine
Mint Leaves Enhance Plum Jelly Flavor
Fresh mint leaves are added during plum jelly cooking and then placed in each serving. The mint imparts a distinct flavor described as a finger five point boost, enhancing pairings with roast and other meats.
Potato Salad Recipe Steps
Slice cold potatoes and a small onion and one hard boiled egg into a dish. Sprinkle pepper and drizzle a warm vinegar butter mustard mix over the potatoes. Let the mixture cool, then pour over in the morning and serve at night.
How to Make Dried Apples
Peel and slice apples and lay them on trays in sunshine. Bring in at night and during rain to prevent moisture. Protect from dust fires and insects with netting. Dry until over half the weight is lost, then finish in oven if needed. Store in double sacks suspended from a ceiling. Wash soak six hours before cooking slowly. Mothers' Magazine.
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Alice
Mothers’ Magazine
Use Paper Jars For Jelly By The Paper Family
The article introduces a new paper jelly cup made of paraffin paper, similar to a drinking cup, available in sizes from two to 16 ounces. Eight-ounce cups cost about 15 cents a dozen, valued for portability, non breakage, and light weight. Paper cups suit picnics and gifts, avoiding the need to return containers and reducing cost compared to glass jars.
Chocolate Fig Cream for Freezers
Rich milk heated with melted chocolate and cinnamon then thickened. When cool fold in stiff egg white and whipped cream with sugar, add vanilla. Freeze in a two quart canister, add chopped figs, continue freezing until smooth and serve with sweetened whipped cream.
Corn Dumplings From Fresh Corn
Mix one pint fresh grated corn with half pint milk six tablespoons butter two eggs one quarter teaspoon pepper one half teaspoon salt and half pint flour or enough to form a handleable dough one teaspoon baking powder. If corn is juicy drain shape dough pieces and fry until brown serve with tomato or brown sauce.
Rock Cakes Recipe Steps and Bake Method
Rub three cupfuls of flour with three ounces of butter. Stir in sugar currants candied peel and nutmeg with two teaspoonfuls baking powder and a beaten egg. Add milk to make a stiff dough. Place in greased tin in 12 or 15 piles and bake twenty five minutes.
Creamed Codfish Method
Soak the fish three hours, boil until tender then pick out bones. Heat one pint milk to boiling, thicken with cornstarch in water, add butter, stir in fish, then two beaten eggs. Cook and serve very hot.
Date Pudding From Mothers Magazine
A dated baking note describes date pudding with sour cream soda strup butter dates cinnamon nutmeg salt and whole wheat flour. Mix into stiff batter steam two and a half hours then serve cold with cream and sugar.
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Mother’s Magazine
Thousand Isle Salad Dressing Recipe Notes
A vintage dressing recipe lists olive oil half cup orange juice from one half orange lemon juice one teaspoon grated onion salt and mustard pepper and chopped parsley. Mix all in a mason jar and shake well for a tangy Thousand Island style sauce.
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Thousand Isle
Dusting Made Simple With a Paint Brush
An old newspaper excerpt promotes dusting furniture with a paint brush as an effective method. It claims the brush reaches every crevice, small or deep, better than a rag.
Brick Roads Offer Durability and Traction Despite Higher Cost
A Department of Agriculture bulletin extols vitrified brick roads for lasting durability and good horse traction while noting high initial costs and variable local prices. It outlines foundations from stone to concrete, sand cushions, and grout joints, plus testing like the abrasion test and the need for proper drainage and curbing to prevent displacement.
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