The False Lord and a London Wedding Lodger
Algy Dessinger learns of Miss Garland's impending marriage to a wealthy man at Hanover Square while Rupert Carroll faces a jealous confrontation and a vow to protect his wife Agatha. A death and a telegram trigger a grim reckoning as secrets loosen and a life apart threatens all.
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Algy Dessinger
Piccadilly
Irene
Joseph
Taunton
Bond Street
S&j. George's
Hanover Square
Dessinger
Rupert Carroll
Carroll
Algy
Ireland
Miss Garland
London
New Zealand
Canada
Agatha
England
Chester Square
Rupert
Miss Carroll
Medical weighs up and household cures March through 1910s
The letter from Orlenta Oklahoma praises Dr Hartman and medicines restoring health for family members with asthma earache catarrh and stomach issues. It notes weight gain from 100 to 140 pounds and thanks the doctor and advice. Also mentions a Veterinary Correspondence School offering courses at $1200 and up. Additional notes discuss cleaning windows with a soap solution and fresh air in schools along with milk handling tips and a folk remedy for porridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria. Goerts
Orlenta
Oklahoma
Hartman
Evan
Ella Flagg Young
Chicago
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Nation Al Dress Goods Company Seeks Agents for Territory
Classified ad offers liberal credit to agents to promote spring fabrics and dress goods. Free large sample outfit, pre paid express, no money required. Also promotes a tobacco effects book for readers and non users with agent terms. Mail to Sol Gum Publishing and various addresses listed for publishing opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Dress Goods
Company
Dept. B
West
Broadway
SOL
Toledo
Ohio
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Regulate Digestive System
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as sugar coated, tiny granules that regulate the stomach liver and bowels and invigorate the body. It describes them as easy to take as candy.
Mexican Catarrh Remedy Ad
Mexican Remedy Company of Clayton New Mexico promotes a catarrh cure with a month treatment delivered for one dollar claiming discovery by Mexicans and promising relief where others fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexican Remedy Company
Clayton, N
Mex
Curio Odds and Ends From a Curious Column
A collage of old anecdotes and quips notes bets on catching balls, a charming bet waged in Pittsburg, a woman who never handled a ball impressing with three curved pitches, and lines on health costs, Turkish civilization, and a funeral crowd. The tone is a light, rambling newspaper miscellany with moral quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Kidney Pills Claim Cure for Kidney Trouble
Advertisement from Nathan R Hill of Stryker Ohio touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney related backache dizziness urinary troubles and fatigue. Hill reports severe illness requiring bed rest and an operation but credits the product with relief and a claimed cure. The ad promotes 50 cent boxes from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Nathan R. Hill
Stryker
Ohio
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Cure a Cold in One Day Patent Claim
An old advertisement urges taking Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets to cure a cold in one day. Druggists refund money if it fails. signature of E W Grovge is on each box. Also notes cutting expenses by trimming extravi gances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Salvation Army
Germany
E. W. Grovge
Distemper Cure Promises Relief for Horses and Dogs
Spahn's Distemper Cure offers cures across all ages and forms for horses and dogs. Over 500000 bottles sold last year. Available for 50 cents and 1 dollar. Authorized druggists or direct orders to Spohn Medical Co. Goshen Indiana. Agents wanted and a free book offered. The ad ends with a rural proverb about the man who treads down his own path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spahn
Spohn Med. Co
Goshen
Ind
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children
Patent remedy advertisement describing Mother Grays Sweet Powders for children. Claims cure for feverishness headache teething disorders and stomach issues and worm destruction. Promotes fast relief from colds in 24 hours with pleasant harmless contents. Lists Allen and Olmsted Le Roy New York as address and 25 cent price with free sample by mail.
Valued Swords And Personal Account Sundries
The text notes that literary skill does not guarantee a good mate and recalls medieval admiration for the swords of Toledo and Damascus, valued by weight in gold. It also suggests that a man’s sundries entry can conceal many sins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valentine
Toledo
Damascus
Boston Votes Embracing Commission Plan for City Government
The Boston electorate endorsed a reform charter that adopts a nine member at large city council and a four year mayor under petition nominations, ending party labels on ballots and creating centralized government. The Springfield Republican notes the plan mirrors commission systems in Des Moines and Des Moines inspired cities, with emphasis on accountability to the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Boston
Finance Commission
Springfield
Mass
Galveston
Haverhill
New England
Boyana Girl Police and City Officials Run School Courts
The New York Evening Telegram reports a dual city school government with a boys’ and girls’ cabinet led by mayors and district attorneys. Punishments include public writing 1000 times and removal of citizenship, with duties split among police, health, and public works commissioners and school officers.
