Diverse 19th century curiosities and long dining feasts
A long historical roundup notes a Huegery wedding fest with eight days of feasting and 2005 couples at a dance. It cites London beggars income, Smyrna raisin crop, Jain fasts, and language word counts. It mentions India rubber sap, cloud shooting artillery, rabbit paste fires, tea gardens, diamond tests, and European death rates. It ends with home decor tips for sitting rooms and window boxes.
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Huegery
Tweed
London
Smyrna
India
New South Wales
Victoria
Australia
Italy
Prussia
England
Moonlight picnics set for September nights with tips
A guide to hosting moonlight picnics highlights choosing scenic open car rides or river views, safe group travel, and elegant yet simple interiors. It covers festive food like clambakes, cold meats, and sandwiches, plus practical packing tips for beverages, desserts, and cleanup.
Lady-Bird Poem Reflects on Safe Return Home
A verse by Charlotte Smith laments the lady-bird torn from children and home. It contrasts the creature’s roaming joy with dangers of human encounters and urges the insect to fly back to its nest and offspring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady-Bird
Concrete Blocks and Machinery for economical building
Concrete Building Block Machine offers economical production of blocks. The model is designed for rapid block pacing and construction efficiency. Catalogs available from Vining Bros Co in Niagara Falls Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vining Broa Difs. Co
Niagara Falls
Ontario
The Ideal Woman and the Empress of Modern Times
The essay argues that the ideal woman blends today’s intellect and independence with yesterday’s femininity. It praises modern achievements yet urges maintaining grandmotherly grace and courtesy. It notes women must adapt to others while retaining charm, wit, and ladylike behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nngenie
Grandmother
A New Kind of Guest Book
A popular hostess creates a practical guest book listing regular visitors and their peculiar traits. Notes describe Mr A who drinks much water, Mr B who wants more salt, Mrs C who suffers insomnia, and others with travel, taste, or habit quirks. The device guides hosts to tailor hospitality to individual guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. A
Mary
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Dorothy Take
the Lady-Bird
Charlotte Smith
Godey
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!