Blessy Guides Abraham to New Youth at Old Ladies Home
Chapter VI continues the tale of Blessy and the Old Ladies' home where Blessy nurtures Abraham by daily breakfasts and kindness. The sisters learn from her, and Abe grows younger both in body and spirit as music and song bring harmony and warmth to the house. Abraham's quip about finding husbands for them reflects his enduring affection as joy and love triumph.
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Abraham Rose
Angeline
Abe
Alley
Angy
Mins Abe
Blessy
Abraham
Brother Abe
Abigail
Nancy Smith
Douglas
Nancy
Old Lettere and New Ends With Stealing Upstairs
Blosey exits the room silently and steals upstairs to a small cupboard where she sleeps, finding a wall-hung frame of yellow hollyhocks in the scene.
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Blosey
Portrait and Love Letters Stir Blessy’s Reflections
Blessy pores over a weathered trunk of old love letters while Abraham, her brother, teases about Captain Samuel Darby. The scene reveals Blessy’s longing for her past home and the aging man’s steadfast devotion, as a faded portrait hints at unrequited affection and old promises.
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Samuel Darby
Pinafores
Captain Barby
Samuel
Blessy
Abraham
Blossy
Captain Darby
Abe
Brother Abe
Angy
Cap
Sam
Blessy Seeks Love After Twenty Years In The Attic
Blossy debates a late marriage to Samuel as Abe counsels caution and old loyalties. She dresses in lace for a train day, waiting for Captain Darby to appear while pondering Sam l s strong housekeeping and steadiness as a potential husband.
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Blossy
Brother Abe
Alays
Samuel
Abe
Angy
Golly
Pleasy
So&p
Sam
Blessys
Abraham
Blessy
Captain Darby
Twin Coves
Found In a Glacier Tells of Lost Alpine Ax
Sir Martin Conway recounts how a famed climber Zurbiggen dropped his axe on a peak near Chamounix. The tool vanished in snow and glacier flow for years until Hon. C. G. Bruce and Harkbir found it at the bottom of a crevasse, bearing Zurbiggen initials.
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Sir Martin Conway
Alps
Zurbiggen
Les Anglaises
Chamounix
C. G. Bruce
Harkbir
M. Z. Zurbiggen
Money Talk and Mockery on a Huckster Wagon
A shabby rider on a huckster wagon passes a public school while a partner sells goods inside a house. Curious children jeer at his ragged clothes as he shows a roll of money, hoping it would earn them respect despite his poverty.
How to braise tough fowl and prepare kidneys and pie
The article outlines braising as ideal for tough fowl with bacon onions carrots and turnips. cook on stove then in oven for two hours for older birds. It next covers kidneys fried or stewed with onions flour sauces water and sherry, then hashed leftovers served on toast. It finishes with a veal and ham pie recipe using veal cutlet bacon eggs mushrooms and seasoned flour.
Stuffed Candy Making Instructions
Step by step guide to prepare stuffed marsh mallions by cutting them in two with scissors. Do not pull apart as they are sticky. Stuff with preserved ginger candied orange peel walnuts pecans cherries or other fruit. Press the top half over the filling to seal and ensure adherence.
Banana Salad Recipe Card
This nourishing dish is quick to prepare. Peel and slice ripe bananas, trim ends, roll in chopped nuts, lay on lettuce, and serve with French dressing rich in olives.
Rice and Meat Casserole From Simple Home Recipe
Recipe for a meat and rice casserole uses two cups chopped meat pepper cayenne breadcrumbs salt celery salt one beaten egg and stock. Line a buttered dish with a quarter inch rice layer then pack meat mixture and cover with rice. Steam or bake 30 to 40 minutes then invert onto platter with tomato sauce surrounding.
Care for Silk Handkerchiefs in Household Wash
Wash in warm lather with pure soap and blue the water. Roll up tightly in a cloth and iron between linen to prevent yellowing.
Tender prep tip for meats with salted water soak
A cooking hint suggests covering chicken or steak the night before with a quart of water and three tablespoons of salt to prevent taint and ensure tenderness. The method promises improved texture for breakfast preparations.
