Desert Grouse and White House Christmas Dinner Tales
A long White House Christmas narrative describes the holiday outing of the President plus Mrs. Roosevelt and guests. It covers the private dining room, donated foods from Horace Vose and Cape Cod cranberries, the White House kitchen setup, and Steward Pinckney’s market rounds. It also highlights the desert grouse or sage hen as a regional game bird, its habitat, appearance, feeding on sage, and culinary notes on flesh flavor.
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H Cis
White House
United States
Lewis and Clark
Executive Mansion
Horace Vose
Rhode Island
Uncle Sam
Horace Voss
Cape Cod
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Heary Pinckney
Pinckney
Presidential Mansion
Quentin
Big East
Sige
Europe
Desert
He Trusted Rockefeller
Dr Gustinv C E Weber of Cleveland Ohio once operated on a young man paying in installments. The patient later became John D Rockefeller who offered $590 for a medical visit but Weber refused the fee and suggested it go to a needy medical student.
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Gustinv C.E. Weber
Cleveland
Ohio
Nuremburg
Weber
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
First Completed Government Irrigation Canal
Government irrigation plans show a $32 870 000 program to water 1 639 000 acres, with private efforts reclaiming 16 000 000 acres. Estimates indicate 75 000 000 to 100 000 000 more acres could be irrigated, boosting West population potential to surpass today’s total. Hood River water storage drives rapid reclamation, with settlers repaying construction costs.
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Reclamation Service
Exterior Department
Tre
United States
France
Germany
New York
Vatican Annuls Marriages and Embassy Court Gossip
The Vatican allegedly annuls unions if partners were not free agents, recounting Monaco princes and Mary Hamilton’s era. Ambassador Whitelaw Reid appoints Hon. William Walsh as chief lackey, a rare American use of an English aristocratic office.
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Whitelaw Reid
Vatican
Monaco
Mary Hamilton
Mary
Baden
Duke of Hamilton
Court of St. James
Lickey
Tie
William Walsh
Neid
Ofirs
Ringvy
England
Butler
Mr. Reid
Mr Reid
Reid
Walsh
Lord Ormathwahite
Dorchester House
Warble Palace
Park Lane
Heid
London
Hom Walsh
Norah Spencer- Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
Humorous King Edward Tales From Royal Encounters
A circulating anecdote recounts King Edward driving a fish seller in a royal dog cart and gifting a sovereign portrait, claiming it would help her family. In another scene, the Prince of Wales helps water buckets at a theater fire, rebuking a pompous man who refuses to assist.
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Europe
Edward
Prince of Wales
Cost of Columbus Voyages Compared to Modern Yachting
The piece argues Isabel I's jewel bag mythos behind Columbus's outfitting is exaggerated. It notes 23000 covered vessels and crew costs, with Columbus earning £2 yearly and other captains $2, crew wages $2.50 monthly, highlighting how old money held greater value and limited shore leave.
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Columbus
Willionaire
Toro
America
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Napoleon
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Vienna
Albert of
New Orleans
Michael Heize
Pius X
Rampolla
Duke of Devonshire
Chatsworth
Derbyshire
Edmund H. Abbott
Ecd
Alexander Cattanach
Salem
Mass
Sir Thomas Lipton
Matlock
Buxton
Bakewell
van Calava
Pope Pius X
King Edward
Wire Lewine Macaig Co
Cleveland, Ohio
Foster
Cily Watson-Stillman Co
Dey St
Webb Fublishing CO
St. Paul Minn
Pensions
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman CO
Warder Bid’g
Washington, D.C
Eagle Tank Co
N. Graen St
Chicago
YALE
Hewes & Potter
Lernres
Lincoln ST
Bostrom
Mags
Valcabie Bookies
Lynch Meg. CO
Madison, Wis
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