Household Tips From a Bygone Column
A collection of practical kitchen and home hints. Butter toasting marshmallows prevents sticking. A spoonful of cornstarch improves fudge. Boiling water preps raisins for stone. Electric appliance care advised. Cauliflower stays white with half milk half water. Vinegar in crust for flakiness. Salad stretching by using tomato scoops. Cold water after cooking eggs preserves whites. White varnish extends straw item life.
Nora and Don Surf Life’s Storms in Maine Tales
Nora Mason and Don face a string of fortunes in Maine and Chicago. Their musical talent and publishing success bring relief from money worries then a winter blizzard and a theater disaster test their bond. Don risks himself to help others, paying a tragic price while Nora waits in stunned grief.
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Jim Perkins
Miss Mason
Hoffmann
Leonora
Don
Portland
Joe
Bon
Tom Littlefield
Cape Town
England
Mr. Littlefield
Mrss Mason
Constance Venable
Carl
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Shining Palace
James Lambert Mason
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Peter Rabbit
Santa Claus
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Venables
Arizona
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Making Patterns for Slip Covers by Ruth Wyeth Spears
Instructional piece on patterning slip covers using striped fabrics and paper templates. Describes centering stripes on chairs, cutting patterns on furniture with seam allowances, and making small curved sections with pinned paper patterns. Notes a book Sewing for the Home Decorator and pricing.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Desplaines
Chicago, Il
Smart Crow Calls for Help in Flight Tactics
A Chicago Daily News writer describes crow behavior and hunting methods. Crows hunt in groups, lure with calls, and feed alone until trouble, then swarm for aid. Hunters use decoys near roosts or call birds to a blind, harvesting crows for sport and noting their good table value.
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Chicago Daily News
Grant Not Interested in War Ulysses
Grant emerges as a remarkably reluctant military figure who, despite shaping the Union war effort, long resisted war duties and preferred a civilian life. He told Bismarck after the war that he took no interest in military affairs, highlighting a lifelong distaste for the very role his legacy defined.
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Grant
Ulysses
Union
Wisiling
Bismarck
Thought Governs All Thought Manifesto Fragment
A fragment asserts that thought drives every form of progress or retrogression and determines all that is desirable or undesirable in human life. The author emphasizes the primacy of mental patterns shaping outcomes and values.
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