Menu of Easy to Prepare Dishes for the Household
A home kitchen guide presents simple to prepare, wholesome dishes and prescriptions that claim to cure ills and ease household worries. The table offers a readable menu with quick methods and steps to aid busy cooks.
Queen Victoria era soups and modern kitchen tips
A collage of recipes and household advice features a royal themed soup with chicken and eggs, veal cutlets in sour cream, new potatoes with flour thickening, and Strawberry Saracen with toast. Also included are tomato optional serving notes, lemon custard ice, ham cooking methods, bath bags, and furs storage tips.
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Queen Victoria
Love Will Show the War in a Gloomy World
A lyrical fragment by Edward Singes in Ciseland Plain Dewe offers a meditation on love guiding through darkness and loneliness. The narrator reflects that only happy thoughts clear the mind and reveal a path, contrasting gloom with a faith in love as a guiding amulet.
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Edward Singes
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Man Wins Round Over Pompous Pew Guest at Church
A London man who rarely attends church brings his family to service and occupies Mae pew. A pompous stranger arrives and claims the seat by paying ten pounds, then concedes the value as the pew is shown to be well finished. The intruder sits contently while the other man collapses into his seat.
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London Exchange
Mae
A Train Chase and Depot Chaos in Historic Dispatch
A passenger train on the Hannibal pulls away as a countryman with bundles, a scythe, an ax handle, and bananas attempts to board with his son Freddie. The chase spans platform slips, lost bundles, and a depot scramble, ending with humor over a misidentified Wabash train.
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Freddie
Olf
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Riley's Jokes and General Grant in a Laughing Moment
The Hoosier Poet recounts a tale from General New of the Indianapolis Journal who visited President Grant during his first term and found him laughing. A friend from Galena apologized for delay, saying he had been busy in Washington. The humor reflects how travel shapes town memories and a reporter’s encounter with public figures.
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Frederic Defies Prussian Lieutenant in Berlin Café
Harold Frederic recounts a Berlin encounter where, after a frock coat visit, a Prussian lieutenant rudely toppled his hat stand. Frederic commanded the officer to pick up the bat, asserting dominance in a tense exchange observed by wary staff.
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Saturday Review
Death in the Pot and the Golden Medical Discovery
A tale of a family poisoned by a copper kettle and verdigris, warning that a diseased stomach taints all, with promotion of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure. It claims the medicine cleanses the stomach and bloodstream, strengthens digestive organs, and banishes bodily aches.
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Pierce
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