Historic Table and Prescriptions From a Daily Menu
A fragmentary household guide lists breakfast items such as fruit, cream, ham, cornbread, breakfast coffee, followed by dinner menus including corn soup, planked shad, mashed potatoes, lettuce salad, and caramel pudding. Recipes cover jellied beef, potato balls, eggs with mushrooms, tomato rice, tripe and oysters, and a note on moth prevention for furniture plus beans seasoned with bacon.
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Ely
Practical Window Ventilation And Fat Preparation
A guide describes an easy ventilation method using a wood frame to close a window bottom and allow airflow. It also explains soaking fat in cold water for a day, using the fat with milk, then baking until it turns to a boil and straining into a tin receptacle for pastries and gingerbread.
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Sante
Santley
Welkin
Benny
Child health and feeding advice from a great doctor
A historic health fragment warns against poor ventilation and improper feeding for children. It urges fresh air, avoiding head coverings that trap exhaled air, and cautions against pork for youngsters while recommending nourishing soups, fish, milk, and water at proper times.
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Orca
Easter Week in Glell Abowitt Discusses Faith and Festivities
Mary Jane reports a lively Glell Abowitt week with Easter celebrations, church events, elections, dances, lectures, and social gatherings. She notes spring weather, community programs, and upcoming civic activities, including Middletown's election and county meetings, closing with reflections on the season's end.
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Maronic Temple
Independent
Thera
Loung Men’s Christian Association
Boyas
Women's College
Atlantic City
Tommy
Agricultural Society
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
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Pool table pockets knit by farmers wives in crowded workshops
A New York Sun excerpt details pool table pockets made by farm wives and daughters, mainly Germans and Swedes, in long workstreams around Long Island. Pockets are hand knitted with a 20 inch needle, using cotton wool or silk, priced about $1.25 a dozen, with annual output near 10 000 dozen worth roughly $40 000.
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New York
Long Island
New York Sun
Home Doctor tips for ailments and self care
A period style guide prints home remedies for common ills. It suggests carbolic acid bandages for blisters, hot water or footbaths for headaches, flannel with laudanum for earache, vinegar for stomach insects, and a snappy warning on ear pests. It also includes foot cooling, fresh stockings, and a nutmeg infusion as a short course cure.
Four Footed Bird Described From Marajo Island
A fragment discusses the Opis thecomus urstatus, a four footed bird from Marajo Island in the lower Amazon. Infancy shows fore feet that vanish after hatch, with the species noted for a foul odor and unpalatability, aiding survival. Additional quoted dialogue and clipped captions accompany the excerpt.
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Iland
Marajo
Amazon
Life saved by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
A neighbor rushed in with a bottle of Chamberlins Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy for my illness. I was near death when the medicine was given and after later doses I regained consciousness and entered fully within twenty four hours. State Mire May Galler of Mt Vrawford Va reports it worked. A J Postre C
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Smith's
Green Mountain Renovator
Vermont
Myron
Mt Vrawford
A. J. Postre
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