Unusual Christmas Gift Ties Writer Stevenson to Annie Ide
An 1891 deed from Robert Louis Stevenson transfers his birthday to Annie H Ide of Vermont as a Christmas gift. Annie, born on December 25, gains a separate birthday celebrated with gifts and feasts in Samoa and later in New York society. The tale links Stevenson to Ide, her father H C Ide, and later to Annie’s marriage to Congress leader W Bourke Cochran.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
New England
Western Newspaper Union
Elmo Scott Watson Orty
Preece
Henry Clay Ide
Vermont
Green Mountain
Samoan Islands
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Ide
Samoa
Autor
Treasure Island
Stevenson
Annie
Ballantrae
Vallima
Upolu
Annie H Ide
H C. Ide
Saint Johnsbury
Caledonia
United States of America
H . Ide
Annie H. Ide
Annie Hl. Ide
Louisa
Lloyd Osbourne
Harold Watts
Annie Ide
Little Annie
Shay
W. Bourke Cochran
New York
Port Washington
Long Island
Paris
Anita Leslie
Shane Leslie
Marjorie Ide Leslie
Annie Ide Cochran
Miss Leslie
Prince Edward
Duchess of Kent
England
Duchess of Gloucester
Evangeline ‘Booth
The
Salvation Army
Helen Twelvetrees
Rebecca West
Gladys ‘Swarthout
Robert L. Ripley
Paul Manship
Belle Baker
Jerry Rodman
Robert Qeins Stevenson
New York City
New York Sun
Newspaper Classic Is There a Santa Claus Editorial
The Sun published an editorial titled Is There a Santa Claus? which readers repeatedly requested reprinted. It became a far reaching Christmas classic, reproduced in many papers for 40 years and translated into several languages, second only to A Visit From St. Nicholas in fame.
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Virgina
Virginia
Santa Claus
the Sun
Clement C. Moore
St. Nicholas
America
Battle on a Sinking Ship Ends in Escape and Loss
Charley Mahler, a Brooklyn worker, sails from Santo Domingo to Barahona aboard a small craft during a still night voyage. A storm, mutinous natives, and a crew captain driven by fear clash with Mahler’s will to survive, resulting in two men killed and Mahler weighing 110 pounds on reaching shore after five days.
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Ello
Charles Mahler
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charley Mahler
Dominican Republic
West Indies
Charley
la Romana
Santo Domingo
Barahona
Gark
Harry Wills
Bececaficos Meaning and Culinary Use of Fig-Picker Birds
The beccaficos is a small sparrowlike bird from Cyprus whose name means fig picker. Flocks arrive from Syria to feast on figs, fattening enough to become pickle material. A rare Crusader recipe cures and spices the salted birds, softening bones so the whole bird is eaten.
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Cyprus
Syria
Lovely Doilies Crochet Pattern 1715
Crochet pattern 1715 from The Sewing Circle offers doilies in four strands and three sizes for luncheon and buffet sets. Includes stitches, materials, illustrations, and a photo. send 15 cents with name address and pattern number to the Needlecraft Dept. NYC.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Household Tips From Practical Instructions
A list of simple at home remedies for common issues. Creaking shoes loosen with rubbed linseed oil on the sole. Tea towels can be laundered without lint by a weak starch rinse. Indelible ink marks remove with turpentine and ammonia. Torn garments repair with buttonhole stitch. Lemon peel removes kitchen odors. Grapefruit judged by firmness weight and skin. Dry fruit cake moistened with spiced juice wrapped and restocked.
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Francis P. Church
Friends of the Sun
Papa
Virginia O'Hanlon
Annie Ide Coceran
Adventurers’ Club
London
Pearson's
Ivme
Ius Kache
Weelworth Bldg
Dunkirk
Tillman Brothers
la Crosse
Wis
Mary Coleridge