Old Van Lew House Becomes Public School Site in Richmond
The Van Lew mansion, long tied to Civil War era spy activity by Elizabeth Van Lew, is purchased by the city of Richmond for a new public school. Once a hub for Union contact with Libby prison and Confederate circles, the house will be preserved only as memory as the educational institution replaces it.
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Richmond
van Lew
Elizabeth van Lew
United States
Lafayette
Dr.Adams
Marshall
Smith
Richmond Theater
John van Lew
New York
Grant
Jefferson Davis
Libby
Streight
Parke
Miss van Lew
Prophecy of World End Foretold in St Louis Trance
In St Louis a 13 year old and an older girl lie in a religious trance claiming the world will end within one year and six months. An interpreter cites a divine timeline predicting the Lord will take his followers to a marriage supper, followed by three and a half years of tribulation with no sun, then a thousand years of heaven on earth.
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St. Louis
Minnie Smith
Minnie Sneed
Eugene M. Atkins
Oldest US flag with rattlesnake device preserved in 1775 design
In western Pennsylvania a flag dating from 1775 with a coiled rattlesnake and the motto Dont tread on me is claimed as the oldest preserved US flag. It bears J P initials for John Proctor of Westmoreland County and links to the First Battalion of Associators. Samuel Craig and family served as color bearers for the unit. The flag is said to have influenced the evolution of the national banner.
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Washington
Exisence
George Henry Preble
United States
J. P
Ll W. C. PB
John Proctor
Westmoreland Co
Republic
Pennsylvania
Samuel Craig
Protestant church doomed by century end says Crapsey
Boston, Mass. Dr. Algernon S. Crapsey, deposed Episcopal clergyman, told the Free Religious Association that the Protestant church will be dead by century’s end. He called it intellectually bankrupt and said many do not attend church. He noted 60,000,000 Americans are nonchurchgoers and evolution has supplanted creation.
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Boston
Mass
Free Religious Association of America
Algernon S. Crapsey
America
Crapsey
Walker
New York
First Meal of the Day in Moral Character
The article argues breakfast is the plumb line of propriety with punctual diners seen as respectable. It contrasts breakfast with dinners and suppers, claiming breakfast maintains a staid, solemn tone conducive to building sound character.
Applicant boasts self employment in reply to leaving last place
A Boston Transcript excerpt shows Mrs Hiram Daly asking a candidate why they left their last job. The reply claims the applicant has not left a previous place, citing a year of self employment and strong self recommendation.
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Hiram Daly
Boston Transcript
German Lentil Soup and Small Dishes Menu
A vintage recipe fragment outlines German lentil soup with bacon onions and parley potatoes. It also covers parsley potatoes stuffed peppers rice pudding and a strawberry sauce with cornstarch thickener.
French Eggs Dish with Parsley Sauce and Baked Eggs
Six hard boiled eggs are quartered on a dish with a lemon butter parsley sauce made from half a pound of butter flour and milk seasoned and boiled briefly. Finish with four eggs baked in butter seasoned with white pepper and salt until whites set, served with parsley garnish.
Baked Indian Pudding From Early American Cuisine
A traditional recipe uses two quarts of milk five tablespoons Indian meal molasses salt butter and ginger. Scald milk mix ingredients in a saucepan bake four to five hours in a buttered dish stirring in cold milk gradually and serve with hard sauce or sweet cream and maple sugar if desired.
Creole Baked Fish Recipe Steps
A firm fleshed fish like cod is baked in a shallow pan with a seasoned tomato sauce. The fish is brushed with sauce every ten minutes while baking until the flesh separates from the bones, then served with the remaining sauce.
Tomato Jelly Salad and Rye Cheese Sandwiches
A recipe notes soaking gelatine then cooking tomatoes with pepper onion parsley and celery. The mixture is strained and set in molds served on lettuce with mayonnaise. Rye bread Swiss cheese sandwiches are toasted and served hot.
Orange Pudding with Orange Custard and Meringue
Cut five oranges into pieces and place in a dish. Boil a pint of milk, whisk together corn starch and sugar, then beat in egg yolks. Stir into milk until thickened, cool, and pour over oranges. Fold in custard, then frost with stiffly beaten egg whites browned in the oven.
Importance of obtaining
By Walter B Leutz. The piece argues weeds bring both minor benefits and many drawbacks in farming. It lists fourteen negative effects from weeds on crops, harvest, grain quality, and livestock, then names four common weeds: wild carrot chicory dodder and ribgrass.
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Walter B. Leutz
Emerson
Jamestown
One Way of Splicing Rope and Eye Formation
Instructions describe making a rope eye by unraveling strands and weaving them back into the rope. Figures show strand patterns under and over other strands, with gradual size reduction by fiber removal and final tidying with four tucks. The method emphasizes tight drawing, minimal overlapping, and rolling the splice flat for a neat finish.
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Virginia
Virginia Club
Wild Carrot
Field Dodder
C.— Chickory
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