Irene's Little Adventure Ends In Cautionary Card
Irene, a young woman in town, flirts with Gerald Garston despite her mother Mrs. Folsom’s warnings about men with uncertain pasts. Garston fools a police sting and robs Irene of a diamond watch, leaving her with a hard lesson about listening to her mother and trusting appearances.
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Denrie
Mrs. Folsom
Irene
Mumsy
Mr. Garston
Jerry Carver
Jerry
Bessie
Irene Pow
Albert
Folsom
Gerald Garston
Garston
Ile
Easton
Eye on the Runner and the Art of Stealing Bases
Ty Cobb offers advice on base stealing and pitching cues. Eddie Plank and other right handers pose threats to baserunners, while Johnson’s speed complicates throws. Cobb warns players to avoid headfirst slides and urges respecting umpires during close calls to prevent misplays and alibis after failed steals.
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Eddie Plank
Caldwell
Bender
Coombs
Walsh
Shawkey
Patriotism in the Kitchen and food value study
Miss Bob Bell of the Missouri College of Agriculture argues housewives are patriots when conserving food by following systematic work. She urges 20 million homes to study food values, stop talking, and act amid a nationwide shortage and warnings to substitute inexpensive foods for expensive ones.
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Bob Bell
Missouri College of Agriculture
Miss Bell
Old Woman of the Sea Legend Said to Rule Arctic Life
European ethnologists study a Greenland legends claim a cosmic ruler is a sea dwelling woman. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts her origin as a mortal woman lured by a petrel, lost at sea after a storm, with severed fingers becoming seals and whirlpools. Ner rivik guards her lamp in a deep sea house.
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Polar North
Hartley Burr Alexander
Nerrivik
Corn Saved Pilgrim Fathers and Jamestown Colonists
The text asserts that Native American corn saved the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth and Cavalier settlers at Jamestown from famine during The Starving Time. It claims theft of corn by settlers and notes Captain John Smith's remark on Indian suffering from such looting. It cites Lewis and Clark era journals on parched maize aiding explorers.
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Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth
Jamestown
Capt
John Smith
Itinerant musician seeks new airs for hand or gan
In a brief exchange the itinerant musician is said to be in grinding need not for food but for new airs to play on his hand organ. The dialogue notes his poverty and asks if others can aid with melodies to lift his craft.
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Elberfeld
New York
Enails
All Our Houses Today Are of Glass
Charles G. Shaw argues that living in a glass house exposes privacy to all, making criticism and judgment inevitable. He notes the need for new forms of seclusion within an interconnected modern life and urges finding a private inner life amid public exposure.
Common But Nourishing Foods in Mothers Cook Book
A wartime guideline suggests making inexpensive hamburger from tougher steak, ground at home with suet or pork, seasoned with garlic cloves cloves and pepper, then baked in muffin rings. It advocates simple meals with meat or substitute, vegetables, and greens while warning of food shortages and urging three course, wholesome meals.
Cornmeal Mush and Corn Bread Recipe from Historic Kitchen
A culinary passage outlines making cornmeal mush by mixing cornmeal, flour, salt, and water, then cooking three hours in a double boiler. It details turning the mixture into a moldable loaf, slicing, and frying. It also provides a corn batter with corn, milk, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, and salt, instructing how to combine and sift the dry ingredients.
Hamburg Steak Recipe Steps and Tips
One pound beef, one cup bread crumbs, quarter onion minced, half teaspoon salt and pepper to taste. If crumbs are dry, add a little sweet milk. Shape into balls and cook in a well buttered hot frying pan.
Local Official Invents Paper Trial For Spy Rumors
In Kent, an official battling German espionage rumors asks speakers to write and sign their stories. The method filters tall tales, as many bring only stories with some truth, and the town adopts the paper writing custom for dubious claims.
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Kent
Economic and civic figures across cities and states
Honolulu reports 2,500 registered automobiles while Los Angeles lists 2,857 industrial concerns with 27,261 workers. San Francisco notes 3,249 plants employing 47,626 people. A Pennsylvania county has 12,000 acres of undeveloped coal lands. Hawaii counts 11,000 U S soldiers and 2,000 National Guardsmen. Lippincott mansion in Philadelphia, bought for 2.5 million in 1916, sold recently for 4.5 million.
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Honolulu
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
Hawaii
United States
Lippincott
Philadelphia
New Inventions Spotlighted From Across The World
A New Jersey teacher unveils a gasoline powered digger for gardens and small farms operated by guided manual labor. Other inventions include a patent tent with a hammock support and full enclosure, a finger mounted hand signal light for motorists, an automatic scale reading that omits container weight, radiator covers with auto shutters, corrugated hulls for ships, nettle fiber as cotton substitute for Germany Austria, and a pigeon hole cabinet that rings bells every 15 minutes for reminders.
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New Jersey
Chicago
Germany
Austria
Evangelist Tours Nation In Scripture Painted Auto
A Pacific coast evangelist travels with his family in a converted two and a half ton motor truck serving as home and pulpit. The light colored vehicle features numerous scripture quotations on its body and an observation platform at the rear for outdoor preaching. Inside is a living room with window seats and a door to a bedroom area, plus a small kitchen and pantry.
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Milwaukee Journal
Clock and Watch Debate Time and Meaning
In a playful exchange a clock and a watch argue about time and human folly. The clock boasts of steady service and warns against wasting moments while the watch confesses its hurry to match a master’s rushed pace and the pitfalls of trying to catch up.
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Watch Mender
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W. G. Chapmano
Sporting World
Plank
Cobb
Runner
Charles G. Shaw
New York University
Mary
Graham Bonner
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