Iris growing tips for German and Japan varieties
A gardening note explains hardy Iris care, highlighting German Iris as ideal for cutting and sun, and Japan Iris as requiring rich soil and constant moisture. It covers soil preparation with fall manure, deep planting, repotting, watering, hoeing, weed control, and timing for planting and division.
Cemetery mistaken for garden prompts bitter clarification
A speaker recalls misreading a landlady note about a 400 acre garden with statues as a promenade area. The truth emerges with sharp irony that the space was actually a cemetery. The exchange with Jones underscores the error and the speaker’s frustration.
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Jones
Friendship’s Call in Times of Distress and Joy
A concise reflection on the value of friendship, noting that in trouble, every eye seeks friends, just as in moments of joy and sociability one should also desire friendship. Quotation by W S Landor.
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Landor
Dog Garbage Collector
A Constantinople housewife fed wandering city dogs by placing kitchen refuse in a kennel outside her door instead of a dustbin. The act drew attention as a curbside aid to stray animals in the urban area.
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Constantinople
Woman’s Suit on Breach of Promise In Question
A defendant in a breach of promise suit argues a man’s right to change his mind. The Buffalo Times notes the issue appears different when a woman is involved in the case.
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Buffalo Times
Baskets for the Veranda and Veranda Plants
A guide to choosing hanging baskets for verandas with porous wire or iron options. It covers lining with moss, soil mixes of leaf mold and loam, watering by soaking in a tub, avoiding wind and excess sun, and periodic fertilizing. Plants ideal for baskets include ivy, dusty millet, wandering Jew, Oxalis, ivy geraniums, fuchsias, strawberries, and ferns. A self watering iron hanging basket is noted as low maintenance.
Tomato Squares
Mix two cupfuls tomato four cloves two slices onion two peppercorns half teaspoonful salt and one-quarter teaspoonful paprika. Cook ten minutes press through a sieve. Melt butter add cornstarch and tomato mixture boil ten minutes. Cool add egg pour into pan chill cut squares dip in crumbs egg and crumbs fry until brown. Drain and serve.
Tongue Roast on Buttered Toast Breakfast Dish
Boil tongue and mince finely then simmer with cream or milk. Stir in beaten egg yolk until cooked. Serve on buttered toast with optional grated cheese browning on the stove. Ham toast follows the same method using lean ham remnants. suitable for breakfast.
Hashed Brown Potatoes Omelet Style
Combine one pint chopped cooked potatoes with cream salt pepper and parsley. Melt butter, heat skillet, add potatoes, cook slowly in an omelet pan, then fold and serve like an omelet.
Aunt Susans Cake Mix Yields Simple Dessert
A historic recipe lists Aunt Susans Cake ingredients including one and a half cupfuls sugar half cupful butter one egg cinnamon sour milk soda dissolved in milk chopped raisins and two heaping cupfuls flour for a simple baked treat.
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Susan
Strawberry Salad Recipe Teaches Light Dusting and Sauce
A brief recipe directs using heart lettuce leaves with strawberries, light powdered sugar, a teaspoon of mayonnaise on each portion, and lemon wedges served alongside. Authentic, simple salad guidance with a quaint, homestyle tone.
Lobster Toast Recipe Steps and Ingredients
Three pounds of lobster with vinegar salt butter and hot water are simmered briefly and served on small toast squares. The method includes cutting lobster, roiling water with vinegar salt tobacco and butter, then simmering for five minutes before serving.
A Keen Critic. Small Boy at Yale Campus Walk
A brief Yale record notes a small boy with a keen eye for campus life. He points out squirrels and many humorous sights as he tours the campus, capturing a lighthearted moment of student life.
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Small Boy
Yale
Drunk litigant seeks wife’s divorce transcript
A party by default, intoxicated, visits court stenographer William M. McKay to view his wife’s testimony. McKay directs him to the transcript. after squinting at the shorthand he agrees, leaving impressed by the record of the divorce case.
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William M. McKay
McKay
Times Change Turns Trade Tale Into Questioning Gag
A quip contrasts past dowries with present value. Puck notes that fathers once received robes furs cattle and wealth for a daughter, while modern times yield only cheap cigars as compensation.
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Puck
Vocabulary to Be Paid For
An employer advertising for an office boy tests applicants by asking for a vocabulary. A promising youth answers with poised phrases and, when pressed for a crude line, volunteers that he would not use such language for three dollars a week. The boss agrees and raises the offer to five dollars, paying it.
Convincing Speaker Smith Allegedly Influences Wife
A dialogue suggests Smith is a persuasive speaker. The remark notes he can make his wife believe anything he tells her, implying manipulation or deceit.
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