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Boyana
Hlave
Goldfish Bowl
Lower East Side
New York Evening Telegram
Joseph Appel
Civic Department
I Don’t Want a King Job
A speaker rejects monarchy proclaiming the simple life is ideal. He denounces the burdens of rule and treachery in politics, praising honest toil and self-sufficiency. The St. Paul Dispatch is cited as the source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Unsatisfied Drive Shapes Beneath the World
A quotation notes that those fully satisfied do nothing while the merely unsatisfied push progress. Landor’s insight frames dissatisfaction as the engine of change and invention guiding society forward.
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Landor
Partridge Prepared with Oysters and Currant Jelly
Clean and open the bird as for any fowl then salt for three to four hours. Stuff with a bread crumb butter salt and pepper mixture and four or five oysters. Bake forty five minutes with butter pepper and water for gravy finish with pickled pork slices and currant jelly.
Mock Turtle Soup Recipe From Historical Note
Week Turtle Soup describes a thick soup made from beef hind skins and veal knuckles stock, thickened with browned flour and flavored with spices herbs and sherry. It adds parboiled calves heads meat simmered until tender and notes the mock turtle should be very smooth and seasoned to taste.
Simple Chicken Mushroom Pea Sauce for Toast
A basic sauce combines butter and flour, then chicken stock. Add mushrooms if desired, peas, tomato pulp, and chopped chicken pieces. Season as needed and serve on toast or croutons. Include bits of turkey or goose from bones if available for extra flavor.
Cabbage Dish with Lemon Butter Sauce
Prepare cabbage finely and scald. Melt butter with flour to form a paste, add more butter and lemon juice, then bake in a buttered dish until firm. Serve hot with white sauce.
Simple suet pastry dough for pies and dumplings
One pound sifted flour with one teaspoon salt and six ounces suet chopped fine. Rub into the flour until crumbly. Add ice water to form a soft dough. Roll out for meat pies and apple dumplings.
Cauliflower Tempura with Bechamel Butter Dish
Break up a boiled head of cauliflower into sprigs and dip in warm bechamel sauce. Lay on a dish to cool, then dip each sprig in rich egg fritter batter and fry until delicate brown. Drain on paper, place on a hot dish, garnish with fried parsley.
Cream Made Without Eggs
Recipe instruction for a cream substitute using two quarts milk one pint cream and gelatin with sugar and flavor. Heat a portion of milk to dissolve the gelatin then combine. More cream and less milk improves texture.
Red Currant Ice Making Method
Soak one tablespoonful gelatine in cold water until soft then dissolve in one cup boiling water. Blend with two cups water two cups sugar two cups red currant juice and lemon juice. Freeze into a frozen dessert.
Practical Homemaking: Housekeeping Tips and DIY Tricks
Simple remedies and clever hacks for daily life. Alcohol rubbed windows avoid icing. raisins in boiled frosting flavor. wick adjustment tips. turpentine to deter cockroaches. safe fire for grilling with powdered water. preserving paraffin. repurposing pie tins for kettles. lacquer to guard steel. carpet care. cranberries de-bittering with baking soda. advance pie making for Sundays. use coarse house flannel as a sweeping bag. coffee taffy recipe with nuts.
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Lord’s Cricket Ground
Burlington ‘Ouse
Burlington
Billy
Victory Station
Dad
Hore
Onterie Veterinary Correspondence School
Joseph Stone
Murray Hill
N. J
Nebraska
UNION
York, Nebraska
Choice Farm
Sedgwick
County
Colorado
Dunham
Wenona
Illinois
Asiatic
Turkey
Leavenworth
Kansas
Jenkins
Cornell
United States
Nathan Hill
Dodds
ST Pills
Ely
York, Na
N.N. U
Orp Son's
Wints
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