Broken sixpence leads to love and family reunions
Dick Worthing seeks his uncle Joe's strange legacy a half sixpence and learns Celia Moore once pledged to him. a sister betwixt, a health gift, and a fortunate match reveal a long held secret linking mothers and lovers ending in a joyous union.
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McClure Newane
Dick Worthing
Lawryer
Mr. Worthing
Mr. Tapping
Uncle Joe
Tapping
Freddy ‘Morehouse
Freddy
Celis
Exerys
Joe
Celia
Celia Moore
Ry Celia
Rey
Célia
K-X. B
Worthing
Moores
Celia Dupee
Moore
Joseph
The Irish of the Balkans in Serbian culture
In SE Europe the Serbians resemble the Irish for national poetry and street bardic tradition. They cherish bards who recite in inns and coffee houses rather than newspapers, with old singers as chroniclers and modern ones as stenographers, praising the Serbian language as rich and musical per the Serbian minister to England Mlyatovitch in the Manchester Guardian.
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Europe
Mlyatovitch
England
Manchester Guardian
The Real Puzzle
A brief cartoon exchange notes that steam laundries in the United States employ 109,484 people. The joke follows about distinguishing who tore a shirt, implying a playful puzzle about identity.
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Bill
United States
Jill
Why He Never Married
A witty dialogue reveals a physician’s defense of bachelor life. A flirtatious speaker teases the doctor about singleness, while the physician claims remaining single prevents becoming a woman hater. The exchange showcases social humor and gendered expectations.
No Lounging Allowed In Curio Shop Exchange
Clerk offers a lounging coat sale but the man is warned off by a reply about household lounging. The humorous exchange centers on a prohibition and a wife’s authority.
Islands social mix and Japanese influence on Hawaii
Senator Cummins describes Hawaii as socially and politically distinct with a 220000 population. Japanese make up about 75000, many via picture brides, and are seen as rising in power, education, and culture. Other groups include Koreans Jamaicans Spaniards Italians Chinese Portuguese and Filipinos. Industries focus on sugar and pineapple with most farmland untillable. Americans are few but control big business. native Hawaiians are praised for hospitality.
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Hawaiian Islands
Cumming
Des Moines Register
Islands
Congressional Investigating Party
Cummins
Japan
Hawaii
Gold Bands Crown Washington Monument Apex
The Washington monument apex is ringed by gold plated iron bands studded with gold points spaced one foot apart. The sun magnifies eleven gold lines on nearby buildings on sunny mornings in early January. Copper was rejected for lightning protection. iron bands galvanized and gold plated supply the shield, linked to the aluminum tip and elevator frame.
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Washington Monument
Washington’ Monument
Casey
Men of Science
Learning the Potato Lesson for Peace Time Welfare
In Germany people are taught food basics from jackets on to jacket off potatoes and bread and meat needs. The essay argues Americans should learn use over waste and wiser buying to boost individual welfare.
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Germany
Two Manhattan Doctors overheard on Riverside drive bus
In a Philadelphia Ledger style anecdote two Manhattan physicians ride a Riverside drive bus and overhear a remark about performing an appendectomy on a millionaire's wife the previous day. The light exchange highlights casual medical talk in public.
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Manhattan
Riverside ‘Drive
Philadelphia’ Ledger
Errors of History to Challenge Legendary Tales
A Stoic roundup notes myths around William Tell Coriolanus and Wellington with historical debunking. It cites Alfred’s cakes Rosamund Kingsley Pearls Troy Hercules Xerxes Thermopylae and Crecy as legends corrected by chemists and scholars. The piece references St Louis Post Dispatch commentary on misattributed lines and dates.
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William Tell
Coriolanus
Rome
Duke of Wellington
Alfred
Rosamund
Eleanor
Godstow
Charles Kingsley
Oxford
Cleopatra
Hannibal
Troy
Homer
Helen
Paris
Xerxes
Thermopylae
Philip VI
Crecy
Blois
France
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tallest Flagpole Tops Astoria At 251 Feet
The Astoria flagpole, a towering Douglas fir trunk, rises 251 feet with 10 feet buried in a 200 ton concrete base. Weighing over 46 tons, the single timber supports a flag above the Panama Pacific Exposition sea wall, making it the world’s tallest flagpole and a symbol of the West.
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West
Astoria
Oregon Building
Oregon Forest
California
An analysis of the Apple composition
The article explains ripe apples are about 83 percent water and 290 calories per pound. It details 0.4 percent protein, 12.6 percent carbohydrates, 3 percent ash, and 2.7 percent cellulose, with 50 to 75 percent of carbohydrates as sugar and the rest as pectose. It notes pectose makes fruit jelly and cellulose varies with ripeness and variety.
Old English summer drinks for hosts to impress guests
A collection of cooling beverages suitable for summer entertaining. Claret Cup with brandy mint and maraschino. Mint Punch with citrus and strawberry juice. India Punch using orange and lemon juice with tea. Canton Punch ginger and citrus. English Lemonade steeped citrus with sugar and orange juice.
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India
Cretonne Handbags Delight Fashion Daring Shoppers
Cretonne goods surging in demand beyond cushions and curtains now extend to handbags. Craft varies from an expensive metal framed, silkened bag suited to elaborate lingerie frocks to a cheaper, pretty option ideal for seaside or country wear.
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Cretonne
Chicken Broth With Rice From A Home Kitchen
Select a soft meat fowl milk fed if possible. Disjoint and prepare for stewing then cover with water and boil. Place in a fireless cooker four hours or simmer slowly until tender. Cook rice to thicken soup and reserve for a pudding next day. Season broth with salt pepper and bay leaf. Fry chicken pieces in butter with a little broth for gravy and garnish with parsley.
Fragments describe Cold Meat dessert served with rice bake
The fragment describes layering cold thin potatoes and roast meat with brown sauce in an earthen dish. A rice crust dotted with butter and cheese browns in the oven, then triangles of toast and parsley spears garnish before serving a curry of fish or chicken.
Laundry Soap and Ammonia Cleaning Method
To clean blankets, wool garments, or fabrics, dissolve a half bar of good laundry soap with four tablespoonfuls of ammonia in a tub of cold water. Soak the items for several hours, then rinse in water with four tablespoonfuls of ammonia. Do not wring. garments will come out like new and not shrink.
Potato Fritters
Roil six potatoes and beat them with three eggs and a gill of milk. Stir in a little oiled butter, mix well, drop into boiling dripping and fry until light brown. Serve hot and sprinkle with sugar.
March Sauce Creamy Vanilla Whipped Butter
Cream together one cupful white sugar and two tablespoons butter. Add three drops vanilla or cherry wine. Stir in beaten egg white until foamy. Serve ice cold.
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Balkans
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Washington
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