The Footsteps That Followed Me to Tragedy
A remorseful man recalls a village love triangle ending in murder and near suicide. He believed Huldah Evans loved rival Vance Telford who later survived a bridge accident and reformed. Miss Dawes loved Telford. Huldah arranged a clandestine marriage, but the murderer learns the truth and finds redemption as the footsteps fade away.
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Huldah Evans
Vane Telford
Huldah
Evans Place
Telford
Martha Dawes
Miss Dawes
Vance Telford
Mr. Telford
Evans
Napoleon's First Balloon Adventure Snub Ends in Destruction
A young Napoleon, then a cadet, asked to enter a balloon car at Champs de Mars but was refused. In anger he drew his sword and slashed the balloon, ruining the apparatus as his first and last balloon ascent attempt.
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Napoleon
Champs de Mars
Aeronaut
Sieges Mark Mons Through Centuries of War
Mons saw repeated sieges from Caesar’s era to 1794. In 1572 Frederic of Toledo led a decisive assault with capitulation under harsh terms. 1691 Marshall Luxembourg and 1709 Marlborough with Prince Eugene inflicted damage and captured the town after long sieges.
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Mons
Caesar
Cicero
Ambiorix
Frederic of Toledo
Alba
Marechal de Luxembourg
Marlborough
Prince Eugene
Prince de Conti
Jemmapes
Grapes as a Fall Pantry Staple and Delicious Preserves
The article extols grapes as a fall staple, detailing their sugars and minerals and their use in medicines and recipes. It provides methods for grape catchup, grape jam, and grape pudding, including ingredient lists and cooking steps for each.
Jelly Pancakes With Butter and Jelly
A simple Mothers Magazine recipe yields jelly pancakes in minutes using flour, sweet milk, an egg, baking powder, and salt. Beat egg, mix with milk, then combine with sifted flour. Cook thin rounds in buttered pan, spread with butter and jelly, roll, and dust with powdered sugar.
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Mothers’ Magazine
Calf's Head Terrapin Recipe Instruction
Boil calf head until bones separate then remove meat and cool. Season and add mace, chopped hard boiled eggs, broth, cream, butter, browned flour. Simmer thoroughly and stir in sherry without reboiling before serving.
Cracker Pudding Recipe Steps and Ingredients
A half pint broken crackers soaked in milk then baked with four eggs three quarters cup sugar butter salt raisins soda cinnamon and nutmeg in one quart milk. Bake about an hour in a moderate oven and serve with plain pudding sauce.
Fresh Pork Cake Method
Instructions describe making fresh pork cakes by chopping meat removing bone, forming round or flat shapes, and roasting with onions and potatoes. Season to taste, add salt and a splash of water, then bake until done.
Beet Salad Assembly and Dressing Serving Tip
Slice cold boiled beets into strips and mound them on crisp lettuce in a salad bowl. Pour mayonnaise dressing over just before serving or pass it separately in an ice cold pitcher or a pretty bowl with a ladle.
Varieties of Puree and Their Uses in Meat and Soup
This guide outlines purees for meat accompaniments and soup bases. It covers vegetables to puree, preparation steps, adding butter cream or eggs, and methods to keep color and texture. It notes chestnut and white bean purees, spinach and sorrel notes, and timing for eggs and cream.
Home Help Hints From Housekeeping Columns
Quick home care tips include wiping furniture with linseed oil for shine, using lawn clippings as poultry feed, aligning towel hangers to wear evenly, baking powder biscuits from flour, using egg white to improve whipped cream, and methylated spirit for stiff tap silk blouses to reduce ironing.
Spiced Pears Preserved With Aromatic Syrup
Eight pounds pears are cooked in a syrup of four pounds brown sugar one quart vinegar and mixed spices including cinnamon cassia buds allspice and cloves. Spices are tied in a bag and boiled with the syrup then pears are simmered ten minutes until tender. Pears are packed in jars and the syrup is boiled down and reused over three mornings, keeping the spice bag in the sirup.
Appetizing Tomatoes Recipe Note
A tomato based sauce is cooked with bay leaf salt onion and peppercorns. Butter and flour are used to thicken then tomato puree is strained and folded into beaten yolks and whites before baking. A cheese topping adds a variation.
Cottage Pudding Recipe
Cream three fourths tablespoonful butter and one and a half tablespoonfuls sugar. Add two teaspoonfuls beaten egg, one and a half tablespoonfuls milk and five tablespoonfuls flour sifted with half teaspoon baking powder and a few grains salt. Beat vigorously, turn into two buttered individual tins and bake in a moderate oven. Serve with cream wine or brandy sauce.
Pork Apple Pie Recipe Note
A home style instruction for making a layered pork and apple pie with flaky crust. Begin with a pie crust, add folded thin pork shavings, then apples, repeat to fill, season with sugar and cinnamon, cap with top crust, glaze with milk and bake.
Braised Cucumbers from an Old Cookbook
Recipe fragment describes cutting cucumbers in half and removing pulp to mix with seasoned meat. The filling is packed into cucumber shells, moistened with stock, then braised until tender. The passage ends abruptly with “even.”
Pocket Electric Heater For Travelers Boils Water Quickly
A pocket electric heater designed for travelers draws power from a light socket and can boil a quart of water in three minutes. It emphasizes portability and rapid heating for on the go use.
Switzerland a Neutral Power Amid War's Turmoil
The article traces Swiss independence and neutrality amid European conflict, noting Switzerland's lack of coastline, strong militia, multilingual cantons, and historic roots from the Everlasting League of Uri Schwyz and Unterwalden. It explains why Switzerland remains largely safe, yet wary of postwar risks if Germany prevails, and outlines the evolution from Habsburg rule to the Helvetic Republic and modern constitutions.
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Witzerland
Switzerland
Europe
Germany
House of Hapsburg
Helvetian Republic
Hapsburgs
Uri
Schwyz
Unterwalden
Everlasting League
France
Paris
Belgium
Austria
Helvetic Republic
Sailor’s Quick Escape From Beer Saloon Tale
Josephus Daniels recalls a temperance anecdote about a sailor entering a beer saloon and, upon a reprimand, claiming he only had a nickel. The saloon then swallowed him up, illustrating prohibition era humor.
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Josephus Daniels
Navy
Baseball Manager’s Unconventional Release Plan
A humorous dialogue has a baseball manager tell a player he is released and could join a circus. The Bonehead questions the idea while the manager clarifies he means an elephant ball team, framing a light, throwaway exchange from a Puck cartoon.
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Bonehead
Puck
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Pork Apple Pie
Valley of the Rhine
Aar
Lake Geneva
Lake Neuchatel
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