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Wii
French Salad Love Note
Endive stalks stuffed with Rocque fort cheese marinate in French dressing for 20 minutes. A red pepper ring decorates each stalk and rests on green lettuce leaves. A final drizzle of dressing before serving.
Apple Desserts of Merit and Old Time Pie Variants
A collection of pie and apple dessert recipes. Includes Apple Dumpling Pie with a simple crust and dressing, a method for serving, a baked apple variant with cinnamon and lemon peel, gelatin, and a winter Old Time Apple Pie featuring maple syrup and salt pork tucked under a perforated crust.
Variation in the Menu Bake Cod on a Platter
Instructions describe cleaning and buttering a four pound cod with oysters and crumbs, layering it on a platter and baking without water. Include salt pepper, egg wash, oyster liquor, and fat pork variants for skin on methods. Bake until flakes separate, about forty minutes, and serve on the platter.
Cold Catchup Recipe From Preserve Notes
Cut four quarts of tomatoes fine and mix with one cup onions one cup nasturtium seeds chopped one cup horseradish grated three celery stalks chopped one cup mustard seed one half cup oal a tablespoon each black pepper cloves cinnamon mace half cup sugar and four quarts vinegar. No cooking needed but must stand several weeks to ripen.
Little Meat Rolls Recipe from Cooked Meat
Instructional fragment describes removing fat and gristle from cooked meat, grinding it through a shop, seasoning, moistening with gravy, making biscuit dough, cutting into squares, filling with meat mixture, rolling tightly, placing in a greased pan, brushing with milk, and baking in a quick oven with gravy.
Baked Spare Ride
Baked spare ribs improved by soaking briefly in cold water then cooking. Layer raw sliced onions in a baking dish, place ribs on top, add another onion layer and potatoes, add hot water to half fill, bake covered first half hour then one hour. Serve with boiled cabbage.
Salmon Dish With Milk Eggs And Cracker Crumbs
Salmon grab recipe uses one eoin one half cup milk two eggs half cup cracker crumbs salt and pepper beat yolks then add remaining ingredients add whites last bake thirty minutes slice and serve with or without mayonnaise dressing
Sweetbreads Preparation and Browning Method
Two or more pounds of sweetbreads soak in lukewarm water for an hour then boil for another hour. Drain until cool and bake in a hot oven, basting with the liquor produced until well browned all over.
Cleansing Method Recommends Burning After Emptying Cans
Instructions describe placing a rushed newspaper in a garbage can after each waste collection, lighting it to burn out, and leaving the can on the ground during the burning process.
Mr Subbubs Faces Township Gossip Over Attire and Rumor
In a country town Mr Subbubs debates attire with his wife while a nearby street altercation stirs whispers. He predicts the uproar will center on a man claiming autonomy of conscience, reflecting his skeptical mood about small‑town life.
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Mr. Subbubs
Mrs. Subbubs
Varanda
Women in Industry and Power Break Barriers
Russia reports over 3000 women physicians and the Woman's Trade Union of America counts more than 65,000 members. Berlin shows three of four nonagenarians are women. Jean Moehle, a car saleswoman, demonstrated mechanical skill in New York by dismantling and reassembling a motor after driving 10,000 miles. A Kansas City woman won $5,000 in a suit over a skirt restricting movement on a Chicago line.
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Russia
Woman’s Trade Union of America
Della Wilson
Kansas City
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Artful Tommy Tricks Doctor Over Pneumonia
Private Tommy Sims endured hospital care and dreaded discharge. While the doctor checked his temperature, Tommy removed the thermometer and hid it in a cup of hot tea. The doctor later saw the thermometer’s savagely altered state and exclaimed that Tommy was not dead but should be.
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Tommy
Tommy Sims
London
Wonderful New Resistance Alloy For High Heat Wires
A German alloy for electrical resistance wires was released before the war. The chromium nickel composition withstands bright red heat without damage, remains non brittle with long use, and has a specific gravity of 8.26. Its resistance per meter per square millimeter is 1.10 ohms, supports 1110C continuous operation, and melts at 1400C.
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Germany
Dividing the Work
Doctor Naegell of Liege University commends yawning as beneficial for the lungs. Jill-Well allows him to continue speaking while the others begin yawning.
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Doctor Naegell
Liege University
Jill
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