Courageous Ride Sparks a San Francisco Promise
Selwyn helps a frightened eighteen year old girl, Katharine James, escape an unwanted engagement with Dickie Austin. He reunites her with her aunt in San Francisco and declares love, proposing a future together while she admits she loves him too.
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Selwyn
California
San Mateo
Austins
Los Angeles
Dickie
Dickie Austin
Boston
Ike
St. Paul
Minnesota
Katharine James
Clara
John Selwyn
Dick Austin
Kittle
Frisco
Austin
Austin Place
Mis
Kittie
Saaw
Clara James
Smiley
Mrs. Austin
Cornelia
Mrs. Jackson
San Francisco
His Gnawing Anxiety Sees a Split in the Gillet-Blank Family
In a humorous quip from Harper's Bazar, Gillet-Blank fears not about custody but who will take his breakfast after his separation from his wife. The joke pivots on domestic life and breakfast routines.
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Gillet
Blank
Perry
Two Chairs for a Sickroom Say Hamersham
A smug remark from Hamersham suggests a sickroom should include two chairs a comfortable one for the nurse and a very uncomfortable one for visitors who linger too long.
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Hamersham
Helpful hints for cooking and home care from a pantry guide
Practical tips on flavoring with orange rind and vinegar to tenderize meat. Guidance on laundering buttons, outdoor sewing, and preparing viscogen to stabilize creams. Advice on making soup bags and bulk prep for future meals, plus a viscogen recipe using sugar, water, quicklime, and storage notes.
If There Be One Remedy Seek and Find It
A compact, aphoristic line extols seeking a remedy if one exists and ignoring it if not. The reflection contrasts pursuit with resignation, emphasizing agency in facing hardship. The phrasing suits a moral or philosophical contemporary column.
Seasonal Dishes For A Simple Strawberry Treat And More
A household recipe set offers a strawberry hollow in popovers with sugar and cream, plus eggs with asparagus cheese sauce on toast rounds. It includes a cheese sauce method, date bread from yeast and dates, mushroom salad prep, and a maple syrup sandwich note for a sweet finishing touch.
Orchard Fruit Toast Filling Instructions
Recipe fragment describes chopped dates, blanched almonds, and diced pineapple cooked gently for eight minutes. Then remove from heat and stir in maple sugar crushed to a tablespoonful. Spread on bread and butter with this mixture.
Poetic Reflection on Loss and Desolation
A compact verse-style musing contrasts fear of an unseen future with the ache of absence. The lines evoke a traveler’s dread, pairing a barren behind with a dark ahead, as in a moral meditation on fragility.
Luncheon and Supper Dishes from Simple Desserts to Soups
A reader offers kitchen suggestions for luncheon desserts and light meals. Recipes include sponge cake filled with whipped cream, a strawberry lettuce salad with mayonnaise, a poached egg on buttered toast with anchovy paste, liver soup with onion and stock, a rhubarb bread bake with optional meringue, and fruit soups using raspberry and currant juices with arrowroot and almonds.
Quotation from H. H. Jackson on burden and sorrow
A reflective quotation asserts that burdens can grow heavier and sorrows deeper, suggesting resilience in adversity through paradoxical imagery.
A Few Salads To Serve With Roast Meats Or Luncheons
Delicious salad ideas featuring prune and pecan salad with olive oil and lemon, apple and date salad with olive oil and lemon juice, pineapple salad with grapes celery brazil nuts and mayonnaise, orange on watercress with French dressing, and tomato and walnut salad with green pepper and mayonnaise.
Ancient Roman Numeral Tricks for Large Values
The text explains ten thousand in Roman numerals using a X with a dash or two C’s and an I followed by two inverted C’s. It then describes one hundred thousand as a C with a dash or three C’s and an I followed by three inverted C’s.
Gerome of Nova Scotia Buried After Long Silence Mystery Man
Seckat, known as Gerome, dies near a Nova Scotia beach where decades ago two Ashermen found him with amputated legs. He spoke only once after rescue, answering Trieste when asked his origin, and remained mute for fifty years as doctors studied his case. New York World.
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Gerome
Nova Scotia
Didier Comeau
Comenti House
Comeau
Trieste
Evangeline
New York World
A Home Ruler Long Before Gladstone
In 1881 Sir Wilfrid Lawson addressed his Carlisle constituents amid Irish policy tensions, arguing that disaffection weakens the nation and makes governance harder, likening it to keeping a troublesome house maid who disrupts the home. The London Chronicle reported the remark.
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Gladstone
Wilfrid Lawson
Mr. Gladstone
Ireland
Lawson
Carlisle
London Chronicle
Sir Henry Irving a Victim of a Jest at Manchester Hotel
Mr Grossmith the famed English fanmaker has died. He once played a joke on Sir Henry Irving at a Manchester hotel by feigning an audience for himself. The crowd cheered for Grossmith before Irving appeared and dispersed, later provoking Irving to quip that he pays the crowds nightly.
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Sir Henry Irving
Mr. Grossmith
Manchester
Sir Henry
Irving
London Mail
Man finds Van Dyke in Taft brother’s Cincinnati home
A workman visiting Charlie Taft in Cincinnati admires a private gallery. He notes a small original Van Dyke. when told its value at $35,000 he muses that his own painting might be framed.
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Taft
Charlie
Cincinnati
Brother Charlie
van Dyke
A Well-Meaning Bride
A lighthearted joke frames a husband’s plea to his wife about timing meals for extra innings. The bride responds with affectionate practicality as the couple navigates domestic life and baseball devotion.
Student Homesickness Sparks Quiet Reflection
A brief exchange explores why a pupil misses home. The conversation dismisses deeper nostalgia as unnecessary, labeling the feeling simply as homesickness.
Pruning Rules for Flowering Shrubs from Garden Almanac
The guide urges pruning after flowering for most shrubs to shape the bushes, control growth, and ensure next year’s blossoms. It notes spring bloomers should be pruned after flowering while hydrangeas are pruned in winter, with expert gardeners capable of pruning any time.
Dusseldorf Opens Municipal Officials College for City Leaders
The Christian Science Monitor reports Dusseldorf has established a municipal officials college under city control. The program, starting October 30, lasts two three month semesters with a graduation exam and covers municipal law modern city issues labor sanitation relief of the poor public health and city government organization.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
America
Christian Science Monitor
Cultivating the Back Yard and its Challenges
The piece notes that small plots require time effort and thought and that soil varies from red clay to rubbish clutter. It argues that few back yards are hopeless and that even if crops fail one can sow sod or flowers for beauty and satisfaction.
Spokane City Opens Free Yard and Lot Plowing for Poor
Spokane Washington city council arranges free plowing of backyards and vacant lots to help residents grow vegetables and grain. Real estate dealers donate several hundred lots for gardens to aid self sufficiency in food.
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Spokane
Wash
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Associated Literary Press
H. H. Jackson
Seckat
Jerome
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