Biography Mix Ups Bring Schoolmaster Love to Old Corner
In a quiet district school Polly and Master Scott Fairfield clash over a misread biography assignment. Polly’s earnest but careless tale about Aunt Madge sparks embarrassment until Fairfield confesses confusion and discovers Polly’s idol is Madge Weston across the street. Love blooms as misunderstandings clear.
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Bobby Green
Scott Fairfield
Deans
Polly
Mrs. Dean
Madge
Brother Ned
Shea
Mary Ellen
Susie
Fairfield
Mr. Fairfield
Aunt Madge
Miss Weston
Mabel
All Worth Notice Recipes Compile Old and New Ideas
A collection of household recipes offers ginger bread apple sauce baked apples feather cake and sponge cakes. Directions cover ingredients quantities and steps for making English plum pudding eggless cake and hot water sponge cake with notes on baking times and serving suggestions.
Chicken Shortcake Remnant Dish from Fricassee
A practical method to transform leftover chicken fricassee into a savory dish. Remove skin and bones, heat meat in gravy, prepare a flour dough with baking powder salt lard or butter milk mix into a ball, roll into a cake, bake fifteen minutes, split, top with chicken and gravy, and serve hot.
Cherry Bread Dessert With Dried and Fresh Cherries
A simple emergency dessert using layers of buttered brown bread and stewed cherries, with additional bread layers and fruit until the dish is full. Serve with sweetened cream for a rich finish.
Marguerite Cracker Cookies From Simple Mixture
A simple cookie recipe uses one cup powdered sugar one cup chopped nuts and egg whites to form a creamy filling. Drop small spoons of the mixture onto centers of crisp crackers and bake until firm.
Homemade Tomato Sauce Guide
Simple method to make tomato sauce using fresh fruit or canned tomatoes. Squeeze through a sieve, simmer slowly in three to four tablespoons of beef gravy, and season with pepper and salt.
Kaiser Suppe Soup with Bacon Liver Eggs and Vegetables
A recipe describes cutting four slices of bacon into small bits and mixing with one sweetbread and one calf liver rubbed through a sieve. Four hard boiled eggs are added, then three quarts of bouillon simmered. Brussels sprouts and carrots cook in salted water and join the bouillon, served with broiled mushrooms in butter.
Illinois Brevities Reflect Examinations and Local News
Illinois exams set for medical staff across multiple cities on March 30 1910 with applications due March 25. Ryerson donates 100000 for a new administration building at Old People’s Home in Chicago to memorialize his mother. Death by stovaine anesthesia follows knee operation at County hospital. Disappearance of Mamie Smith of Aurora prompts police hospital morgue search. Illinois Valley Yachting Club seeks canal link legislation. Commercial Club to discuss action. Fire at H S McCracken Box and Label Co destroys property. nearby cottage residents rendered homeless. Appointments made for Joliet penitentiary Watertown state hospital. acting superintendent named at Watertown. Sara Waldron’s windpipe button removed by surgery after days’ breathing difficulty.
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Springfield
Chicago
Elgin
Kankakee
Watertown
Peoria
Jacksonville
Lincoln
Anna
Aurora
Belleville
Bloomington
Cairo
Canton
Centralia
Clinton
Charleston
Effingham
Galesburg
Golconda
Harrisburg
Macomb
Mt. Carmel
Mt. Vernon
Olney
Ottawa
Pana
Paris
Paxton
Quincy
Rockford
Sterling
Urbana
Vandalia
Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary
Illinois Civil Service Commission
Martin A. Ryerson
Thirty-ninth Street
Indiana Avenue
Vincennes Avenue
Forty-seventh Street
Ryerson
Mary A. Campan Ryerson
John Retty
Stovaine
Rorty
Warren H. Hunter
Mamie Smith
Miss Smith
L. A. Smith
Beulah Home
North
Clark Street
Illinois Valley Yachting Club
Neen
Chicago Drainage
West
van Buren Street
H. S. McCracken Box and Label Company
Horan
John Bogt
Wallace Street
Epidemic of Itch in Dowlais Wales Drives Cure Claims
A Dowlais village outbreak of the itch afflicted about fifteen families, described as intolerable and unstoppable by doctors. A locally known miracle cure failed, but Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent were praised after a few days of treatment, with the writer claiming fifteen years of use and many family cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dowlais
South Wales
Thomas Hugh
West Huron St
Chicago, Il
Wisdom of a Cook and Taft on Discontent
The piece sketches a humorous hiring scene with Minna the Norwegian applicant answering in a dated quip about chores. It then shifts to President Taft addressing farmers in Florence North Carolina noting chronic discontent and a farmer’s complaint about harvests and potatoes.
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Mr. Honeyman
Yaas
Minna
Taft
Florence
N. C
North Carolina
Joseph
Providence
Washington Post
Postum Turns Insomniac Woes Into Restful Sleep
A Topeka woman credits Postum with ending five years of insomnia and nervous distress caused by coffee. She abandoned coffee, began drinking Postum, and soon saw improved sleep, digestion, and overall well being. She notes no medicines were needed and mentions reading The Road to Wellville. Another reader letters in periodically.
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Topeka
Postum
Wellville
Ayer
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Short Stories Co., Ltd
Polly Ann Dean
Tommy Brown
Harry
Kaiser Suppe
Illinois
Joseph Tdesilva
Rock Island
Joliet Penitentiary
Guy Deneen
J. W. Simonson
Port Byron
George H. Hunt
Moline
William C. Galloway
Aledo
Watertown State Hospital
State Board of Administration
W. L. Taylor
Watertown Institution
W. A. Crooks
Alton
Sara Waldron
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