Seeding and social notes from Montgomery county
County correspondence from Poolesville and nearby communities reports farmers Seeding corn and attending the Frederick fair. Notes include visits from Miss Emma Maxwell Miss Maud Bread and Miss Mattie Johnson, church meetings at Mount Prospect and Poolesville, and a wedding at Zion with Charles Kimmel Irene Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Hillabey
Charles Cecil
Fack M. John
Young
Mt. Vernon G League
J. Gardner Darby
Hyattstown
Sanday
BR Cooke Harley
Cabin John
Emma Mexwell
Greenfeld
Fred Johnson
Byalltown
Pearre
Frank
Charlies GC Weert
Register of
J. William Hoffer
Sponge Cake Techniques and Vintage Kitchen Tips
A historical extract discusses sponge cake varieties and baking rules from Good Housekeeping including angel and sun shine cakes, quick ovens, and delicate handling. Recipes cover hot water, white sponge, and egg foam methods with precise ingredient notes and baking times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Housekeeping
Try Hood's Sarsaparilla For Blood Purity And Health
A fragmented era list of home remedies suggests cranberries for malaria and other folk cures such as 2 sam bath for rheumatism clam broth for stomach weakness cranberry poultice for erysipelas and turpentine fumes for whooping cough. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy to improve appetite and overall health.
Questioning Druid Gates and Kathieyn’s House
Fragmentary verse questions the reader about passing the Druid gates and finding Kathieyn’s house to heal a pricked hand and crown a rose with ivy. The speaker challenges the listener’s deathless status and contemplates earthly flowers and mortal limitations amid poetic longing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathieyn
The Tree at the Grave and a Wartime Tale
In a Kentucky river town during the Civil War a tree bearing the initials E. BH MY marked a grave. The narrator links this mystery to Mary Forbes, a misfit from Ontario known as Tow Headed Marr, whose life and family background shaped the tale of kindness, rumor, and fate amid guerrilla skirmishes and wartime peril.
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Ohio River
Kentucky
Mary Forbes
Ontario
Marr
Sama
Mary
Kirk
Myssif
Obie River
Benvocky
Grants
Fort
Donelson
Tennessee
Seach
Ermyes
Tow Head Mary and the Unknown Dead
A wartime hospital scene recounts a dying woman of Scotch stock who cannot reveal her name. The narrator uncovers her link to the Forbes family and a buried truth before she dies, leaving a poignant record of an unnamed Mary Forbes and a Tow Head Mary inscription on a grave marker.
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Ridgeville
Dora Bond
Baltimore
Boag
Carlton
William Boyer
Central
Mary Phebus
Boyds Station
Montgomery County
Daniel Phelene
Mt. Airy
W. T. Norwood
L. T- Lewis
Spens
Frank Engle
Kemptown
Edward Browning
Josephine Lightfoot
Elmer Pens
Middle Brook
Montgomery Cruiig
B. H. Todd
Edmond Bennett
Emma Winebrewer
Charley Sellmen
Kate Maxfield
Kenneth Winebrewer
G. A. Smith
Elizabeth Pilsch
Tay- Toreville
Epsca
Sam Parth
Cam
Forbes
Cas Pame
Theberge
Alary
Mary
Ste
Peter
Luca
Tam
Bon
Aleady
Jon Grave
H. Mi
Mary Forbes
J Campbell
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ditto Mark Price Sparks Chow Chow Ingredient Tale
A housewife details the cost of curcuma seeds for a chow chow recipe and a druggist who explains the needed ingredient is curcumin not seeds. The tale traces shifting prices, a mistaken request, and the eventual use of turmeric root to achieve the yellow condiment color. The piece also references Shiloh's Cure for coughs and local药 advertisements.
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Hubiaoeg
Ada
New York
Galery Sted
Tamas
Ching
Tana
Ceslon
East India
Orient
Levwiston Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dickeseon
Poolesville
Barnesville Staton
G. W. Bogle
Mt. Pressant
Ezexriel
Montgomery
Eempsown
J. A. Eagle
John Boyer
Br. Z-El Boyer
F. A. Meredith
Tn Hagerstown
Mise
Nick Lewis
Frederick City
Frederick Fair
Mattie Molesworth
Silite Hyatt
Bilicott Ly
Luis and
Johan Molesworth
R.G Molesworth
Dells
UsLimore County
F. Howser
Misa Fisher
Minete Owens
O T
Lanham’s
Wiss Juns King
Mim‘e Boyer
Cedar Grove
Iks Larena
Charlesville
W. Ramsburg
GC. C. Zimmerman
Boonsboro
Washington County
Hagerstown
C. i
W. Rams
Jarence Hett
Panday
Geo Broedrep
Cumberland
Mattie Pearl
Mattle Bolg Cate
Dies Blascho
May Rimatarg
Jno Wachter
Hood
Brey
Nersh Hopper
the Wanderer
Taye
L. Pearre
Wiliamson, Drugens
Frederick, Md
J. A. Willamson
Draggist
Frederick
Market St
Esri
A. L. Peerre
Robison Building
Shiloh
Helleves Croup
Foldbry A
Etehiion Badldioc
Wilson
J. W. Garper
King’s
Bredioe
Alaska
N.K. Fairbank Company
Citicare
So Louk
Boston Philadelph
Ainge
Japan
National Lead Co
John T. Lewis & Bros.co
South Front
Philadelphia
ELIL
Gail Borden
Eagle Brand Comdens
Mel
EAGLE
Yepamt
Owen Coxntnsto Man
Worcestershire
Fiade
Aix
Circulariree
Royal Medicine Co
Bainat Frederic
Eohleby
Victor
HFC C.ant
Auewers
Amiy
Pozzonis
Graiv
Sonets Remair
DE_ GEADT
Addresa
Grystal Med
Lowell
Mass
Masonic Temple
Chicas
Tapic
Hartford
THE
Hartford Typewriter Co
CONN
Oxze
Tar
Cc. S. Howard
Counties
Montgomery and Carroll
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