Provincial Delight and Nighttime London Dramatic Glow
A provincial observer contrasts London’s after dark splendor with its daytime hustle. He notes the city’s theatre and streets awash in light, artful silhouettes, and bustling crowds, while praising the provincial thrill of witnessing London as a living gallery of pictures and motion.
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London
Strand
Mecca
Regent Street
Leicester Square
Berlin
Paris
New York
Long Acre
Bow Street
Covent Garden
Opera House
Japan to Fight Tuberculosis Across Major Cities
The government plans decisive steps against tuberculosis in Japan. The home affairs department will establish granatoria in cities with populations over 300,000, including Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Yokohama and Nagoya. Tokyo and Osaka facilities will hold 500 patients, Kyoto 400, and the others 300.
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Japan
Department of Home Affairs
Tokyo
Osaka
Kyoto
Kobe
Yokohama
Nagoya
Dialog on human evolution and hammock etiquette
A playful exchange discusses a German biologist’s claim that humans evolved from quadrupeds to bipeds centuries ago. Maude dismisses the idea and questions how a quadruped could sit in a hammock with a girl.
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Myrtle
Maude
Right Kind of Brush For General Household Cleaning
The article stresses stocking a variety of brushes for thorough cleaning. It recommends a large round brush for under tables and ornate furniture, a pointed small brush for corners, a curved stiff-bristle bath brush to avoid scratching, two small kitchen brushes marked D and V for dishes and vegetables, a ceiling broom for hard-to-reach dust, and a durable broom for sewing and living spaces.
Practical Home Tips From An Old Cook Book
The text offers household advice such as avoiding soap suds for pot interiors and using whiting with yellow soap to seal leaks. It advises small-liquid capacities for cups and spoons, using roast trimmings for tomato soup base, keeping a cloth in the sewing machine drawer, drying wet rubber boots with hot corn, using celery stalks for stews, milking boots with milk for shine, and covering potatoes with a cloth to cook faster and creamier.
Shredded Crab Served In Shells With Lemon Parsley
Shredded crab meat is mixed with oil vinegar salt white pepper and cayenne. The dressed meat is returned to cleaned shells and garnished with lemon pieces and parsley. It can be served cold or heated and eaten hot.
Thick Soup Comes With Croutons And Toasted Triangles
Thick soups are often served with croutons or toasted triangles. Crow tons are half inch dicelike pieces of bread fried in fat until brown, while triangles are small three cornered bits of stale bread toasted or crisped in the oven.
How to Wash White China Silk Care Tips
Instructions advise washing white China silk, wringing, wrapping in white fabric, and leaving for about an hour before ironing. This method supposedly prevents yellowing and yields better results for silk without hanging to dry.
When Cooking Greena Absorbs From Boiling Greens
A strip of muslin tied to a piece of bread and dropped into the boiling greens will absorb the water and swell, drawing out excess juices and improving texture. This old kitchen trick helps keep greens from becoming soggy and enhances flavor.
Zeppelins Prove Durable Despite Catastrophe Says Expert
Major Driant argues Zeppelins remain decisive in warfare. He cites eight ton payloads, possible strikes on battleships, and the continued German buildup as proof that aerial dreadnoughts are indispensable despite the disaster.
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Driant
Nancy
Boulanger
New York Tribune
Germany
England
Luneville
Tilting Camera Base Aids Ground Level Photos
A California photographer built a tilting base from three boards to shoot plants and small objects on the ground. One board attaches to the tripod, a second holds the camera by a thumb screw, and the top piece tilts via a hinged two inch wide board controlled by thumb screws.
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California
Innovative Gadgets and Discoveries From Early 20th Century News
The items span global ideas from Jerusalem street lamps and Russian licensing of photographers to a Cleveland cinema with two films at once. Other notes include an ear clip pen, vacuum preservation of documents, violinist hand-strength devices, Dead Sea puzzling dry up, sewn bag labels for parcels, adjustable aeroplane propeller, cuff protectors for blotting papers, and Giessen university restored as a scientific shrine.
Imperial Wolfhounds and Bearhounds At Russian Hunt Estate
A Country Life correspondent visits Prince Golitzine’s Gatchina kennels near the imperial park. The article describes Borzoi packs, English foxhounds, bearhounds, and a diverse royal preserve with bison, elk, and deer. It recounts winter wolf hunts using ringed forests, troika sleighs, and staged hound chases, noting the vast scale and historic trains before the revolution.
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Prince Golitzine
Warsaw
St. Petersburg
Gatchina
England
Country Life
Big Bleon
Russia
Ireland
Bosw
Multiracial Foster Family Proposed in Chicago Challenge
A wealthy Chicago woman plans to adopt fifteen children from diverse races including Negroes Arabs Chinese Semites Malays and Aryan groups to raise them in one home as equals. The move aims to study environment shaping character but questions how public life will test home teachings amid widespread prejudice.
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Chicago
New York World
Hamlet at Tabor Grand Echoes Early Rails of Whiteside
Actor Walker Whiteside, once mocked for Hamlet at his late age, matured into a respected stage artist. A Denver Times reminiscence recalls Field’s witty note of his prior Hamlet performance at the Tabor Grand, where he acted late into the night.
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Walker Whiteside
Hamlet
Eugene Field
Field
Denver Times
Whiteside
Ben Hamlet
Tabor Grand
Diplomatic Circles Sit Around a Conversation
A girl reads about diplomatic circles defining a style that circles back to its starting point. The piece notes that conversations can loop around the same idea, mirroring circular talk.
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Metropolis
Wise Stranger
Embankment
Blackfriars
Big Ben
Cecil
Savoy
Thames
St. Stephen’s
Parliament
Northumberland Avenue
Trafalgar Square
Hans
Nelson
St. Martin’s Lane
Charing Cross Road
Coventry Street
Shaftesbury Avenue
Broadway
Piccadilly Circus
Trafalgar Souare
Has
Falth
Jerusalem
Cleveland
Dead Sea
Palestine
Columbia University
Giessen University
Liebig
Qosshan Creo Hunt
Gotham
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