The Little Boy of Imagination and a Secret Love
A small boy of slight build grows amid a town’s social gaze and a vivid inner world. He adores Miss Hattie, is drawn into a boyhood drama with John and neighbors, and endures a jarring wedding revelation that scars his infantile romance and reveals a quiet, enduring ache.
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Paice
Mr. Brown
Dora
Realson
Miss Hattie
Miss Hatties
Lehals
Dunse
Hattie
John
Jobo
Gris
Griggs Boy
Griscom
Jhin
Public’ Ledger
Philadelphia ‘Times
Washington Man Links Ghostly Manifestation to Tragedy
A Washington man explores spiritualism and recounts a tale of a supposed haunting tied to a tragedy. He describes a mandolin given to his aunt’s niece, music heard from a closet, and a forced awakening aligned with the alleged victim’s death, suggesting psychological rather than supernatural causes.
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Washington
Tiecé
How to Take Care of Coats in the Overcoat Season
An uptown tailor notes men often wear and care for coats poorly. Proper coat fitting and initial wear require careful molding to fit ordinary figures, with six first uses shaping the garment. Proper handling in storage and careful buttoning help prevent misshaping and improve appearance.
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New York Times
Bacon Breeds for Pork Quality and Farm Economics
The piece argues Tamworths as a bacon breed and stresses cost efficiency for average farmers. It notes selective breeding requires long testing, warns against overexperimenting, and emphasizes matching breed to market demand and feeding for weight gain. It also cites farm population and farm product value in the United States.
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Tamworths
Why Don’t the Boys Ride on the Farm
A historical farming essay argues that few farm boys ride well and suggests training and information on saddle horse requirements as a way to improve riding and create profit. It notes market demand for first class, well broken saddle horses and proposes farmer boys be taught horse training to benefit both farm and home.
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West
Taeller
Harness Oiling Instructions For Leather Gear
Instructions describe oiling a harness with careful steps. Apply oil to all leather parts except the ratchet, ensure cloth is well soaked, pour oil into a pan and apply slowly. Add beeswax or a small amount of Jamapblack to restore color and luster.
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Ieldy
Industrial progress boosts United States agriculture growth
A fragmented note highlights how industrial progress and red capital investment have influenced U S agriculture in recent years, emphasizing the link between manufacturing advances and farming expansion.
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United’ States
Feeding Cows in Dry Period Guidance
Massachusetts Ploughman advises feeding dry cows to maintain thrifty condition without fattening. Use non-stimulating foods like clover hay bran roots ensilage or cornstalks. Avoid heavy feeding before calving especially with carbonaceous foods to prevent udders inflammation. keep the cow well nourished.
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Massachusetts
Farm Notes on Crops and Household Tips From Practical Advice
Farm Notes provide home and farm guidance including tree care whitewash to smooth bark, winter warmth tips, borers control in summer, castor oil for mice in harness, crack sealing with coal ashes salt and clay, preventing apple freeze damage, dairy feed efficiency, seed selection advice for Petite growers, and garden soil enrichment through crop rotation and clover. It also covers kitchen tips from custard timing to bread crumbs storage and frying oysters with egg and crumbs.
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Ithat
Excellent Pound Cake and Onions Baked in Paper Cases
The text describes making a pound cake using butter eggs flour and mace with brandy and a hot oven. It also details onions baked in paper cases boiled peeled salted then wrapped in paper twisted and baked served with a cream parsley sauce.
Apricot Pudding From Canned Fruit Recipe
A kitchen method uses canned apricots and tapioca to make an apricot pudding. Soak half a pint of sugar over night, drain fruit juice, mix with tapioca and water, boil until clear, layer with fruit in a dish, bake thirty minutes and serve cold with cream or milk.
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Enlord
Tvel
Hourhound Candy Recipe Steps
Instructions describe combining dried yy hound leaves with boiling water then steeping. Transfer liquid over sugar and oil while boiling until scum rises. Remove scum, pour into buttered pan, cool, and cut into squares or pieces after setting.
Rice Waffle Mix Instructions From Fragmentary Text
A fragment describes a rice waffle batter with cold rice sour cream sugar and salt. Eggs and sugar are beaten then combined with rice and cream, flour folded in, batter beaten until thin and pourable, then cooked in hot buttered waffle irons.
Italian Cheese Dessert Recipe From Old Household Text
Instructions describe mixing nearly half a pound of leaf sugar with lemon juice two tablespoonfuls of wine and a quart of cream. Whisk until thick in about thirty minutes. Streain through muslin into a hair sieve, chill twelve hours, then mold in a tin shape with holes and garnish with flowers.
Bread Pudding Recipe From Aged Text
Soak one pint stale bread in a quart of cold milk for two. mash the end of that time. Beat together three tablespoonfuls of sugar one teaspoonful and two eggs. Stir into the bread and milk. Pour the mixture into a pudding dish and bake slowly for three quarters of an hour. Serve with a vanilla sauce.
Panned Oysters Quick Fry Recipe
Panned oysters are drained in a colander for ten minutes then fried in a hot iron pan. Add salt pepper and butter with the oysters. stir in an egg and serve immediately.
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Twofer
Anére
Jones, Brown, Robinson
Houghe
Gladys
Edith
Sivan
Telash
Indianapolis
United
States
National Stockman
Fowler
Chicago
Neek
Chuck A Fetsh
Auump
Arden
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