Odorless Excavating Why Firemen Hurry
Seven year old Little Ross reports at Ere station the firemen rush to fires even at night, fearing delay if they delay. Married men are good listeners due to experience. An Actors Benevolent fundraiser note cites old theatre ways of wearing long hair for legends of medieval discipline. A London Standard remark links hair and tale bags to old theatre practices. A brief Life magazine line discusses true sex antagonism between a woman and other women.
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Ross
Henry Almsey
Actors’ Benevolent Firms
London Standard
Laying a British Ghost at India Office Reception
Lord Crewe recalls a Malabar coast subaltern tale when bidding farewell to new India government officers. A genuine British grave rite involved whisky, soda, and cherdots placed on the burial site to pacify the spirit, a ritual still repeated yearly by villagers despite the fatigue of distance.
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Lord Crewe
India
Goodby
India Office
Malabar
England
Pall Mali Gazette
Proud of Him and a Wall That Teaches
A cottage builder Sandy McPherson works from inside a brick wall while his son Jock brings dinner. He asks if the wall is near completion and is told he will be an architect, not just a builder. The piece ends with a humorous note about vanity and skill.
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Sandy
Jock
Ventilation Shields for Windows and a Mix of Old Recipes
Readers are shown a design for removable glass or metal shields to ventilate windows while keeping rain out. The article also includes several vintage recipes for fried eggs a la Mexicans, roast duck, old fashioned gingerbread, and chicken and macaroni with step by step instructions.
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San
Recipe fragment for butter and flour sauce with milk
A chopped instruction fragment describes mixing one tablespoon butter with one teaspoon flour, seasoning with salt pepper and nutmeg, then whisking into milk and simmering fifteen minutes. It continues with adding thick maili, boiling, halving, arranging pieces on a dish, pouring sauce, and decorating with toast points.
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Cvs
Escalopid Eggs with Breadcrumbs and Cream Bake
Boil a dozen eggs for twenty five minutes then cool and shell. Slice eggs and layer in a pudding dish with breadcrumbs and crumps, seasoning each layer with pepper and salt. Pour over a pint of sweet cream before topping with the final crumbles and bake until brown. Serve hot.
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Country Life
Grand Central Terminal
Westchester County
New York State
Superior Coal
Delawanna
Riverside
Newark
A. L. van Winkle & CO
Franklin Avenue
Osnorag
Newark, N. J
THE
Osborne & Marsellis CO
Montclair
Upper Montclair
N. J
Chestnut Street
Walnut Street
Chestnut St
Walnut St
M. J. Callahan
Church Street
John Travers
William Street
Belleville, NJ
New York American
Pearson's Weekly
Lfe
Perth
Touston Post
Detroit
Iim
Kalliston
Fifth Ave
Forty-Seventh ST
New York
Scheuer
Makerel
Dwark
é—Hartley
Robertson
Kirkman’s
Pride Brands
Pka
Cai
Washington, PL
Passaic, N.-J
Hillside Avenue
R Nutley
Baggage Express
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